Stochastic Models for Fault Tolerance Restart, Rejuvenation and Checkpointing

From the reviews:

“Wolter’s textbook presents … three issues that will interest specialists in distributed systems and software design: restarting, rejuvenation, and checkpointing. … The book’s strength is its ability to systematically gather different models that are rarely presented together in one place. It is also admirable how clearly … the difficult material on reliability is presented. The work is intended for experienced readers … . The content is up to date; in fact, many of the analyses are quite new and based on Wolter’s own work.”
(Piotr Cholda, ACM Computing Reviews, November, 2010)

“It is comprehensive and self-contained as it includes everything one needs to understand and apply the models and algorithms represented. Even the probability distributions used in those models are briefly, yet satisfactorily, explained in the appendices. All in all, I can recommend this book as a handbook not only to researchers and practitioners who work in this field, but also to students as a textbook.” (Fevzi Belli, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1209, 2011)