An Essential Design Pattern for Fault-Tolerant Distributed State Sharing

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 65-74

  Islam, Nayeem ^a   Devarakonda, Murthy ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TIME SHARING PROGRAMS;

DISTRIBUTED DESIGN PATTERNS; STATE SHARING;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030258072     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/236156.236172     Document Type: Article

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