On the reliability of fault tolerant distributed computing systems:

The designer of a fault-tolerant distributed system faces numerous alternatives. Using a stochastic model of processor failure times, we investigate design choices such as replication level, protocol running time, randomized versus deterministic protocols, fault detection and authentication. We use...

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Main Author: Babaoğlu, Özalp (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, New York 1986
Series:Cornell University <Ithaca, NY> / Department of Computer Science: Technical report 738
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Summary:The designer of a fault-tolerant distributed system faces numerous alternatives. Using a stochastic model of processor failure times, we investigate design choices such as replication level, protocol running time, randomized versus deterministic protocols, fault detection and authentication. We use the probability with which a system produces the correct output as our evaluation criterion. This contrasts with previous fault-tolerance results that guarantee correctness only if the percentage of faulty processors in the system can be bounded. Our results reveal some subtle and counterintuitive interactions between the design parameters and system reliability.
Physical Description:25 S.

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