Title
Distributed storage allocation for heterogeneous systems.
Abstract
We consider a distributed storage system where the storage nodes have heterogeneous access probabilities. The problem is to allocate a given storage budget across the nodes so as to store a unit-size data object with maximum reliability. We propose efficient algorithms for optimizing over several classes of allocations. In the basic one-level symmetric allocation, the storage budget is spread evenly over an appropriately chosen subset of nodes. In the multi k-level symmetric allocation, the budget is divided into k parts, each spread evenly over a different subset of nodes, such that the amount allocated to each node in the higher levels is multiple times that of the last level. These allocations are simpler and are shown to outperform existing methods in numerical experiments. We also describe an application of the symmetric allocations to the design of streaming codes.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
2013 51ST ANNUAL ALLERTON CONFERENCE ON COMMUNICATION, CONTROL, AND COMPUTING (ALLERTON)
distributed processing,probability,resource allocation
Field
DocType
ISSN
Converged storage,Computer science,Distributed data store,Resource allocation,Storage management,Data objects,Distributed computing
Conference
2474-0195
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.46
6
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhao Li140.46
Tracey Ho277559.30
Derek Leong316110.86
Hongyi Yao419214.89