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Cross-Layer Protocol Design and Optimization for Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Networks (DFT-MSN's)
Jun 2008
While extensive studies have been carried out in the past several years for many sensor applications, the main approach for sensor networking cannot be applied to the scenarios with extremely low...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DFT-MSN): A New Paradigm for Pervasive Information Gathering
Sep 2009
This paper focuses on the Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DFT-MSN) for pervasive information gathering. The authors develop simple and efficient data delivery schemes tailored for...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Construction Algorithms for k-Connected m-Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 2008
A Connected Dominating Set (CDS) working as a virtual backbone is an effective way to decrease the overhead of routing in a wireless sensor network. Furthermore, a k-Connected m-Dominating Set...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Master Failures in the Precision Time Protocol
Sep 2008
If all clocks within a distributed system share the same notion of time, the application domain can gain several advantages. Among those is the possibility to implement real-time behavior,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Multicast Group Communication as a Base for a Load-Balancing Replicated Data Service
Jan 2008
This paper gives a rigorous account of an algorithm that provides sequentially consistent replicated data on top of the view synchronous group communication service previously specified by Fekete,...
Provided by University of Sydney
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White Papers
Binomial Graph: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Logical Network Topology
Sep 2007
The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. The logical network topologies must also support the high...
Provided by University of Tennessee
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White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
Jan 2008
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
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White Papers
Fault Tolerance in ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2011
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 Personal Area Network standard are finding increasing use in the home automation and emerging smart energy markets. The network and...
Provided by NASA
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White Papers
Fault-Tolerant and Decentralized Lease Coordination for Distributed Systems
Feb 2010
Applications which need exclusive access to a shared resource in distributed systems require a fault-tolerant and scalable mechanism to coordinate this exclusive access. Examples of such...
Provided by Zuse Institute Berlin
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White Papers
FaTLease: Scalable Fault-Tolerant Lease Negotiation With Paxos
Jun 2008
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by distributed...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
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White Papers
Position Paper: BFT: the Time is Now
Feb 2009
Data centers strive to provide reliable access to the data and services that they host. This reliable access requires the hosted data and services hosted by the data center to be both consistent...
Provided by University of Texas
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White Papers
BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services
Sep 2008
For routers and switches to handle ever-increasing bandwidth requirements, the packet "Fast-path" must be handled with specialized hardware. There have been two approaches to building such packet...
Provided by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
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White Papers
Sustainable Modular Adaptive Redundancy Technique Emphasizing Partial Reconfiguration for Reduced Power Consumption
Jun 2011
As reconfigurable devices' capacities and the complexity of applications that use them increase, the need for self-reliance of deployed systems becomes increasingly prominent. Organic computing...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
An Interface for a Decentralized 2D Reconfiguration on Xilinx Virtex-FPGAs for Organic Computing
Aug 2009
Partial and dynamic online reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a promising approach to design high adaptive systems with lower power consumption, higher task specific...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
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White Papers
Maximizing Spare Utilization by Virtually Reorganizing Faulty Cache Lines
Jul 2010
Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-chip caches, it is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Adaptive Online Testing for Efficient Hard Fault Detection
Sep 2009
With growing semiconductor integration, the reliability of individual transistors is expected to rapidly decline in future technology generations. In such a scenario, processors would need to be...
Provided by University of Michigan
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White Papers
StageNet: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Constructing Dependable CMPs
Jan 2011
CMOS scaling has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, semiconductor feature size reduction has resulted in increasing levels of operating temperatures and current densities....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Control Evaluation in a LVoD System Based on a Peer-to-Peer Multicast Scheme
Jul 2008
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) in Video on Demand systems (VoD) is a challenging problem. In this paper, the authors analyze the fault tolerance on a P2P multicast delivery scheme, called...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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White Papers
Nearest Neighbor Affinity Scheduling In Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures
Oct 2008
Asymmetric or heterogeneous Multi-Core (AMC) architectures have definite performance, performance per watt and fault tolerance advantages for a wide range of workloads. The authors propose a 16...
