Theoretical analysis for communication-induced checkpointing protocols with rollback-dependency trackability

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 963-971

  Tsai, Jichiang ^b   Kuo, Sy Yen ^a,b   Wang, Yi Min ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Communication induced protocols; On line algorithms; Rollback recovery; Rollback dependency trackability

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

CHECKPOINTING; COMMUNICATION INDUCED PROTOCOL; ON LINE ALGORITHMS; ROLLBACK DEPENDENCY TRACKABILITY; ROLLBACK RECOVERY;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0032179679     PISSN: 10459219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/71.730526     Document Type: Article

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