Consistent global checkpoints that contain a given set of local checkpoints

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 456-468

  Wang, Yi Min ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Checkpointing; Consistent global states; Deadlock recovery; Distributed debugging; Distributed systems; Fault tolerance; Message logging; Rollback recovery; Vector timestamps

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER DEBUGGING; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPH THEORY; VECTORS;

GLOBAL CHECKPOINTS; ROLLBACK DEPENDENCY GRAPH; ROLLBACK DEPENDENCY TRACKABILITY;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031124071     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.588059     Document Type: Article

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