Provided by United Arab Emirates University
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White Papers
High Availability for Parallel Computers
Oct 2010
Fault tolerance has become an important issue for parallel applications in the last few years. The parallel systems' users want them to be reliable considering two main dimensions, availability...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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White Papers
3-D nFPGA: A Reconfigurable Architecture for 3-D CMOS/Nanomaterial Hybrid Digital Circuits
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors introduce a novel reconfigurable architecture, named 3-D Field-Programmable Gate Array (3-D nFPGA), which utilizes 3-D integration techniques and new nanoscale materials...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Dynamics of Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2009
Power-Law topology has been proved to be an effective technique to improve fault tolerance. With the motivation of construct reliable topology for wireless sensor networks, a Power-Law Evolving...
Provided by Taylor & Francis Group
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White Papers
The Application of AE Signal in Early Cracked Rotor Fault Diagnosis With PWVD and SVM
Oct 2011
To further enhance the early diagnose precision and efficiency for rotor crack under condition of strongly noise, AE signals is applied to extract fault feature of early rotor cracks with the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Context-Aware Fault Localization via Control Flow Analysis
Oct 2011
Coverage-based fault localization techniques are effective to support program debugging. However, these techniques assess the suspiciousness of program entities individually. Such calculation...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Transient Fault Tolerance and System Safety Enhancement Based on System Theory
Oct 2011
Transient faults are hard to be detected and located due to their unpredictable nature and short duration, and they are the dominant causations of system failures, which makes it necessary to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
An Architecture for Secure Fault-Tolerant Global Applications
Jan 2012
Applications are increasingly being developed over the Internet, and Internet programming languages seek new abstractions for programming what is in effect a "Global computer." The characteristics...
Provided by Stevens Institute of Technology
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White Papers
Information Fusion Based Fault Location Technology for Distribution Network
May 2011
Along with the increasing the level of distribution network intelligence and the network complexity, the automatic fault location technology for distribution network is particularly important. But...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Crossbar Molecular Switch Memory Demultiplexer
May 2007
Nanoscale elements are fabricated using bottom-up processes, and as such they are prone to high levels of defects. Defect-tolerance will play a crucial role in the realization of practical...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Hierarchal Object Oriented Fault Tolerant Secured and Atomic Mobile Agent Model
Nov 2011
Mobile Agents are soft wares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. Mobility introduces two major challenges in front of mobile agent namely reliability and security....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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White Papers
A Fault-Tolerant Middleware Architecture for High-Availability Storage Services
Jul 2007
Off late organizations and business enterprises of all sizes need to deal with unprecedented amounts of digital information, creating challenging demands for mass storage and on-demand storage...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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White Papers
A Pre-Injection Analysis for Identifying Fault-Injection Tests for Protocol Validation
Oct 2010
Fault-Injection (FI) based techniques for dependability assessment of distributed protocols face certain limitations in providing state-space coverage and also incur high operational cost. This is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Dynamic Input Buffer Allocation (DIBA) for Fault Tolerant Ethernet Packet Switching
Jan 2008
This paper describes a new fault-tolerant architecture to realize an Ethernet layer-2 switch. This architecture includes a memory buffer scheduler to assign memory buffers dynamically to the input...
