PASIS: A Distributed Framework for Perpetually Available and Secure Information Systems

Abstract

This document reports on the results of the DARPA project entitled "PASIS: A Distributed Framework for Perpetually Available and Secure Information Systems" funded by Air Force award F30602-99-2-0539. The PASIS project developed architectures and technologies for information storage systems that can survive attacks and failures both at the small - and the large - scale. Specifically PASIS storage systems are designed to be: Perpetually Available: Information should always be available even when some system components are down or unavailable. Perpetually Secure: Information integrity and confidentiality policies should always be enforced even when some system components are compromised. Graceful in Degradation: Information access functionality and performance should degrade gracefully as system components fail. Achieving these objectives in practice also requires that performance and usability features of conventional (non-survivability) storage systems be maintained. Therefore the PASIS project also developed trade-off management programming and administrative tools for PASIS systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA436245

Entities

People

  • Gregory R. Ganger
  • Pradeep K. Khosla

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computational Science
  • Computer Access Control
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Software Development
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  • Computer science

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