Paper Info
Title
A Dynamic Shadow Approach for Mobile Agents to Survive Crash Failures
Abstract
Fault tolerance schemes for mobile agents to survive agent server crash failures are complex since developers normally have no control over remote agent servers. Some solutions inject a replica into stable storage upon its arrival at an agent server. However in the event of an agent server crash the replica is unavailable until the agent server recovers. This paper presents a failure model and a revised exception handling framework for mobile agent systems. An exception handler design is presented for mobile agents to survive agent server crash failures. A replica mobile agent operates at the agent server visited prior to its master's current location. If a master crashes its replica is available as a replacement. Experimental evaluation is performed and performance results are used to suggest some useful design guidelines.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1109/ISORC.2003.1199243
ISORC
Keywords
Field
DocType
mobile agents,exception handler design,crash failures,mobile agent,revised exception handling framework,agent server crash failure,exception handling,agent server,agent server recover,remote agent server,server crash failures,performance evaluation,replica mobile agent,dynamic shadow approach,agent server crash,mobile agent system,fault tolerance,fault tolerant,computer science,information retrieval,web server,internet
Replica,Crash,Computer science,Mobile agent,Exception handling,Server,Real-time computing,Fault tolerance,Stable storage,Distributed computing,Web server
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1928-8
5
0.51
References 
Authors
16
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Simon Pears1342.38
Jie Xu271157.85
Cornelia Boldyreff346456.05