Distributed resource allocation in stream processing systems

  • Authors:
  • Cathy H. Xia;James A. Broberg;Zhen Liu;Li Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;School of Computer Science & Information Technology, RMIT-University, Melbourne, Australia;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY

  • Venue:
  • DISC'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Distributed Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Distributed stream processing architecture has emerged as appealing solution to coping with the analysis of large amount of data from dispersed sources. A fundamental problem in such stream processing systems is how to best utilize the available resources so that the overall system performance is optimized. We consider a distributed stream processing system that consists of a network of cooperating servers, collectively providing processing services for multiple data streams. Each stream is required to complete a series of operations on various servers. We assume all servers have finite computing resources and all communication links have finite available bandwidth. The problem is to find distributed schemes to allocate the limited computing resources as well as the communication bandwidth in the system so as to achieve a maximum concurrent throughput for all output streams. We present a generalized multicommodity flow model for the above problem. We develop a distributed resource allocation algorithm that guarantees the optimality. We also provide detailed analysis on the complexity of the algorithm and demonstrate the performance using numerical experiments.