Structural Failure Models for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing

With a foreword by Prof. Wilhelm Hasselbring
ISBN: 978-3-8348-1287-2
Verlag: Vieweg+Teubner Verlag

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Reihe: Software Engineering Research

Given that faults cannot be prevented in sufficiently complex systems, means of fault tolerance are essential for dependable distributed systems. Designing and evaluating fault-tolerant systems require well-conceived fault models. In the past, theoretical works have used simplified models that, while being tractable, turned out to be inaccurate. Practical works have used probabilistic fault models that, while being more accurate, often turned out to be intractable.

Timo Warns bridges the gap between theory and practice regarding fault models. He has developed tractable fault models that, while being non-probabilistic, are accurate for dependent and propagating faults. Using seminal problems such as consensus and constructing coteries, he demonstrates how the new models can be used to design and evaluate effective and efficient means of fault tolerance.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and students from the field of distributed computing, especially of fault-tolerant distributed computing, as well as designers of distributed systems.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warns, Timo

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Verteilte Systeme (Netzwerke)
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Programmierung | Softwareentwicklung Software Engineering

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Modelling Fault-Tolerant Distributed Systems.- Modelling Fault Assumptions with Structural Failure Models.- Constructing Coteries.- Reaching Consensus.- Conclusion and FutureWork.

Über Autor(innen)

Warns, Timo
Dr. Timo Warns completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Hasselbring at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.