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MobiCom Poster Abstract: An Energy-Efficient Fault-Tolerant Monitoring System for Sensor Networks
Oct 2007
Because sensors are often deployed in harsh and/or adversarial environments, the sensors or the communication links may fail and hence endanger the mission of the sensor network. Although using...
Provided by Pennsylvania State University
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Failure Tolerance in Petascale Computers
Nov 2007
Three of the most difficult and growing problems in future High-Performance Computing (HPC) installations will be avoiding, coping and recovering from failures. The coming PetaFLOPS clusters will...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Reputation-Based Framework for High Integrity Sensor Networks
May 2008
Sensor network technology promises a vast increase in automatic data collection capabilities through efficient deployment of tiny sensing devices. The technology will allow users to measure...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Enhanced Server Fault Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jan 2011
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by University of Colorado at Boulder
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White Papers
Designing a Fault-Tolerant Network Using Valiant Load-Balancing
Jan 2008
Commercial backbone networks must continue to operate even when links and routers fail. Routing schemes such as OSPF, IS-IS, and MPLS reroute traffic, but they cannot guarantee that the resulting...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Towards Transient Fault Tolerance for Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
May 2008
The computing demands of applications coupled with the power wall problem in modern processors are expected to pave the way for heterogeneous computing platforms that are composed of a variety of...
Provided by University of Virginia
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White Papers
ASFALT:A Simple Fault-Tolerant Signature-Based Localization Technique for Emergency Sensor Networks
Jul 2007
The authors consider the problem of robust node deployment and fault-tolerant localization in wireless sensor networks for emergency and first response applications. Signature-based localization...
Provided by State University of New York
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Generating Test Programs to Cover Pipeline Interactions
Jul 2009
Functional validation of a processor design through execution of a suite of test programs is common industrial practice. In this paper, the authors develop a high-level architectural specification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Shifted Declustering: A Placement-Ideal Layout Scheme for Multi-way Replication Storage Architecture
Jun 2008
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the deployment of sophisticated replication based storage architecture in data-intensive computing. Existing placement-ideal data layout solutions...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Middleware for Resource-Aware Deployment and Configuration of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
Jan 2010
Developing large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard in part due to complex deployment and configuration issues involved in satisfying multiple Quality for Service (QoS)...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
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A Multi-Level Approach to Reduce the Impact of NBTI on Processor Functional Units
May 2010
NBTI is one of the most important silicon reliability problems facing processor designers today. The impact of NBTI can be mitigated at both the circuit and micro architecture levels. In this...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Attested Append-Only Memory: Making Adversaries Stick to Their Word
Oct 2007
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limits to how much can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Tolerating Byzantine Faults in Transaction Processing Systems Using Commit Barrier Scheduling
Oct 2007
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares answers from...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
Feb 2009
Replicated state machines are an important and widely studied methodology for tolerating a wide range of faults. Unfortunately, while replicas should be distributed geographically for maximum...
Provided by University of Michigan
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Improving a Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm Using Detailed Traffic Analysis
Sep 2007
Currently, some coarse measures like global network latency are used to compare routing protocols. These measures do not provide enough insight of traffic distribution among network nodes in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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FTSCP: An Efficient Distributed Fault-Tolerant Service Composition Protocol for MANETs
Sep 2007
Service composition, which enables users to construct complex services from atomic services, is an essential feature for the usability of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Service composition in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
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Cluster Delegation: High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant Data Sharing in NFS
Jan 2011
This paper presents cluster delegation, an enhancement to the NFSv4 files system that improves both performance and recoverability in computing clusters. Cluster delegation allows data sharing...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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Fault Tolerant Interleaved Switching Fabrics for Scalable High-Performance Routers
Dec 2007
Scalable high-performance routers and switches are required to provide a larger number of ports, higher throughput, and good reliability. Most of today's routers and switches are implemented using...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Weakest Invariant Generation for Automated Addition of Fault-Tolerance
Aug 2010
One of the important tasks in evolving a fault-intolerant program into a fault-tolerant one is to identify the legitimate states (Its invariant) from where the original program satisfies its...
Provided by Michigan State University
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FTSyn: A Framework for Automatic Synthesis of Fault-Tolerance
Jan 2011
In the initial design of a fault-tolerant program, it is often difficult to identify all the faults that may perturb the program. Thus, when new faults that affect an existing program are...
