Concept
Reliability (computer networking)
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Pedro Miguel Nunes Pereira de Almeida Reis, Paul Johanns
We investigate the failure mechanism of stopper knots, with a particular focus on the figure -8 knot as a representative example. Stopper knots are widely used in climbing, sailing, racket stringing, and sewing to maintain tension in ropes, strings, or thr ...
Elsevier2024Time vs. Truth: Age-Distortion Tradeoffs and Strategies for Distributed Inference
In 1948, Claude Shannon laid the foundations of information theory, which grew out of a study to find the ultimate limits of source compression, and of reliable communication. Since then, information theory has proved itself not only as a quest to find the ...
EPFL2023Building Strongly-Consistent Systems Resilient to Failures, Partitions, and Slowdowns
Distributed systems designers typically strive to improve performance and preserve availability despite failures or attacks; but, when strong consistency is also needed, they encounter fundamental limitations. The bottleneck is in replica coordination, whi ...
EPFL2023Differentiated consistency for worldwide gossips
Davide Frey, Pierre-Louis Blaise Roman
Eventual consistency is a consistency model that favors liveness over safety. It is often used in large-scale distributed systems where models ensuring a stronger safety incur performance that are too low to be deemed practical. Eventual consistency tends ...
2022Verification of Software Network Functions with No Verification Expertise
Software network functions (NFs), such as a network address translator, load balancer, or proxy,
promise to bring flexibility and rapid innovation to computer networks and to reduce operational costs.
However, continuous updates and flexibility typically c ...
EPFL2020Reliable and Robust Cyber-Physical Systems for Real-Time Control of Electric Grids
Real-time control of electric grids is a novel approach to handling the increasing penetration of distributed and volatile energy generation brought about by renewables. Such control occurs in cyber-physical systems (CPSs), in which software agents maintai ...
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