Jgroup/ARM: A distributed object group platform with autonomous replication management

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 885-923

  Meling, Hein ^a   Montresor, Alberto ^b   Helvik, Bjarne E ^c   Babaoglu, Ozalp ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fault tolerance; Fault treatment; Group communication; Measurement based assessment; Middleware; Remote method invocation; Replication and recovery management

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC RADIATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PARTITIONS (BUILDING); SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;

APPLICATION-SPECIFIC; ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUE; AUTONOMOUS REPLICATION; GROUP COMMUNICATION (GC); HANDLING CAPABILITY; INITIAL STATES; JAVA RMI; MEASUREMENT-BASED; NETWORK PARTITIONING; OPERATIONAL ASPECTS; REACH ABILITY; RECOVERY PERFORMANCE; WIDE AREA;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 47749142865     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.853     Document Type: Article

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