Application-Layer Fault-Tolerance Protocols

In this technological era failure to address application-layer fault-tolerance a key ingredient to crafting truly dependable computer services leaves the door open to unfortunate consequences in quality of service. Application-Layer Fault-Tolerance Protocols increases awareness of the need for application-layer fault-tolerance (ALFT) through introduction of problems and qualitative analysis of solutions. A necessary read for researchers practitioners and students in dependability engineering this book collects emerging research to offer a systematic critical organization of the current knowledge in ALFT.