Robust TCP connections for fault tolerant computing

Journal of Information Science and Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 503-516

  Ekwall, Richard ^a   Urbán, Péter ^a   Schiper, André ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fault tolerant distributed computing; Java; Performance; Quasi reliable channels; Session layer protocol; TCP

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); TELECOMMUNICATION LINKS;

SESSION LAYER PROTOCOLS;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 0038369120     PISSN: 10162364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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