Structuring Distributed Systems for Recoverability and Crash Resistance

Author

Shrivastava, Santosh Kumar

Author_Institution

Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Issue

4

fYear

1981

fDate

7/1/1981 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

436

Lastpage

447

Abstract

An object-oriented multilevel model of computation is used to discuss recoverability and crash resistance issues in distributed systems. Of particular importance are the issues that are raised when recoverability and crash resistance properties are desired from objects whose concrete representations are distributed over several nodes. The execution of a program at a node of the system can give rise to a hierarchy of processes executing various parts of the program at different nodes. Recoverability and crash resistance properties are needed to ensure that such a group of processes leave the system state consistent despite faults in the system.

Keywords

Atomic actions; backward error recovery; commitment; concurrency; consistency; crash resistance; distributed systems; exception handling; message passing; recoverability; secure storage; Computational modeling; Computer crashes; Computer errors; Concrete; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Message passing; Object oriented modeling; Printing; Secure storage; Atomic actions; backward error recovery; commitment; concurrency; consistency; crash resistance; distributed systems; exception handling; message passing; recoverability; secure storage;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TSE.1981.230846

Filename

1702864