Protocols for fault-tolerant systems
Vinit Kumar · 2005
We report, the design and implementation of a fault-tolerant message switching network. Failures andfailure masking are examined under the framework of Open Systems Interconnection model of distributed systems. Failures are masked by hierarchically structured entities or by replicating entities in a group, The paper describes peer communication protocols assuming the peer entity to be a group consisting of sub-entities. These peer protocols resulted in simplified group communication protocols needed to synchronize and manage the group.