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Design and Implementation of Reliable Distributed Programming Environment based on HORB

HORB에 기반한 신뢰성 있는 분산 프로그래밍 환경의 설계 및 구현

  • Hyun, Mu-Yong (Dept. of Information and communication, Daewon Science College) ;
  • Kim, Shik (Dept. of Information and Communication Systems, Semyung Univ.) ;
  • Kim, Myung-Jun (Dept. of Computer Science Chungbuk National Univ.)
  • 현무용 (대원과학대학 컴퓨터 정보통신과) ;
  • 김식 (세명대학교 정보통신학과) ;
  • 김명준 (충북대학교 컴퓨터과학과)
  • Published : 2002.03.01
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Abstract

The use of Object-Oriented Distributed Programming(OODP) environment such as DCOM, DSOM, Java RMI, CORBA to implement distributed applications is becoming increasingly popular. However, absence of a fault-tolerance feature in these middleware platforms complicates the design and implementation of reliable distributed object-based applications, although they greatly enhance the quality and reusability of the distributed object-based applications. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant programming environment based on RMI, namely Evergreen, for the reliable distributed computing with checkpoints and rollback-recovery mechanism. Based on a series of experiments, we evaluate the performance of Evergreen and find its possibility of extension to fully support our optimal design goal.

DSOM, DCOM, CORBA, Java RMI 같은 객체 지향 분산 프로그래밍 환경을 이용한 분산 응용 프로그램 개발이 일반화되고 있다. 그러나, 이러한 분산 미들웨어들은 응용프로그램의 품질과 재사용성을 향상시켜 주지만, 결함 허용 기능을 지원하지 않음으로서 신뢰성이 보장된 객체 기반 분산 응용프로그램의 설계 및 구현을 복잡하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 RMI 메커니즘을 기반으로 한 결함 허용 분산 시스템 개발 환경인 에버그린(Evergreen)을 제안하고자 한다. 에버그린은 신뢰성 있는 분산 컴퓨팅을 지원하기 위해서 체크포인트와 롤백 복구(rollback recovery) 메커니즘을 이용하여 설계되었다 일련의 실험을 통해 에버그린의 성능을 평가하였고 최적의 디자인 목표를 지원하기 위한 확장 가능성을 확인하였다.

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