International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 180 - Number 49 |
Year of Publication: 2018 |
Authors: Artur Koçi, Betim Çiço |
10.5120/ijca2018917331 |
Artur Koçi, Betim Çiço . Performance Evaluation of the Asymmetric Distributed Lock Management in Cloud Computing. International Journal of Computer Applications. 180, 49 ( Jun 2018), 35-42. DOI=10.5120/ijca2018917331
Lock management in distributed systems has been the focus for many researchers. The purpose of lock manager is to permit clients to synchronize their activities and agree about their environment. They are techniques used for increasing the availability and reliability of the distributed systems and maintain the consistency of shared files. Based on their behavior and characteristics, lock managers are categorized as centralized lock manger and distributed lock manager. In this paper we present a new distributed lock manager technique that is a fully lock manager. For maintaining file consistency, the lock manager needs to coordinate the tasks with other lock managers in the cloud. This leads to the additional communication that causes extra delays, which can play an important role in defining the quality of the cloud. We are going to analyze in detail these delays and measure the performance of our solution while its implementation is in a different cloud computing environment.