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Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications
October 1997 (vol. 46 no. 10)
pp. 1137-1141
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Yi-Min Wang, Yennun Huang, W. Kent Fuchs, Chandra Kintala, Gaurav Suri, "Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 1137-1141, October, 1997.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/12.628398,
author = {Yi-Min Wang and Yennun Huang and W. Kent Fuchs and Chandra Kintala and Gaurav Suri},
title = {Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications},
journal ={IEEE Transactions on Computers},
volume = {46},
number = {10},
issn = {0018-9340},
year = {1997},
pages = {1137-1141},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/12.628398},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - JOUR
JO - IEEE Transactions on Computers
TI - Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications
IS - 10
SN - 0018-9340
SP1137
EP1141
EPD - 1137-1141
A1 - Yi-Min Wang,
A1 - Yennun Huang,
A1 - W. Kent Fuchs,
A1 - Chandra Kintala,
A1 - Gaurav Suri,
PY - 1997
KW - Fault tolerance
KW - distributed systems
KW - protocols
KW - checkpointing
KW - logging
KW - rollback recovery
KW - message reordering
KW - recovery escalation
KW - telecommunication systems.
VL - 46
JA - IEEE Transactions on Computers
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Abstract—A method of execution retry for bypassing software faults in message-passing applications is described in this paper. Based on the techniques of checkpointing and message logging, we demonstrate the use of message replaying and message reordering as two mechanisms for achieving localized and fast recovery. The approach gradually increases the rollback distance and the number of affected processes when a previous retry fails, and is therefore named progressive retry. Examples from telecommunications software systems and performance measurements from an application-level implementation are described to illustrate the benefits of the scheme.

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Index Terms:
Fault tolerance, distributed systems, protocols, checkpointing, logging, rollback recovery, message reordering, recovery escalation, telecommunication systems.
Citation:
Yi-Min Wang, Yennun Huang, W. Kent Fuchs, Chandra Kintala, Gaurav Suri, "Progressive Retry for Software Failure Recovery in Message-Passing Applications," IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 46, no. 10, pp. 1137-1141, Oct. 1997, doi:10.1109/12.628398
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