Slicing as a Distributed Systems Primitive
| Résumé |
Large-scale distributed systems appear as the major infrastructures
for supporting planet-scale services. These systems call for
appropriate management mechanisms and protocols. Slicing is an
example of an autonomous, fully decentralized protocol suitable for
large-scale environments. It aims at organizing the system into
groups of nodes, called slices, according to an
application-specific criteria where the size of each slice is
relative to the size of the full system. This allows assigning a
certain fraction of nodes to different task, according to their
capabilities. Although useful, current slicing techniques lack some
features of considerable practical importance. This paper proposes a
slicing protocol, that builds on existing solutions, and addresses
some of their frailties. We present novel solutions to deal with
non-uniform slices and to perform online and dynamic slices schema
reconfiguration. Moreover, we describe how to provision a
slice-local Peer Sampling Service for upper protocol layers and how
to enhance slicing protocols with the capability of slicing over
more than one attribute. Slicing is presented as a complete,
dependable and integrated distributed systems primitive for
large-scale systems. |
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| Citation | E. Rivière, "Slicing as a Distributed Systems Primitive," in LADC'13: The 6th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2013, p. 124-133. |
| Type | Actes de congrès (Anglais) |
| Nom de la conférence | LADC'13: The 6th Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| Date de la conférence | 1-4-2013 |
| Editeur commercial | IEEE |
| Pages | 124-133 |
| URL | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LADC.2013.21 |