Implementing Fault-Tolerant Distributed Objects

  • Authors:
  • K. P. Birman;T. A. Joseph;T. Raeuchle;A. El Abbadi

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Cornell University;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

This paper describes a technique for implementing k-resilient objects-distributed objects that remain available, and whose operations are guaranteed to progress to completion, despite up to k site failures. The implementation is derived from the object specification automatically, and does not require any information beyond what would be required for a nonresilient nondistributed implementation. It is therefore unnecessary for an applications programmer to have knowledge of the complex protocols nonnally employed to implement fault-tolerant objects. Our technique is used in ISIS, a system being developed at Cornell to support resilient objects.