Reliability and availability issues in distributed component object model (DCOM)

1997 4th International Workshop on Community Networking Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 59-63

  Wang, Y M ^a   Damani, O P ^b   Lee, W J ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; AVAILABILITY; FAULT TOLERANCE;

COMPONENT SOFTWARE; DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; DISTRIBUTED COMPONENT OBJECT MODEL; DISTRIBUTED OBJECTS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; FAULT-TOLERANCE CAPABILITY; MISSION CRITICAL APPLICATIONS; RELIABILITY AND AVAILABILITY;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 0005653406     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CN.1997.629957     Document Type: Conference Paper

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