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Component based design of fault-tolerance /

Kulkarni, Sandeep

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Abstract

In this dissertation, we defend the thesis th at a fault-tolerant program is a com position of a fault-intolerant program and a set of fault-tolerance components.To validate this thesis, we identify a basis set of fault-tolerance components, namely detectors and correctors.We show th at depending upon the desired level of faulttolerance, detectors, correctors, or both are necessary and sufRcient for designing a rich class of fault-tolerant programs.Moreover, the fault-tolerant programs designed using existing methods such as replication and Schneider's state machine approach can be alternatively designed in term s of detectors and correctors.Using these fault-tolerance components, we present a method for designing multitolerant programs, i.e., programs th at tolerate multiple types of faults while providing potentially different levels of tolerance to each type of fault.Our method accommo dates all types of faults, including process faults, communication faults, hardware and software faults, network failure and security intrusions, and it can be used in sev eral application domains such as distributed systems, computer networks and parallel systems.Using several examples, we illustrate how our fault-tolerance components can be used in the design of several fault-tolerant programs.Among these examples, we discuss in detail the problem of distributed reset.A distributed reset operation reini tializes a distributed system to a given global state.Our distributed reset program

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APA 7

Kulkarni, S. (1999). Component based design of fault-tolerance /. OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network).

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Kulkarni, Sandeep. “Component based design of fault-tolerance /.” OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network), 1999.

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Kulkarni, Sandeep. 1999. “Component based design of fault-tolerance /.” OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network).

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Kulkarni, S. (1999) ‘Component based design of fault-tolerance /’, OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network).

BibTeX

@article{kulkarni1999component,
  title = {{Component based design of fault-tolerance /}},
  author = {Kulkarni, Sandeep},
  journal = {OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network)},
  year = {1999}
}

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