Performance of K-Fault Tolerant Checkpointing for Mobile Agents

—This paper studies the performance of two fault tolerant schemes for mobile agents. The behavior and the performance of the k-fault tolerant checkpointing scheme are compared with those of the replication schemes. To study the performance of two schemes, an experimental system has been built on the Aglets mobile agent system. Also a simulation system has been built to further study the performance of two schemes under various failure environments. By comparing two schemes, the system environments where the k-fault tolerant checkpointing scheme works well and the system parameters which mainly affect the performance are investigated.

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