This document summarizes and reviews various checkpointing and rollback recovery algorithms that have been proposed to provide fault tolerance in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). It begins with background information on MANETs and checkpointing. Checkpointing techniques take snapshots of process states and store them to allow recovery from failures without restarting from the beginning. The document then describes different types of checkpointing, including uncoordinated, coordinated, communication-induced, and hybrid approaches. Several specific algorithms for MANETs checkpointing are then analyzed, including flooding-based, concurrent checkpointing, cluster-based, and mobility-aware approaches. The document concludes by stating that checkpointing presents challenges for MANETs due to their dynamic topology and limited
Synchronization in distributed computingSVijaylakshmi
Synchronization in distributed systems is achieved via clocks. The physical clocks are used to adjust the time of nodes. Each node in the system can share its local time with other nodes in the system. The time is set based on UTC (Universal Time Coordination).
Agreement Protocols, Distributed Resource Management: Issues in distributed File Systems, Mechanism for building distributed file systems, Design issues in Distributed Shared Memory, Algorithm for Implementation of Distributed Shared Memory.
Fault tolerance is important for distributed systems to continue functioning in the event of partial failures. There are several phases to achieving fault tolerance: fault detection, diagnosis, evidence generation, assessment, and recovery. Common techniques include replication, where multiple copies of data are stored at different sites to increase availability if one site fails, and check pointing, where a system's state is periodically saved to stable storage so the system can be restored to a previous consistent state if a failure occurs. Both techniques have limitations around managing consistency with replication and overhead from checkpointing communications and storage requirements.
This document provides an overview of high performance computing infrastructures. It discusses parallel architectures including multi-core processors and graphical processing units. It also covers cluster computing, which connects multiple computers to increase processing power, and grid computing, which shares resources across administrative domains. The key aspects covered are parallelism, memory architectures, and technologies used to implement clusters like Message Passing Interface.
UNIT IV FAILURE RECOVERY AND FAULT TOLERANCE 9
Basic Concepts-Classification of Failures – Basic Approaches to Recovery; Recovery in
Concurrent System; Synchronous and Asynchronous Checkpointing and Recovery; Check
pointing in Distributed Database Systems; Fault Tolerance; Issues - Two-phase and Nonblocking
Commit Protocols; Voting Protocols; Dynamic Voting Protocols;
Replication in computing involves sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility.
clock synchronization in Distributed System Harshita Ved
The document discusses various techniques for synchronizing clocks in distributed real-time systems. It begins by explaining that real-time systems require results within a certain time frame and interactions with the physical world. The challenges of distributed systems are then presented, where individual node clocks may run at different speeds and it is difficult to determine which event occurred first. Several clock synchronization algorithms are outlined, including using a global clock, averaging individual clocks, having an external time source, and assigning timestamps to messages. The Cristian and Berkeley algorithms are then described in more detail as centralized synchronization approaches where one node coordinates keeping all clocks aligned.
Distributed systems use multiple autonomous computers that communicate via messages to improve processing throughput, allow for CPU specialization, and provide fault tolerance. Faults in distributed systems can include data corruption, hanging processes, misleading return values, hardware/software/network outages, and resource overcommitment. To provide fault tolerance, processes are replicated across multiple computers so the system can continue functioning even if some processes fail. There are different types of faults like crash faults, omission faults, and Byzantine faults. Recovery from failures can use backward or forward recovery approaches.
Synchronization in distributed computingSVijaylakshmi
Synchronization in distributed systems is achieved via clocks. The physical clocks are used to adjust the time of nodes. Each node in the system can share its local time with other nodes in the system. The time is set based on UTC (Universal Time Coordination).
Agreement Protocols, Distributed Resource Management: Issues in distributed File Systems, Mechanism for building distributed file systems, Design issues in Distributed Shared Memory, Algorithm for Implementation of Distributed Shared Memory.
Fault tolerance is important for distributed systems to continue functioning in the event of partial failures. There are several phases to achieving fault tolerance: fault detection, diagnosis, evidence generation, assessment, and recovery. Common techniques include replication, where multiple copies of data are stored at different sites to increase availability if one site fails, and check pointing, where a system's state is periodically saved to stable storage so the system can be restored to a previous consistent state if a failure occurs. Both techniques have limitations around managing consistency with replication and overhead from checkpointing communications and storage requirements.
This document provides an overview of high performance computing infrastructures. It discusses parallel architectures including multi-core processors and graphical processing units. It also covers cluster computing, which connects multiple computers to increase processing power, and grid computing, which shares resources across administrative domains. The key aspects covered are parallelism, memory architectures, and technologies used to implement clusters like Message Passing Interface.
UNIT IV FAILURE RECOVERY AND FAULT TOLERANCE 9
Basic Concepts-Classification of Failures – Basic Approaches to Recovery; Recovery in
Concurrent System; Synchronous and Asynchronous Checkpointing and Recovery; Check
pointing in Distributed Database Systems; Fault Tolerance; Issues - Two-phase and Nonblocking
Commit Protocols; Voting Protocols; Dynamic Voting Protocols;
Replication in computing involves sharing information so as to ensure consistency between redundant resources, such as software or hardware components, to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or accessibility.
clock synchronization in Distributed System Harshita Ved
The document discusses various techniques for synchronizing clocks in distributed real-time systems. It begins by explaining that real-time systems require results within a certain time frame and interactions with the physical world. The challenges of distributed systems are then presented, where individual node clocks may run at different speeds and it is difficult to determine which event occurred first. Several clock synchronization algorithms are outlined, including using a global clock, averaging individual clocks, having an external time source, and assigning timestamps to messages. The Cristian and Berkeley algorithms are then described in more detail as centralized synchronization approaches where one node coordinates keeping all clocks aligned.
Distributed systems use multiple autonomous computers that communicate via messages to improve processing throughput, allow for CPU specialization, and provide fault tolerance. Faults in distributed systems can include data corruption, hanging processes, misleading return values, hardware/software/network outages, and resource overcommitment. To provide fault tolerance, processes are replicated across multiple computers so the system can continue functioning even if some processes fail. There are different types of faults like crash faults, omission faults, and Byzantine faults. Recovery from failures can use backward or forward recovery approaches.
This document discusses improving software economics through reducing software size, improving development processes, using skilled personnel, and leveraging better development environments and tools. It outlines cost estimation formulas and trends in programming languages, object-oriented methods, reuse, and commercial components that can reduce software size. The document also describes improving processes at the meta, macro and micro levels and how this can improve predictability, schedules and quality.
The document discusses various algorithms for achieving distributed mutual exclusion and process synchronization in distributed systems. It covers centralized, token ring, Ricart-Agrawala, Lamport, and decentralized algorithms. It also discusses election algorithms for selecting a coordinator process, including the Bully algorithm. The key techniques discussed are using logical clocks, message passing, and quorums to achieve mutual exclusion without a single point of failure.