Provided by Michigan Technological University
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ZZ and the Art of Practical BFT Execution
Feb 2011
The high replication cost of Byzantine Fault-Tolerance (BFT) methods has been a major barrier to their widespread adoption in commercial distributed applications. The authors present ZZ, a new...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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NFSv4 as the Building Block for Fault Tolerant Applications
Jan 2009
Fault tolerance in parallel environments is a subject that has been studied extensively in theory, but practical implementations are relatively scarce. Clusters of commodity computers are commonly...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
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White Papers
Context-Aware Fault Tolerance in Migratory Services
Jul 2008
Mobile ad hoc networks can be leveraged to provide ubiquitous services capable of acquiring, processing, and sharing real-time information from the physical world. Unlike Internet services, these...
Provided by ICST
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White Papers
A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems
Jan 2011
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, and opportunistic....
Provided by University of Chicago
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Automating Middleware Specializations for Fault Tolerance
Oct 2008
General-purpose middleware solutions, by definition, cannot readily support domain-specific semantics without significant manual efforts in specializing the middleware. This paper presents GRAFT...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Generative Techniques to Specialize Middleware for Fault Tolerance
May 2008
Although contemporary general-purpose middleware provide solutions for fault tolerance, these solutions cannot adequately support the diverse failure handling and recovery semantics imposed by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Skewed Redundancy
Oct 2008
Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing on-chip voltage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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Profiling Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Systems to Accelerate Cortically Inspired Learning Algorithms
Jan 2011
Recent advances in neuroscientific understanding make parallel computing devices modeled after the human neocortex a plausible, attractive, fault-tolerant, and energy efficient possibility. Such...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Performance and Fault Tolerance in the StoreTorrent Parallel Filesystem
Jan 2010
With a goal of supporting the timely and cost-effective analysis of Terabyte datasets on commodity components, the authors present and evaluate StoreTorrent, a simple distributed filesystem with...
Provided by Cornell University
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Fault Tolerance in Real Time Multiprocessors - Embedded Systems
Jan 2010
All real time tasks which are termed as critical tasks by nature have to complete its execution before its deadline, even in presence of faults. The most popularly used real time task assignment...
Provided by Cornell University
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Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Scalable Storage and Services
Jul 2009
Distributed systems experience and should tolerate faults beyond simple component crashes as such systems grow in size and importance. Unfortunately, tolerating arbitrary faults, also known as...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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A Scalable Asynchronous Replication-Based Strategy for Fault Tolerant MPI Applications
Oct 2008
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces. Typically checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques, however, require...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Replication-Based Fault-Tolerance for MPI Applications
Sep 2008
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces drastically. Typically, checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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An Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Communication Scheme for Body Sensor Networks
Nov 2010
A high degree of reliability for critical data transmission is required in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs). However, BSNs are usually vulnerable to channel impairments due to body fading effect and RF...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
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Limit on the Addressability of Fault-Tolerant Nanowire Decoders
Jan 2009
The semiconductor industry today relies on photolithography techniques to transfer design patterns onto silicon wafers. Chips with 90-nm features are now in mass production, and NAND flash...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Hierarchical Triple-Modular Redundancy (H-TMR) Network for Digital Systems
Feb 2009
Fault tolerance becomes substantial design criteria for the applications where the reliability of hardware was crucial. Medical, military and long-range missions are such applications that the...
Provided by Cornell University
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Nondeterministic Applications
Aug 2007
All practical applications contain some degree of nondeterminism. When such applications are replicated to achieve Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT), their nondeterministic operations must be...
Provided by Cleveland State University
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A New Fault Injection Approach to Study the Impact of Bitflips in the Configuration of SRAM-Based FPGAs
Apr 2011
A new method for injecting faults in the configuration bits of SRAM-based FPGAs is proposed. The main advantages over previous methods are its ability to simultaneously inject several faults or...
Provided by University of Balamand
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Fault-Tolerant Consensus in Unknown and Anonymous Networks
Mar 2009
Most of the algorithms for distributed systems consider that the number of processes in the system is known and every process has a distinct ID. However, in some networks such as in wireless...
