A Protocol Design for Communication State Transfer for Distributed Computing
Authors: K. Chanchio, X.-H. Sun
Date: April, 2001
Venue: The 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2001)
Type: Conference
Abstract
This paper presents the design of a communication state transfer protocol to support process migration in a dynamic, distributed computing environment. In our design, pro- cesses in distributed computation communicate one another via message passing and are migration-enabled. Due to mo- bility, mechanisms to maintain reliability and correctness of data communication are needed. Following an event-based approach, such mechanisms are derived to handle various communication situations when a process migrates. These mechanisms collectively preserve the semantics of the com- munication and support efficient communication state trans- fer.