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Despite means of fault prevention such as extensive testing or formal veri?cation, errors inevitably occur during system operation. To avoid subsequent system fa- ures, critical distributed systems, therefore, require engineering of means for fault tolerance. Achieving fault tolerance requires some redundancy, which, unfor- nately, is bound to limitations. Appropriate fault models are needed to describe which types of faults and how many faults are tolerable in a certain context. Pre- ous research on distributed systems has often introduced fault models that abstract too many relevant system properties such as dependent and propagating com- nent failures. In this research work, Timo Warns introduces new structural failure models that are both accurate (to cover relevant properties) and tractable (to be - alyzable). These new failure models cover dependent failures (for instance, failure correlation by geographic proximity) and propagating failures (for instance, pr- agation by service utilization). To evaluate the new failure models, Timo Warns shows how some seminal problems in distributed systems can be solved with - proved resilience and ef?ciency, as compared to existing solutions. Particularly, the textbook-style introduction to distributed systems and the r- orous presentation of the new failure models and their evaluation may serve as an example for other software engineering research projects – which is why this book is a valuable addition to both a researcher’s and a student’s library.
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Dr. Timo Warns completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
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Book Title: Structural Failure Models for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing
Authors: Timo Warns
Series Title: Software Engineering Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8348-9707-7
Publisher: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag Wiesbaden
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-8348-1287-2Published: 25 June 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-8348-9707-7Published: 28 January 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 216
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Science, general