A distributed consistent global checkpoint algorithm for distributed mobile systems

A distributed coordinated checkpointing algorithm for distributed mobile systems is presented. A consistent global checkpoint is a set of states in which no message is recorded as received in one process and as not yet sent in another process. It is used for rollback when process failure occurs. A c...

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Published in:Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems. ICPADS 2001 pp. 125 - 132
Main Author: Manabe, Y.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2001
Subjects:
Bandwidth
Checkpointing
Laboratories
Local area networks
Mobile communication
Mobile computing
Protocols
Wireless LAN
ISBN:0769511538, 9780769511535
ISSN:1521-9097
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Summary:A distributed coordinated checkpointing algorithm for distributed mobile systems is presented. A consistent global checkpoint is a set of states in which no message is recorded as received in one process and as not yet sent in another process. It is used for rollback when process failure occurs. A consistent global checkpoint must be obtained for any checkpoint initiation by any process. This paper shows a checkpoint algorithm in which the amount of information piggybacked on program messages does not depend on the number of mobile processes. The number of checkpoints is minimized under two assumptions: (1) one consistent global checkpoint is taken for concurrent checkpoint initiations and (2) a checkpoint is initiated at each handoff by mobile processes. This algorithm is thus optimal among the generalizations of Chandy and Lamport's distributed snapshot algorithm under the latter assumption.
ISBN:0769511538
9780769511535
ISSN:1521-9097
DOI:10.1109/ICPADS.2001.934810