Distributed Execution of Recovery Blocks: An Approach for Uniform Treatment of Hardware and Software Faults in Real-Time Applications

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 626-636

  Kim, K H ^a   Welch, Howard O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Optimization Technology Inc ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acceptance test; computing station; distributed recovery block; experimental validation; fault tolerance; forward recovery; load sharing; recovery time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

DISTRIBUTED EXECUTION; HARDWARE FAULTS; REAL TIME COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RECOVERY BLOCKS; SOFTWARE FAULTS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL;

EID: 0024663296     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.24266     Document Type: Article

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