Title :
Design and implementation of an availability management service
Author :
Mishra, Shivakant ; Pang, Guozhao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY, USA
Abstract :
This paper describes the design and implementation of an automatic availability management service called Teams for a timed asynchronous distributed system. Teams automatically reconfigures a distributed system in the presence of communication and node failures in such a way that all computing services remain available, and the system reconfiguration is transparent to the users. Teams is a fail-aware service: a node at any point in time knows whether it can provide the automatic reconfiguration services or not. It can reconfigure a system in response to node failures, communication partitions, or maintenance operations in less than 8 milliseconds
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; reconfigurable architectures; synchronisation; Teams; availability management service; communication failure; communication partitions; distributed system reconfiguration; fail-aware service; maintenance operations; node failure; timed asynchronous distributed system; Anodes; Availability; Broadcasting; Clocks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Stress; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0225-3
DOI :
10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776426
