Date
1997
Dewey
Informatique générale
Sujet
fault tolerance; distributed systems; functional structuring; dynamic regeneration
Conference name
2nd European Research Seminar on Advances in Distributed Systems, ERSADS'97
Conference date
03-1997
Conference city
Zinal
Conference country
Suisse
Author
Taghelit, Mohamed
Haddad, Serge
Sens, Pierre
Type
Communication / Conférence
Item number of pages
6
Abstract (EN)
This paper presents a method to design reliable applications
composed of communicating entities. This method is based on
the separation of communicating and processing functions to
create a software “network” independent of the computational
processes. Common functionalities are isolated to reduce the
overhead of replication based approach. In contrast to classical
techniques only the processing part of entities is replicated. We
exhibit a homogeneous communication structure: the R-
CHAIN. We describe an algorithm to dynamically reconfigurate
the R-CHAIN in presence of host failure. This algorithm
provides an efficient way to maintain end-to-end
communication.