Provided by University of Paris
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Boolean Logic With Fault Tolerant Coding
Apr 2009
Error detectable and error correctable coding in Hamming space was researched to discover possible fault tolerant coding constellations, which can implement Boolean logic with fault tolerant...
Provided by Cornell University
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Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Sep 2011
The authors present two asynchronous Byzantine fault-tolerant state machine replication (BFT) algorithms, which improve previous algorithms in terms of several metrics. First, they require only 2f...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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A Secure Message Delivery Scheme With Path Tracking for Delay Tolerant Networks
Aug 2012
In Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), message delivery is operated in an opportunistic way through store-carry and forward relaying, and every DTN node is in anticipation of cooperation for data...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Processing Time Analysis of Cloud Services With Retrying Fault-Tolerance Technique
Aug 2012
This paper studies the processing time of cloud services using the retrying technique for fault tolerance. Specifically, the processing time of a cloud service is modeled and the probability...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Handoff Based Secure Checkpointing and Log Based Rollback Recovery for Mobile Hosts
Sep 2012
An efficient fault tolerant algorithm based on movement-based secure checkpointing and logging for mobile computing system is proposed here. The recovery scheme proposed here combines independent...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Robust Fault-Tolerant Majority-Based Key-Value Store Supporting Multiple Consistency Levels
Dec 2011
The wide spread of Web 2.0 applications with rapidly growing amounts of user generated data, such as, wikis, social networks, and media sharing, have posed new challenges on the supporting...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Optimizing Routing in Delay-Tolerant Network (DTNS)
Aug 2012
The authors try to formulate the delay-tolerant networking routing problem, where messages are to be moved end-to-end across a connectivity graph that is time-varying but whose dynamics may be...
Provided by International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering
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Techniques of Software Fault Tolerance
Jul 2012
Fault tolerance is the ability of a system to perform its function correctly even in the presence of internal faults. The authors should accept that, relying on software techniques for obtaining...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science & Engineering Technology (IJCSET)
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Fault Tolerant Mechanisms for Efficient Data Recovery in Grid Environment
Dec 2011
Large clusters, high availability clusters and grid deployments often suffer from network, node or operating system faults and thus require the use of fault tolerant programming models....
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Fault Tolerant Environment Using Hardware Failure Detection, Roll Forward Recovery Approach and Microrebooting for Distributed Systems
Jul 2011
Fault tolerant Environment is a complete programming environment for the reliable execution of distributed application programs. Fault tolerant distributed environment encompasses all aspects of...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA)
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Fault-Tolerant Relay Deployment Based on Length-Constrained Connectivity and Rerouting Centrality in Wireless Sensor Networks
Dec 2011
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are prone to failures. To be robust to failures, the network topology should provide alternative routes to the sinks so when failures occur the routing protocol can...
Provided by Springer Healthcare
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A Novel Model for Software Risk Mitigation Plan to Improve the Fault Tolerance Process
Sep 2012
Mitigating the risks might increase the fault tolerance of a system; On the other hand, increasing the fault tolerance might raise the risks occurrence. This paper considers the dynamic...
Provided by International Journal of Information Technology & Computer Science ( IJITCS )
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Using Server Clusterization to Establish Fault-Tolerant Internet Connectivity
Sep 2010
This paper discusses the issue of providing tolerance to hardware and software faults in Internet system as well as issues related to clusterization of servers. A replication scheme is presented,...
Provided by Maxwell Science Publication
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A Fault-Tolerant Network Architecture for Modular Datacenter
Apr 2012
Modular DataCenters (MDCs) use shipping containers as large pluggable building blocks to construct mega-datacenter, and each container encapsulates thousands of servers. MDC's "Service-free" model...
Provided by Science and Development Network (SciDev.Net)
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A Probabilistic Bundle Relay Strategy in Two-Hop Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks
Apr 2011
A persisting major challenge in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks (VDTNs) is the delay minimization of data delivery when communicating nodes are stationary, arbitrarily deployed along roadsides...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Algorithmic Approaches to Low Overhead Fault Detection for Sparse Linear Algebra
Apr 2012
The increasing size and complexity of High-Performance Computing systems is making it increasingly likely that individual circuits will produce erroneous results, especially when operated in a low...
