Implementation and evaluation of transparent fault-tolerant Web service with kernel-level support

Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 63-68

  Aghdaie, Navid ^a   Tamir, Yuval ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Computer science; Fault tolerance; Fault tolerant systems; Kernel; Laboratories; Linux; Throughput; Web server; Web services

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FAULT TOLERANCE; LABORATORIES; LINUX; THROUGHPUT; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

APACHE WEB SERVER; DETERMINISTIC SERVERS; EFFICIENT IMPLEMENTATION; FAULT TOLERANT SYSTEMS; FUTURE APPLICATIONS; KERNEL; PROCESSING CYCLES; WEB SERVERS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84948667128     PISSN: 10952055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCN.2002.1043047     Document Type: Conference Paper

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