Title :
Fault-Tolerant CORBA: From Specification to Reality
Author :
Narasimhan, Priya
Author_Institution :
Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
Based on 10 years´ personal experience implementing academic prototypes of FT-CORBA, helping to establish the FT-CORBA standard, and subsequently developing and selling its commercial implementations, this critique provides an overview of the FT-CORBA standard´s specifications from the viewpoint of realizing its concrete implementation for real-world applications
Keywords :
distributed object management; formal specification; software fault tolerance; FT-CORBA standard; fault-tolerant CORBA; Checkpointing; Computer crashes; Data structures; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Frequency; Multithreading; Operating systems; FT-CORBA; Standards;