SACHIN GARG's PUBLICATIONS
 

A.   JOURNAL

  1. András Pfening, Sachin Garg, Miklós Telek, Antonio Puliafito and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``Optimal rejuvenation for tolerating soft failures'', in Performance Evaluation, Vol. 27 & 28, October 1996, North-Holland, pp. 491-506.

B.   FULLY REFEREED SYMPOSIA PROCEEDINGS

  1. Sachin Garg, Antonio Puliafito, Mikl\'{o}s Telek and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``On the analysis of software rejuvenation policies'', To appear in Proc. 12th Annual Conference on Computer Assurance (COMPASS), June 16-20, Gaithersburg, MD, 1997.
  2. Sachin Garg, Yennun Huang, Chandra Kintala and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``Minimizing completion time of a program by checkpointing and rejuvenation'', Proc. 1996 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference,, pp. 252-261, Philadelphia, PA, May 1996.
  3. Ricardo Fricks, Steve Hunter, Sachin Garg and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``IDEA: Integrated design environment for assessment of ATM networks'', submitted to Second IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, October 21-25, 1996.
  4. Sachin Garg, Yennun Huang, Chandra Kintala and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``Time and load based software rejuvenation: Policy, Evaluation and optimality'', Proc. of the first conference on Fault tolerant systems, Dec. 22-24, 1995, Madras, India.
  5. Sachin Garg, Antonio Puliafito, Miklós Telek and Kishor S. Trivedi, ``Analysis of software rejuvenation using Markov regenerative stochastic Petri net'', Proc. of the Sixth Intnl. Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, pp. 180-187, Toulouse, France, October 24-27, 1995.
  6. Sachin Garg and Kenneth F. Wong, ``Improving the speed of a distributed checkpointing algorithm'', Proc. of 6th ISCA Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Louiville, Kentucky, October 1993.

C.   INVITED

  1. Kishor S. Trivedi, Steve Hunter, Sachin Garg and Ricardo Fricks, ``Reliability analysis techniques explored through a communication network example'', (invited paper) in Proc. of International Workshop on Computer-Aided Design, Test, and Evaluation for Dependability, Beijing, China, July 2-3, 1996.
  2. Kishor S. Trivedi, Gianfranco Ciardo, M. Malhotra and Sachin Garg, ``Dependability and performability modeling using stochastic Petri nets'', Proc. of 11th Intnl. Conf. on Analysis and Optimization of Systems- DES, Sophia-Antipolis, France, June 1994.

D.   WORKSHOP AND OTHER

  1. Sachin Garg and A. P. A. Van Moorsel, ``Towards performability modeling of software rejuvenation'', presented in PMCCS, Bloomingdale, Illinois, September 6-9, 1996.
  2. Sachin Garg and Kenneth F. Wong, ``Analysis of an improved distributed checkpointing algorithm'', Tech. Report, WUCS-93-37, Dept. of Computer Science, Washington University, 1993.
  3. Sachin Garg and Kenneth F. Wong, ``Verification and validation of multicomputer checkpointing models through Simulation,'' Tech. Report, WUCCRC-93-13, Washington University, 1993.
  4. Sachin Garg, Vinay Jain and Misha Dange, ``Modeling characteristics of a crossbar multiprocessor as an IMP in a computer network'', IEEE student paper contest, Banaras INDIA. 1991. (won the best paper prize)

sgarg@ee.duke.edu