This document discusses fault tolerance in computing systems. It defines fault tolerance as building systems that can continue operating satisfactorily even in the presence of faults. It describes different types of faults like transient, intermittent, and permanent hardware faults. It also discusses concepts like errors, failures, fault taxonomy, attributes of fault tolerance like availability and reliability. It explains various techniques used for fault tolerance like error detection, system recovery, fault masking, and redundancy.
Overview of message oriented middleware technology (MOM).
Message Oriented Middleware allows asynchronous operation between sender and receiver of information. This greatly reduces temporal coupling and allows building flexible and extensible application architectures. Message queues managed by message brokers are used as information exchanges between sender and receiver. The subscribe-publish pattern allows producers and consumers to share information through message brokers without any direct coupling between them. Various message oriented protocols like MSMQ, AMQP, XMPP and MQTT have emerged that serve the diverse needs of different environments.
A fault tolerant system is able to continue operating despite failures in hardware or software components. It gracefully degrades performance as more faults occur rather than collapsing suddenly. The goal is to ensure the probability of total system failure remains acceptably small. Redundancy is a key technique, with hardware redundancy using multiple redundant components and voting on outputs to mask faults. Static pairing and N modular redundancy are two hardware redundancy methods.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
INTRODUCTIONTO OPERATING SYSTEM
What is an Operating System?
Mainframe Systems
Desktop Systems
Multiprocessor Systems
Distributed Systems
Clustered System
Real -Time Systems
Handheld Systems
Computing Environments
Evaluation of morden computer & system attributes in ACAPankaj Kumar Jain
Elements of Modern Computers, Architectural
Evolution in computer architecture ,System Attributes to Performance,Clock Rate and CPI,MIPS Rate,Throughput Rate,Implicit Parallelism,Explicit Parallelism, State of computing,
1. Real-time systems are systems where the correctness depends on both the logical result and the time at which the results are produced.
2. Real-time systems have performance deadlines where computations and actions must be completed. Deadlines can be time-driven or event-driven.
3. Real-time systems are classified as hard, firm, or soft depending on how critical meeting deadlines are. They are used in applications like medical equipment, automotive systems, and avionics.
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has been employed for many years, mainly in high-performance computing, but interest in it has grown lately due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. As power consumption (and consequently heat generation) by computers has become a concern in recent years, parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors.
The document outlines the various workflows that make up the software development process, including management, environment, requirements, design, implementation, assessment, and deployment workflows. It describes the key activities for each workflow, such as controlling the process, evolving requirements and design artifacts, programming components, assessing product quality, and transitioning the product to users. The document also notes that iterations consist of sequential activities that vary depending on where an iteration falls in the development cycle.
This document discusses distributed systems and their evolution. It defines a distributed system as a collection of networked computers that communicate and coordinate actions by passing messages. Distributed systems have several advantages over centralized systems, including better utilization of resources and the ability to share information among distributed users. The document describes several models of distributed systems including mini computer models, workstation models, workstation-server models, processor pool models, and hybrid models. It also discusses why distributed computing systems are gaining popularity due to their ability to effectively manage large numbers of distributed resources and handle inherently distributed applications.
Unit 1 architecture of distributed systemskaran2190
The document discusses the architecture of distributed systems. It describes several models for distributed system architecture including:
1) The mini computer model which connects multiple minicomputers to share resources among users.
2) The workstation model where each user has their own workstation and resources are shared over a network.
3) The workstation-server model combines workstations with centralized servers to manage shared resources like files.
Algorithmic software cost modeling uses mathematical functions to estimate project costs based on inputs like project characteristics, development processes, and product attributes. COCOMO is a widely used algorithmic cost modeling method that estimates effort in person-months and development time based on source lines of code and cost adjustment factors. It has basic, intermediate, and detailed models and accounts for factors like application domain experience, process quality, and technology changes.
This document discusses different types of communication including unicast, broadcast, multicast, and indirect communication. It provides details on multicast communication including that it allows one-to-many communication where a message is sent to multiple devices in a group. It also discusses characteristics of multicast including fault tolerance and data distribution. Examples of multicast applications like financial services and remote conferencing are provided. The document then covers various forms of indirect communication such as group communication, publish-subscribe systems, message queues, and shared memory. It provides details on topics like event filtering, routing, and subscription models for publish-subscribe systems.
This document discusses interprocess communication and distributed systems. It covers several key topics:
- Application programming interfaces (APIs) for internet protocols like TCP and UDP, which provide building blocks for communication protocols.
- External data representation standards for transmitting objects between processes on different machines.
- Client-server communication models like request-reply that allow processes to invoke methods on remote objects.
- Group communication using multicast to allow a message from one client to be sent to multiple server processes simultaneously.
This document provides an overview of the architecture of warehouse-scale computers (WSCs). It describes how WSCs consist of large numbers of standardized servers organized in racks and arrays. The servers communicate over an Ethernet network hierarchy with switches at the rack and array level. This network architecture provides high aggregate bandwidth and storage capacity but also increases latency for remote memory access compared to local server memory. The document outlines the key components and networking design of WSCs.
The document discusses several key challenges in software engineering (SE). It notes that SE approaches must address issues of scale, productivity, and quality. Regarding scale, it states that SE methods must be scalable for problems of different sizes, from small to very large, requiring both engineering and project management techniques to be formalized for large problems. Productivity is important to control costs and schedule, and SE aims to deliver high productivity. Quality is also a major goal, involving attributes like functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency and maintainability. Reliability is often seen as the main quality criterion and is approximated by measuring defects. Addressing these challenges of scale, productivity and quality drives the selection of SE approaches.
Secured client cache sustain for maintaining consistency in manetseSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Enhancement of energy efficiency and throughput using csmaca dcf operation fo...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document discusses improving software economics through reducing software size, improving development processes, using skilled personnel, and leveraging better development environments and tools. It outlines cost estimation formulas and trends in programming languages, object-oriented methods, reuse, and commercial components that can reduce software size. The document also describes improving processes at the meta, macro and micro levels and how this can improve predictability, schedules and quality.
The document discusses various algorithms for achieving distributed mutual exclusion and process synchronization in distributed systems. It covers centralized, token ring, Ricart-Agrawala, Lamport, and decentralized algorithms. It also discusses election algorithms for selecting a coordinator process, including the Bully algorithm. The key techniques discussed are using logical clocks, message passing, and quorums to achieve mutual exclusion without a single point of failure.
This document discusses fault tolerance in computing systems. It defines fault tolerance as building systems that can continue operating satisfactorily even in the presence of faults. It describes different types of faults like transient, intermittent, and permanent hardware faults. It also discusses concepts like errors, failures, fault taxonomy, attributes of fault tolerance like availability and reliability. It explains various techniques used for fault tolerance like error detection, system recovery, fault masking, and redundancy.
Overview of message oriented middleware technology (MOM).
Message Oriented Middleware allows asynchronous operation between sender and receiver of information. This greatly reduces temporal coupling and allows building flexible and extensible application architectures. Message queues managed by message brokers are used as information exchanges between sender and receiver. The subscribe-publish pattern allows producers and consumers to share information through message brokers without any direct coupling between them. Various message oriented protocols like MSMQ, AMQP, XMPP and MQTT have emerged that serve the diverse needs of different environments.
