Title :
The timed asynchronous distributed system model
Author :
Cristian, Flaviu ; Fetzer, Christof
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
Abstract :
We propose a formal definition for the timed asynchronous distributed system model and we describe extensive measurements of actual message and process scheduling delays and hardware clock drifts that confirm that this model adequately describes current distributed systems built from networked workstations.
Keywords :
distributed processing; software fault tolerance; timing; current distributed systems; hardware clock drifts; message scheduling delays; networked workstations; process scheduling delays; timed asynchronous distributed system model; Clocks; Computer crashes; Computer science; Current measurement; Frequency; Hardware; Nominations and elections; Processor scheduling; Real time systems; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Fault-Tolerant Computing, 1998. Digest of Papers. Twenty-Eighth Annual International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Munich, Germany
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8470-4
DOI :
10.1109/FTCS.1998.689463
