Shedding light on enterprise network failures using spotlight

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 167-176

  John, Dipu ^a   Prakash, Pawan ^a   Kompella, Ramana Rao ^a   Chandra, Ranveer ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dependency graphs; Enterprise networks; Fault localization

Indexed keywords

BASIC IDEA; BIPARTITE GRAPHS; DEPENDENCY GRAPHS; ENTERPRISE NETWORKS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; FAST INFERENCE; FAULT LOCALIZATION; FAULT SYMPTOMS; INFERENCE ALGORITHM; MINIMUM SET COVER; MULTI-TIER; ROOT CAUSE; SERVICE DEPENDENCY; SHEDDING LIGHT;

ALGORITHMS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; INDUSTRY; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 78650560719     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SRDS.2010.27     Document Type: Conference Paper

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