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Preface vii -- Contributors xi -- Prologue: Dependability Benchmarking: A Reality or a Dream? xiiiKarama Kanoun, Phil Koopman, Henrique Madeira, and Lisa Spainhower -- 1 The Autonomic Computing Benchmark 3Joyce Coleman, Tony Lau, Bhushan Lokhande, Peter Shum, Robert Wisniewski, and Mary Peterson Yost -- 2 Analytical Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability Benchmarks 23Richard Elling, Ira Pramanick, James Mauro, William Bryson, and Dong Tang -- 3 System Recovery Benchmarks 35Richard Elling, Ira Pramanick, James Mauro, William Bryson, and Dong Tang -- 4 Dependability Benchmarking Using Environmental Test Tools 55Cristian Constantinescu -- 5 Dependability Benchmark for OLTP Systems 63Marco Vieira, Jo�o Dur�es, and Henrique Madeira -- 6 Dependability Benchmarking of Web Servers 91Jo�o Dur�es, Marco Vieira, and Henrique Madeira -- 7 Dependability Benchmark of Automotive Engine Control Systems 111Juan-Carlos Ruiz, Pedro Gil, Pedro Yuste, and David de-Andr�s -- 8 Toward Evaluating the Dependability of Anomaly Detectors 141Kymie M. C. Tan and Roy A. Maxion -- 9 Vajra: Evaluating Byzantine-Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems 163Sonya J. Wierman and Priya Narasimhan -- 10 User-Relevant Software Reliability Benchmarking 185Mario R. Garzia -- 11 Interface Robustness Testing: Experience and Lessons Learned from the Ballista Project 201Philip Koopman, Kobey DeVale, and John DeVale -- 12 Windows and Linux Robustness Benchmarks with Respect to Application Erroneous Behavior 227Karama Kanoun, Yves Crouzet, Ali Kalakech, and Ana-Elena Rugina -- 13 DeBERT: Dependability Benchmarking of Embedded Real-Time Off-the-Shelf Components for Space Applications 255Diamantino Costa, Ricardo Barbosa, Ricardo Maia, and Francisco Moreira -- 14 Benchmarking the Impact of Faulty Drivers: Application to the Linux Kernel 285Arnaud Albinet, Jean Arlat, and Jean-Charles Fabre -- 15 Benchmarking the Operating System against Faults Impacting Operating System Functions 311Ravishankar Iyer, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Weining Gu.

16 Neutron Soft Error Rate Characterization of Microprocessors 341Cristian Constantinescu -- Index 351.

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A comprehensive collection of benchmarks for measuring dependability in hardware-software systemsAs computer systems have become more complex and mission-critical, it is imperative for systems engineers and researchers to have metrics for a system's dependability, reliability, availability, and serviceability. Dependability benchmarks are useful for guiding development efforts for system providers, acquisition choices of system purchasers, and evaluations of new concepts by researchers in academia and industry.This book gathers together all dependability benchmarks developed to date by industry and academia and explains the various principles and concepts of dependability benchmarking. It collects the expert knowledge of DBench, a research project funded by the European Union, and the IFIP Special Interest Group on Dependability Benchmarking, to shed light on this important area. It also provides a large panorama of examples and recommendations for defining dependability benchmarks.Dependability Benchmarking for Computer Systems includes contributions from a credible mix of industrial and academic sources: IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Critical Software, Carnegie Mellon University, LAAS-CNRS, Technical University of Valencia, University of Coimbra, and University of Illinois. It is an invaluable resource for engineers, researchers, system vendors, system purchasers, computer industry consultants, and system integrators.

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