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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cleveland State University

2009

Fault-tolerant computing

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Proactive Service Migration For Long-Running Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems, Wenbing Zhao, H. Zhang Apr 2009

Proactive Service Migration For Long-Running Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Systems, Wenbing Zhao, H. Zhang

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

A proactive recovery scheme based on service migration for long-running Byzantine fault-tolerant systems is described. Proactive recovery is an essential method for ensuring the long-term reliability of fault-tolerant systems that are under continuous threats from malicious adversaries. The primary benefit of our proactive recovery scheme is a reduced vulnerability window under normal operation. This is achieved in two ways. First, the time-consuming reboot step is removed from the critical path of proactive recovery. Second, the response time and the service migration latency are continuously profiled and an optimal service migration interval is dynamically determined during runtime based on the observed …


Performance Engineering Of A Lightweight Fault Tolerance Framework, Hua Chai Jan 2009

Performance Engineering Of A Lightweight Fault Tolerance Framework, Hua Chai

ETD Archive

It is well-known that the Paxos algorithm can be used to build provably correct practical fault tolerant systems. In this thesis, a lightweight consensus framework - Paxos-Based Fault Tolerance (PFT) framework and its practical implementation is presented. It also includes how the system tolerates faults under practical conditions where the replicas might not be strictly homogeneous due to the asynchrony of their deployment environment. A comprehensive performance evaluation study is performed on the PFT framework. The approaches that can optimize the fault tolerance mechanisms under various practical scenarios are also discussed