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Tuning integrated dissemination-based information systems

โœ Scribed by Jun Cai; Kian-Lee Tan


Book ID
104309047
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1999
Tongue
English
Weight
475 KB
Volume
30
Category
Article
ISSN
0169-023X

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โœฆ Synopsis


In an integrated dissemination-based information system (DBIS), data are disseminated to clients in two modes. In the ยฎrst mode, data publication mode, frequently accessed data are periodically pushed (published) to clients, who only need to listen to the communication channel and ยฎlter the incoming data stream for the desired objects. The second mode, demand-driven mode, employs a requestยฑresponse mechanism for clients to explicitly request for data that are not published. For an integrated DBIS to be eective, the two modes of information dissemination must be carefully employed. For example, publishing too many data objects can lead to excessively long access time for the publication mode even when the workload (i.e., number of clients) is low. On the other hand, publishing very few data objects can lead to excessive waiting for clients using the demand-driven mode when the communication channel becomes a bottleneck. In this paper, we identify the kinds of bottleneck that may arise in an integrated DBIS, and propose a novel algorithm to tune such a system for ``optimal'' performance (in terms of average access time). We also study the eect of dierent feedback mechanisms that can help the server to adapt to changing access patterns. We evaluated the various proposed schemes based on a simulation model, and report our ยฎndings in this paper.


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