Title : 
High service reliability for cluster server systems
         
        
            Author : 
Deris, M. Mat ; Rabiei, M. ; Noraziah, A. ; Suzuri, H.M.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. Coll. of Sci. & Technol., Terengganu, Malaysia
         
        
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In a cluster server system, service-types replication has been used to improve its reliability. However, different replication techniques have different reliability levels. In this paper, a new technique, called neighbor replica distribution technique (NRDT) using request distributed agent (RDA) is proposed to manage service-types replication in a cluster server under a local area network system. This technique provides high reliability by imposing a neighbor logical structure on service-types copies: service-type from one node will be replicated to its neighboring nodes. Our performance analysis shows that our technique is better than the previous technique since it produces a higher reliability.
         
        
            Keywords : 
Internet; client-server systems; file servers; reliability; workstation clusters; cluster server system; high service reliability; local area network; neighbor logical structure; neighbor replica distribution technique; neighboring nodes; performance analysis; request distributed agent; service-types copies; service-types replication; Client-server systems; Computer network reliability; Computer science; Educational institutions; File servers; Hardware; Internet; Local area networks; Network servers; Performance analysis; Postal services; Reliability; Reliability engineering; World Wide Web;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Cluster Computing, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
0-7695-2066-9
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/CLUSTR.2003.1253326