The wireless mobile ad hoc network (MANET) architecture is one consisting of a set of mobile hosts capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations. This has made possible creating a mobile distributed computing environment and has also brought several new challenges in distributed protocol design. In this paper, we study a very fundamental problem, the fault tol...

Grid Computing allows coordinated and controlled resource sharing and problem solving in multi-institutional, dynamic virtual organizations. Moreover, fault tolerance and task scheduling is an important issue for large scale computational grid because of its unreliable nature of grid resources. Commonly exploited techniques to realize fault tolerance is periodic Checkpointing that periodically ...

Fault tolerance is becoming a major concern in HPC systems. The two traditional approaches for message passing applications, coordinated checkpointing and message logging, have severe scalability issues. Coordinated checkpointing protocols make all processes roll back after a failure. Message logging protocols log a huge amount of data and can induce an overhead on communication performance. Hi...

Conclusions ~~ The limited stable storage available in mobile-computing environments can make traditional checkpointing and message logging umuitable. Since storage on a mobile liost is not considered stable, most protocols designed for these environments save the checkpoints on base stations. Previous approaches have assumed that the base station always has sufficient disk space for storing ch...

The EU-funded XtreemOS project implements an open-source grid operating system based on Linux. In order to provide fault tolerance and migration for grid applications, it integrates a distributed grid-checkpointing service called XtreemGCP. This service is designed to support different checkpointing protocols and to address the underlying gridnode checkpointers (e.g. BLCR, LinuxSSI, OpenVZ, etc...

Mobile computing raises many new issues such as lack of stable storage, low bandwidth of wireless channel, high mobility, and limited battery life. These new issues make traditional checkpointing algorithms unsuitable. Coordinated checkpointing is an attractive approach for transparently adding fault tolerance to distributed applications since it avoids domino effects and minimizes the stable s...