DocumentCode :
2882253
Title :
A Recursive Distributed Topology Discovery Service for Network-Aware Grid Clients
Author :
Paolucci, Francesco ; Valcarenghi, Luca ; Castoldi, Piero ; Cugini, Filippo
Author_Institution :
Scuola Superiore Sant´´Anna, Pisa, Italy
fYear :
2009
fDate :
14-18 June 2009
Firstpage :
1
Lastpage :
6
Abstract :
Distributed application (e.g., grid-enabled application) performance is highly dependent on the information available when computational resources are chosen. A resource selection based on computational resource information complemented with network performance information has the potential to be optimal from the application performance viewpoint. This is particularly true for network-intensive distributed applications. This study proposes a recursive distributed topology discovery service (RD-TDS) that allows grid clients to retrieve network performance information (i.e., IP-level topology and link capacity) without the need of specific administrative privileges. The RD-TDS exploits a selected set of distributed beacons (i.e., measurement points) that recursively probe newly discovered nodes until no undiscovered nodes are found during an exploration step. The RD-TDS simulative and experimental evaluation confirms its expected qualities: a rapid and complete discovery of the network performance information with the utilization of a limited number of active beacons. In addition, the proposed method rationale can be easily applied to many current network exploration tools.
Keywords :
computer network performance evaluation; grid computing; resource allocation; telecommunication network topology; computational resource information; distributed application performance; distributed beacons; network performance information; network-aware grid clients; network-intensive distributed applications; recursive distributed topology discovery service; resource selection; Communications Society; Computer networks; Distributed computing; Electronic mail; Grid computing; High performance computing; Information retrieval; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Probes;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Communications, 2009. ICC '09. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dresden
ISSN :
1938-1883
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3435-0
Electronic_ISBN :
1938-1883
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICC.2009.5198661
Filename :
5198661
Link To Document :
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