Using failure injection mechanisms to experiment and evaluate a grid failure detector

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4395 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 610-621

  Monnet, Sébastien ^a   Bertier, Marin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b CAMPUS DE BEAULIEU   (France)

Author keywords

Failure detection; Failure injection; Fault tolerance; Grid computing; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE DESIGN;

FAILURE DETECTION; FAILURE INJECTION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

GRID COMPUTING;

EID: 38049146001     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_48     Document Type: Conference Paper

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