Provided by Northeastern University
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White Papers
A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Algorithm for MPLS Networks
Mar 2008
This paper presents a new fault tolerant, path maintaining, algorithm for use in MPLS based networks. The novelty of the algorithm lies upon the fact that it is the first to employ both path...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Information -Aware Scheduling Strategies for Desktop Grid Environment
Sep 2011
In this paper, the authors will show how it is possible to build Information-aware schedulers able to outperform The Work Queue with Replication-Fault Tolerant Scheduler(WQR-FT). They propose...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Multipath Fault Tolerant Routing Protocol in MANET
Jan 2012
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) consist of a collection of wireless mobile nodes which dynamically exchange data among themselves without the reliance on a fixed base station or a wired backbone...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Webcasts
Virtualization Meets Fault Tolerance - Raising the Hardware Bar
Jan 2012
With virtualization, one are putting all their eggs in one basket! In this webcast, the presenter describes about virtualization that meets Fault Tolerance. The presenter also explains how Stratus...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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Webcasts
The Real Fault Tolerant
Jan 2012
Fault Tolerant is a pretty common term in the world of IT, also an often misused and misleading term. For 3 decades, Stratus Technologies has been engineering and manufacturing purpose built Fault...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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White Papers
An Aggregation Tree Approach for Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2009
Collecting data with confidence of the environment is an important application of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In this paper, the authors used a Splay Tree based Event Region fault-tolerant...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Exploiting Redundancies to Enhance Schedulability in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems
May 2009
In the past decades, distributed systems have been widely applied to real-time applications, most of which have fault-tolerance requirements to assure high reliability. Due to the stringent space...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optimizing the Performance of Virtual Machine Synchronization for Fault Tolerance
Aug 2010
Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance (HBFT), which synchronizes the state between the primary VM and the backup VM at a high frequency of tens to hundreds of milliseconds, is an emerging approach to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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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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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
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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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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
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
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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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
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
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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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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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
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White Papers
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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White Papers
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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White Papers
Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DFT-MSN): A New Paradigm for Pervasive Information Gathering
Sep 2009
This paper focuses on the Delay/Fault-Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DFT-MSN) for pervasive information gathering. The authors develop simple and efficient data delivery schemes tailored for...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Construction Algorithms for k-Connected m-Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks
May 2008
A Connected Dominating Set (CDS) working as a virtual backbone is an effective way to decrease the overhead of routing in a wireless sensor network. Furthermore, a k-Connected m-Dominating Set...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Master Failures in the Precision Time Protocol
Sep 2008
If all clocks within a distributed system share the same notion of time, the application domain can gain several advantages. Among those is the possibility to implement real-time behavior,...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Multicast Group Communication as a Base for a Load-Balancing Replicated Data Service
Jan 2008
This paper gives a rigorous account of an algorithm that provides sequentially consistent replicated data on top of the view synchronous group communication service previously specified by Fekete,...
Provided by University of Sydney
-
White Papers
Binomial Graph: A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant Logical Network Topology
Sep 2007
The number of processors embedded in high performance computing platforms is growing daily to solve larger and more complex problems. The logical network topologies must also support the high...
Provided by University of Tennessee
-
White Papers
Pastis: A Highly-Scalable Multi-User Peer-to-Peer File System
Jan 2008
This paper introduces Pastis, a completely decentralized multi-user read-write peer-to-peer file system. In Pastis every file is described by a modifiable inode-like structure which contains the...
Provided by French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
-
White Papers
Fault Tolerance in ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks
Apr 2011
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) based on the IEEE 802.15.4 Personal Area Network standard are finding increasing use in the home automation and emerging smart energy markets. The network and...
Provided by NASA
-
White Papers
Fault-Tolerant and Decentralized Lease Coordination for Distributed Systems
Feb 2010
Applications which need exclusive access to a shared resource in distributed systems require a fault-tolerant and scalable mechanism to coordinate this exclusive access. Examples of such...
Provided by Zuse Institute Berlin
-
White Papers
FaTLease: Scalable Fault-Tolerant Lease Negotiation With Paxos
Jun 2008
A lease is a token which grants its owner exclusive access to a resource for a defined span of time. In order to be able to tolerate failures, leases need to be coordinated by distributed...
Provided by Association for Computing Machinery
-
White Papers
Position Paper: BFT: the Time is Now
Feb 2009
Data centers strive to provide reliable access to the data and services that they host. This reliable access requires the hosted data and services hosted by the data center to be both consistent...
Provided by University of Texas
-
White Papers
BAR Fault Tolerance for Cooperative Services
Sep 2008
For routers and switches to handle ever-increasing bandwidth requirements, the packet "Fast-path" must be handled with specialized hardware. There have been two approaches to building such packet...
