Impacts of task placement and bandwidth allocation on stream analytics

Autor: Walid Aljoby, Tom Z. J. Fu, Richard T. B. Ma
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: ICNP
DOI: 10.1109/icnp.2017.8117589
Popis: We consider data intensive cloud-based stream analytics where data transmission through the underlying communication network is the cause of the performance bottleneck. Two key inter-related problems are investigated: task placement and bandwidth allocation. We seek to answer the following questions. How does task placement make impact on the application-level throughput? Does a careful bandwidth allocation among data flows traversing a bottleneck link results in better performance? In this paper, we address these questions by conducting measurement-driven analysis in a SDN-enabled computer cluster running stream processing applications on top of Apache Storm. The results reveal (i) how tasks are assigned to computing nodes make large difference in application level performance; (ii) under certain task placement, a proper bandwidth allocation helps further improve the performance as compared to the default TCP mechanism; and (iii) task placement and bandwidth allocation are collaboratively making effects in overall performance.
Databáze: OpenAIRE