A fault tolerant system is able to continue operating despite failures in hardware or software components. It gracefully degrades performance as more faults occur rather than collapsing suddenly. The goal is to ensure the probability of total system failure remains acceptably small. Redundancy is a key technique, with hardware redundancy using multiple redundant components and voting on outputs to mask faults. Static pairing and N modular redundancy are two hardware redundancy methods.
This document discusses software architecture from both a management and technical perspective. From a management perspective, it defines an architecture as the design concept, an architecture baseline as tangible artifacts that satisfy stakeholders, and an architecture description as a human-readable representation of the design. It also notes that mature processes, clear requirements, and a demonstrable architecture are important for predictable project planning. Technically, it describes Philippe Kruchten's model of software architecture, which includes use case, design, process, component, and deployment views that model different aspects of realizing a system's design.
INTRODUCTIONTO OPERATING SYSTEM
What is an Operating System?
Mainframe Systems
Desktop Systems
Multiprocessor Systems
Distributed Systems
Clustered System
Real -Time Systems
Handheld Systems
Computing Environments
Evaluation of morden computer & system attributes in ACAPankaj Kumar Jain
Elements of Modern Computers, Architectural
Evolution in computer architecture ,System Attributes to Performance,Clock Rate and CPI,MIPS Rate,Throughput Rate,Implicit Parallelism,Explicit Parallelism, State of computing,
1. Real-time systems are systems where the correctness depends on both the logical result and the time at which the results are produced.
2. Real-time systems have performance deadlines where computations and actions must be completed. Deadlines can be time-driven or event-driven.
3. Real-time systems are classified as hard, firm, or soft depending on how critical meeting deadlines are. They are used in applications like medical equipment, automotive systems, and avionics.
Parallel computing is a type of computation in which many calculations or the execution of processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. There are several different forms of parallel computing: bit-level, instruction-level, data, and task parallelism. Parallelism has been employed for many years, mainly in high-performance computing, but interest in it has grown lately due to the physical constraints preventing frequency scaling. As power consumption (and consequently heat generation) by computers has become a concern in recent years, parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors.
The document outlines the various workflows that make up the software development process, including management, environment, requirements, design, implementation, assessment, and deployment workflows. It describes the key activities for each workflow, such as controlling the process, evolving requirements and design artifacts, programming components, assessing product quality, and transitioning the product to users. The document also notes that iterations consist of sequential activities that vary depending on where an iteration falls in the development cycle.
This document discusses distributed systems and their evolution. It defines a distributed system as a collection of networked computers that communicate and coordinate actions by passing messages. Distributed systems have several advantages over centralized systems, including better utilization of resources and the ability to share information among distributed users. The document describes several models of distributed systems including mini computer models, workstation models, workstation-server models, processor pool models, and hybrid models. It also discusses why distributed computing systems are gaining popularity due to their ability to effectively manage large numbers of distributed resources and handle inherently distributed applications.
Unit 1 architecture of distributed systemskaran2190
The document discusses the architecture of distributed systems. It describes several models for distributed system architecture including:
1) The mini computer model which connects multiple minicomputers to share resources among users.
2) The workstation model where each user has their own workstation and resources are shared over a network.
3) The workstation-server model combines workstations with centralized servers to manage shared resources like files.
Algorithmic software cost modeling uses mathematical functions to estimate project costs based on inputs like project characteristics, development processes, and product attributes. COCOMO is a widely used algorithmic cost modeling method that estimates effort in person-months and development time based on source lines of code and cost adjustment factors. It has basic, intermediate, and detailed models and accounts for factors like application domain experience, process quality, and technology changes.
This document discusses different types of communication including unicast, broadcast, multicast, and indirect communication. It provides details on multicast communication including that it allows one-to-many communication where a message is sent to multiple devices in a group. It also discusses characteristics of multicast including fault tolerance and data distribution. Examples of multicast applications like financial services and remote conferencing are provided. The document then covers various forms of indirect communication such as group communication, publish-subscribe systems, message queues, and shared memory. It provides details on topics like event filtering, routing, and subscription models for publish-subscribe systems.
This document discusses interprocess communication and distributed systems. It covers several key topics:
- Application programming interfaces (APIs) for internet protocols like TCP and UDP, which provide building blocks for communication protocols.
- External data representation standards for transmitting objects between processes on different machines.
- Client-server communication models like request-reply that allow processes to invoke methods on remote objects.
- Group communication using multicast to allow a message from one client to be sent to multiple server processes simultaneously.
This document provides an overview of the architecture of warehouse-scale computers (WSCs). It describes how WSCs consist of large numbers of standardized servers organized in racks and arrays. The servers communicate over an Ethernet network hierarchy with switches at the rack and array level. This network architecture provides high aggregate bandwidth and storage capacity but also increases latency for remote memory access compared to local server memory. The document outlines the key components and networking design of WSCs.
The document discusses several key challenges in software engineering (SE). It notes that SE approaches must address issues of scale, productivity, and quality. Regarding scale, it states that SE methods must be scalable for problems of different sizes, from small to very large, requiring both engineering and project management techniques to be formalized for large problems. Productivity is important to control costs and schedule, and SE aims to deliver high productivity. Quality is also a major goal, involving attributes like functionality, reliability, usability, efficiency and maintainability. Reliability is often seen as the main quality criterion and is approximated by measuring defects. Addressing these challenges of scale, productivity and quality drives the selection of SE approaches.
Secured client cache sustain for maintaining consistency in manetseSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Enhancement of energy efficiency and throughput using csmaca dcf operation fo...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Minimum Process Coordinated Checkpointing Scheme For Ad Hoc Networks pijans
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 tolerance
problem, in a MANET environment and propose a minimum process coordinated checkpointing scheme.
Since potential problems of this new environment are insufficient power and limited storage capacity, the
proposed scheme tries to reduce the amount of information saved for recovery. The MANET structure used
in our algorithm is hierarchical based. The scheme is based for Cluster Based Routing Protocol (CBRP)
which belongs to a class of Hierarchical Reactive routing protocols. The protocol proposed by us is nonblocking coordinated checkpointing algorithm suitable for ad hoc environments. It produces a consistent
set of checkpoints; the algorithm makes sure that only minimum number of nodes in the cluster are
required to take checkpoints; it uses very few control messages. Performance analysis shows that our
algorithm outperforms the existing related works and is a novel idea in the field. Firstly, we describe an
organization of the cluster. Then we propose a minimum process coordinated checkpointing scheme for
cluster based ad hoc routing protocols.
