Active software replication through a three-tier approach

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 109-118

  Baldoni, Roberto ^a   Marchetti, Carlo ^a   Termini, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Architectures for Dependable Services; Fault Tolerant CORBA; Software Replication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORMAL LOGIC; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; SERVERS;

SOFTWARE REPLICATION;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036443137     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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