In distributed computing systems, processes in different hosts take checkpoints to survive failures. For mobile computing systems, due to certain new characteristics such as mobility, low bandwidth, disconnection, low power consumption and limited memory, conventional distributed checkpointing schemes need to be reconsidered. In this paper, a novel min-process coordinated checkpointing algorithm that makes full use of the computation ability and power of mobile support stations is proposed. During normal computation message transmission, the checkpoint dependency information among mobile hosts...
