Loki: A state-driven fault injector for distributed systems

Proceedings of the 2002 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 237-242

  Chandra, Ramesh ^a   Lefever, Ryan M ^a   Cukier, Michel ^a   Sanders, William H ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed system validation; Experimental evaluation; Fault injection; State driven fault injection

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEM VALIDATION; OFF-LINE CLOCK SYNCHRONIZATION; POST-RUNTIME ANALYSIS; STATE-DRIVEN FAULT INJECTOR;

AUTOMATA THEORY; C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); SYNCHRONIZATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0034590186     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDSN.2000.857544     Document Type: Conference Paper

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