Middleware implementation of various critical services required by large-scale and complex real-time applications on top of COTS operating system is currently an approach of growi...
Eltefaat Shokri, Patrick Crane, K. H. Kim, Chittur...
A model was introduced in [Fraga97] for integrating replication techniques in heterogeneous systems. The model adopts a reflective structure based on the meta-object approach [10]...
Lau Cheuk Lung, Joni da Silva Fraga, Carlos Mazier...
Building dependable distributed systems using ad hoc methods is a challenging task. Without proper support, an application programmer must face the daunting requirement of having ...
Jennifer Ren, Michel Cukier, Paul Rubel, William H...
Saving internal program data for further use is one of the most useful ideas in programming. Developing general features to provide such data saving/ restoring is a very active res...
The use of reflection becomes today popular for the implementation of non-functional mechanisms such as for fault-tolerance. The main benefits of reflection are separation of conc...
A good architecture is a necessary condition to guarantee that the expected levels of performance, availability, fault tolerance, and scalability are achieved by the implemented s...
Giovanni Bricconi, Emma Tracanella, Elisabetta Di ...
Abstract. To achieve an efficient utilization of cluster systems, a proper programming and operating environment is required. In this context, mobile agents are of growing interes...
Fault tolerance is becoming an increasingly important issue, especially in mission-critical applications where data integrity is a paramount concern. Performance, however, remains...
Steven K. Sinha, Peter Kamarchik, Seth Copen Golds...
Fault tolerance has always been a standard feature of electronic systems intended for long-term missions. However, the high complexity of modern systems makes the incorporation of...
Daryl Bradley, Cesar Ortega-Sanchez, Andrew M. Tyr...
Internal clock synchronization has been investigated, or employed, for quite a number of years, under the requirement of good upper bounds for the deviation, or accuracy, between ...