The Delta-4 approach to dependability in open distributed computing systems

Author

Powell, D. ; Bonn, G. ; Seaton, D. ; Verissimo, P. ; Waeselynck, F.

Author_Institution

LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France

fYear

1988

fDate

27-30 June 1988

Firstpage

246

Lastpage

251

Abstract

As part of the European Strategic Programme for Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT), the Delta-4 project is seeking to define an open, fault-tolerant, distributed computing architecture. The authors present the overall Delta-4 framework for open, fault-tolerant, distributed computing systems and sketch the current implementation, which is based on a local area network with specific atomic multicasting and error-processing protocols for communicating between replicated software components. The system is used to demonstrate the various fault-tolerance techniques by a replicated database application.<>

Keywords

computer architecture; distributed processing; Delta-4 approach; ESPRIT; atomic multicasting; dependability; distributed architecture; error-processing protocols; fault tolerant computing; local area network; open distributed computing systems; replicated database application; Communication system software; Computer architecture; Computer errors; Databases; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Information technology; Local area networks; Multicast protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1988. FTCS-18, Digest of Papers., Eighteenth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Tokyo, Japan

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0867-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTCS.1988.5327

Filename

5327