Albert Y. Zomaya, Hassan B. Diab

Dependable Computing Systems

Paradigms, Performance Issues, and Applications

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume is a repository of case studies, authored by experts and well-reputed researchers in the field. It deals with a variety of difficult problems in creating dependable computing systems.

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A team of recognized experts leads the way to dependable computing systems

With computers and networks pervading every aspect of daily life, there is an ever-growing demand for dependability. In this unique resource, researchers and organizations will find the tools needed to identify and engage state-of-the-art approaches used for the specification, design, and assessment of dependable computer systems.

The first part of the book addresses models and paradigms of dependable computing, and the second part deals with enabling technologies and applications. Tough issues in creating dependable computing systems are also tackled, including:
_ Verification techniques
_ Model-based evaluation
_ Adjudication and data fusion
_ Robust communications primitives
_ Fault tolerance
_ Middleware
_ Grid security
_ Dependability in IBM mainframes
_ Embedded software
_ Real-time systems

Each chapter of this contributed work has been authored by a recognized expert. This is an excellent textbook for graduate and advanced undergraduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science, as well as a must-have reference that will help engineers, programmers, and technologists develop systems that are secure and reliable.

Produktdetails

• Wiley Series on Parallel and Distributed Computing
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 14667422000
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 688
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1055g
• ISBN-13: 9780471674221
• ISBN-10: 0471674222
• Artikelnr.: 12987284

Autorenporträt

HASSAN B. DIAB, PhD, is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, American University of Beirut (AUB). He is currently Dean of the School of Engineering at AUB and Acting President of Dhofar University, Sultanate of Oman. He is the Associate Editor of Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International and a founding member of the Arab Computer Society. ALBERT Y. ZOMAYA, PhD, is the CISCO Systems Chair Professor of Internetworking, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney, and Deputy Director for Information Technology of the Sydney University Biological Informatics and Technology Centre. Dr. Zomaya has been the chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing and has been awarded the IEEE Computer Society's Meritorious Service Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Contributors. Acknowledgments. PART I: MODELS AND PARADIGMS. 1.
Formal Verification Techniques for Digital Systems (Masahiro Fujita,
Satoshi Komatsu, and Hiroshi Saito). 2. Tolerating Arbitrary Failures With
State Machine Replication (Assia Doudou, BenoıË?t Garbinato, and Rachid
Guerraoui). 3. Model-Based Evaluation as a Support to the Design of
Dependable Systems (Andrea Bondavalli, Silvano Chiaradonna, and Felicita di
Giandomenico). 4. Voting: A Paradigm for Adjudication and Data Fusion in
Dependable Systems (Behrooz Parhami). 5. Robust Communication Primitives
for Wireless Sensor Networks (Amol Bakshi and Viktor K. Prasanna). 6.
System-Level Diagnosis and Implications in Current Context (Arun K.
Somani). 7. Predicate Detection in Asynchronous Systems With Crash Failures
(Felix C. Gärtner and Stefan Pleisch). 8. Fault Tolerance Against Design
Faults (Lorenzo Strigini). 9. Formal Methods for Safety Critical Systems
(Ali E. Abdallah, Jonathan P. Bowen, and Nimal Nissanke). PART II: ENABLING
TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS. 10. Dependability Support in Wireless Sensor
Networks (Denis Gracanin, Mohamed Eltoweissy, Stephan Olariu, and Ashraf
Wadaa). 11. Availability Modeling in Practice (Kishor S. Trivedi, Archana
Sathaye, and Srinivasan Ramani). 12. Experimental Dependability Evaluation
(João Gabriel Silva and Henrique Madeira). 13. A Dependable Architecture
for Telemedicine in Support of Disaster Relief (Stephan Olariu, Kurt Maly,
Edwin C. Foudriat, Sameh M. Yamany, and Thomas Luckenbach). 14. An Overview
of IBM Mainframe Dependable Computing: From System/360 to Series (Lisa
Spainhower). 15. Tracking the Propagation of Data Errors in Software
(Martin Hiller, Arshad Jhumka, and Neeraj Suri). 16. Integrated Reliable
Real-Time Systems (Mohamed Younis). 17. Network Resilience by Emergent
Behavior from Simple Autonomous Agents (Bjarne E. Helvik and Otto Wittner).
18. Safeguarding Critical Infrastructures (David Gamez, Simin
Nadjm-Tehrani, John Bigham, Claudio Balducelli, Kalle Burbeck, and Tobias
Chyssler). 19. Impact of Traffic Self-Similarity on the Performance of
Routing Algorithms in Multicomputer Systems (Geyong Min, Mohamed
Ould-Khaoua, Demetres D. Kouvatsos, and Irfan U. Awan). 20. Some
Observations on Adaptive Meta-Heuristics for Routing in Datagram Networks
(Albert Y. Zomaya, Tysun Chan, and Miro Kraetzl). 21. Reconfigurable
Computing for Cryptography (Hassan B. Diab). 22. Dependability of
Reconfigurable Computing (Mohamed Younis, I-Hong Yeh, Nicholas
Kyriakopoulos, Nikitas Alexandridis, and Tarek El-Ghazawi). Index.

Rezensionen

" ... a very interesting and useful book." ( IEEE Communications Magazine, October 2006)
"...a solid collection of research papers on the specification, design, and assessment of dependable computer systems." ( CHOICE , March 2006)