Publications

Proactively Configurable Fault-Tolerance -- MEAD

• All publications on the MEAD system are available on the MEAD website. This includes our work on versatile dependability, adaptive replication, proactive fault-tolerance, nondeterminism, and fault-tolerance configuration. This also includes more recent work on embedded middleware, particularly survivable middleware for sensor networks.

Survivable Distributed Systems -- Starfish, Elephant, Thema

• All publications on the Starfish system are available on the Starfish website. This includes our work on Byzantine fault-tolerance for middleware, updatable intrusion detection systems, and failure prediction.

Survey & Retrospective Papers

• Experimental Research in Dependable Computing at Carnegie Mellon University
  D. P. Siewiorek, R. A. Maxion and P. Narasimhan, IFIP World Computer Congress, Toulouse, France, August 2004, pp. 305-328
• Experiences, Approaches and Challenges in Building Fault-Tolerant CORBA Systems
  P. Felber and P. Narasimhan, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 54, no. 5, May 2004, pp. 497-511

Dependable CORBA -- Eternal, Immune, Realize

• Transparent Fault Tolerance for CORBA (won UCSB's Lancaster Best Dissertation Award)
  P. Narasimhan, Ph.D. Dissertation, Technical Report #99-18, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara (December 1999).
• The Eternal System
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Encyclopedia of Distributed Computing, edited by P. Dasgupta and J. E. Urban, Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000).
• Lessons Learned in Building a Fault-Tolerant CORBA System
  P. Narasimhan, L.E. Moser and P.M. Melliar-Smith, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2002) , Washington D.C. (June 2002).
• Strong Replica Consistency for Fault-Tolerant CORBA Applications
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Journal of Computer System Science and Engineering (Spring 2002).
• Eternal - A Component-based Framework for Transparent Fault-Tolerant CORBA
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Software Practice and Experience, Volume 32, Issue 8, pp. 771-788 (July 2002).
• Using Interceptors to Enhance CORBA
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, IEEE Computer (July 1999), pp. 62-68.
• State Synchronization and Recovery for Strongly Consistent Replicated CORBA Objects
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2001), Göteborg, Sweden (July 2001).
• Consistent Object Replication in the Eternal System
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith and P. Narasimhan, Theory and Practice of Object Systems, vol. 4, no. 2 (1998), pp. 81-92.
• Enforcing Determinism for the Consistent Replication of Multithreaded CORBA Applications
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium for Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 1999), Lausanne, Switzerland (October 1999), pp. 263-273.
• Reconciling replication and transactions for the end-to-end reliability of CORBA applications
  P. Felber and P. Narasimhan, Proceedings of the Confederated International Conferences CoopIS, DOA, and ODBASE 2002, (January 2002), pp. 737-754.
• Practical Considerations in Making CORBA Services Fault-Tolerant
  P. Narasimhan, IEEE International Symposium on Object-oriented Real-time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2002), Washington, D.C. (April-May 2002).
• Transparent Fault Tolerance for Enterprise Applications
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, International Conference on Advances in Infrastructure for Electronic Business, Science, and Education on the Internet, L'Aquila, Italy (July-August 2000).
• Gateways for Accessing Fault Tolerance Domains
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Proceedings of IFIP/ACM Conference on Middleware 2000, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1795 , New York, NY (April 2000), pp. 88-103.
• Eternal: Fault Tolerance and Live Upgrades for Distributed Object Systems
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, L. Tewksbury and V. Kalogeraki,Proceedings of the DISCEX Information Survivability Conference, Hilton Head, SC (January 2000), pp. 184-196.
• Realize: Resource Management for Soft Real-time Distributed Systems
  P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser, V. Kalogeraki and P. Narasimhan,Proceedings of the DISCEX Information Survivability Conference, Hilton Head, SC (January 2000), pp. 281-293.
• Experimental Evaluation of a Fault-Tolerant CORBA System
  W. Zhao, P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser, and P. M. Melliar-Smith, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, NV (June 2001).
• The Eternal System: An Architecture for Enterprise Applications
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, L. Tewksbury and V. Kalogeraki,International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference, University of Mannheim, Germany (September 1999), pp. 214-222.
• Replication and Recovery Mechanisms for Strong Consistency in Reliable Distributed Systems
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, ISSAT International Conference on Reliability And Quality In Design, Las Vegas, NV (August 1999), pp. 26-31.
• A Fault Tolerance Framework for CORBA
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith and P. Narasimhan, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS/DSN 1999), Madison, WI (June 1999), pp. 150-157.
• The Realize Middleware for Replication and Resource Management
  P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser, V. Kalogeraki and P. Narasimhan, Proceedings of Middleware '98, The Lake District, England (September 1998), pp. 123-138.
• Supporting Enterprise Applications with the Eternal System
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, V. Kalogeraki and L. Tewksbury, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Enterprise Networking and Computing, ICC/SUPERCOMM '98, Atlanta, GA (June 1998).
• The Interception Approach to Reliable Distributed CORBA Objects
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Panel on Reliable Distributed Objects, Third USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems, Portland, Oregon (June 1997), pp 245-248.
• Exploiting the Internet Inter-ORB Protocol Interface to Provide CORBA with Fault Tolerance
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Third USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems, Portland, Oregon (June 1997), pp 81-90.
• Providing Strong Replica Consistency for Fault-Tolerant CORBA Applications
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, IEEE Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Rome, Italy (January 2001).
• Transparent Fault Tolerance for CORBA using the Eternal System
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, International Workshop on Reliable Middleware Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland (October 1999), pp. 7-13.
• The Eternal System
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, V. Kalogeraki and L. Tewksbury Workshop on Compositional Software Architectures , Monterey, California (January 1998).
• The Eternal System,
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith and P. Narasimhan, Workshop on Dependable Distributed Object Systems, OOPSLA'97, Atlanta, Georgia (October 1997).
• Separation of Concerns: Functionality vs. Quality of Service
  P. M. Melliar-Smith, L. E. Moser and P. Narasimhan, Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Newport Beach, California (February 1997), pp 272-4.
• Object-Oriented Programming of Complex Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Systems
  L. E. Moser, P. Narasimhan and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Second International Workshop on Object-oriented Real-time Dependable Systems, Laguna Beach, California (February 1996), pp 116-119.

