Title :
Notes on real-time distributed database systems stability
Author :
Schreiber, Fabio A.
Author_Institution :
Dipartimento di Elettronica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Abstract :
Issues regarding the effect of routing and load-balancing algorithms on the stability of a fault-tolerant distributed database system are examined. Reference is mainly to control algorithms. It is shown that the behavior of the routing algorithm is vital for the dependability of the system, and that the transitions induced by the algorithm should be stable or at least transitively stable. Degradation indexes are defined for the system dependability, and some open questions are raised
Keywords :
distributed databases; fault tolerant computing; real-time systems; control algorithms; degradation indexes; dependability; fault-tolerant distributed database; load-balancing; real-time distributed database systems stability; routing; Availability; Control systems; Database systems; Extraterrestrial measurements; Load management; Process control; Real time systems; Routing; Stability; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology, 1990. 'Next Decade in Information Technology', Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on (Cat. No.90TH0326-9)
Conference_Location :
Jerusalem
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2078-1
DOI :
10.1109/JCIT.1990.128328
