Towards fault tolerant pervasive computing

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 38-44

  Chetan, Shiva ^a   Ranganathan, Anand ^a   Campbell, Roy ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA;

FAULT CONTAINMENT; FAULT DETECTION; PERVASIVE COMPUTING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 17444391683     PISSN: 02780097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MTAS.2005.1407746     Document Type: Article

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