Design of fault-tolerant systems/networks and applications

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Fault-tolerant computing plays an important role in today's world. There is a large dependency on computer systems in our everyday life. We depend on these systems for banking, e-commerce, communications, travel, etc. Fault tolerance prevents system failures and is intended to ensure that the system delivers the required service in spite of faults and errors. In the past two decades, we have seen the evolution of computer networks as a merger of the communication and computing worlds. This revolution has made the dream of global connectivity possible and has opened the door for numerous applications/tasks requiring the use of large computing facilities. For example, computational grids have become increasingly important to solve computationally intensive and time consuming problems in science and engineering. Since the failure probability increases with a rising number of components, fault tolerance is an essential characteristic of such