A Study of Mutable Checkpointing Approach to Reduce the Overheads Associated with Coordinated Checkpointing

Abstract

As because of the new issues in mobile computing such as: lack of stable storage, low bandwidth of wireless channels, high mobility and limited battery life. So, coordinated check-pointing is a technique used for fault tolerant as it is domino free. It will deal with transparently fault tolerance to distributed applications. In this review paper, we have taken two objectives: (1) to minimize the number of synchronization messages and the number of checkpoints, (2) to make the checkpointing process non-blocking. We will propose the possible techniques to minimize the number of checkpoints that avoids the overhead of transferring large amount of data to the stable storage at Mobile Support Station (MSS).