This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (formerly Symposium on Self-Stabilizing Systems), SSS 2006, held in Dallas, TX, USA in November 2006.The 36 revised full papers and 12 revised short papers presented together with the extended abstracts of 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 155 submissions. The papers address all aspects of self-stabilization, safety and security, recovery oriented systems and programing, from theoretical contributions, to reports of the actual experience of applying the principles of self-stabilization to static and dynamic systems.
Invited Talks Stabilization Enabling Technology A General Characterization of Indulgence Regular Papers Coverage, Connectivity, and Fault Tolerance Measures of Wireless Sensor Networks A Case Study on Prototyping Power Management Protocols for Sensor Networks Unconscious Eventual Consistency with Gossips All k-Bounded Policies Are Equivalent for Self-stabilization A 1-Strong Self-stabilizing Transformer Optimal Message-Driven Implementation of Omega with Mute Processes Incremental Synthesis of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Programs Toward a Time-Optimal Odd Phase Clock Unison in Trees Recovery Oriented Programming Evaluation of a Tracking Architecture in Wireless Sensor Networks Self-protection for Distributed Component-Based Applications From Self- to Snap- Stabilization Self-stabilizing Philosophers with Generic Conflicts Selfish Stabilization Reliability and Availability Analysis of Self-stabilizing Systems Circle Formation of Weak Mobile Robots Self-stabilizing Device Drivers Secure Communication for RFIDs Proactive Information Security Within Computational Security Fault Masking in Tri-redundant Systems Logarithmic Keying of Communication Networks …… Best Paper: Stabilizing Clock Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks Brief Announcement Author Index