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Single point of failure

Known as: Central point of failure, SPOF, No Single Point of Failure 
A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working. SPOFs are undesirable in any… 
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Algorithmic efficiencyApache CassandraBottleneck (software)Bypass switch

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FailureNetwork architectureSystems engineering

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Firefly Clock Synchronization in an 802.15.4 Wireless Network
This paper describes the design and implementation of a distributed self-stabilizing clock synchronization algorithm based on the… 
2009
2009
Power in normative systems
Power indices such as the Banzhaf index were originally developed within voting theory in an attempt to rigorously characterise… 
Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
An active star topology for improving fault confinement in CAN networks
The controller area network (CAN) is a field bus that is nowadays widespread in distributed embedded systems due to its… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Maximal Clique Based Distributed Coalition Formation for Task Allocation in Large-Scale Multi-agent Systems
We present a fully distributed algorithm for coalition formation among autonomous agents. The algorithm is based on two main… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Enhancing Base Station Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks that are deployed in applications such as battlefield monitoring and home sentry systems face acute… 
2003
2003
4+4: an architecture for evolving the Internet address space back toward transparency
We propose 4+4, a simple address extension architecture for Internet that provides an evolutionary approach to extending the… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mesh-restorable networks with complete dual failure restorability and with selectively enhanced dual-failure restorability properties
We consider extensions of the most common mesh-restorable network capacity design formulation that enhance the dual-failure… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
A Columbus' egg idea for CAN media redundancy
Network media redundancy is a clean and effective way of achieving high levels of reliability against temporary medium faults and… 
1998
1998
Fault-Tolerant Mobile IP
We describe mechanisms to enhance the reliability and performance of Mobile IP. In Mobile IP today home agents and foreign agents… 
1998
1998
CCS resource management in networked HPC systems
CCS is a resource management system for parallel high-performance computers. At the user level, CCS provides vendor-independent… 
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