Multi criteria biased randomized method for resource allocation in distributed systems

Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which a part or all the resources (processing power and storage) necessary to run the system are donated by users. In other words, participants contribute their idle computing resources to help running the system. Due to the fact that the nod...

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Autores: Panadero, Javier|||0000-0002-3793-3328, Armas Adrián, Jésica de|||0000-0002-7619-7407, Serra, Xavier, Marquès Puig, Joan Manuel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2018
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:294242
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/294242
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1016/j.future.2017.11.039
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Allocation methods
Distributed computing
Resource provisioning
User assignment
Volunteer systems
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Sumario:Volunteer computing is a type of distributed computing in which a part or all the resources (processing power and storage) necessary to run the system are donated by users. In other words, participants contribute their idle computing resources to help running the system. Due to the fact that the nodes which compose the system are provided by a large number of users instead of a single (or a few) institution, a main drawback of volunteer computing is the unreliability of these nodes. For this reason, the selection of nodes to be involved in each task becomes a key issue. In this paper, we propose the Multi Criteria Biased Randomized (MCBR) method, a novel selection method for large-scale systems that use unreliable nodes. MCBR method is based on a multicriteria optimization strategy. We evaluated the method in a microblogging social network formed by a large number of microservices hosted in nodes voluntarily contributed by their participants. Simulation results show that our proposal is able to select nodes in a fast and efficient manner while requiring low computational power.