Experimental evaluation of failure-detection schemes in real-time communication networks

An effective failure-detection scheme is essential for reliable communication services. Most computer network rely on behavior-based detection schemes: each node uses heartbeats to detect the failure of its neighbor nodes, and the transport protocol (like TCP) achieves reliable communication by ackn...

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Published inProceedings of IEEE 27th International Symposium on Fault Tolerant Computing pp. 122 - 131
Main Authors Seungjae Han, Shin, K.G.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1997
Subjects
Application software
Communication networks
Computer network reliability
Computer networks
Control systems
Delay
Fault detection
Hardware
Intelligent networks
Telecommunication network reliability
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Summary:An effective failure-detection scheme is essential for reliable communication services. Most computer network rely on behavior-based detection schemes: each node uses heartbeats to detect the failure of its neighbor nodes, and the transport protocol (like TCP) achieves reliable communication by acknowledgment/retransmission. In this paper, we experimentally evaluate the effectiveness of such behavior-based detection schemes in real-time communication. Specifically, we measure and analyze the coverage and latency of two failure-detection schemes-neighbor detection and end-to-end detection-through fault-injection experiments. The experimental results have shown that a significant portion of failures can be detected very quickly by the neighbor detection scheme, while the end-to-end detection scheme uncovers the remaining failures with larger detection latencies.
ISBN:9780818678318
0818678313
ISSN:0731-3071
2375-124X
DOI:10.1109/FTCS.1997.614085