Provided by University of Illinois
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The Fail-Heterogeneous Architectural Model
Jul 2007
Fault tolerant distributed protocols typically utilize a homogeneous fault model, either fail-crash or fail-Byzantine, where all processors are assumed to fail in the same manner. In practice, due...
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Role-Based Symmetry Reduction of Fault-Tolerant Distributed Protocols With Language Support
Sep 2009
Fault-Tolerant (FT) distributed protocols (such as group membership, consensus, etc.) represent fundamental building blocks for many practical systems, e.g., the Google File System. Not only does...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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Scrooge: Reducing the Costs of Fast Byzantine Replication in Presence of Unresponsive Replicas
Mar 2010
Byzantine Fault Tolerant (BFT) state machine replication has the potential to become a generic solution for reliable distributed computing. BFT replication can be used to make any deterministic...
Provided by Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Eventually Linearizable Shared Objects
Jul 2010
Shared objects are a useful abstraction in the design of concurrent systems. A concurrent system consists of a collection of sequential processes communicating through shared objects. A shared...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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To Crash or Not to Crash: Efficient Modeling of Fail-Stop Faults
May 2011
A commonly used approach in practical verification is to verify a simplified model of the system rather than the system itself, which would entail infeasible verification complexity. This paper...
Provided by Technische Universitat Darmstadt
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Online Diagnosis and Recovery: On the Choice and Impact of Tuning Parameters
Dec 2007
A sequenced process of Fault Detection followed by the erroneous node's Isolation and system Reconfiguration (node exclusion or recovery), that is, the FDIR process, characterizes the sustained...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Concurrent Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Software-Transaction-Memory Based Applications
Jun 2012
Typical Byzantine fault tolerance algorithms require the application requests to be executed sequentially, which may severely limit the throughput of the system considering that modern CPUs are...
Provided by Cleveland State University
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Optimal Software Release Using Time and Cost Benefits Via Fuzzy Multi-Criteria and Fault Tolerance
Mar 2012
As the people know every software development process is pretty large and consists of different modules. This raises the idea of prioritizing different software modules so that important modules...
Provided by KIPS
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Analysis on Checkpointing Scheme Paradigms for Mobile Ad-Hoc Network: A Review
Jun 2012
This paper reviews the performance of various earlier algorithms in Mobile Ad hoc NETwork (MANET) strived to achieve effective fault tolerant technique and subsequently presents a new algorithm...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Self Checking and Fault Tolerant Digital Design
Dec 2009
During the process of development of any system, system reliability is of utmost importance. Specially when designing a processor, it is desired that a processor function correctly even in the...
Provided by Kurukshetra University
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Live Update for Device Drivers
Mar 2008
As commodity operating systems become more reliable and fault-tolerant, the availability of a system will be determined not by when it crashes, but instead by when it must be shutdown and rebooted...
Provided by University of Wisconsin
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The Failure Trace Archive: Enabling Comparative Analysis of Failures in Diverse Distributed Systems
Nov 2009
With the increasing functionality and complexity of distributed systems, resource failures are inevitable. While numerous models and algorithms for dealing with failures exist, the lack of public...
Provided by INRIA
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Reliable Routing & Deadlock Free Massive NoC Design With Fault Tolerance Based on Combinatorial Application
Jun 2012
Technological evolution enables the integration of billions of transistors on a chip. As VLSI technology scales, and processing power continues to improve, inter-processor communication becomes a...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT)
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4 Bit Architectures Considered Harmful
Dec 2010
The implications of secure epistemologies have been far-reaching and pervasive. In this paper, the authors disconfirm the structured unification of access points and lambda calculus, which...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Fault Tolerant Environment in Web Crawler Using Hardware Failure Detection
Jun 2012
Fault Tolerant Environment is a complete programming environment for the reliable execution of distributed application programs. Fault Tolerant Distributed Environment encompasses all aspects of...
Provided by International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Engineering & Technology
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Goal Programming Approach for Selection of COTS Components in Designing a Fault Tolerant Modular Software System under Consensus Recovery Block Scheme
Jan 2012
The application of computer systems has now crossed many different fields. Systems are becoming more software intensive. The requirements of the customer for a more reliable software led to the...
