Fault-Tolerant Systems
Israel Koren
C. Krishna
ISBN: 978-0-12-088525-1
There are many applications
in which the reliability of the overall system must be far higher
than the reliability of its individual components. In such cases,
designers devise mechanisms and architectures that allow the system
to either completely mask the effects of a component failure or
recover from it so quickly that the application is not seriously
affected. This is the work of fault-tolerant designers and their
work is increasingly important and complex not only because of
the increasing number of “mission critical” applications,
but also because the diminishing reliability of hardware means
that even systems for non-critical applications will need to be
designed with fault-tolerance in mind... [more]
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