Design and implementation of an availability management service

Author

Mishra, Shivakant ; Pang, Guozhao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Wyoming Univ., Laramie, WY, USA

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

128

Lastpage

133

Abstract

This paper describes the design and implementation of an automatic availability management service called Teams for a timed asynchronous distributed system. Teams automatically reconfigures a distributed system in the presence of communication and node failures in such a way that all computing services remain available, and the system reconfiguration is transparent to the users. Teams is a fail-aware service: a node at any point in time knows whether it can provide the automatic reconfiguration services or not. It can reconfigure a system in response to node failures, communication partitions, or maintenance operations in less than 8 milliseconds

Keywords

distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; reconfigurable architectures; synchronisation; Teams; availability management service; communication failure; communication partitions; distributed system reconfiguration; fail-aware service; maintenance operations; node failure; timed asynchronous distributed system; Anodes; Availability; Broadcasting; Clocks; Computer science; Distributed computing; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Stress; Synchronization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications/Middleware, 1999. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops on

Conference_Location

Austin, TX

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0225-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECMDD.1999.776426

Filename

776426