Provided by Interscience Open Access Journals
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Design and Analysis of Software Fault-Tolerant Techniques for Softcore Processors in Reliable Sram-Based Fpga
Dec 2011
This paper discusses high level techniques for designing fault tolerant systems in SRAM-based FPGAs, without modification in the FPGA architecture. Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) has been...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Technology and Applications
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Computing Detection Delays in Industrial Alarm Systems
Jul 2011
False and nuisance alarms are major problems in the process industry. Techniques like deadbands, delay-timers, and filtering can significantly reduce these false and nuisance alarms. The...
Provided by AACC
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Distributed and Dynamic Resource Allocation for Delay Sensitive Network Services
Oct 2008
In this paper, the authors present a distributed algorithm to dynamically allocate the available resources of a service-oriented network to delay sensitive network services. They use a...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Efficient Broadcasting in Delay Tolerant Networks
Oct 2008
Delay Tolerant Networks are a class of networks characterized by intermittent connectivity, long delays, and non-contemporaneous end-to-end paths between nodes. Standard Internet protocols do not...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Dynamic Modelling and Simulation of Fault Tolerant Systems Based on Stochastic Activity Networks
May 2012
Dependability analysis is crucial to control the risks resulting from failures in modern industrial systems whose complexity increases by leaps and bounds. This paper proposes a modeling approach...
Provided by Institut National Polytechnique de Lorraine
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Whitepapers
Concepts of Fault Tolerant Computing
Dec 2011
This paper analyses different aspects of fault tolerance system. Meaning of fault tolerance system is given in detail then concepts related to fault tolerant computing are defined for example...
Provided by International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)
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Whitepapers
Checkpoint Interval and System's Overall Quality for Message Logging-Based Rollback and Recovery in Distributed and Embedded Computing
Apr 2009
In distributed environment, message logging based checkpointing and rollback recovery is a commonly used approach for providing distributed systems with fault tolerance and synchronized global...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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Whitepapers
Fault Tolerant Nano-Memory With Fault Secure Encoder and Decoder
Jan 2011
Traditionally, memory cells were the only circuitry susceptible to transient faults the supporting circuitries around the memory was assumed to be fault-free. Due to the increase in soft error...
Provided by International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (IJEST)
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Whitepapers
Internal Threats Avoiding Based Forwarding Protocol in Social Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks
Apr 2011
In traditional Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), there exists a potential assumption that the nodes are willing to help others for packet forwarding. However, in the real application scenarios, such...
Provided by Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
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White Papers
Enhanced Server Fault Tolerance for Improved User Experience
Jan 2011
Interactive applications such as email, calendar, and maps are migrating from local desktop machines to data centers due to the many advantages offered by such a computing environment....
Provided by University of Colorado at Boulder
-
White Papers
Designing a Fault-Tolerant Network Using Valiant Load-Balancing
Jan 2008
Commercial backbone networks must continue to operate even when links and routers fail. Routing schemes such as OSPF, IS-IS, and MPLS reroute traffic, but they cannot guarantee that the resulting...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Towards Transient Fault Tolerance for Heterogeneous Computing Platforms
May 2008
The computing demands of applications coupled with the power wall problem in modern processors are expected to pave the way for heterogeneous computing platforms that are composed of a variety of...
Provided by University of Virginia
-
White Papers
ASFALT:A Simple Fault-Tolerant Signature-Based Localization Technique for Emergency Sensor Networks
Jul 2007
The authors consider the problem of robust node deployment and fault-tolerant localization in wireless sensor networks for emergency and first response applications. Signature-based localization...
Provided by State University of New York
-
White Papers
Generating Test Programs to Cover Pipeline Interactions
Jul 2009
Functional validation of a processor design through execution of a suite of test programs is common industrial practice. In this paper, the authors develop a high-level architectural specification...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Shifted Declustering: A Placement-Ideal Layout Scheme for Multi-way Replication Storage Architecture
Jun 2008
Recent years have seen a growing interest in the deployment of sophisticated replication based storage architecture in data-intensive computing. Existing placement-ideal data layout solutions...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Middleware for Resource-Aware Deployment and Configuration of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
Jan 2010
Developing large-scale Distributed Real-time and Embedded (DRE) systems is hard in part due to complex deployment and configuration issues involved in satisfying multiple Quality for Service (QoS)...
