Title
Minimum mutable checkpoint-based coordinated checkpointing protocol for mobile distributed systems
Abstract
Coordinated checkpointing is an attractive approach to add fault tolerance to mobile distributed systems transparently against various predictable and unexpected faults. This approach avoids domino effect and require minimum stable storage but may require additional synchronisation messages and blocking. Coordinated checkpointing overhead can be minimised either by minimising processes to checkpoint or by making checkpointing process non-blocking. In literature it has been reported that there cannot be a minimum process non-blocking coordinated checkpointing protocol. Minimisation of processes to checkpoint for an initiation can be combined with non-blocking by taking some additional checkpoints that may be discarded on completion of the checkpoint protocol unnecessary checkpoints. Such checkpoints are called mutable if stored on local memory of mobile host temporarily. In this paper, we investigated this problem further and designed an efficient coordinated checkpointing protocol that is non-blocking, requires coordination of only minimum number of processes and reduces the overhead of unnecessary checkpoints significantly. Simulation studies show that our protocol reduces the number of unnecessary checkpoints almost to zero.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1504/IJCNDS.2014.062226
IJCNDS
Keywords
Field
DocType
fault tolerance,domino effect
Domino effect,Synchronization,Computer science,Computer network,Minimisation (psychology),Fault tolerance,Stable storage,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
12
4
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
20
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lalit Kumar Awasthi110.35
Manoj Misra210.69
Ramesh Chandra Joshi310.35