Service Availability First International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2004, Munich, Germany, May 13-14, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the First International Service Availability Symposium, ISAS 2004, held in Munich, Germany in May 2004.
The 15 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 28 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics addressed are high availability database architectures, data persistence, dependable mobile Internet services, System Availability Forum standards, QoS control, middleware, service-level management, service management, location-based services, service robustness, service availability evaluation, continuous services, AMF services, etc.

ISAS 2004.- Architecture of Highly Available Databases.- Data Persistence in Telecom Switches.- Distributed Redundancy or Cluster Solution? An Experimental Evaluation of Two Approaches for Dependable Mobile Internet Services.- OpenHPI: An Open Source Reference Implementation of the SA Forum Hardware Platform Interface.- Quality of Service Control by Middleware.- Benefit Evaluation of High-Availability Middleware.- A Measurement Study of the Interplay Between Application Level Restart and Transport Protocol.- Service-Level Management of Adaptive Distributed Network Applications.- A Methodology on MPLS VPN Service Management with Resilience Constraints.- Highly Available Location-Based Services in Mobile Environments.- On Enhancing the Robustness of Commercial Operating Systems.- A Modular Approach for Model-Based Dependability Evaluation of a Class of Systems.- Rolling Upgrades for Continuous Services.- First Experience of Conformance Testing an Application Interface Specification Implementation.- On the Use of the SA Forum Checkpoint and AMF Services.