Roll-Forward and Rollback Recovery: Performance-Reliability Trade-Off

  • Authors:
  • Dhiraj K. Pradhan;Nitin H. Vaidya

  • Affiliations:
  • Texas A&M Univ., College Station;Texas A&M Univ., College Station

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers - Special issue on mobile computing
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

Performance and reliability trade-offs depend on the recovery scheme used in any fault-tolerant system. Gain in performance, using comparable resources, typically requires sacrifice in reliability, and vice-versa. Roll-forward schemes for duplex systems achieve better performance than rollback schemes, without a significant increase in hardware resource requirements. This paper compares two roll-forward schemes with two roll-back schemes. It is shown that the roll-forward schemes improve performance with only a small loss in reliability as compared to rollback schemes.