Title
On Replica Placement in a Social CDN for e-Science
Abstract
Research data is experiencing a seemingly endless increase in both volume and production rate. At the same time, efficiently transferring, storing, and analyzing large scale research data have become major research foci. In this paper, we expand on our approach to sharing data for e-Science: a Social Content Delivery Network (S-CDN). A S-CDN leverages the social networks of researchers to automatically share data and place replicas on peers' resources based upon the premises of trust and interest in shared data. We denote a consumer of shared data as a data follower, similar to the notion of Twitter followers, except we add the element of bilateral authorization to capture a notion of trust. We describe a prototypical implementation for a S-CDN that captures an efficient asynchronous transfer mechanism for data management and replication. In addition, we study via simulation the interplay of user behavior with different replication strategies that capture social as well as more general premises for data sharing. Our results illustrate the opportunities and pitfalls of various replication and data access management strategies. Specifically, we show that socially-informed replication strategies are competitive with more general strategies in terms of availability, and outperform them in terms of spatial efficiency.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/eScience.2014.26
eScience
Keywords
Field
DocType
production rate,bilateral authorization,file sharing,social cdn,twitter followers,data follower,trust,social networks,data replication,scientific information systems,trusted computing,data access management strategies,peers resources,user behavior,s-cdn,asynchronous transfer mechanism,replica placement,e-science,content management,socially-informed replication strategies,authorisation,data sharing, social cdn, social networks, file sharing,peer-to-peer computing,social networking (online),replicated databases,data management,social content delivery network,data sharing,spatial efficiency
Asynchronous communication,Data mining,Content delivery network,World Wide Web,Social network,Computer science,e-Science,Data sharing,File sharing,Data access,Data management,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
1
2325-372X
978-1-4799-4288-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kai Kugler101.01
Simon Caton215916.20
Kyle Chard351556.70
Daniel S. Katz41496121.04