Building dependable distributed systems /

• Main Author: Zhao, Wenbing, Ph.D
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 2014.
• Series: Performability engineering series.
• Subjects: Electronic data processing > Distributed processing.; Computer systems > Design and construction.; COMPUTERS > Software Development & Engineering > General.; Electronic books.

"This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems. Instead of covering a broad range of research works for each dependability strategy, the book focuses only a selected few (usually the most seminal works, the most practical approaches, or...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction to Dependable Distributed Computing
• 2. Logging and Checkpointing
• 3. Recovery-Oriented Computing
• 4. Data and Service Replication
• 5. Group Communication Systems
• 6. Consensus and the Paxos Algorithms
• 7. Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• 8. Application-Aware Byzantine Fault Tolerance.