SCTP-Based Server Cluster Heartbeat Detection Mechanism

The server cluster technology become more and more prevalent in the enterprise level applications, failure detection is one of the key technologies which can ensure the server cluster continue providing services. This paper introduced several types of the server cluster failure, and its design objects; we then analyzed the existed detection mechanisms, and get rid of the traditional detection enhancement model, such as improving heart-beat message sending mechanisms, setting overtime threshold, etc. At last, we proposed the SCTP based heart-beat detection mechanism, and analyzed the performance of the algorithm.