Fault tolerant model to attain reliability and high performance for distributed computing on the Internet

Computer Communications

Volumn 23, Issue 18, 2000, Pages 1747-1762

  Wong, A K Y ^a   Dillon, T S ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INTERNET; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

ADAPTIVE BUFFER MANAGEMENT; CONSECUTIVE MESSAGE TRANSMISSION;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034517449     PISSN: 01403664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-3664(00)00223-1     Document Type: Article

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