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A hybrid approach towards reduced checkpointing overhead in cloud-based applications

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In recent years, cloud is being widely used to host numerous distributed applications. The expanding usage of cloud has introduced greater sensitivity in the environment. Therefore, most of the applications require that an effective fault tolerant mechanism must be in place. A fault tolerant mechanism involves detection as well as recovery from failures; traditionally checkpointing has been used to serve the purpose. The conventional checkpointing methods have also been tried in cloud e.g., periodic checkpointing and application based checkpointing; however, the periodic checkpointing is time inefficient and the application based checkpointing is space inefficient. Secondly, the above methods have been implemented using synchronous approach, which is inherently message inefficient, less scalable and has high synchronization latency. Furthermore, the asynchronous approaches are practically not viable owing to their inability to detect failures. In addition, the cloud entails massive scalability, thus we have proposed a quasi-synchronous checkpointing algorithm for cloud based distributed applications that exhibits better space efficiency while keeping latency under strict control. Our claims have been substantiated with static analysis and suitable simulation experiments.

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    Bharati Sinha & Awadhesh Kumar Singh

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    Poonam Saini

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Sinha, B., Singh, A.K. & Saini, P. A hybrid approach towards reduced checkpointing overhead in cloud-based applications. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 15, 473–483 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-021-01230-2

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