Title
An adaptive approach to achieving hardware and software fault tolerance in a distributed computing environment
Abstract
This paper focuses on the problem of providing tolerance to both hardware and software faults in independent applications running on a distributed computing environment. Several hybrid-fault-tolerant architectures are identified and proposed. Given the highly varying and dynamic characteristics of the operating environment, solutions are developed mainly exploiting the adaptation property. They are based on the adaptive execution of redundant programs so as to minimise hardware resource consumption and to shorten response time, as much as possible, for a required level of fault tolerance. A method is introduced for evaluating the proposed architectures with respect to reliability, resource utilisation and response time. Examples of quantitative evaluations are also given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1016/S1383-7621(01)00029-7
Journal of Systems Architecture
Keywords
Field
DocType
hardware and software fault tolerance,— adaptive architectures,response time,software fault tolerance,evaluation of efficiency,response time analysis,dynamic characteristic,hardware resource consumption,adaptive execution,hybrid-fault-tolerant architecture,dependability analysis,adaptive approach,adaptation property,adaptive architectures,operating environment,resource utilisation,fault tolerance,proposed architecture,reliability,fault tolerant,page,verification,assessment,distributed computing environment,dependability,dependence analysis
Operating environment,Dependability,Distributed Computing Environment,Quantitative Evaluations,Computer science,Response time,Software fault tolerance,Real-time computing,Software,Fault tolerance,Computer hardware,Embedded system
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
47
9
Journal of Systems Architecture
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.58
14
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
A. Bondavalli125421.78
S. Chiaradonna290.58
F. Di Giandomenico3141.16
J. Xu490.58