Title
QoS provisioning for various types of deadline-constrained bulk data transfers between data centers.
Abstract
An increasing number of applications in scientific and other domains have moved or are in active transition to clouds, and the demand for big data transfers between geographically distributed cloud-based data centers is rapidly growing. Many modern backbone networks leverage logically centralized controllers based on software-defined networking (SDN) to provide advance bandwidth reservation for data transfer requests. How to fully utilize the bandwidth resources of the links connecting data centers with guaranteed quality of service for each user request is an important problem for cloud service providers. Most existing work focuses on bandwidth scheduling for a single request for data transfer or multiple requests using the same service model. In this work, we construct rigorous cost models to quantify user satisfaction degree, and formulate a generic problem of bandwidth scheduling for multiple deadline-constrained data transfer requests of different types to maximize the request scheduling success ratio while minimizing the data transfer completion time of each request. We prove this problem to be not only NP-complete but also non-approximable, and hence design a heuristic algorithm. For performance evaluation, we establish a proof-of-concept emulated SDN testbed and also generate large-scale simulation networks. Both experimental and simulation results show that the proposed scheduling scheme significantly outperforms existing methods in terms of user satisfaction degree and scheduling success ratio.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1016/j.future.2019.11.039
Future Generation Computer Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
Big data,Data center,High-performance networks,Software-defined networking,Bandwidth scheduling
Data transmission,Scheduling (computing),Heuristic (computer science),Computer science,Testbed,Quality of service,Bandwidth (signal processing),Big data,Distributed computing,Cloud computing
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
105
0167-739X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aiqin Hou111.37
Chase Q. Wu26321.89
Ruimin Qiao310.35
Liudong Zuo4326.98
Michelle M. Zhu54510.49
Dingyi Fang642.10
Weike Nie7156.08
Feng Chen8175.44