Highly reliable upgrading of components
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Chameleon: A Software Infrastructure for Adaptive Fault Tolerance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
An Active Replication Scheme for Mobile Data Management
DASFAA '99 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications
A User-Centered Approach to Active Replica Management in Mobile Environments
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
A new algorithm for increasing fault-tolerance of distributed systems
CSN '07 Proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Indistributed systems, object replication is used to improve the availability and performance of applications in the presence of failures. When determining the configuration of a replicated object (i.e., number and location of replicas), a number of often conflicting factors need to be considered, e.g., the availability and performance requirements of the object. However, application specific knowledge about the objects, such as any inter-dependencies, is typically not accounted for. In many applications this information can affect an object's availability. Distributed systems which support replication typically give users only basic control over the configuration of a replicated object, such as the number or location of individual replicas. Expressing application specific knowledge is not possible. We have designed and implemented a replication sub-system allowing applications to control these aspects of replication. This system allows the efficient replication of an arbitrary number of objects with arbitrary inter-dependencies.