2003 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Unreliable Failure Detectors via Operational Semantics
Authors : Uwe Nestmann, Rachele Fuzzati
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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The concept of unreliable failure detectors for reliable distributed systems was introduced by Chandra and Toueg as a fine-grained means to add weak forms of synchrony into asynchronous systems. Various kinds of such failure detectors have been identified as each being the weakest to solve some specific distributed programming problem. In this paper, we provide a fresh look at failure detectors from the point of view of programming languages, more precisely using the formal tool of operational semantics. Inspired by this, we propose a new failure detector model that we consider easier to understand, easier to work with and more natural. Using operational semantics, we prove formally that representations of failure detectors in the new model are equivalent to their original representations within the model used by Chandra and Toueg.