Fault-tolerant distributed computing
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Fault-tolerant distributed computing
zbMATH Open document ID: 0746.68012
published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
publication date: 1992-09-17T00:00:00Z
review text: [The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.] Continued and correct operation in the presence of failures are attributes we require today for an increasing number of computing systems that are embedded in safety critical, real-time applications. A great number of these applications are of inherent distributed nature. Thus, they can be best materialized through autonomous, concurrently running components, possibly geographically separated (according to the application) and equipped with communication hardware. These components consist of processors, each with associated memory and input/output devices. Recent advances in hardware technology have made distributed systems a cost effective alternative to centralized systems. To carry out complex applications on distributed systems, one must rely on cooperation among processors. This cooperation cannot be achieved by shared memory as usually done by undistributed concurrent systems. Communication between processors and random communication delays are characteristics of distributed systems. Low-speed communication restricts the flow of information around the network, leading to uncertainty about the global state of the system. When --- in addition to the uncertainty - -- processors are allowed to fail and the system is reuired to continue to function properly despite failures, i.e. if the system is expected to be a fault-tolerant one, this task beomes even more difficult. This book handles fault tolerance issues in distributed systems, considering many aspects of and interactions between theory and practice. To achieve this goal, a workshop was held at Asilomar, California in the Spring of 1986. Most of the 22 chapters of the present book were written following the workshop and subsequently revised before it was eventually published in 1990. Some chapters are transcription of presentations which have been recorded. Also some tutorials and exposés or essays are included. This heterogeneous structure does …
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68-06
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68N25
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68M10
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68Q05
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68W15
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68M20
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 68M15
zbMATH DE Number: 48034
zbMATH Keywords: Fault-tolerant distributed computing
zbMATH Keywords: Byzantine agreement problem
zbMATH Keywords: distributed systems
zbMATH Keywords: protocols
zbMATH Keywords: synchronization
zbMATH Keywords: consensus problems
reviewed by: Fevzi Belli
MaRDI profile type: Publication
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 48034