Cyber security experiments with potentially malicious software can possibly damage the testbed environment and ``escape'' into the Internet. Due to this security concern, networks used in such ...

Complex systems are hard to understand and visualize. The causes for this problem are due to the specific data not being available or the inability to correlate and present the data in a meaningful ...

FTP Mirror Tracker [Note 1] is a software package (written in Perl and C++) that enables transparent, user-controlled redirection to the nearest anonymous FTP mirror sites that are exact replicas of ...

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

We know that many of you have been impacted by the economic downturn and, due to the recent tragedy, are reluctant to travel. To encourage your attendance at ALS '01, the USENIX Association and the ...

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, ...

USENIX tries to ensure a consistent style of proceeding. Layout sheets are not required, but authors are required to adhere to the following format parameters. Papers should be done in a readable font ...