A Survey of Various Fault Tolerance Checkpointing Algorithms in Distributed S...Eswar Publications
A distributed system is a collection of independent entities that cooperate to solve a problem that cannot be individually solved. Checkpoint is defined as a fault tolerant technique. It is a save state of a process during the failure-free execution, enabling it to restart from this checkpointed state upon a failure to reduce the amount of lost work instead of repeating the computation from beginning. The process of restoring form previous checkpointed state is known as rollback recovery. A checkpoint can be saved on either the stable storage or the
volatile storage depending on the failure scenarios to be tolerated. Checkpointing is major challenge in mobile ad
hoc network. The mobile ad hoc network architecture is one consisting of a set of self configure mobile hosts(MH) capable of communicating with each other without the assistance of base stations, some of processes running on mobile host. The main issues of this environment are insufficient power and limited storage capacity. This paper surveys the algorithms which have been reported in the literature for checkpointing in distributed systems as well as Mobile Distributed systems.
IRJET-A Review Paper on Secure Routing Technique for MANETSIRJET Journal
This document reviews secure routing techniques for mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). It begins with an introduction to MANETs and discusses their decentralized nature and infrastructureless architecture. It then describes different routing protocols for MANETs including proactive, reactive, and hybrid protocols. The document outlines various attacks possible in MANETs such as active and passive attacks. It provides details about the jellyfish attack, which aims to reduce network performance by disrupting TCP connections. The literature survey presented summarizes several papers analyzing and comparing the performance of various MANET routing protocols under different attacks such as the jellyfish attack. The conclusion is that secure and efficient routing techniques are needed to detect and isolate malicious nodes in MANETs.
Energy efficient ccrvc scheme for secure communications in mobile ad hoc netw...eSAT Publishing House
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes an energy efficient certificate revocation scheme (EECCRVC) for secure communications in mobile ad hoc networks. The scheme aims to both revoke intruder certificates to exclude them from the network and utilize node energy effectively. It adopts a certificate revocation scheme (CCRVC) that deals with false accusations while outperforming other techniques in revoking intruder certificates. The scheme also enhances reliability and accuracy by promptly vindicating warned nodes based on a threshold mechanism. Experimental results using the NS-2 simulator show that the proposed EECCRVC scheme provides secure communications with effective energy utilization in mobile ad hoc networks.
Energy efficient ccrvc scheme for secure communications in mobile ad hoc netw...eSAT Journals
Abstract A mobile ad hoc network is a self-configured wireless network in which any mobile node can freely access the network at any time without the need of any fixed infrastructures. Due to high dynamic characteristics, these types of networks are easily prone to various security attacks. There are various mechanisms which provide secure communication i.e., certificate revocation. In this paper, the main challenge of certificate revocation (i.e., to revoke the certificates of the intruders inorder to permanently exclude them from the network activities) is accomplished by adopting CCRVC scheme that also deals with false accusations apart from outperforming the other techniques in case of revoking the intruders certificates. Also this scheme enhances the reliability as well as accuracy as it can vindicate the warned nodes promptly based on the threshold based mechanism. Energy of the nodes must be utilized in an effective manner inorder to secure the network for longer durations as the mobile nodes operate on their batteries. Further, a new technique was proposed, to utilize the energy of the nodes effectively by switching the CHs in a timely manner (since the CHs are likely to lose more energy). Experimental results evaluated by using NS-2 show that the proposed scheme EECCRVC is efficient enough in providing secure communications along with effective energy utilization in mobile ad hoc networks. Keywords: Mobile ad hoc networks, Security, Network Simulator, Certificate Revocation, Energy Utilization
1. The document presents a failure recovery scheme for mobile computing systems based on checkpointing and handoff count. It proposes taking checkpoints when the handoff count exceeds a threshold or the distance between mobile support stations exceeds a threshold.
2. The scheme aims to optimize both failure-free operation costs and failure recovery costs. Checkpoints are taken to minimize the amount of work lost after failures while limiting overhead during normal operation.
3. By delimiting the number of mobile support stations and distance from which recovery information needs to be collected, the proposed scheme aims to reduce recovery time and costs. Taking checkpoints based on handoff count and distance thresholds helps organize recovery information to facilitate efficient failure recovery.
1. The document presents a failure recovery scheme for mobile computing systems based on checkpointing and handoff count. It proposes taking checkpoints when the handoff count exceeds a threshold or the distance between mobile support stations exceeds a threshold.
2. Upon failure, recovery information is collected from the mobile support stations where checkpoints are stored. The number of support stations and distance between them affects recovery time and cost.
3. The proposed scheme aims to optimize failure recovery by limiting the number of support stations and distance based on handoff count thresholds. Checkpoints are initiated to minimize scattered recovery information across multiple distant support stations.
The document discusses securing query processing in cloud computing environments. It identifies three key requirements for secure query processing: 1) authenticating users and machines, 2) securing data transfer across machines, and 3) ensuring integrity of query results. The document also analyzes existing and proposed systems for wireless multi-hop networks, including analyzing performance under different conditions.
IRJET- Analysis of Micro Inversion to Improve Fault Tolerance in High Spe...IRJET Journal
This document discusses techniques for improving fault tolerance in VLSI circuits through micro inversion. It begins with an introduction to increasing reliability concerns with technology scaling. It then discusses micro inversion, where operations on erroneous data are "undone" through hardware rollback of a few cycles. It describes implementing micro inversion in a register file and handling the potential domino effect in multi-module systems through common bus transactions acting as a clock. The document concludes that micro inversion combined with parallel error checking can help achieve fault tolerance in complex multi-module VLSI systems.
A Survey on Mobile Sensing Technology and its PlatformEswar Publications
Now a days, mobile networks is increasingly becoming important part of everyday life due which there is a rapid evolution mobile phone. Mobile phone comes into a powerful sensing platform. There are many scientists which are engaged in the emerging field of mobile sensing from a variety of existing communities, such as, mobile systems, machine learning and human computer interaction. The research and development in this field is rapid resulting in indispensable carry-on of daily life. But with the increase in development, data integrity and security has also become an important factor to take into consideration. Importantly, today’s smart phones are programmable and come with a growing set of cheap powerful embedded sensors, which are enabling the emergence of personal, group, and community scale sensing applications. The mobile sensing platform provides many facilities like, it helps to communicate to Wireless sensor networks through a mobile sensor router Which attached to a users mobile phone. It helps in analysis of the sensed data which is derived from networks by cooperating with sensor middle- ware on a remote server to capture ones contexts. It also helps in providing context aware services for mobile users of cellular telephones. In this paper, we will discuss about
different mobile sensing platforms that provides context-aware services for mobile users by accessing the surrounding wireless sensor networks. Along with this, we will briefly discuss some of the emerging sensing paradigms.
The system enables to instruct network devices on the actions to perform upon failure or degradations without querying a centralized controller. The system is suitable for use cases such as system margin reduction, white boxes, and OAM
IRJET - A Review on Analysis of Location Management in Mobile ComputingIRJET Journal
This document reviews location management in mobile computing. It discusses various location management schemes including location updates and location queries. Static update strategies like location areas and reporting cells are described, as well as dynamic update strategies that account for user mobility and call frequency. Key components of location management systems are outlined, including base stations, base station controllers, cells, handoffs, home location registers, and location areas. Issues in location management like location registration, paging, and call delivery are also summarized. The document provides an overview of the important area of location management for tracking user locations in mobile networks.
