This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2004, held in Munich, Germany in May 2004. The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 28 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are high availability database architectures, data persistence, dependable mobile Internet services, System Availability Forum standards, QoS control, middleware, service-level management, service management, location-based services, service robustness, service availability evaluation, continuous services, AMF services, etc.
Author(s): Miroslaw Malek, Manfred Reitenspieß, Jörg Kaiser
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 223
Table of Contents......Page 10
Architecture of Highly Available Databases......Page 12
Data Persistence in Telecom Switches......Page 28
Distributed Redundancy or Cluster Solution? An Experimental Evaluation of Two Approaches for Dependable Mobile Internet Services......Page 44
OpenHPI: An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface......Page 59
Quality of Service Control by Middleware......Page 72
Benefit Evaluation of High–Availability Middleware......Page 84
A Measurement Study of the Interplay Between Application Level Restart and Transport Protocol......Page 97
Service–Level Management of Adaptive Distributed Network Applications......Page 112
A Methodology on MPLS VPN Service Management with Resilience Constraints......Page 129
Highly–Available Location–Based Services in Mobile Environments......Page 145
On Enhancing the Robustness of Commercial Operating Systems......Page 159
A Modular Approach for Model–Based Dependability Evaluation of a Class of Systems......Page 171
Rolling Upgrades for Continuous Services......Page 186
First Experience of Conformance Testing an Application Interface Specification Implementation......Page 201
On the Use of the SA Forum Checkpoint and AMF Services......Page 211
Author Index......Page 224
