This paper surveys the significance of data mining techniques and fault tolerance in future materials flow systems with a focus on planning and decision-making. The fundamental connection between data mining, fault tolerance, and materials flow is illustrated. Contemporary developments in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe a novel diagnosis approach, using neural networks (NNs), which can be used to identify faulty nodes in distributed and multiprocessor systems. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a literature‐based study focusing on research methodology...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe an adaptive approach for diagnosing faulty nodes in a wireless mobile environment. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a diagnosis approach that has been previously developed for wired networks. A discussion of the novel diagnosis...

Secure routing is considered as one of a key challenge in mesh networks because of its dynamic and broadcasting nature. The broadcasting nature of mesh environment invites number of security vulnerabilities to come and affect the network metrics drastically. Further, any node/link failure of a...

Scientific workflows are very complex, large-scale applications and require more computational power for data transmission and execution. In this article, the authors address the problem of scheduling scientific workflow on a number of virtual machines (VM) with the objective of reducing the...

With mission critical web applications and resources being hosted on cloud environments, and cloud services growing fast, the need for having greater level of service assurance regarding fault tolerance for availability and reliability has increased. The high priority now is ensuring a fault...

This article describes how data replication plays an important role in distributed systems. It primarily focuses on the redundancy of data at two or more nodes, to achieve both fault tolerance and improved performance. Therefore, many researchers have proposed various data replication algorithms...

This article describes how fault tolerance is an essential issue for many WSN (Wireless Sensor Network) applications such as wildlife monitoring, battlefield surveillance and health monitoring. It represents a great challenge for researchers regarding to the characteristics of sensor nodes which...

Load management of resources during high load demand managed by load management mechanism. An efficacious resource management algorithm effectively manages the load imbalance. Virtual Machine (VM) migration policy can maximize the throughput of the Cloud. Overloaded User Base (UB) high resource...

Nowadays, computing calculations are becoming more and more demanding due to the huge pool of resources available. This demand must be satisfied in terms of computational efficiency and resilience, which is compromised in distributed and heterogeneous platforms. Not only this, data obtained are...