Distributed Systems: The Phi Accrual Failure Detector Paper
Abstract:
Detecting failures is a fundamental issue for fault-tolerance in distributed systems. […]
We present a novel abstraction, called accrual failure detectors, that emphasizes flexibility and expressiveness and can serve as a basic building block to implementing failure detectors in distributed systems. Instead of providing information of a boolean nature (trust vs. suspect), accrual failure detectors output a suspicion level on a continuous scale.
The architectural difference between traditional and accrual failure detectors:
Credit Naohiro Hayashibara, Xavier Défago Rami Yared, and Takuya Katayama
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