A fault tolerant system using collaborative agents
Articles > Article · 2006
Authors: Şebnem BORA
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEURAL NETWORKS, Journal Indexed in SCI, International, 2006, vol 3949, pp 211-218
Summary
Replication of data or processes is an effective way to provide enhanced performance, high availability and fault tolerance in distributed systems. For instance, in systems based on the client-server model, a server may serve many clients and because of heavy loads, the server cannot respond to the requests on time. In such a case, replicating data or servers may improve performance. Moreover, data and processes can be replicated to protect against failures. However, this is a very complex procedure. In this paper, I propose a method, to make systems fault tolerant based on replication, by way of exploiting the use of collaborative agents. This method is also used to improve fault tolerance in multi-agent systems.