Improper evaluation of systems papers may result in the loss or delay in publication of possibly important research. This paper posits that systems research papers may be evaluated in one or more of ...

As computers permeate all aspects of our lives, a wide range of computer systems must achieve high dependability, including availability, reliability, and security. Unfortunately, few current computer ...

Many applications demand availability. Unfortunately, software failures greatly reduce system availability. Previous approaches for surviving software failures suffer from several limitations, ...

James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter Hochschild ...

Daniel Lowe Wheeler, Dropbox Inc.

We have developed a set of defenses based on the detection of abnormal combinations of network events. For example, to detect the injection of a DNS reply, we use bookkeeping of request-reply pairs to ...

Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto; Raghav Lagisetty and Arif Merchant, Google, Inc.

As mobile applications and services continue to grow in importance, the ability for a mobile device to quickly and accurately locate its own position (and that of its user) has also become ...

Nathan Bronson, Zach Amsden, George Cabrera, Prasad Chakka, Peter Dimov, Hui Ding, Jack Ferris, Anthony Giardullo, Sachin Kulkarni, Harry Li, Mark Marchukov, Dmitri ...

Sahar Mazloom, Mohammad Rezaeirad, and Aaron Hunter, George Mason University; Damon McCoy, New York University ...

Distributed systems are subject to a variety of faults and attacks. In this paper, we consider general (Byzantine) faults [13], i.e. a faulty node may exhibit arbitrary behavior. In particular, a ...

Yupeng Zhang, Jonathan Katz, and Charalampos Papamanthou, University of Maryland ...