A mobile agent enabled approach for distributed deadlock detection

A novel framework, called MAEDD (Mobile Agent Enabled Deadlock Detection), for distributed deadlock detection using mobile agents is proposed. In MAEDD, mobile agents are dispatched to collect and analyze deadlock information distributed over the network sites, detect deadlock cycles in the system, and then resolve the deadlocks. A prototype implementing the proposed framework is developed using IBM's Aglets. The performance of our mobile agent enabled approach is evaluated against traditional message-passing based solutions. Preliminary performance evaluation results indicate that MAEDD can detect deadlock faster than massage-passing solutions, with increased network traffic.