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FTCS-23
The Twenty-Third Annual International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing
Toulouse, France

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Software Implemented Fault Tolerance: Technologies and Experience
Y. Huang, C. Kintala pg.2


Application Transparent Fault Management in Fault-Tolerant Mach
M.Russinovich, Z. Segall, D.P. Siewiorek pg.10


Faults, Symptoms, and Software Fault Tolerance in the Tandem GUARDIAN90 Operating System
I.Lee, R.K Iyer pg.20


Increasing System Availability through On-Line Software Version Change
D. Gupta, P. Jalote pg.30


Fast Simulation of Steady-State Availability in Non-Markovian Highly Dependable Systems
V.F.Nicola, P. Shahabuddin, P. Heidelberger,P.W.Glynn pg.38



Interval Availability Distribution Computation
G. Rubino, B. Sericola pg.48


Characterizing a Lumping Heuristic for a Markov Network Reliability Model
M. Balakrishnan,A. Reibman pg.56


Comparison of Hybrid Modular Redundant Multiprocessor Systems with respect to Performabilities
C.Chen, H. Asada, Y. Kakuda, T. Kikuno pg.66


The Design Concepts and Operational Results of Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems for the Shinkansen Train
Control
A. Hachiga, K. Akita, Y. Hasegawa pg.78


Development of a Benchmark to Measure System Robustness
D.P. Siewiorek, J.J. Hudak, B.H. Suh, Z. Segall pg.88


The Variation of Software Survival Time for Different Operational Input Profiles
P.G. Bishop pg.98


A Class of Error Locating Codes for Byte-Organized Memory Systems
E. Fujiwara, M. Kitakami pg.110


Unidirectional Error Control Codes
N.H. Vaidya pg.120


A Proposal for Error-Tolerating Codes
T. Matsubara, Y. Koga pg.130


Progressive Retry for Software Error Recovery in Distributed Systems
Y.M. Wang, Y. Huang, W.K. Fuchs pg.138


Nonblocking and Orphan-Free Message Logging Protocols
L. Alvisi, B. Hoppe, K. Marzullo pg.145


Relaxing Consistency in Recoverable Distributed Shared Memory
B. Janssens, W.K. Fuchs pg.155


EXOP (Extended Operation): A New Logical Fault Model for Digital Circuits
I.Pomeranz, S.M. Reddy pg.166


Efficient Testing of Tree Circuits
R.S. Blanton, J.P. Hayes pg.176


A BDD-Based Algorithm for Computation of Exact Fault Detection Probabilities
R. Krieger, B. Becker, R. Sinkovic pg.186


Detection and Discrimination of Injected Network Faults
R. A. Maxion, R.T. Olszewski pg.198


Software Fault Injection and its Application in Distributed Systems
H.A. Rosenberg, K.G. Shin pg.208


Simulation of Software Behavior under Hardware Faults
K.K. Goswami, R.K. Iyer pg.218


Estimators for Fault Tolerance Coverage Evaluation
D. Powell, E. Martins, J. Arlat, Y. Crouzet pg.228


Fault-Tolerant Wormhole Routing in Meshes
C.J. Glass, L.M. Ni pg.240


Designing Concurrent Checking Sorting Networks
K. Kantawala, D.L. Tao pg.250


Wildcard Dimensions, Coding Theory and Fault-Tolerant Meshes and Hypercubes
J. Bruck, R. Cypher, C.T. Ho pg.260


Design of Neural Networks to Tolerate the Mixture of Two Types of Faults
Y. Tohma, Y. Koyanagi pg.268


Exploiting Data Flow Information in Algorithm-Based Fault Tolerance
R. Shamsunder, D.J. Rosenkrantz, S.S. Ravi pg.280


Tolerance Determination for Algorithm-Based Checks Using Simplified Error Analysis Techniques
A. Roy-Chowdhury, P. Banerjee pg.290


Optimum Kalman Detector/Corrector for Fault-Tolerant Linear Processing
R. Redinbo pg.299


A Fast and Accurate Gate-Level Transient Fault Simulation Environment
H. Cha,E.M. Rudnick, G.S. Choi, J.H. Patel, R.K. Iyer pg.310


Wear-out Simulation Environment for VLSI Designs
G.S. Choi, R.K. Iyer pg.320


Theory and Practice of Sequential Machine Testing and Testability
I. Pomeranz, S.M. Reddy, J.H. Patel pg.330


Programmable Space Compaction for BIST
Y. Zorian, A. Ivanov pg.340


Balance Testing of Logic Circuits
K. Chakrabarty, J.P. Hayes pg.350


Algorithmic Synthesis of High Level Tests for Data Path Designs
N.R.Saxena, R. Tangirala, A. Srivastava pg.360


