AQuA: An adaptive architecture that provides dependable distributed objects

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-50

  Ren, Yansong ^a   Bakken, David E ^b   Courtney, Tod ^c   Cukier, Michel ^d   Karr, David A ^e   Rubel, Paul ^f   Sabnis, Chetan ^g   Sanders, William H ^c   Schantz, Richard E ^f   Seri, Mouna ^c  

^a LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e TITAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^f BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^g SingleSignOnNet   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive fault tolerant systems; CORBA; Dependable distributed systems; Group communication; Replication protocols

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037252943     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2003.1159752     Document Type: Article

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