@techreport{TR-IC-06-13,
  number = {IC-06-13},
  author = {Irineu Sotoma and Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira},
  title = {A {Markov} Model for Providing Quality of Service for
           Failure Detectors under Message Loss Bursts},
  month = {September},
  year = {2006}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 32 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
       The quality of service (QoS) of failure detectors determines
       how fast a failure detector q detects the crash of a process p,
       and how accurate q informs the p crash. In wide area networks
       and wireless networks, the occurrence of process crashes, high
       delay variations and burst losses in message packets are
       common.  So, this paper proposes a failure detector
       configurator which takes into account the probability
       distribution of loss burst lengths of message packets, by using
       a Markov model. The simulation results show that the parameters
       provided by the proposed configurator lead the failure detector
       to satisfy the QoS requirements in networks subject to message
       loss bursts, while previous works do not satisfy them in some
       cases.
  }
}