Application-layer fault-tolerance protocols

• Main Author: De Florio, Vincenzo, 1953-
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Fault-tolerant computing.; Application software > Development.; Application-layer fault-tolerance protocols; Aspect orientation; Compilers and translators; Dependability and fault-tolerance; EFTOS tools; Failure detection protocols; Fault-tolerance programming languages; Hybrid approaches; Monitoring and fault injection; Performance analysis of redundant variables; Recovery language approach; Software fault-tolerance; TIRAN distributed voting mechanism
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"This book increases awareness of the need for application-level fault-tolerance (ALFT) through introduction of problems and qualitative analysis of solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• 1. Dependability and fault-tolerance : basic concepts and terminology
• 2. Fault-tolerant software : basic concepts and terminology
• 3. Fault-tolerant protocols using single- and multiple-version software fault-tolerance
• 4. Fault-tolerant protocols using compilers and translators
• 5. Fault-tolerant protocols using fault-tolerance programming languages
• 6. The recovery language approach
• 7. Fault-tolerant protocols using aspect orientation
• 8. Failure detection protocols in the application layer
• 9. Hybrid approaches
• 10. Measuring and assessing tools
• 11. Conclusion.