The impact of recovery mechanisms on the likelihood of saving corrupted state

Proceedings - International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering, ISSRE

Volumn 2002-January, Issue , 2002, Pages 91-101

  Chandra, Subhachandra ^a   Chen, Peter M ^b  

^a CoSine Communications ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Application software; Checkpointing; Fault detection; Frequency; History; Operating systems; Protocols; Software reliability; System software; Uniform resource locators

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FAULT DETECTION; HISTORY; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; RECOVERY; RELIABILITY; WEBSITES;

CHECK POINTING; FREQUENCY; REAL APPLICATIONS; RECOVERY MECHANISMS; RECOVERY SYSTEMS; RECOVERY TECHNIQUES; SOFTWARE FAULT; SYSTEM SOFTWARES;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 84948741442     PISSN: 10719458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE.2002.1173219     Document Type: Conference Paper

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