Impact of Behavioral Learning on the Compilation of Sequential Circuit Tests
P. Vishakantaiah, J.A. Abraham pg.370


An Efficient Replication Protocol Exploiting Logical Tree Structures
H. Koch pg.382


Specifying Fault Tolerance within Stark's Formalism
A. Cau, W.P. de Roever pg.392


A Formally Verified Algorithm for Interactive Consistency Under a Hybrid Fault Model
P. Lincoln, J. Rushby pg.402


Randomized Distributed Agreement Revisited
P. Berman, J.A. Garay pg.412


Fast, On-Line Failure Recovery in Redundant Disk Arrays
M. Holland, G A. Gibson, D.P. Siewiorek pg.422

Disk Array Storage System Reliability
W.A. Burkhard, J. Menon pg.432

An Analytic Treatment of the Reliability and Performance of Mirrored Disk Subsystems
R. Geist, K. Trivedi pg.442

A Case for Fault-Tolerant Memory for Transaction Processing
A. Bhide, D. Dias, N. Halim, B. Smith, F. Parr pg.451

Efficient Distributed Diagnosis in the Presence of Random Faults
A. Pelc pg.462

Distributed On-Line Diagnosis in the Presence of Arbitrary Faults
R.W. Buskens, R.P. Bianchini, Jr. pg.470

Adaptive Voting for Faulty (VFF) Node Scheme for Distributed Self-Diagnosis
J.Y. Lee, H.Y. Youn, A.D. Sing pg.480

Design and Synthesis for Testability of Synchronous Sequential Circuits Based on Strong-Connectivity
I. Pomeranz, S.M. Reddy pg.492

A Synthesis Tool for Fault-Tolerant Finite State Machines
R. Leveugle,R. Rochet,C. Saucier,L. Martinez,C. Pitot pg.502

Optimal Self-Recovering Microarchitecture Synthesis
R. Karri, A. Orailoglu pg.512

TTP - A Time-Triggered Protocol for Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
H. Kopetz, C. Grunsteidl pg.524

Virtually-Synchronous Communication Based on a Weak Failure Suspector
A. Schiper, A. Ricciardi pg.534

Early Delivery Totally Ordered Multicast in Asynchronous Environments
D. Dolev, S. Kramer, D. Malki pg.544

Byzantine Agreement with a Minimum Number of Messages Both in the Faultless and Worst Case
B. Baum-Waidner pg.554

Efficient Memory Access Checking
K.D. Wilken, T. Kong pg.566

The Risk of Data Corruption in Microprocessor-based Systems
R. Horst, D. Jewett, D. Lenoski pg.576

Efficient Implementations of Self-Checking Adders and ALUs
M. Nicolaidis pg.586

On Concurrent Error Detection, Location, and Correction of FFT Networks
C.G. Oh, H.Y. Youn pg.596

AIRBUS A320/A330/A340 Electrical Flight Controls-A Family of Fault-Tolerant Systems
D. Briere, P. Traverse pg.616

SACEM: A Fault-Tolerant System for Train Speed Control
C. Hennebert, G. Guiho pg.624

Concurrent Error Detection/Correction in the HAL MMU Chip
D.C.W. Chang, N.R. Saxena pg.630

Use of Protocol Validation and Verification Techniques in the Design of a Fault-Tolerant Computer Architecture
W.D. Shambroom pg. 636

Development of a Fault-Tolerant Computer System for the HERMES Space Shuttle
P. David, C. Guidal pg.641

A Systematic and Comprehensive Tool for Software Reliability Modeling and Measurement
M.R. Lyu, A.P. Nikora, W.H. Farr pg.648

SoRel: A Tool for Reliability Growth Analysis and Prediction from Statistical Failure Data
K. Kanoun, M. Kaaniche, J.C. Laprie, S. Metge pg.654

The Use of Object Groups to Implement Dependability in a Process Control Supervision System
Y. Eychenne, M. Simatic, Marcoussis, C. Baradel,
L. Junot, B. Kohen pg.660

SURF-2: A Program for Dependability Evaluation of Complex Hardware and Software Systems
C. Beounes, M. Aguera, J. Arlat, S. Bachmann,
C. Bourdeau, J.E. Doucet,K.Kanoun, J.C. Laprie,
S. Metge, J. Moreira de Souza, D. Powell,
P. Spiesser pg.668

Dependability Evaluation Using UltraSAN
W.H. Sanders, W.D. Obal II pg.674

The FIGARO Dependability Evaluation Workbench in Use: Case Studies for Fault-Tolerant Computer Systems
M. Bouissou pg.680