Scalable and Reliable Location Services through Decentralized Replication

—One of the critical challenges for service oriented computing systems is the capability to guarantee scalable and reliable service provision. This paper presents Reliable GeoGrid, a decentralized service computing architecture based on geographical location aware overlay network for supporting reliable and scalable mobile information delivery services. The reliable GeoGrid approach offers two distinct features. First, we develop a distributed replication scheme, aiming at providing scalable and reliable processing of location service requests in decentralized pervasive computing environments. Our replica management operates on a network of heterogeneous nodes and utilizes a shortcut-based optimization to increase the resilience of the system against node failures and network failures. Second, we devise a dynamic load balancing technique that exploits the service processing capabilities of replicas to scale the system in anticipation of unexpected workload changes and node failures b...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: ICWS
• Authors: Gong Zhang, Ling Liu, Sangeetha Seshadri, Bhuvan Bamba, Yuehua Wang
• Keywords: Computer Science, ICWS 2009, Individual Node Failures, Massive Node Failures, Node Failures