18068 system software suppor t for router fault tolerance(word 2 column)Ashenafi Workie
This document discusses system software support for router fault tolerance. It begins with an introduction that describes how communication networks have shifted to rely more on software components and the importance of fault tolerance. The document then reviews literature on router fault tolerance techniques, including algorithms using redundancy. It discusses router architecture and functionality. The main objective is to develop a generalized algorithm for fault tolerance to handle different types of faults in routers. The proposed approach would classify network faults and use time, structure, and information redundancy to provide fault tolerance. More research is still needed to better address separating tolerance of temporary and permanent faults and to improve overall network reliability.
Performance analyses of wormhole attack in Cognitive Radio Network (CRN)IJERA Editor
Mobile wirelesses networks are generally open to various attacks like information and physical security attacks than fixed wired networks. Securing wireless ad hoc networks is particularly more difficult for many of the reasons for example vulnerability of channels and nodes, absence of infrastructure, dynamically changing topology etc. After that we initialize the number of nodes. Then implement protocol for the communication of nodes. Due to these protocols communication start. And this will be then implemented in CRNs which stand for cognitive radio network in which channel sensing is done. By the use of CRN security will be improved and performance will be enhanced. Find the malicious nodes occur in the network. One malicious node uses routing protocol to claim itself of being shortest path to last node but drops routing packets and doesn’t send packets to its neighbors. In last evaluate the parameters.
Design of optimal system level for embedded wireless sensor unitIAEME Publication
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This document discusses clickjacking attacks, which hijack users' clicks to perform unintended actions. It provides an overview of clickjacking, describes different types of attacks, and analyzes vulnerabilities that make websites susceptible. Experiments are conducted on a sample social networking site, applying various clickjacking techniques. Potential defenses are tested, including X-Frame-Options headers and frame busting code. A proposed solution detects transparent iframes to warn users and check for hidden mouse pointers to mitigate cursorjacking. Analysis of top Jammu and Kashmir websites found most were vulnerable, while browser behavior studies showed varying support for defenses.
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Due to the availability of complicated devices in industry, models for consumers at lower cost of resources are developed. Home Automation systems have been developed by several researchers. The limitations of home automation includes complexity in architecture, higher costs of the equipment, interface inflexibility. In this paper as we have proposed, the working protocol of PIC 16F72 technology is which is secure, cost efficient, flexible that leads to the development of efficient home automation systems. The system is operational to control various home appliances like fans, Bulbs, Tube light. The following paper describes about components used and working of all components connected. The home automation system makes use of Android app entitled “Home App” which gives
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Agriculture plays an important role in the economy of our country. Over 58 percent of the rural households depend on the agriculture sector as their means of livelihood. Agriculture is one of the major contributors to Gross Domestic Product(GDP). Seeds are the soul of agriculture. This application helps in reducing the time for the researchers as well as farmers to know the seedling parameters. The application helps the farmers to know about the percentage of seedlings that will grow and it is very essential in estimating the yield of that particular crop. Manual calculation may lead to some error, to minimize that error, the developed app is used. The scientist and farmers require the app to know about the physiological seed quality parameters and to take decisions regarding their farming activities. In this article a desktop app for seed germination percentage and vigour index calculation are developed in PHP scripting language.
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Now a days we are living in an era of Information Technology where each and every person has to become IT incumbent either intentionally or unintentionally. Technology plays a vital role in our day to day life since last few decades and somehow we all are depending on it in order to obtain maximum benefit and comfort. This new era equipped with latest advents of technology, enlightening world in the form of Internet of Things (IoT). Internet of things is such a specified and dignified domain which leads us to the real world scenarios where each object can perform some task while communicating with some other objects. The world with full of devices, sensors and other objects which will communicate and make human life far better and easier than ever. This paper provides an overview of current research work on IoT in terms of architecture, a technology used and applications. It also highlights all the issues related to technologies used for IoT, after the literature review of research work. The main purpose of this survey is to provide all the latest technologies, their corresponding
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Mining Frequent Patterns and Associations from the Smart meters using Bayesia...Eswar Publications
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Resource pooling on internet-based accessing on use as pay environmental technology and ruled in IT field is the
cloud. Present, in every organization has trusted the web, however, the information must flow but not hold the
data. Therefore, all customers have to use the cloud. While the cloud progressing info by securing-protocols. Third
party observing and certain circumstances directly stale in flow and kept of packets in the virtual private cloud.
Global security statistics in the year 2017, hacking sensitive information in cloud approximately maybe 75.35%,
and the world security analyzer said this calculation maybe reached to 100%. For this cause, this proposed
research work concentrates on Authentication-Message-Digest-Key with authentication in routing the Network as
a Service of packets in OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) implementing Cloud with GNS3 has tested them to
securing from attackers.
Microstrip patch antennas are recently used in wireless detection applications due to their low power consumption, low cost, versatility, field excitation, ease of fabrication etc. The microstrip patch antennas are also called as printed antennas which is suffer with an array elements of antenna and narrow bandwidth. To overcome the above drawbacks, Flame Retardant Material is used as the substrate. Rectangular shape of microstrip patch antenna with FR4 material as the substrate which is more suitable for the explosive detection applications. The proposed printed antenna was designed with the dimension of 60 x 60 mm2. FR-4 material has a dielectric constant value of 4.3 with thickness 1.56 mm, length and width 60 mm and 60 mm respectively. One side of the substrate contains the ground plane of dimensions 60 x60 mm2 made of copper and the other side of the substrate contains the patch which have dimensions 34 x 29 mm2 and thickness 0.03mm which is also made of copper. RMPA without slot, Vertical slot RMPA, Double horizontal slot RMPA and Centre slot RMPA structures were
designed and the performance of the antennas were analysed with various parameters such as gain, directivity, Efield, VSWR and return loss. From the performance analysis, double horizontal slot RMPA antenna provides a better result and it provides maximum gain (8.61dB) and minimum return loss (-33.918dB). Based on the E-field excitation value the SEMTEX explosive material is detected and it was simulated using CST software.
Conversational agents, or chatbots, are increasingly used to access all sorts of services using natural language. While open-domain chatbots - like ChatGPT - can converse on any topic, task-oriented chatbots - the focus of this paper - are designed for specific tasks, like booking a flight, obtaining customer support, or setting an appointment. Like any other software, task-oriented chatbots need to be properly tested, usually by defining and executing test scenarios (i.e., sequences of user-chatbot interactions). However, there is currently a lack of methods to quantify the completeness and strength of such test scenarios, which can lead to low-quality tests, and hence to buggy chatbots.
To fill this gap, we propose adapting mutation testing (MuT) for task-oriented chatbots. To this end, we introduce a set of mutation operators that emulate faults in chatbot designs, an architecture that enables MuT on chatbots built using heterogeneous technologies, and a practical realisation as an Eclipse plugin. Moreover, we evaluate the applicability, effectiveness and efficiency of our approach on open-source chatbots, with promising results.
