Rejuvenation and Failure Detection in Partitionable Systems

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Beitragende

Abstract

Certain gateways (e.g., some cable or DSL modems) are known to have low reliability and low availability. Most failures of these devices can however be "fixed" by rejuvenating the device after a failure has been detected. Such a detection based rejuvenation strategy permits increasing the availability of these gateways. In the considered scenario, rejuvenation is non-trivial since a failure of such a gateway will leave it partitioned away from the network. In particular, network operators that want to rejuvenate these gateways are in a different network partition, and can therefore not initiate a remote rejuvenation. In this paper we propose a failure detection based rejuvenation service and a remote detection service. The rejuvenation service detects and fixes "soft" failures automatically (in one partition), and the detection service detects (in another partition) all rejuvenations exactly once, within a bounded amount of time, even when the gateway is rejuvenated consecutively. The detection service also allows the detection of "hard" failures, and filtering of notifications of soft failures.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten154-161
Seitenumfang8
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2001
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Konferenz

Titel2001 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
KurztitelPRDC '01
Veranstaltungsnummer
Dauer17 Dezember 2001
BekanntheitsgradInternationale Veranstaltung
Ort
StadtSeoul
LandSüdkorea

Externe IDs

Scopus 60249089569

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

DFG-Fachsystematik nach Fachkollegium

Schlagwörter

  • failure detection, failure detection based rejuvenation, distributed systems, fault-tolerant systems, home networking, remote system management, local area networks, protocols, IP networks, Modems, DSL, Availability, Fault detection, Software maintenance Costs, internetworking, gateways, reliability, remote detection, network manager