Simulation Framework for Evaluation of Fault Tolerant Large Dynamic Distributed System

The use of Java based simulators in the design and development of distributed system for evaluating the dependability on algorithms is appreciable due to their efficiency and scalability. It allows in designing the realistic simulation scenarios. In this work, we have proposed a Saturn, a multithreaded process oriented over simulation framework which is designed for modeling large scale distributed system. Realistic simulation is provided by it to provide a wide-range of distributed system technologies. It is an innovative solution to the problem of evaluating dependability characteristics of distributed system. Our solution is based on several proposed extensions to the simulation model of the MONARC simulation framework. These extensions refer to fault tolerance and system orchestration mechanisms in order to access the reliability and availability of distributed systems. The extended simulation model includes the necessary components to describe various actual failure situations and provides the mechanism to evaluate different strategies for replication and redundancy procedure as well as security enforcement mechanism. It is a simulator which also evaluates major QoS of the heartbeat based adaptive failure detection mechanism.