Title :
Tolerating communication failures
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng. & Appl. Phys., Aston Univ., Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
A distributed real-time system for use in applications with safety implications must produce satisfactory results on time even under abnormal conditions, such as site or communication failure. This paper discusses issues which arise in the design of mechanisms to provide consistent safe and timely decisions and considers explicitly the modelling and implementation of multi-participant commit protocols with timeouts to cope with communication failure
Keywords :
distributed processing; fault tolerant computing; protocols; real-time systems; safety; software reliability; system recovery; communication failure tolerance; consistent timely decisions; consistently safe decisions; distributed real-time system; multi-participant commit protocols; safety implications; timeouts; Application software; Distributed computing; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Guidelines; Physics; Production; Protocols; Real time systems; Software safety;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings. Euromicro Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Gran Canaria
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3610-6
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.1993.336379
