Petri-Net-Based Coordination Algorithms for Grid Transactions

Feilong Tang, Minglu Li, Joshua Zhexue Huang, Cho-Li Wang, Zongwei Luo

Abstract: Transaction proceesing in Grid is to ensure reliable execution of inherently distributed Grid applications. This paper proposes coordination algorithms for handling short-lived and long-lived Grid transactions, models and analyzes these algorithms with the Petri net. The cohesion transaction can coordinate long-lived business Grid applications by automatically generating and executing compensation transactions to semantically undo committed sub-transactions. From analysis of the reachability tree, we show that the Petri net models of above algorithms are bounded and L1-live. This demonstrates that transactional Grid applications can be realized by the proposed algorithms effectively.