Eigthth Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, 10-12 October 1989, Seattle, Washington, USA, Proceedings. IEEE Computer Society Press, 1989, ISBN 0-8186-1981-3

Session 1: Recovery

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  Mustaque Ahamad, Luke Lin: Using Checkpoints to Localize the Effects of Faults in Distributed Systems. 2-11
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  Zhijun Tong, Richard Y. Kain, W. T. Tsai: A Low Overhead Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery Scheme for Distributed Systems. 12-20
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  Ralf Schumann, Reinhold Kröger, Michael Mock, Edgar Nett: Recovery-Management in the RelaX Distributed Transaction layer. 21-28

Session 2: Replication

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  Shepherd S. B. Shi, Geneva G. Belford: Consistent Replicated Transactions: A Highly Reliable Program Execution Environment. 30-41
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  Shivakant Mishra, Larry L. Peterson, Richard D. Schlichting: Implementing Fault-Tolerant Replicated Ojects Using Psync. 42-52
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  Jonathan R. Agre, Divyakant Agrawal: Recovering from Process Failures in the Time Warp Mechanism. 53-62

Session 3: Network Architecture

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  Nanchang Lin, Charles B. Silio Jr.: Ring Network Reliability - The Probablility That All Operative Nodes Can Communicate. 64-71
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  Jernej Polajnar, Duro Mastilovic, Blagoja Pardulski: Decentralized Loopback Reconfiguration of a Bidirectional Ring Lan. 72-78

Session 4: Reliable Communication

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  Yehuda Afek, Geoffrey M. Brown: Self-Stabilization of the Alternating-Bit Protocol. 80-83
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  B. Rajagopalan, Philip K. McKinley: A Token-Based Protocol for Reliable, Ordered Multicast Communications. 84-93
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  M. Stella Atkins, Garnik Haftevani, Wo-Shun Luk: An Efficient Kernel-level Dependable Multicast Protocol for Distributed Systems. 94-102

Session 5: Performance Analysis

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  Kyung O. Min, Geneva G. Belford: Workload Analysis for Performance Study of Distributed Deadlock Detection Algorithms. 104-111
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  Bruno Ciciani, Daniel M. Dias, Philip S. Yu: Performance Comparision of Concurrency Control Protocols for Transaction Processing Systems with Regional Locality. 112-118
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  Jean-Pierre Banâtre, Michel Banâtre, Christine Morin: Implementing Atomic Rendevous within a Transactional Framework. 119-128

Session 6: Evaluation and Modeling

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  Yennun Huang, Pankaj Jalote: Availability Analysis of the Primary Site Approach for Fault Tolerance. 130-136
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  Joanne Bechta Dugan, Malathi Veeraraghavan, Mark Boyd, Nitin Mittal: Bounded Approximate Reliability Models for Distributed Systems. 137-147
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  Walid A. Najjar, Jean-Luc Gaudiot: Limits on Scalability in Gracefully Degradable Large-Scale Systems. 148-157

Session 7: Simulation and Testing

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  Travis L. Winfrey, Gail E. Kaiser: Testing Reliable Distributed Applications Through Simulated Events. 160-166
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  Kenneth R. Leeper, David W. Lyness: Distributed Processing Test Simulator (DPTS). 167-175