Luo et al., 2002 - Google Patents

Enabling fault resilience for web services

Luo et al., 2002

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5663754528784553471
Author
Luo M
Yang C
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Computer communications

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Today, a successful Internet service is absolutely critical to be up 100 percent of the time. Server clustering is the most promising approach to meet this requirement. However, the existing Web server-clustering solutions can merely provide high availability derived from its …
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