Design and Implementation of High Availability Distributed System Based on Multi-level Heartbeat Protocol

Author

Li, Fei-fei ; Yu, Xiang-zhan ; Wu, Gang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Harbin Inst. of Technol., Harbin, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-12 July 2009

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

87

Abstract

Heartbeat mechanism is widely used in designing high availability distributed system. In this paper, we design a multi-level heartbeat protocol, which consists of two kinds of heartbeat protocols: multipoint heartbeat protocol and bidirectional heartbeat protocol. Multi-level heartbeat protocol is very convenient for the nodes to join and leave the heartbeat protocol and can also avoid the single point of failure which will cause fatal fault to the system. We then implement a high availability distributed system based on multi-level heartbeat protocol and at the same time adopt fish effect and task redistribute mechanism to avoid the single point of failure. All of these can acquire high availability.

Keywords

distributed processing; protocols; resource allocation; software fault tolerance; system recovery; bidirectional heartbeat protocol; failure recovery; fault tolerance mechanism; high availability distributed system; load balance strategy; multilevel heartbeat protocol; multipoint heartbeat protocol; system reliability; Automatic control; Availability; Computer science; Control systems; Design automation; Design engineering; Fault detection; Heart beat; Protocols; Systems engineering and theory; distributed; fault tolerance; heartbeat; high availability; load balance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control, Automation and Systems Engineering, 2009. CASE 2009. IITA International Conference on

Conference_Location

Zhangjiajie

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3728-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CASE.2009.115

Filename

5194396