Resolving Executing-Committing Conflicts in Distributed Real-time Database Systems

In a distributed real-time database system (DRTDBS), a commit protocol is required to ensure transaction failure atomicity. If data conflicts occur between executing and committing transactions, the performance of the system may be greatly affected. In this paper, we propose a new protocol, called deadline driven conflict resolution (DDCR), which integrates concurrency control and transaction commitment management, for resolving executing and committing data conflicts amongst firm real-time transactions. With the DDCR, higher degree of concurrency can be achieved as many data conflicts of such kind can be alleviated and executing transactions can access data items which are being held by committing transactions in conflicting modes. Also the impact of temporary failures occurred during the commitment of a transaction on other transactions and the dependencies created due to sharing of data items is much reduced by reversing the dependencies between the transactions. A simulation model...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 1999
• Where: CJ
• Authors: Kam-yiu Lam, Chung-Leung Pang, Sang Hyuk Son, Jiannong Cao
• Keywords: CJ 1999, Data Conflicts, Data Items, Distributed Real-time Database