Agent based dynamic recovery protocol in distributed databases

  • Authors:
  • Yu Wang;Xinsong Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China;Research Lab, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, P. R. China

  • Venue:
  • ISPDC'03 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and distributed computing
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Recovering from node failures is a critical issue in distributed database systems. In conventional log-based recovery protocols, the nodes providing recovery service may be overburdened, especially when the recovery is resource consuming. In this paper, an agent-based dynamic recovery protocol is presented. It divides the whole recovery process into three major steps: log-recovery, agent-recovery, and synchronization. The key idea of this protocol is to cache new database operations initiated during recovery into agents. All these cached operations are then replayed independently for further recovery. The analysis indicates that the new protocol can minimize internode's dependency and improve recovery speed. As a result, system failure rate is cut down and the overall performance gets improved.