Title :
Automatic reconfiguration in the presence of failures
Author :
Cristian, Flaviu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput Sci. & Eng., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
A new kind of system service is described, the availability management service, responsible for ensuring that the services implemented by a distributed system remain available to clients despite failures. The author stresses the main ideas behind this new service, and outlines a simple implementation. Extensions of this initial design to deal with more realistic goals and hypotheses are also discussed
Keywords :
configuration management; distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; utility programs; automatic reconfiguration; availability management service; distributed system; fault-tolerant system;
Conference_Titel :
Configurable Distributed Systems, 1992., International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
0-85296-544-3
