Title
DRS: Dynamic Resource Scheduling for Real-Time Analytics over Fast Streams
Abstract
In a data stream management system (DSMS), users register continuous queries, and receive result updates as data arrive and expire. We focus on applications with real-time constraints, in which the user must receive each result update within a given period after the update occurs. To handle fast data, the DSMS is commonly placed on top of a cloud infrastructure. Because stream properties such as arrival rates can fluctuate unpredictably, cloud resources must be dynamically provisioned and scheduled accordingly to ensure real-time response. It is essential, for the existing systems or future developments, to possess the ability of scheduling resources dynamically according to the current workload, in order to avoid wasting resources, or failing in delivering correct results on time. Motivated by this, we propose DRS, a novel dynamic resource scheduler for cloud-based DSMSs. DRS overcomes three fundamental challenges: (a) how to model the relationship between the provisioned resources and query response time (b) where to best place resources, and (c) how to measure system load with minimal overhead. In particular, DRS includes an accurate performance model based on the theory of Jackson open queueing networks and is capable of handling arbitrary operator topologies, possibly with loops, splits and joins. Extensive experiments with real data confirm that DRS achieves real-time response with close to optimal resource consumption.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICDCS.2015.49
2015 IEEE 35th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
resource scheduling,data stream analytics
Data stream management system,Fair-share scheduling,Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Computer network,Provisioning,Queueing theory,Resource allocation,Dynamic priority scheduling,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1501.03610
1063-6927
32
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.97
31
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tom Z. J. Fu1764.24
Jianbing Ding2684.72
Richard T. B. Ma362051.15
Marianne Winslett43519744.78
Yin Yang5100352.10
Zhenjie Zhang6128861.63