fd is an implementation of this paper which is published in 2004 and is implemented in Erlang. If you are interested to know more about Failure detectors in general and how they are classified please refer to this page.
In order to build and run the project make sure you have Erlang/OTP 18 or newer is installed. In the root of the project run the following:
> make compile
> erl -pa ebin/ -I include/ -sname node1
node1 is just a name given to that Erlang node. Once inside the shell, you can start the application like this:
Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.2.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]
Eshell V7.2.1 (abort with ^G)
(node1@localhost)1> application:start(fd).
ok
And also stop the application like this:
(node1@localhost)1> application:stop(fd).
ok
For list of API you can call you can refer to fd.erl file.
Copyright (C) 2016 Amir Moulavi
Distributed under the MIT License.