Distribution-free checkpoint placement algorithms based on min-max principle

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 130-140

  Ozaki, Tatsuya ^b,d   Dohi, Tadashi ^a,b,e,f,g,h   Okamura, Hiroyuki ^a,b,e,f,g,i   Kaio, Naoto ^{a,c,e,g,j,k,l}  

^a IEEE   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA SHUDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e ORSJ   (Japan)

^f JSIAM   (Japan)

^g IEICE   (Japan)

^h ISCIE   (Japan)

ⁱ IPSJ   (Japan)

^j JIMA   (India)

^k ASQC   (Japan)

^l REAJ   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Checkpoint restart; Fault tolerance; High availability; Incomplete failure information; Maintenance; Modeling and prediction; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

ALGAE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAINTENANCE; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEQUENTIAL CIRCUITS;

CHECKPOINT/RESTART; FAULT-TOLERANCE; HIGH AVAILABILITY; INCOMPLETE FAILURE INFORMATION; MODELING AND PREDICTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33646721605     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2006.22     Document Type: Article

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