Title
A protocol for the atomic capture of multiple molecules on large scale platforms
Abstract
With the rise of service-oriented computing, applications are more and more based on coordination of autonomous services. Envisioned over largely distributed and highly dynamic platforms, expressing this coordination calls for alternative programming models. The chemical programming paradigm, which models applications as chemical solutions where molecules representing digital entities involved in the computation, react together to produce a result, has been recently shown to provide the needed abstractions for autonomic coordination of services. However, the execution of such programs over large scale platforms raises several problems hindering this paradigm to be actually leveraged. Among them, the atomic capture of molecules participating in concurrent reactions is one of the most significant. In this paper, we propose a protocol for the atomic capture of these molecules distributed and evolving over a large scale platform. As the density of possible reactions is crucial for the liveness and efficiency of such a capture, the protocol proposed is made up of two sub-protocols, each of them aimed at addressing different levels of densities of potential reactions in the solution. While the decision to choose one or the other is local to each node participating in a program's execution, a global coherent behaviour is obtained. Proof of liveness, as well as intensive simulation results showing the efficiency and limited overhead of the protocol are given.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1007/978-3-642-25959-3_1
ICDCN
Keywords
Field
DocType
coordination call,autonomic coordination,chemical programming paradigm,autonomous service,alternative programming model,concurrent reaction,models application,multiple molecule,chemical solution,large scale platform,atomic capture
Programming paradigm,Computer science,Computer network,Mutual exclusion,Distributed computing,Computation,Liveness
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.42
16
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marin Bertier138224.31
Marko Obrovac2123.24
Cédric Tedeschi38312.65