Distributed storage based on intelligent agent
Yong Zhu, Jiangling Zhang · 2005
The distributed storage agents aim at the scalability, availability and adaptability. In the hierarchy agents environment data block is guaranteed to access in high speed and dependably by SDA (storage device agent) and IOA (I/O agent) in the bottom layer, and data structure of efficiency and compatibility is implemented by FSA (file system agent) in the middle layer. The RPA (resource management & process schedule agent) and UIA (user interactive agent) correspond with other agents through performative to enhance the distributed storage in the upper layer. The agents are used to provide a scalable, available and adaptable abstraction of the system architecture. Each agent is able to cooperate with other agents and thereby provide service advertisement and discovery for the scheduling of applications. The architecture of agents and their performative of distributed storage are put forward in the paper.