DocumentCode
1216405
Title
Objects and actions in reliable distributed systems
Author
Shrivastava, S.K. ; Dixon, G.N. ; Parrington, G.D.
Author_Institution
Gniversity of Newcastle upon Tyne, Computing Laboratory, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Volume
2
Issue
5
fYear
1987
fDate
9/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
160
Lastpage
168
Abstract
This paper describes a method for constructing robust distributed programs. The method is based upon the provision of atomic actions that operate upon objects (instances of abstract data types). The paper begins by constructing robustnon-distributed programs using the atomicaction mechanism and then proceeds to showhow robust distributed programs can be constructed in a similar fashion. Finally, the paper briefly examines other prototy pedistributed systems and examines their approachto the reliability problem.
Keywords
data structures; multiprocessing programs; multivariable control systems; software reliability; abstract data types; atomic action mechanism; atomic actions; communication system; distributed systems; failure atomicity; node crashes; nondistributed programs; object based systems; objects; prototype distributed systems; recovery block; reliability problem; robust distributed programs; transmission failures;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software Engineering Journal
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0268-6961
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/sej.1987.0021
Filename
4807902
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