STAR: a fault-tolerant system for distributed applications

Author

Sens, Pierre ; Folliot, Bertil

Author_Institution

IBP, Paris VI Univ., Paris, France

fYear

1993

fDate

1-4 Dec 1993

Firstpage

656

Lastpage

660

Abstract

The paper presents a fault-tolerant manager for distributed applications. This manager provides an efficient recovery of hosts´ failures on networks of workstations. An independent checkpointing is used to automatically recover application processes affected by host failures. Domino-effects are avoided by means of message logging and file versions management. STAR provides an efficient software failure detection by structuring hosts in a logical ring. Performance measurements in a real environment show the interest and the limits of our system

Keywords

computer network reliability; fault tolerant computing; local area networks; reliability; software fault tolerance; system recovery; LAN; STAR; distributed applications; failure recovery; fault-tolerant manager; fault-tolerant system; file versions management; independent checkpointing; message logging; performance measurements; real environment; software failure detection; system recovery; workstation networks; Application software; Checkpointing; Delay; Fault detection; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Laboratories; Operating systems; Resource management; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing, 1993. Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Dallas, TX

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4222-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPDP.1993.395471

Filename

395471