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Reliable Computer Systems

Collected Papers of the Newcastle Reliability Project

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Santosh Kumar Shrivastava

    1. Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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Part of the book series: Monographs in Computer Science (MCS)

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Table of contents (40 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • B. Randell
      Pages 1-4

  3. System Reliability

    1. Introduction

      • Santosh Kumar Shrivastava
      Pages 5-5

    2. Fault Tolerance Terminology Proposals

      • T. Anderson, P. A. Lee
      Pages 6-13

    3. System Structure for Software Fault Tolerance

      • B. Randell
      Pages 14-36

    4. Operating Systems: The Problems of Performance and Reliability

      • B. Randell
      Pages 37-50

  4. Recovery Blocks

    1. Introduction

      • Santosh Kumar Shrivastava
      Pages 51-52

    2. A Program Structure for Error Detection and Recovery

      • J. J. Horning, H. C. Lauer, P. M. Melliar-Smith, B. Randell
      Pages 53-68

    3. A Reconsideration of the Recovery Block Scheme

      • P. A. Lee
      Pages 69-79

    4. Recovery Blocks in Action: A System Supporting High Reliability

      • T. Anderson, R. Kerr
      Pages 80-101

    5. Sequential Pascal with Recovery Blocks

      • S. K. Shrivastava
      Pages 102-111

    6. Fault-Tolerant Sequential Programming Using Recovery Blocks

      • S. K. Shrivastava, A. A. Akinpelu
      Pages 112-114

    7. A Recovery Cache for the PDP-11

      • P. A. Lee, N. Ghani, K. Heron
      Pages 115-125

    8. Recovery and Crash Resistance in a Filing System

      • J. S. M. Verhofstad
      Pages 126-139

  5. Exception Handling

    1. Introduction

      • Santosh Kumar Shrivastava
      Pages 141-142

    2. Software Reliability: The Role of Programmed Exception Handling

      • P. M. Melliar-Smith, B. Randell
      Pages 143-153

    3. Exception Handling and Software Fault Tolerance

      • F. Cristian
      Pages 154-172

    4. Robust Data Types

      • F. Cristian
      Pages 173-207

    5. Systematic Detection of Exception Occurrences

      • E. Best, F. Cristian
      Pages 208-237

    6. Safe Programming

      • T. Anderson, R. W. Witty
      Pages 238-245
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About this book

A research project to investigate the design and construction of reliable computing systems was initiated by B. Randell at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1972. In over ten years of research on system reliability, a substantial number of papers have been produced by the members of this project. These papers have appeared in a variety of journals and conference proceedings and it is hoped that this book will prove to be a convenient reference volume for research workers active in this important area. In selecting papers published by past and present members of this project, I have used the following criteria: a paper is selected if it is concerned with fault tolerance and is not a review paper and was published before 1983. I have used these criteria (with only one or two exceptions!) in order to present a collection of papers with a common theme and, at the same time, to limit the size of the book to a reasonable length. The papers have been grouped into seven chapters. The first chapter introduces fundamental concepts of fault tolerance and ends with the earliest Newcastle paper on reliability. The project perhaps became well known after the invention of recovery blocks - a simple yet effective means of incorporating fault tolerance in software. The second chapter contains papers on recovery blocks, starting with the paper which first introduced the concept.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Computing Laboratory, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

    Santosh Kumar Shrivastava

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Reliable Computer Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Collected Papers of the Newcastle Reliability Project

  • Editors: Santosh Kumar Shrivastava

  • Series Title: Monographs in Computer Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-82470-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-82472-2Published: 22 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-82470-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0172-603X

  • Series E-ISSN: 2512-5486

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 580

  • Topics: System Performance and Evaluation, Computer Communication Networks, Computer Hardware

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