%0 Conference Paper
%B Proceedings of On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems - OTM
%D 2009
%T CLON: Overlay networks and gossip protocols for cloud environments
%A Miguel Matos
%A António Luis Sousa
%A José Orlando Pereira
%A Rui Oliveira
%A E. Deliot
%A Paul Murray
%C Vilamoura, Portugal
%I Springer
%R 10.1007/978-3-642-05148-7_41
%V 5870
%X <p>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.</p>
%8 November
%> https://haslab.uminho.pt/sites/default/files/rco/files/doa-clon.pdf