ScyllaDB is making a major architecture shift. We’re moving from vNode replication to tablets – fragments of tables that are distributed independently, enabling dynamic data distribution and extreme elasticity. In this keynote, ScyllaDB co-founder and CTO Avi Kivity explains the reason for this shift, provides a look at the implementation and roadmap, and shares how this shift benefits ScyllaDB users.
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Session 1 - Intro to Robotic Process Automation.pdfUiPathCommunity
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It also can also help to reduce failure recovery and rebalancing downtimes, with demos showing sporty 100ms rebalancing downtimes for your stateful Kafka Streams application, no matter the size of the application’s state.
As a bonus accessing Cassandra State Stores via 'Interactive Queries' (e.g. exposing via REST API) is simple and efficient since there's no need for an RPC layer proxying and fanning out requests to all instances of your streams application.
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LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
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-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
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Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery Algorithms for Fault Tolerance in MANETs: A Review
1. Int. J. Advanced Networking and Applications
Volume: 6 Issue: 3 Pages: 2308-2313 (2014) ISSN : 0975-0290
2308
Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery
Algorithms for Fault Tolerance in MANETs:
A Review
Sushant Patial
Department of Computer Science, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla-5
Email: patialsushant @gmail.com
Jawahar Thakur
Department of Computer Science, Himachal Pradesh University Shimla-5
Email: jawahar.hpu @gmail.com
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Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are emerging as a major technology in mobile computing. A MANET is a
collection of mobile devices or nodes that communicate with each other using wireless links without availability of
any static infrastructure or centralized control. A node in such a network should be fault tolerable and failure free
execution of processes on the network nodes is vital. In order to make devices fault tolerant checkpoint based
recovery technique can be used. Checkpointing is a technique that can be used to make device or node fault
tolerant and reduce the recovery time in case of failure. It takes the snapshot of current application state of
process and stores it in some memory area and then using it to resume the computation from current checkpoint
instead of resuming it from the beginning. Some limitations of MANETs such as mobility, dynamic topology,
limited bandwidth of channel, limited storage space and power restrictions makes checkpointing as a major
challenge in mobile ad hoc networks. This paper presents the survey of some existing algorithms, which have been
proposed for making MANETs fault tolerant and implementing or deploying checkpointing in mobile ad hoc
network.
Keywords – Checkpointing, Dynamic topology, Fault tolerant, MANETs Mobile computing, Mobile Support
Station (MSS), Recovery.
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Date of Submission : September 16, 2014 Date of Acceptance : November 03, 2014:
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I. INTRODUCTION
Network is a collection of devices called nodes that
allow communication among users and shares the
resources using some set of rules also called as protocols.
Network can be broadly classified into two types. One is
the wired networks which are connected through a
physical medium or cables, such as Ethernet cables or
phone lines. And the other is the wireless networks, using
wireless networking cards that send and receive data
through the air with the help of radio waves. Wireless
networks are gaining much popularity these days since
they help in communication in areas where network
wiring is almost impossible. On the other hand a
distributed system consists of several processes that
execute on computers that are separated geographically
by some distance and coordinate via message-passing
with each other to achieve a common objective [1]. In a
traditional distributed system all hosts are stationary.
Advances in computers with wireless communication
interfaces and satellite services these days have made it
possible for mobile users to perform distributed
applications and to access information anywhere and at
anytime. A new computing environment in which some
hosts are mobile computers connected by wireless
communication networks and some are stationary
computers connected to a fixed network is called as
distributed mobile computing environment. Thus,
distributed systems can have a special type called
distributed mobile system where some of its hosts are not
stationary. A distributed mobile system is characterized
by the mobility and poor resource of mobile hosts.
Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is an autonomous ad
hoc wireless networking system which consists of
independent nodes that move frequently and changes the
network connectivity. MANETs are collection of self-
organizing mobile nodes with dynamic topologies and no
fixed infrastructure where nodes are autonomous and
independent wireless devices. From the fault tolerance
prospective the MANETs are highly vulnerable and
challenging, basically due to its complex system
infrastructure-less network where the wireless mobile
nodes are dynamically attached to temporary topology.
Nodes do not have to follow any constraint or rules.
Nodes can move freely in the network, it indicates that
host movement and topology changes frequently.
The advantages of ad hoc network are that they can be
easily deployed, their robustness, flexibility and they
inherently supports mobility of devices. The topology of
ad hoc network is very dynamic because of the host
mobility, so MANETs can be very useful where instance
communication is required in emergency like military
applications, mobile conferencing and inter vehicular
communication [2]. When a fault or failures of process
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occur, an application with mobile hosts must rollback to a
consistent global checkpoint as close as possible to the
end of the computation. The main constraints of ad-hoc
networks includes dynamic network topology, limited
bandwidth, variability of the links, low node capability in
terms of limited power or battery, no centralized control,
broadcasting nature of transmission and packet losses[2].
Some other constraints to these networks are frequent
disconnections/partitions/joins of links of nodes, no stable
storage or limited stable storage, different mobility pattern
of nodes, devices are vulnerable to physical security
threats.
As fault-tolerance is an important design issue in building
a reliable Ad hoc network, MANETs must be fault
tolerant that is they must be able to recover even after a
failure occurs. Transient failures in system are the one
which stays for short duration time during operation only.
If the fault is recognized in the system, the fault tolerance
technique allows the system to resume the computation
from the last consistent state and thus reducing the
recovery time. There are various recovery scheme that
have been proposed to make the system fault tolerant such
as log based recovery, rollback recovery and
checkpointing. This paper has been organized into
different sections. Section II gives description about
checkpointing and its types. Section III describes about
the work done by various research scholars in the field of
checkpointing in MANETs. Finally the conclusion is
given in the Section IV.
II. CHECKPOINTING AND ITS TYPES
Checkpointing is a technique for inserting fault tolerance
into computing systems. It basically consists of taking a
snapshot of the current application state, storing it on
some memory area and later on using it for restarting the
execution from that particular point in case of failure. It is
a fault tolerant technique in which normal processing of a
process is interrupted specifically to preserve the status
information necessary and then to allow resumption of
processing at a later time. Computation may be restarted
from the current checkpoint instead of repeating it from
the beginning if a failure occurs. Checkpoint based
rollback recovery is being used as a technique in various
areas like scientific computing, mobile computing,
distributed database, telecommunication and critical
applications in distributed and mobile ad hoc networks.
Checkpoint-based rollback recovery restores the system
state to the most recent consistent set of checkpoints
whenever a failure occurs [3]. Checkpoint based rollback
recovery is not suited for applications that require
frequent interactions with the outside world, since such
interactions require that the observable behavior of the
system through failures. Checkpointing technique can be
basically classified into three categories that are:
uncoordinated checkpointing, coordinated checkpointing
(blocking and non-blocking) and communication-induced
check pointing.
• Uncoordinated Check pointing: It allows any
process can initiate checkpointing. Each process can
take a checkpoint in any critical state and does not
need to coordinate with other processes in the system.
[4].
