Design and analysis of a fault tolerant hybrid mobile scheme

Information Sciences

Volumn 177, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2602-2620

  Abd El Barr, Mostafa I H ^a   Khan, Salman A ^b  

^a KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^b KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Checkpointing; Fault tolerance; Fuzzy logic; Hybrid replication; Mobile computing; Mobile support stations; Optimistic replication; Pessimistic replication

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FUZZY LOGIC; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CHECKPOINTING; HYBRID REPLICATION; MOBILE SUPPORT STATIONS; OPTIMISTIC REPLICATION; PESSIMISTIC REPLICATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 34047141633     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2007.01.012     Document Type: Article

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