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Computer Communications
Volume 26, Issue 2, 1 February 2003, Pages 103-112
 
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A delay optimal algorithm to locate and migrate data resources in broadband networks

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P. C. SaxenaCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, a, D. R. Choudhuryb and G. Gabranib

a School of Computer and System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India

b Department of Computer Engineering, Delhi College of Engineering, Bawana Road, New Delhi 110042, India


Received 10 October 2001; 
revised 25 March 2002; 
accepted 27 March 2002. ;
Available online 12 June 2002.

Abstract

The dynamic migration of data resources such as databases and files has become more popular with the advent of broadband networks such as ATM, especially for transaction processing. In a system that uses data resource migration based methods for transaction processing, the data resources are migrated to the transaction initiation site before any operations are performed on them. In such an environment the location of the data resources therefore keeps on changing. Hence some mechanisms are required to first identify the exact locations of the data resources and then migrate them to the transaction initiation site. Such a system operation is referred to as locate and migrate operation and is to be dealt in a manner so that the time delay in locating the data resources is reduced. This in turn reduces the transaction processing time. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to locate and migrate data resources that focuses on reducing the time delay to locate the migratory data resources. We evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm and also compare it with one of the existing algorithms by simulation studies under several system parameters such as frequency of request generation, frequency of data resource migration and scale of network.

Author Keywords: Migration; Data resources; Transaction processing; ATM networks

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Network model
3. Basic idea
4. Algorithm in detail
4.1. Request and DR Manager
4.1.1. Site i generates a req_msg for DR x
4.1.2. Site i receives a req_msg for DR x and req_msg.req_type=access
4.1.3. Site i receives a req_msg for DR x and req_msg.req_type=migratory
4.1.4. Site i receives DR x
4.1.5. Site i receives a reply message for DR x
4.2. Update Message Manager
5. Simulation environment and results
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
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Computer Communications
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