TITLE:
Fault Tolerance Mechanisms in Distributed Systems
AUTHORS:
Arif Sari, Murat Akkaya
KEYWORDS:
Fault Tolerance, Distributed System, Replication, Redundancy, High Availability
JOURNAL NAME:
International Journal of Communications, Network and System Sciences,
Vol.8 No.12,
December
17,
2015
ABSTRACT: The use of technology has increased vastly
and today computer systems are interconnected via different communication medium.
The use of distributed systems in our day to day activities has solely improved
with data distributions. This is because distributed systems enable nodes to
organise and allow their resources to be used among the connected systems or
devices that make people to be integrated with geographically distributed
computing facilities. The distributed systems may lead to lack of service
availability due to multiple system failures on multiple failure points. This
article highlights the different fault tolerance mechanism in distributed
systems used to prevent multiple system failures on multiple failure points by
considering replication, high redundancy and high availability of the
distributed services.