Title: Performance evaluation of Atomic Commit Protocols for mobile transactions

Authors: Nadia Nouali-Taboudjemat, Lynda Boukantar, Habiba Drias

Addresses: Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique, Rue des Freres Aissou, B.A., 16030, Algiers, Algeria. ' Centre de Recherche sur l'Information Scientifique et Technique, Rue des Freres Aissou, B.A., 16030, Algiers, Algeria. ' Institut National d'Informatique, BP 68M OUED SMAR, 16309, EL HARRACH, Algiers, Algeria

Abstract: The commitment of a distributed transaction is ensured with the use of an Atomic Commit Protocol (ACP). Due to their great importance for transaction systems, the recent advances in mobile computing development have renewed the interest in the ACPs for mobile transactions. We compare assets of mobile ACPs that have been simulated on the NS-DBsim platform integrating two simulation environments; the NS2 simulator and DBsim a distributed database simulator. NS-DBsim takes into account the various and fluctuant parameters of wireless and mobile systems. The comparison highlights performance indices and orientations to the design of ACPs in mobile wireless environments.

Keywords: atomic commit protocols; mobile ACPs; mobile databases; mobile transaction processing; wireless networks; mobile networks; simulation; performance evaluation; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJIIDS.2007.014947

International Journal of Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2007 Vol.1 No.2, pp.122 - 155

Published online: 20 Aug 2007 *

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