A Framework for Experimental Validation and Performance Evaluation in Fault Tolerant Distributed System

Performing experimental evaluation of fault tolerant distributed systems is a complex and tedious task, and automating as much as possible of the execution and evaluation of experiments is often necessary to test a broad spectrum of possible executions of the system to obtain good coverage. The confidence of the results obtained from an experimental evaluation depends on the degree of control over the environment in which experiments are being executed. Typically, an uncontrolled environment is exposed to numerous sources of external influence that can affect the obtained results. Automated and repeated executions can be used to reduce the impact of such influences. In this paper, a framework for experimental validation and performance evaluation of fault management in a fault tolerant distributed system is presented. The framework provides a facility to execute experiments in a configured target system. It is based on injecting faults or other events needed to test the fault hand...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: IPPS
• Authors: Hein Meling
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, Distributed System, Fault Tolerant, IPPS 2007, Tolerant Distributed Systems