Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems

by Pankaj Jalote, P. Jalote

Fault tolerance is an approach by which reliability of a computer system can be increased beyond what can be achieved by traditional methods. While hardware supported fault tolerance has been well-documented, the newer, software supported fault tolerance techniques have remained scattered throughout the literature. Comprehensive and self-contained, this book organizes that body of knowledge with a focus on fault tolerance in distributed systems. (The uniprocess case is treated as a special case of distributed systems.) KEY Treats fault tolerant distributed systems as consisting of levels of abstraction, providing different tolerant services. For researchers/practitioners working in the area of fault tolerance.

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Professor Pankaj Jalote is the Director of Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology.

He completed his PhD from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985, M.S. from Pennsylvania State University in 1982 and B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur in 1980.