The Service Grid: Supporting Scalable Heterogeneous Services in Wide-Area Networks

  • Authors:
  • Jon B. Weissman;Byoung-Dai Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • SAINT '01 Proceedings of the 2001 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT 2001)
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Scalable delivery of network services to client applications is a difficult problem. We present a service architecture that is designed to accommodate the scalable delivery of heterogeneous services to clients with different QoS requirements. A prototype was built using the Legion wide-area computing infrastructure to explore the design of application- and service-based replica selection and creation policies in a wide-area network. The preliminary results demonstrate that application-and service-based policies outperform generic policies such as random and round-robin. The results also show that overhead control is a key issue for latency-sensitive requests.