DocumentCode
796396
Title
Principal features of the VOLTAN family of reliable node architectures for distributed systems
Author
Shrivastava, Santosh K. ; Ezhilchelvan, Paul D. ; Speirs, Neil A. ; Tao, Sha ; Tully, Alan
Author_Institution
Comput. Lab., Newcastle upon Tyne Univ., UK
Volume
41
Issue
5
fYear
1992
fDate
5/1/1992 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
542
Lastpage
549
Abstract
A VOLTAN node is composed of a number of conventional processors on which application-level processes are replicated to achieve fault-tolerance. The architecture of a family of such nodes with differing functionalities is presented. These include failure-masking, fail-signal, and fail-silent nodes. The software architectures of a three-processor failure-masking and a two-processor fail-silent node are discussed in detail. The suitability of VOLTAN nodes as building blocks of reliable distributed systems is also discussed
Keywords
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; VOLTAN node; application-level processes; fail-signal; fail-silent; failure-masking; fault-tolerance; reliable distributed systems; reliable node architectures; software architectures; Application software; Broadcasting; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Distributed processing; Fault tolerant systems; Protocols; Redundancy; Software architecture; Voting;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Computers, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9340
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/12.142680
Filename
142680
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