Experimental evaluation of the QoS of failure detectors on wide area network

Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 624-633

  Falai, Lorenzo ^a   Bondavalli, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE DETECTORS; MIDDLEWARE MECHANISMS; PUSH-STYLE FAILURE DETECTORS;

DETECTORS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; MIDDLEWARE; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

QUALITY OF SERVICE;

EID: 27544513129     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2005.47     Document Type: Conference Paper

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