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A Solution for Fault-Tolerance in Replicated Database Systems

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Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications (ISPA 2003)

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A distributed database system is subject to site failure and link failure. This paper presents a reactive system approach to achieving the fault-tolerance in such a system. The reactive system concepts are an attractive paradigm for system design, development and maintenance because it separates policies from mechanisms. In the paper we give a solution using different reactive modules to implement the fault-tolerant policies and the failure detection mechanisms. The solution shows that they can be separated without impact on each other thus the system can adapt to constant changes in user requirements.

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  1. School of Information Technology, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, 3217, Australia

    Changgui Chen & Wanlei Zhou

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  1. Department of Computer Software, The University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu City, Fukushima, 965-8580, Japan

    Minyi Guo

  2. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, B2G 2W5, Canada

    Laurence Tianruo Yang

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Chen, C., Zhou, W. (2003). A Solution for Fault-Tolerance in Replicated Database Systems. In: Guo, M., Yang, L.T. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications. ISPA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-37619-4_41

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