Fault Tolerance Mechanisms in Distributed Systems

Abstract

The use of technology has increased vastly and today computer systems are interconnected via different communication medium. The use of distributed systems in our day to day activities has solely improved with data distributions. This is because distributed systems enable nodes to or-ganise and allow their resources to be used among the connected systems or devices that make people to be integrated with geographically distributed computing facilities. The distributed sys-tems may lead to lack of service availability due to multiple system failures on multiple failure points. This article highlights the different fault tolerance mechanism in distributed systems used to prevent multiple system failures on multiple failure points by considering replication, high re-dundancy and high availability of the distributed services.