Network Partitioning

• Replica Consistency of CORBA Objects in Partitionable Distributed Systems,
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Distributed Systems Engineering Journal vol. 4, no. 3 (September 1997), pp. 139-150.
• Consistency of Partitionable Object Groups in a CORBA Framework,
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Maui, Hawaii (January 1997), pp 120-129.

Group Communication

• A Multicast Group Communication Protocol, Engine, and Bridge for CORBA,
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, R. Koch and K. Berket, Concurrency and Computation Practice & Experience, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 579-603 (June 2001).
• Multicast Group Communication for CORBA,
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, P. Narasimhan, R. R. Koch and K. Berket, International Symposium on Distributed Objects and Applications, Edinburgh, Scotland (September 1999), pp. 98-107.
• Message Packing as a Performance Enhancement Strategy with Application to the Totem Protocols,
  P. Narasimhan, L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, London, UK (November 1996), pp 649-53.

Industrial Standards

• Final Adopted Specification for Fault Tolerant CORBA,
  Submitters: AT&T, Alcatel, Ericsson, Eternal Systems, HighComm, Iona Technologies, Lockheed-Martin, Lucent, Objective Interface Systems, Oracle and Sun Microsystems,
  OMG Technical Committee Document ptc/00-04-04, Object Management Group (March 2000).
• Initial Joint Submission on Fault Tolerance for CORBA (Response to the OMG's Re quest for Proposals on fault-tolerant CORBA),
  L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith and P. Narasimhan,
  Technical Report #98-27, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara.
  Submitters: Eternal Systems and Sun Microsystems,
  OMG Technical Committee Document orbos/98-10-08, Object Management Group (October 1998).
• Initial Joint Submission on Portable Interceptors for CORBA (Response to the OM G's Request for Proposals on Portable Interceptors),
  Submitters: Eternal Systems, Expersoft and Sun Microsystems,
  OMG Technical Committee Document orbos/99-04-07, Object Management Group (April 1999).