Proactive information caching for efficient resource discovery in a self-structured grid

  • Authors:
  • Amos Brocco;Apostolos Malatras;Béat Hirsbrunner

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland;University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland;University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • BADS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 workshop on Bio-inspired algorithms for distributed systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The cornerstone of successful deployment of large scale grid systems depends on efficient resource discovery mechanisms. In this respect, this paper presents a grid information system supported by a self-structured overlay topology and proactive information caching. The proposed approach features an ant-inspired self-organized overlay construction that maintains a bounded diameter overlay, and a selective flooding based discovery algorithm that exploit local caches to reduce the number of visited nodes. The caches are periodically exchanged between neighboring nodes using an epidemic replication mechanism that is based on a gossiping algorithm, thus allowing nodes to have a more general view of the network and its resources. We conducted extensive experimentation that provides evidence that the average number of hops required to efficiently locate resources is limited and that our framework performs well with respect to hit rate and network overhead.