Conceptual Framework for System Fault Tolerance

摘要

A major problem in transitioning fault tolerance practices to the practitionercommunity is a lack of a common view of what fault tolerance is, and how it can help in the design of reliable computer systems. This document takes a step towards making fault tolerance more understandable by proposing a conceptual framework. The framework provides a consistent vocabulary for fault tolerance concepts, discusses how systems fail, describes commonly used mechanisms for making systems fault tolerant, and provides some rules for developing fault tolerant systems. Dependability, Fault tolerance vocabulary, Fault tolerance, System fault tolerance. Fault tolerance concepts, Fault tolerance framework,