@conference {msp+09b, title = {CLON: Overlay networks and gossip protocols for cloud environments}, booktitle = {Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - OTM}, volume = {5870}, year = {2009}, month = {November}, publisher = {Springer}, organization = {Springer}, address = {Vilamoura, Portugal}, abstract = {

Although epidemic or gossip-based multicast is a robust and scalable approach to reliable data dissemination, its inherent redundancy results in high resource con- sumption on both links and nodes. This problem is aggravated in settings that have costlier or resource constrained links, as happens in Cloud Computing infrastruc- tures composed by several interconnected data centers across the globe. The goal of this work is therefore to improve the efficiency of gossip-based reliable multicast 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.

}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_41}, attachments = {https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/rco/files/doa-clon.pdf}, author = {Miguel Matos and Ant{\'o}nio Luis Sousa and Jos{\'e} Orlando Pereira and Rui Oliveira and E. Deliot and Paul Murray} }