Provided by Washington University in St. Louis
-
White Papers
A Multi-Level Approach to Reduce the Impact of NBTI on Processor Functional Units
May 2010
NBTI is one of the most important silicon reliability problems facing processor designers today. The impact of NBTI can be mitigated at both the circuit and micro architecture levels. In this...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Attested Append-Only Memory: Making Adversaries Stick to Their Word
Oct 2007
Researchers have made great strides in improving the fault tolerance of both centralized and replicated systems against arbitrary (Byzantine) faults. However, there are hard limits to how much can...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Tolerating Byzantine Faults in Transaction Processing Systems Using Commit Barrier Scheduling
Oct 2007
This paper describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a replication scheme to handle Byzantine faults in transaction processing database systems. The scheme compares answers from...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Tolerating Latency in Replicated State Machines Through Client Speculation
Feb 2009
Replicated state machines are an important and widely studied methodology for tolerating a wide range of faults. Unfortunately, while replicas should be distributed geographically for maximum...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
Improving a Fault-Tolerant Routing Algorithm Using Detailed Traffic Analysis
Sep 2007
Currently, some coarse measures like global network latency are used to compare routing protocols. These measures do not provide enough insight of traffic distribution among network nodes in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
FTSCP: An Efficient Distributed Fault-Tolerant Service Composition Protocol for MANETs
Sep 2007
Service composition, which enables users to construct complex services from atomic services, is an essential feature for the usability of Mobile Ad hoc Networks (MANETs). Service composition in...
Provided by Springer Science+Business Media
-
White Papers
Cluster Delegation: High-Performance, Fault-Tolerant Data Sharing in NFS
Jan 2011
This paper presents cluster delegation, an enhancement to the NFSv4 files system that improves both performance and recoverability in computing clusters. Cluster delegation allows data sharing...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
-
White Papers
Fault Tolerant Interleaved Switching Fabrics for Scalable High-Performance Routers
Dec 2007
Scalable high-performance routers and switches are required to provide a larger number of ports, higher throughput, and good reliability. Most of today's routers and switches are implemented using...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Weakest Invariant Generation for Automated Addition of Fault-Tolerance
Aug 2010
One of the important tasks in evolving a fault-intolerant program into a fault-tolerant one is to identify the legitimate states (Its invariant) from where the original program satisfies its...
Provided by Michigan State University
-
White Papers
FTSyn: A Framework for Automatic Synthesis of Fault-Tolerance
Jan 2011
In the initial design of a fault-tolerant program, it is often difficult to identify all the faults that may perturb the program. Thus, when new faults that affect an existing program are...
Provided by Michigan Technological University
-
White Papers
ZZ and the Art of Practical BFT Execution
Feb 2011
The high replication cost of Byzantine Fault-Tolerance (BFT) methods has been a major barrier to their widespread adoption in commercial distributed applications. The authors present ZZ, a new...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
NFSv4 as the Building Block for Fault Tolerant Applications
Jan 2009
Fault tolerance in parallel environments is a subject that has been studied extensively in theory, but practical implementations are relatively scarce. Clusters of commodity computers are commonly...
Provided by Johns Hopkins University
-
White Papers
Context-Aware Fault Tolerance in Migratory Services
Jul 2008
Mobile ad hoc networks can be leveraged to provide ubiquitous services capable of acquiring, processing, and sharing real-time information from the physical world. Unlike Internet services, these...
Provided by ICST
-
White Papers
A Problem-Specific Fault-Tolerance Mechanism for Asynchronous, Distributed Systems
Jan 2011
The idle computers on a local area, campus area, or even wide area network represent a significant computational resource one that is, however, also unreliable, heterogeneous, and opportunistic....
Provided by University of Chicago
-
White Papers
Automating Middleware Specializations for Fault Tolerance
Oct 2008
General-purpose middleware solutions, by definition, cannot readily support domain-specific semantics without significant manual efforts in specializing the middleware. This paper presents GRAFT...
