Fault Tolerant Computing

Unit I: System Model & Fault Tolerance

• System Model

• Error, Failure, and Faults

• Software Fault Tolerance

Unit II: Byzantine Agreement & Processor Failures

• Byzantine Agreement

• Fail-Stop Processors

Unit III: Stable Storage & Broadcasting

• Stable Storage

• Reliable and Atomic Broadcasting

Unit IV: Resiliency & Recovery

• Process Resiliency

• Data Resiliency & Recovery

• Commit Protocols

Unit V: Reliability Modeling & Crash Recovery

• Reliability Modeling & Performance Evaluation

• Crash Recovery in Databases

• Voting Methods