• Coordinated Checkpointing: This type of
checkpointing simplifies recovery and with no domino
effect, since each process is restarted from its most
recent checkpoint not from the beginning. Coordinated
checkpointing requires that only one permanent
checkpoint is maintained on stable storage by each
and every process which helps in eliminating the need
for garbage collection and reducing storage
overhead[5].
• Blocking Checkpoint coordination: These
algorithms force all relevant processes in the system to
block their computation during checkpointing latency
and hence degrade system performance.
Checkpointing includes the time to trace the
dependence trees and to save the states of processes on
some stable storage, which may take some time.
Therefore, these algorithms may degrade the
performance of system [6].
• Non-blocking Checkpoint Coordination: In this
protocol, a checkpoint is taken by the initiator and
then a checkpoint request is broadcasted to all the
processes. When each process receives a request it
takes a checkpoint and before sending any application
message rebroadcasts the request to all processes. This
protocol works on assumption that the channels are
reliable and FIFO based [7].
• Checkpointing with Synchronized Clocks: A
process takes a checkpoint and waits for a period that
equals the sum of the maximum deviation between
clocks and the maximum time to detect a failure in
another process in the system. It can be assured to the
process that all the checkpoints belonging to the same
coordination session have been taken without the need
of exchanging any messages [7].
• Minimal Checkpoint Coordination: It is desirable to
reduce the number of processes involved in a
coordinated checkpointing session. This can be done
since only those processes that have communicated
with the checkpoint initiator either directly or
indirectly since the last checkpoint need to take new
checkpoints [8].
• Communication - induced Checkpointing: This type
of checkpointing avoids the domino effect while
allowing processes to take some of their checkpoints
independently [8]. It forces each process to take
checkpoints based on information piggybacked on the
application. However, process independence is
constrained to guarantee the eventual progress of the
recovery line and therefore processes may be forced to
take additional checkpoints. The checkpoints that are
taken by a process independently are called as local
checkpoints, while those that are taken by a process
forcibly are called forced checkpoints.
• Model-based Checkpointing: It relies on preventing
patterns of communications and checkpoints that
could result in inconsistent states among the existing
checkpoints.[8]
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• Index based Communication Induced
Checkpointing: This type of checkpointing works by
assigning monotonically increasing indexes to
checkpoints, such that the checkpoints having the
same index at different processes form a consistent
state [8].
• Hybrid Checkpointing: There might be some
situations where we require two or more
checkpointing schemes in one algorithm; such type of
checkpointing where combination of checkpointing
schemes is used is called as hybrid checkpointing.
III. ANALYSIS OF CHECKPOINTING ALGORITHMS
FOR MANETS
There are various checkpointing schemes or algorithms
that have been developed for reducing the time for
recovery if any failure occurs. The flexibility introduced
by mobile computing brings new challenges to the area of
fault tolerance. Failures become common which were rare
with fixed hosts, fault detection and message coordination
are made difficult by frequent host disconnection. Some
of the checkpointing algorithms developed for MANETs
are as follows:
Masakazu and Hiroaki [9] proposed an approach called
Checkpointing by flooding method. According to this
protocol ad hoc networks works without any stable
storage and enough communication bandwidth. Here,
flooding is used to deliver a checkpoint request message.
This message carries the state information of a mobile
computer and stored into neighboring mobile computers.
Intermediate mobile computer stores a candidate of a lost
message after its detection on its transmission route.
Singh and Jaggi [10] proposed a Concurrent
Checkpointing and Recovery scheme. They presented a
staggered approach in their work to avoid resources
simultaneous contention. The events which would
normally happen at the same time are forced to start or
happen at different times by staggering. This protocol
logs minimum number of messages and does not need any
FIFO channels. It successfully handles the overlapping
failures in ad hoc networks and supports concurrent
initiation of checkpoints.
Saluja and Kumar [11] in their work discussed a new
minimum process checkpointing procedure for mobile ad-
hoc networks which is based on the cluster based routing
protocol that reduces routing traffic and prohibitive of
flooding traffic in discovery of routes. A checkpoint can
be initiated by any of the process (MH) in this algorithm,
first it takes tentative checkpoint before sending message
and then sends request to CH and then on the behalf of
MH the CH coordinates checkpointing operation with
other processes. Only those process participate in
checkpointing operation with the initiator which are
present in the minimum processes set created with Z-
dependencies notion. This algorithm ensures that blocking
of processes does not take place and takes no useless
checkpoints as it maintains exact dependencies and
piggybacks checkpoint sequence number, dependency
vector onto the normal message communication.
Morita and Higaki [12] presented an approach to mission
critical application where the system can have both
mobile stations and fixed stations. Due to several
limitations of mobile stations checkpointing is recorded
asynchronously whereas fixed station take checkpointing
synchronously. During the recovery process mobile
station will get local state from consistent set along with
message logs stored in stable storage. Communication and
synchronization overheads are minimized as this
algorithm separates content and order of information.
Juang and Liu [13] provided with an independent
checkpointing and rollback recovery technique in
multihop communication environment. In the state
transition interval called interval index depends on
message received by the process and state of process, that
give way to the development of dependency matrix
considering both types of dependencies that are transitive
and direct dependencies. All the communication is
transmitted from cluster to cluster goes through the
clusterhead node CH which acts as a local coordinator of
transmissions within the cluster. CH maintains the
dependency matrix and message logs hence no additional
overheads are present on MH and also when process fails
this scheme covers resending of lost messages.
Biswas and Neogy [14] suggested a mobility aware
checkpointing and failure recovery algorithm for cluster
based mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) in which
checkpoints of mobile nodes are saved on neighboring
nodes if the mobility of a node among the clusters crosses
the threshold value and if the failure occurs recovery of
node is done through the mobile cluster head. This
algorithm shows the minimum checkpoint and log
overhead per mobile host per checkpoint interval and no
orphan/lost messages.
Tuli and Kumar [15] introduced minimum process
coordinated checkpointing scheme for ad hoc network.
This scheme allows minimum number of nodes to take
checkpoint and uses few control messages to produce
consistent global state. Cluster based routing protocol
used for the ad hoc network hence containing cluster head
and ordinary nodes, additionally cluster head sends
aggregated data information to base station which saves
cluster head state periodically, If some fault is detected or
a cluster head fails, then its failure is detected by the base
station (BS) and responsibility of the cluster head is
assigned to a new node in the cluster. If a transient fault
occur at the cluster head, the cluster can quickly recover
from it using checkpointing this approach addresses
recovery process for cluster head and ordinary nodes
without having any additional overheads.
Men et al. [16] presented a checkpointing and rollback
recovery scheme which is best suitable for the cluster-
based multi-channel ad-hoc wireless network
management where the MHs are controlled by the cluster
head to take the checkpoints in checkpoint beacon
intervals and in case of failure rollback to a consistent
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state. Every beacon interval consisting of different phases
depicts for checkpointing and recovery scheme capable of
handling ordinary host transient failures and also the crash
of gateway which are present between two neighboring
clusters. Beacon packet is used by CH which contains
clock data, traffic indication messages and data window
and also holds some other variables such as index of
ordinary node queue, checkpoint and reply messages.
