An approach to experimentally obtain service dependability characteristics of the Jgroup/ARM system

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Volumn 3463, Issue , 2005, Pages 179-198

  Helvik, Bjarne E ^a   Meling, Hein ^b   Montresor, Alberto ^c  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Failure Recovery; Fault Injection; Ft Middleware; Measurement based Evaluation; Probabilistic Modeling and Evaluation; System Fault Tolerance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; SAMPLING; SERVERS;

JAVA RMI; MIDDLEWARE FRAMEWORKS; OBJECT GROUP COMMUNICATIONS; TRIPLICATED SERVERS;

MIDDLEWARE;

EID: 24944494912     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/11408901_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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