Experimental Evaluation of the Unavailability Induced by a Group Membership Protocol
EDCC-4 Proceedings of the 4th European Dependable Computing Conference on Dependable Computing
A Global-State-Triggered Fault Injector for Distributed System Evaluation
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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Validation of distributed systems using fault injection is difficult because of their inherent complexity, lack of a global clock, and lack of an easily accessible notion of a global state. To address these challenges, the Loki fault injector injects faults based on a partial view of the global state of a distributed system, and performs a post-runtime analysis using an off-line clock synchronization algorithm to determine whether the faults were properly injected. In this paper, we first describe enhanced runtime architecture for the Loki fault injector and then present a new method for obtaining measures in Loki. The enhanced runtime allows dynamic entry and exit of nodes in the system. It also offers more efficient multicast of notification messages and more efficient communication between state machines on the same host, and is more scalable than the previous runtime. We then detail a new and flexible method for obtaining a wide range of performance and dependability measures in Loki.