The Transis Approach to High Availability Cluster Communication

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 64-70

  Dolev, Danny ^a   Malki, Dalia ^b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PERFORMANCE;

CLUSTER COMMUNICATION; MESSAGE PASSING; MULTICAST COMMUNICATION SERVICE; TRANSIS; VIRTUAL SYNCHRONY;

DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030129232     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/227210.227227     Document Type: Article

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