Fault Tolerance and Resilience in Cloud Computing Environments

Computer and Information Security Handbook

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 125-141

  Jhawar, Ravi ^a   Piuri, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Architecture; Byzantine failures; Checking; Cloud computing; Crash failures; Fault model; Fault tolerance; Monitoring; Network; Servers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883954888     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-394397-2.00007-6     Document Type: Chapter

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