Miguel Matos

Citation:

Matos M, Sousa AL, Pereira JO, Oliveira R.  2009.  CLON: Overlay Networks and Gossip Protocols for Cloud Environments.

Abstract:

Although epidemic or gossip-based multicast is a robust and scalable approach to reliable data dissemination in distributed systems, its inherent redundancy may result in high resource consumption both on links and nodes. This problem is aggravated in settings that have costlier or resource constrained links, as happens in Cloud Computing infrastructures composed by several interconnected large data centers across the globe. The goal of this work is therefore to improve the efficiency of gossip-based reliable multicast used in infrastructure management systems by reducing the load imposed on those constrained links. In detail, the proposed CLON protocol combines an overlay that gives preference to local links and a dissemination strategy that takes into account locality. Extensive experimental evaluation using a very large number of simulated nodes shows that this results in a reduction of traffic in constrained links by an order of magnitude, while at the same time preserving the resilience properties that make gossip-based protocols so attractive.

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