Three Papers Have Been Accepted to IEEE CCGRID 2020 -
Multi-site Connectivity for Edge Infrastructures - DIMINET:DIstributed Module for Inter-site NETworking
David Espinel Sarmiento, Abdelhadi Chari, Lucas Nussbaum, and Adrien Lebre
The deployment of a geo-distributed cloud infrastructure, leveraging for instance Point-of-Presences at the edge of the network, could better fit the requirements of Network Function Virtualization services and Internet of Things applications. The envisioned architecture to operate such a widely distributed infrastructure relies on executing one instance of a Virtual Infrastructure Manager (VIM) per location and implement appropriate code to enable collaborations between them when needed. However, delivering the mechanisms that allow the collaborations is complex and error prone task. This is particularly true for the one in charge of establishing connectivity among VIM instances on-demand. Besides the reconfiguration of the network equipment, the main challenge is to design a mechanism that can offer usual network virtualization operations to the users while dealing with scalability and intermittent network properties of geo-distributed infrastructures.
In this paper, we present how such a challenge can be tackled in the context of OpenStack. More precisely, we introduce DIMINET, a DIstributed Module for Inter-site NETworking ser- vices capable to interconnect independent networking resources in an automatized and transparent manner. DIMINET relies on a decentralized architecture where each agent communicates with others only if needed. Moreover, there is no global view of all networking resources but each agent is in charge of interconnecting resources that have been created locally. This approach enables us to mitigate management traffic and keep each site operational in case of network partitions. A promising approach to make other cloud-services collaborative on-demand.
Predictable Efficiency for Reconfiguration of Service-Oriented Systems with Concerto
Maverick Chardet, Hélène Coullon, and Christian Perez
Dynamic reconfiguration of distributed software systems is nowadays gaining interest because of the emergence of dynamic IoT and smart applications as well as large scale dynamic infrastructures (e.g. Fog and Edge computing). When quality of service and experience is of prime importance, efficient reconfiguration is necessary, as well as performance predictability to decide when a reconfiguration should occur. This paper tackles the problem of efficient execution of a reconfiguration plan and its predictability with Concerto, a reconfiguration model supporting a high level of parallelism. Evaluation performed on synthetic cases and on two real production scenarios show that Concerto provides better performance than state-of-the-art systems with accurate time estimation.
Online Multi-User Workflow Scheduling Algorithm for Fairness and Energy Optimization
Emile Cadorel, Hélène Coullon, and Jean-Marc Menaud
This article tackles the problem of scheduling multi- user scientific workflows with unpredictable random arrivals and uncertain task execution times in a Cloud environment from the Cloud provider point of view. The solution consists in a deadline sensitive online algorithm, named NEAR DEADLINE , that optimizes two metrics: the energy consumption and the fairness between users. Scheduling workflows in a private Cloud environ- ment is a difficult optimization problem as capacity constraints must be fulfilled additionally to dependencies constraints between tasks of the workflows. Furthermore, NEAR DEADLINE is built upon a new workflow execution platform. As far as we know no existing work tries to combine both energy consumption and fairness metrics in their optimization problem. The experiments conducted on a real infrastructure (clusters of Grid’5000) demon- strate that the NEAR DEADLINE algorithm offers real benefits in reducing energy consumption, and enhancing user fairness.