Flexible and Efficient Resource Location in Large-Scale Systems
J. Alveirinho, J. G. Paiva, J. Leitão, and L. Rodrigues.
Selected sections of this report were published in the In Proceedings
of the 4th ACM SIGOPS/SIGACT International Workshop on Large-Scale
Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS), Zurich, Switzerland, July
2010
Abstract
Inherent to the cloud computing paradigm is the ability to adjust or
deploy, on demand, services to face dynamic changes on the workload.
Therefore, one needs an infrastructure to keep track of the resource
allocation in the system and to efficiently locate the resources
required to launch a new service, or re-dimension a running service.
In this paper we propose a novel peer-to-peer architecture for
efficient resource location, that avoid the bottlenecks of centralized
or hierarchical directory services.
Also available extended report (pdf)
Luís Rodrigues