Implementation of threshold-based diagnostic mechanisms for COTS-based applications

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 296-303

  Romano, L ^a   Bondavalli, A ^b   Chiaradonna, Silvano ^c   Cotroneo, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

COTS; Diagnosis; Distributed architectures; Legacy systems; Threshold mechanisms

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; LEGACY SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

THRESHOLD MECHANISMS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036443316     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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