Failure detectors (or, more accurately Failure Suspectors { FS) appear to be a fundamental service upon which to build fault-tolerant, distributed applications. This paper shows t...
Interval availability is a dependability measure defined by the fraction of time during which a system is in operation over a finite observation period. The computation of its d...
Currently existing message logging protocols demonstrate a classic pessimistic vs. optimistic tradeoff. We show that the optimistic–pessimistic tradeoff is not inherent to the p...