Provided by Vanderbilt University
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White Papers
Generative Techniques to Specialize Middleware for Fault Tolerance
May 2008
Although contemporary general-purpose middleware provide solutions for fault tolerance, these solutions cannot adequately support the diverse failure handling and recovery semantics imposed by...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Skewed Redundancy
Oct 2008
Technology scaling in integrated circuits has consistently provided dramatic performance improvements in modern microprocessors. However, increasing device counts and decreasing on-chip voltage...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Profiling Heterogeneous Multi-GPU Systems to Accelerate Cortically Inspired Learning Algorithms
Jan 2011
Recent advances in neuroscientific understanding make parallel computing devices modeled after the human neocortex a plausible, attractive, fault-tolerant, and energy efficient possibility. Such...
Provided by University of Wisconsin-Madison
-
White Papers
Performance and Fault Tolerance in the StoreTorrent Parallel Filesystem
Jan 2010
With a goal of supporting the timely and cost-effective analysis of Terabyte datasets on commodity components, the authors present and evaluate StoreTorrent, a simple distributed filesystem with...
Provided by Cornell University
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Fault Tolerance in Real Time Multiprocessors - Embedded Systems
Jan 2010
All real time tasks which are termed as critical tasks by nature have to complete its execution before its deadline, even in presence of faults. The most popularly used real time task assignment...
Provided by Cornell University
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Efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Scalable Storage and Services
Jul 2009
Distributed systems experience and should tolerate faults beyond simple component crashes as such systems grow in size and importance. Unfortunately, tolerating arbitrary faults, also known as...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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A Scalable Asynchronous Replication-Based Strategy for Fault Tolerant MPI Applications
Oct 2008
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces. Typically checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques, however, require...
Provided by University at Buffalo
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Replication-Based Fault-Tolerance for MPI Applications
Sep 2008
As computational clusters increase in size, their mean-time-to-failure reduces drastically. Typically, checkpointing is used to minimize the loss of computation. Most checkpointing techniques,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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An Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Communication Scheme for Body Sensor Networks
Nov 2010
A high degree of reliability for critical data transmission is required in Body Sensor Networks (BSNs). However, BSNs are usually vulnerable to channel impairments due to body fading effect and RF...
Provided by Dalian University Of Technology
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Limit on the Addressability of Fault-Tolerant Nanowire Decoders
Jan 2009
The semiconductor industry today relies on photolithography techniques to transfer design patterns onto silicon wafers. Chips with 90-nm features are now in mass production, and NAND flash...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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Hierarchical Triple-Modular Redundancy (H-TMR) Network for Digital Systems
Feb 2009
Fault tolerance becomes substantial design criteria for the applications where the reliability of hardware was crucial. Medical, military and long-range missions are such applications that the...
Provided by Cornell University
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Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Nondeterministic Applications
Aug 2007
All practical applications contain some degree of nondeterminism. When such applications are replicated to achieve Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT), their nondeterministic operations must be...
Provided by Cleveland State University
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A New Fault Injection Approach to Study the Impact of Bitflips in the Configuration of SRAM-Based FPGAs
Apr 2011
A new method for injecting faults in the configuration bits of SRAM-based FPGAs is proposed. The main advantages over previous methods are its ability to simultaneously inject several faults or...
Provided by University of Balamand
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Fault-Tolerant Consensus in Unknown and Anonymous Networks
Mar 2009
Most of the algorithms for distributed systems consider that the number of processes in the system is known and every process has a distinct ID. However, in some networks such as in wireless...
Provided by University of Paris
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Boolean Logic With Fault Tolerant Coding
Apr 2009
Error detectable and error correctable coding in Hamming space was researched to discover possible fault tolerant coding constellations, which can implement Boolean logic with fault tolerant...
Provided by Cornell University
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Zzyzx: Scalable Fault Tolerance Through Byzantine Locking
Jun 2010
Zzyzx is a Byzantine fault-tolerant replicated state machine protocol that outperforms prior approaches and provides near-linear throughput scaling. Using a new technique called Byzantine Locking,...
Provided by Carnegie Mellon University
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Realization of a Novel Fault Tolerant Reversible Full Adder Circuit in Nanotechnology
Jul 2010
In parity preserving reversible circuit, the parity of the input vector must match the parity of the output vector. It renders a wide class of circuit faults readily detectable at the circuit's...
Provided by University of Dhaka
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Survivable System by Critical Service Recovery Model: Single Service Analysis
Oct 2009
This paper reported another recovery model to enhance system survivability. The model focuses on how to preserve the system and resume its critical service while incident occurs by reconfiguring...
Provided by Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS
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