Search Results - "Proceedings IEEE International Computer Performance and Dependability Symposium. IPDS 2000"

Performance index based network reliability analysis with stratified sampling by Jereb, L., Kiss, A.

“…The evolution of communication technologies results in continuously increasing capacities and higher concentration of traffic on relatively fewer network…”
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Correlational and distributional effects in network traffic models by Geist, R., Westall, J.

“…Simulation studies are used to evaluate the impact of the distributional and correlational characteristics of traffic arrival processes on the performance of…”
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On building non-intrusive performance instrumentation blocks for CORBA-based distributed systems by Sridharan, B., Dasarathy, B., Mathur, A.P.

“…A non-intrusive, reusable framework for collecting performance statistics of CORBA-based distributed systems is proposed. The usefulness of the framework in…”
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On Markov reward modelling with FSPNs by Wolter, K., Zisowsky, A.

“…In this paper fluid stochastic Petri nets (FSPNs) will be used for modelling reward in a performability model. Two variations of a known performability model…”
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A fundamental failure model for fault-tolerant protocols by Echtle, K., Masum, A.

“…The application area of distributed systems determines the extent to which protocols must provide fault detection and/or fault tolerance. Highest dependability…”
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Mission time analysis of large dependable systems by Racz, D., Telek, M.

“…The mission time analysis of large dependable systems that can be described by Markov Reward Models (MRM) with phase type distributed impulse and constant rate…”
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I/O phase characterization of TPC-H query operations by Kandaswamy, M.A., Knighten, R.L.

“…With the introduction of newer faster processors, speedier interconnects and sophisticated I/O system designs, the processing capabilities of servers built in…”
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NFTAPE: a framework for assessing dependability in distributed systems with lightweight fault injectors by Stott, D.T., Floering, B., Burke, D., Kalbarczpk, Z., Iyer, R.K.

“…Many fault injection tools are available for dependability assessment. Although these tools are good at injecting a single fault model into a single system,…”
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On queueing with customer impatience until the end of service by Movaghar, A.

“…We study queueing systems where customers have strict deadlines until the end of their service. An analytic method is given for the analysis of a class of such…”
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Reaching efficient fault-tolerance for cooperative applications by Sobe, P.

“…Cooperative applications are widely used, e.g. as parallel calculations or distributed information processing systems. Whereby such applications meet the users…”
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Measure-adaptive state-space construction by Obal, W.D., Sanders, W.H.

“…Measure-adaptive state-space construction is the process of exploiting symmetry in high-level model and performance measure specifications to automatically…”
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The impact of backoff, EIFS, and beacons on the performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs by Heindl, A., German, R.

“…In late 1997, IEEE standardized the physical layers and the medium access for wireless local area networks. This paper presents a performance study of the…”
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Dependability assessment of GUARDS instances by Arlat, J., Jarboui, T., Kanoun, K., Powell, D.

“…The generic architectural concepts developed in the European ESPRIT project GUARDS (Generic Upgradable Architecture for Real time Distributed Systems) provide…”
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Sensitivity analysis of modular dynamic fault trees by Yong Ou, Dugan, J.B.

“…Dynamic fault tree analysis, as currently supported by the Galileo software package, provides an effective means for assessing the reliability of embedded…”
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On the effectiveness of a message-driven confidence-driven protocol for guarded software upgrading by Tai, A.T., Tso, K.S., Alkalai, L., Chau, S.N., Sanders, W.H.

“…In order to accomplish dependable onboard evolution, we develop a methodology which is called "guarded software upgrading" (GSU). The core of the methodology…”
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Profiling the performance of TCP/IP on Windows NT by Xie, P., Wu, B., Liu, M., Harris, J., Scheiman, C.

“…This paper presents detailed network performance measurements of a prototype implementation of the TCP/IP network software on Windows NT. The measurements…”
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Hybrid analysis of SGSPNs with time-dependent transition rates by Buchholz, P.

“…For the class Superposed Generalized Stochastic Petri Nets (SGSPNs) we present a new analysis algorithm which combines the ideas of transient numerical…”
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