There is no domino effect in the recovery scheme and the
recovery of the failure process can start from its latest
local consistent checkpoint then messages are restored
and repeated messages for rollback will be discarded to
make gateway consistent.
Bhalla [17] asserted global snapshot for host recovery that
helps in independent dependency tracking in a mobile ad-
hoc computing environment that without any message
overheads and delays finds the consistent global state.
The process to perform recovery computation is to inform
all other processes of its recovery state and then each
process verify their highest consistent state, if not
satisfied maps the processes to be rolled back to the
optimal recovery state. This algorithm assures for each
node failure n-1 messages are sent within the system of n
nodes. No orphan or no lost messages exist after the
failure recovery.
Cao and Singhal [18] introduced the concept of “Mutable
Checkpoint”. The Mutable checkpoint is neither a
tentative checkpoint nor a permanent checkpoint to design
efficient checkpointing algorithms for mobile computing
system. We can save these checkpoints anywhere (e.g. in
the main memory or local disk of MHs). The overhead of
transferring large amount of data to stable storage at
MSSs over the wireless network can be avoided by taking
a mutable checkpoint. This technique tries to minimize
the number of mutable checkpoints. This approach is a
non blocking algorithm which avoids the avalanche effect
and forces only a minimum number of processes to take
their checkpoints on the stable storage.
Neves and Fuchs [19] in their work described a
checkpoint protocol which is well adapted to the
characteristics of mobile environments. The protocol
saves consistent recoverable global states easily without
any need of exchanging messages. Whenever a local
timer expires a process creates a new checkpoint. The
checkpoint timers are kept approximately synchronized
by using a simple mechanism. Mobile host locally saves
soft checkpoints, and stable storage stores the hard
checkpoints. The protocol adapts itself and changes
behavior according to different networks by changing the
number of soft checkpoints that are created per hard
checkpoint.
Table1: Comparison of different checkpointing algorithms for Mobile Ad Hoc Network
Author
Checkpointing
Approach
Advantages Disadvantages Channel
Stable storage
Location
Ono Masakazu
and Higaki
Hiroaki in [9]
Uncoordinated
• Can be used in mission-critical
network applications
• Communication overhead for
taking
global checkpoint is reduced.
• It has additional overheads
and control messages
associated with it as
Checkpoint request message
is delivered by flooding.
FIFO
Neighboring
mobile
devices
A.K.Singh, P
.K. Jaggi, [10]
Uncoordinated
• Staggered approach to avoid
simultaneous contention for
resources.
• Successfully handles the
multiple failures.
• Suitable only for Small
sized message logs.
Non
FIFO
Own Memory
Saluja and
Kumar [11]
Coordinated
• Minimises useless checkpoints
by maintaining exact
dependencies among
processes.
• Ensures Zero blocking time.
• Piggybacks checkpointing
sequence number and
dependency vector on to the
normal messages.
• Dependency vector of
mobile hosts are maintained
at CHs so memory space of
Cluster head is wasted.
FIFO
Local mobile
support
stations
(MSS) at
cluster head
(CH)
Morita and
Higaki [12]
Hybrid(Coordi
nated and
uncoordinated)
• Supports both mobile and
fixed
stations.
• Reduced communication and
synchronization overheads.
• Overheads may be incurred
due to large amount of
processing as it involves
two different types of
checkpointing schemes.
FIFO
Local Mobile
support
station(MSS)
Juang and Liu
[13]
Uncoordinated
• Asynchronous Recovery and
an efficient rollback algorithm.
• The mobile hosts need to
rollback only once and can
immediately resume operation
without waiting for any
• It has to resend some of the
lost messages after finishing
the recovery algorithm
which can lead to wastage
of time and resources.
FIFO Cluster Head
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coordination message from
other mobile hosts.
Biswas and
Neogy [14]
Uncoordinated
• Random mobility of cluster
members and cluster heads is
considered.
• Reduce storage overhead of
cluster head and supports for
efficient recovery.
• Threshold value is defined to
take checkpoint if MH crosses
from its cluster.
• If the node fails, the data has
to be searched and retrieved
for recovery along with last
saved checkpoint.
• This search and retrieval
cost increases with
increasing ‘cluster-change-
count’ and is added to total
recovery cost of a failed
mobile node.
FIFO
Neighboring
nodes
Tuli and Kumar
[15]
Coordinated
• It does not consider useless
checkpoints
• The energy consumption and
recovery latency are reduced
when a cluster head fails.
• Checkpoint is taken by the
minimum number of
processes.
• As it takes checkpoint for
minimum number of
processes, it is difficult and
time consuming to decide
which process should take
the checkpoints.
FIFO Cluster Head
Men et al [16] Coordinated
• Cluster-basedmulti-channel
management protocol.
• Local consistent checkpoint-
two consecutive beacon
interval.
• Rollback recovery in one
beacon interval.
• Additional power
consumption and memory
overhead is incurred.
FIFO
Mobile
supporting
stations
(MSS) at
cluster head
(CH
Bhalla [17] Independent
• Uses a modified cumulative
dependency tracking approach
for the recovery process.
• And also for the generation of
global snapshot.
• For recovery one message
needs to be sent to each
connected station to inform
them about the occurrence
of a failure which leads to
wastage of time and
bandwidth.
FIFO
Nodes own
stable
memory
Cao and
Singhal [18]
Coordinated
(Non blocking)
• Checkpoints can be saved
anywhere.
• Overhead of transferring
checkpoint information over
the network to the stable
storage in Mobile Support
Stations is minimized.
• May result in an
inconsistency as the number
of useless checkpoints in
may be exceedingly high in
some situations.
FIFO
Anywhere in
the main
memory or
local disks of
Mobile
host(MH)
Neves and
Fuchs[19]
Coordinated
(Indirect)
• Uses two different types of
checkpoints to adapt to the
current network
characteristics.
• Uses time to indirectly
coordinate the creation of
recoverable consistent
checkpoints.
• Saves consistent recoverable
global states without any need
to exchange messages.
• As it saves two types of
checkpoints there is wastage
of some memory resource.
FIFO
Soft
checkpoint
saved locally
in the mobile
host, hard
checkpoints in
the stable
storage
IV. CONCLUSION
Fault tolerance is a major research area in the Mobile Ad
Hoc Networks. No doubt MANETs have a great advantage
of being usable in remote areas where the wired
communication media cannot reach but still there are
many important issues in MANETs to be handled like
network stability, low communication bandwidth, power
consumption of mobile nodes, time and memory
overheads, large stable storage constraints, frequent node
disconnections/join and traffic load with the cluster, which
makes implementation of fault tolerance techniques
difficult in them as compared to distributed system since
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they do not have constraints like MANETs in them. So the
algorithms are developed for less overhead, reducing
number of checkpoints for saving both time and memory
space by using different approaches. It can also be done
that making the techniques implementable on the
distributed systems also implementable in MANETs by
making some negotiations. We can use a better approach
for node arrangement for checkpointing process or a
hybrid checkpointing strategy can be used which is a
combination of two or more checkpointing schemes.
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