A fault-tolerant data communication setup to improve reliability and performance for Internet based distributed applications

Author

Wong, Allan K Y ; Dillon, Tharam S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput., Hong Kong Polytech., Hung Hom, Hong Kong

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

268

Lastpage

275

Abstract

The proposed fault-tolerant data communication setup has two main features: a consecutive transmission scheme that improves the reliability of message transmission, and an adaptive buffer management scheme that prevents message losses due to buffer overflow. These two features together reduce message retransmissions and produce better channel reliability and system performance. Simulation data confirm that the adaptive buffer management scheme is indeed an effective reliability measure to prevent data overflow

Keywords

Internet; buffer storage; computer network reliability; data communication; fault tolerance; losses; performance evaluation; storage management; telecommunication channels; Internet-based distributed applications; adaptive buffer management scheme; buffer overflow; channel reliability; consecutive transmission scheme; data overflow prevention; fault-tolerant data communications; message loss prevention; message retransmissions; message transmission reliability; simulation; system performance; Communication channels; Data communication; Delay; Fault tolerance; Internet; Lead compounds; Propagation losses; Protocols; Stochastic processes; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable Computing, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0371-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PRDC.1999.816238

Filename

816238