In wireless sensor networks, the node faults often occurred in scenes because of severe disturbance, harsh environment and inherent weakness of the networks. In this paper, a fault tolerance directed diffusion protocol, termed fault-tolerant algorithm with recoverable nodes (FTA-RN), is proposed to extend the lifetime of the wireless sensor network based on recoverable host nodes, in which a he...

With the increasing popularity of open-source platform Hadoop, the meteorological industry is available to create a Meteorological Cloud (MeteCloud) platform to store and deploy applications. In this paper, we propose an idea to build the MeteCloud platform for meteorological departments using Hadoop. We also present a backup policy for meteorological data. In addition, one kind of storage proc...

There is a critical need, across various application classes such as archiving, backup of thousands of nodes in an organization, video sharing, Dropbox-like storage, etc., that requires highly reliable and scalable storage systems. In the new cloud world, these systems can be built fairly economically (and in house). So, the challenge is how to balance the cost and performance of building and o...

OBJECTIVES Electronic medical records (EMRs) are increasingly being used by health care services. Currently, if an EMR shutdown occurs, even for a moment, patient safety and care can be seriously impacted. Our goal was to determine the methodology needed to develop an effective and reliable EMR backup system. METHODS Our "independent backup system by medical organizations" paradigm implies th...

In a primary-backup system, transaction processing takes place at the primary and the log records generated are propagated to the backup which uses them to reconstruct a recent state of the database. If the primary fails, the backup takes over transaction processing without causing users to observe a breach in service. Existing approaches can be broadly classiied as 2-safe or 1-safe based on wh...

We present an innovative backup and restore solution, called LifeBoat, for Windows machines. Our solution provides for local and remote backups and ‘‘bare metal’’ restores. Classic backup systems do a file system backup and require the machine to be installed before the system can be restored or they do a block for block backup of the system image which allows for a ‘‘bare metal’’ restore, but ...

lost through user error, software or media failure, or site disaster but are unwilling to devote system resources or downtime to make backup copies of the data. Furthermore, with the rapid growth in the use of data storage and the tendency to move systems toward complete utilization (i.e., 24-hour by 7-day operation), the practice of taking the system off line to back up data is no longer feasi...

As software Distributed Shared Memory(DSM) systems become attractive on larger clusters, the focus of attention moves toward improving the reliability of systems. In this paper, we propose a lightweight logging scheme, called remote logging, and a recovery protocol for home-based DSM. Remote logging stores coherence-related data to the volatile memory of a remote node. The logging overhead can ...

NRG performed a research project on the influence on safety of diverse backup systems next to the existing digital I&C safety systems in Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs). As part of this research project a probabilistic approach has been used to evaluate the basic options to connect a diverse backup system logically to the existing digital I&C systems. One can distinguish four different basic design...

Mobile Ad hoc networks are the collection of wireless nodes that can exchange information dynamically among them without pre existing fixed infrastructure. Because of highly dynamic in nature, performance of routing protocols is an important issue. In addition to this routing protocols face many challenges like limited battery backup, limited processing capability and limited memory resources. ...