An experimental evaluation of correlated network partitions in the coda distributed file system

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 273-282

  Lefever, Ryan M ^a   Cukier, Michel ^b   Sanders, William H ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Coda; Correlated network faults; Distributed file system; Experimental evaluation; Fault injection; Loki fault injector; State driven fault injection

Indexed keywords

CODA; CORRELATED NETWORK FAULTS; DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; FAULT INJECTION; LOKI FAULT INJECTOR; STATE-DRIVEN FAULT INJECTION;

COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

EID: 3242675882     PISSN: 10609857     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RELDIS.2003.1238077     Document Type: Conference Paper

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