Provided by Helsinki Institute for Information Technology
-
White Papers
Sustainable Modular Adaptive Redundancy Technique Emphasizing Partial Reconfiguration for Reduced Power Consumption
Jun 2011
As reconfigurable devices' capacities and the complexity of applications that use them increase, the need for self-reliance of deployed systems becomes increasingly prominent. Organic computing...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
An Interface for a Decentralized 2D Reconfiguration on Xilinx Virtex-FPGAs for Organic Computing
Aug 2009
Partial and dynamic online reconfiguration of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is a promising approach to design high adaptive systems with lower power consumption, higher task specific...
Provided by Hindawi Publishing
-
White Papers
Maximizing Spare Utilization by Virtually Reorganizing Faulty Cache Lines
Jul 2010
Aggressive technology scaling to 45nm and below introduces serious reliability challenges to the design of microprocessors. Since a large fraction of chip area is devoted to on-chip caches, it is...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Adaptive Online Testing for Efficient Hard Fault Detection
Sep 2009
With growing semiconductor integration, the reliability of individual transistors is expected to rapidly decline in future technology generations. In such a scenario, processors would need to be...
Provided by University of Michigan
-
White Papers
StageNet: A Reconfigurable Fabric for Constructing Dependable CMPs
Jan 2011
CMOS scaling has long been a source of dramatic performance gains. However, semiconductor feature size reduction has resulted in increasing levels of operating temperatures and current densities....
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Control Evaluation in a LVoD System Based on a Peer-to-Peer Multicast Scheme
Jul 2008
Providing Quality of Service (QoS) in Video on Demand systems (VoD) is a challenging problem. In this paper, the authors analyze the fault tolerance on a P2P multicast delivery scheme, called...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
-
White Papers
Nearest Neighbor Affinity Scheduling In Heterogeneous Multi-Core Architectures
Oct 2008
Asymmetric or heterogeneous Multi-Core (AMC) architectures have definite performance, performance per watt and fault tolerance advantages for a wide range of workloads. The authors propose a 16...
Provided by United Arab Emirates University
-
White Papers
High Availability for Parallel Computers
Oct 2010
Fault tolerance has become an important issue for parallel applications in the last few years. The parallel systems' users want them to be reliable considering two main dimensions, availability...
Provided by Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
-
White Papers
3-D nFPGA: A Reconfigurable Architecture for 3-D CMOS/Nanomaterial Hybrid Digital Circuits
Nov 2007
In this paper, the authors introduce a novel reconfigurable architecture, named 3-D Field-Programmable Gate Array (3-D nFPGA), which utilizes 3-D integration techniques and new nanoscale materials...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
-
White Papers
Dynamics of Wireless Sensor Networks
Nov 2009
Power-Law topology has been proved to be an effective technique to improve fault tolerance. With the motivation of construct reliable topology for wireless sensor networks, a Power-Law Evolving...
Provided by Taylor & Francis Group
-
White Papers
The Application of AE Signal in Early Cracked Rotor Fault Diagnosis With PWVD and SVM
Oct 2011
To further enhance the early diagnose precision and efficiency for rotor crack under condition of strongly noise, AE signals is applied to extract fault feature of early rotor cracks with the...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Context-Aware Fault Localization via Control Flow Analysis
Oct 2011
Coverage-based fault localization techniques are effective to support program debugging. However, these techniques assess the suspiciousness of program entities individually. Such calculation...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
Transient Fault Tolerance and System Safety Enhancement Based on System Theory
Oct 2011
Transient faults are hard to be detected and located due to their unpredictable nature and short duration, and they are the dominant causations of system failures, which makes it necessary to...
Provided by Academy Publisher
-
White Papers
An Architecture for Secure Fault-Tolerant Global Applications
Jan 2012
Applications are increasingly being developed over the Internet, and Internet programming languages seek new abstractions for programming what is in effect a "Global computer." The characteristics...
