Experiences, strategies, and challenges in building fault-tolerant CORBA systems

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 467-511

  Felber, Pascal ^a   Narasimhan, Priya ^b  

^a EURECOM   (France)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CORBA; Eternal; Fault tolerance; FT CORBA; Nondeterminism; OGS; Recovery; Replication

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; MIDDLEWARE; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; SERVERS; USER INTERFACES;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE; INTERFACE DEFINITION LANGUAGE; OBJECT MANAGEMENT GROUP;

FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3042539476     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.1275293     Document Type: Article

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