Title :
Towards Fast and Efficient Failure Handling for Paxos State Machines
Author :
Jehl, Leander ; Hein Meling
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Abstract :
We investigate methods for handling failures in a Paxos State Machine and introduce Live Replacement, which quickly repairs failures at a low cost. Live Replacement enables a failed or disconnected replica to be replaced with a new one, with minimal disruption. Replacement does not rely on a special state machine command, and need not be ordered with respect to other commands. It is therefore independent from the state machine´s progress. This enables Live Replacement to guarantee fast reaction to failures with minimal effect on the state machines operation.
Keywords :
cloud computing; finite state machines; software fault tolerance; Paxos state machines; failure handling; live replacement; state machines operation; Delays; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Maintenance engineering; Protocols; Safety; Vectors;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW), 2013 IEEE 33rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Philadelphia, PA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3247-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCSW.2013.47