Provided by Stevens Institute of Technology
-
White Papers
Information Fusion Based Fault Location Technology for Distribution Network
May 2011
Along with the increasing the level of distribution network intelligence and the network complexity, the automatic fault location technology for distribution network is particularly important. But...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Performance Analysis of a Fault-Tolerant Crossbar Molecular Switch Memory Demultiplexer
May 2007
Nanoscale elements are fabricated using bottom-up processes, and as such they are prone to high levels of defects. Defect-tolerance will play a crucial role in the realization of practical...
Provided by Texas A&M University
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White Papers
Hierarchal Object Oriented Fault Tolerant Secured and Atomic Mobile Agent Model
Nov 2011
Mobile Agents are soft wares migrating from one node to another to fulfill the task of its owner. Mobility introduces two major challenges in front of mobile agent namely reliability and security....
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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A Fault-Tolerant Middleware Architecture for High-Availability Storage Services
Jul 2007
Off late organizations and business enterprises of all sizes need to deal with unprecedented amounts of digital information, creating challenging demands for mass storage and on-demand storage...
Provided by Georgia Institute of Technology
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A Pre-Injection Analysis for Identifying Fault-Injection Tests for Protocol Validation
Oct 2010
Fault-Injection (FI) based techniques for dependability assessment of distributed protocols face certain limitations in providing state-space coverage and also incur high operational cost. This is...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Dynamic Input Buffer Allocation (DIBA) for Fault Tolerant Ethernet Packet Switching
Jan 2008
This paper describes a new fault-tolerant architecture to realize an Ethernet layer-2 switch. This architecture includes a memory buffer scheduler to assign memory buffers dynamically to the input...
Provided by Northeastern University
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A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Algorithm for MPLS Networks
Mar 2008
This paper presents a new fault tolerant, path maintaining, algorithm for use in MPLS based networks. The novelty of the algorithm lies upon the fact that it is the first to employ both path...
Provided by University of Cyprus
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White Papers
Information -Aware Scheduling Strategies for Desktop Grid Environment
Sep 2011
In this paper, the authors will show how it is possible to build Information-aware schedulers able to outperform The Work Queue with Replication-Fault Tolerant Scheduler(WQR-FT). They propose...
Provided by International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technologies
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White Papers
Multipath Fault Tolerant Routing Protocol in MANET
Jan 2012
Mobile Ad hoc NETworks (MANETs) consist of a collection of wireless mobile nodes which dynamically exchange data among themselves without the reliance on a fixed base station or a wired backbone...
Provided by Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center
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Webcasts
Virtualization Meets Fault Tolerance - Raising the Hardware Bar
Jan 2012
With virtualization, one are putting all their eggs in one basket! In this webcast, the presenter describes about virtualization that meets Fault Tolerance. The presenter also explains how Stratus...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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Webcasts
The Real Fault Tolerant
Jan 2012
Fault Tolerant is a pretty common term in the world of IT, also an often misused and misleading term. For 3 decades, Stratus Technologies has been engineering and manufacturing purpose built Fault...
Provided by Stratus Technologies
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White Papers
An Aggregation Tree Approach for Event Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Oct 2009
Collecting data with confidence of the environment is an important application of the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In this paper, the authors used a Splay Tree based Event Region fault-tolerant...
Provided by Academy Publisher
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White Papers
Exploiting Redundancies to Enhance Schedulability in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems
May 2009
In the past decades, distributed systems have been widely applied to real-time applications, most of which have fault-tolerance requirements to assure high reliability. Due to the stringent space...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Optimizing the Performance of Virtual Machine Synchronization for Fault Tolerance
Aug 2010
Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance (HBFT), which synchronizes the state between the primary VM and the backup VM at a high frequency of tens to hundreds of milliseconds, is an emerging approach to...
Provided by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
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White Papers
Improving the Performance of Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance
Jan 2010
Hypervisor-Based Fault Tolerance (HBFT), a checkpoint-recovery mechanism, is an emerging approach to sustaining mission-critical applications. Based on virtualization technology, HBFT provides an...
Provided by Peking University
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