Mobile agent-based fault recovery service for distributed environment

The main objective of this research is to provide a generic and autonomous fault recovery service in distributed environment. This service detects fault, diagnoses the causes of the fault, and provides ways for the system to recover from them. For this purpose we have reviewed the mobile agent technology and their advantages. As a result, a mobile agent-based solution is proposed. This fault recovery service has four main components, namely Fault Detector, Agent Manager, Agents Repository and Recovery Agents. Each component has its distinct role, such as detecting fault, managing agents' activities, store all recovery agents, diagnose the causes of fault and recover from them. This paper shows the feasibility of an autonomous, scalable and flexible fault recovery service for wide distributed environment.