A Heuristic for Fair Correlation-Aware Resource Placement

  • Authors:
  • Raouf Boutaba;Martin Karsten;Maxwell Young

  • Affiliations:
  • David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada;David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada

  • Venue:
  • SEA '09 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Experimental Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The configuration of network resources greatly impacts the communication overhead for data intensive tasks and constitutes a critical problem in the design and maintenance of networks. To address the issue of resource placement, we analyze and implement a semidefinite programming-based heuristic for solving a known NP-complete graph optimization problem called Maximum Size Bounded Capacity Cut . Experimental results for our heuristic demonstrate promising performance on both synthetic and real world data. Next our heuristic is used as a sub-routine to solve another known NP-complete problem called Min-Max Multiway Cut whose traits we adapt to yield a resource placement scheme that exploits correlations between network resources. Our experimental results show that the resulting placement scheme achieves a significant savings in communication overhead.