Tuesday, February 21, 2012

On the impact of network latency on distributed systems design

link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v8x37536u2343u86/fulltext.pdf

Research in distributed database systems to date has assumed a “variable cost” model of network response time. However, network response time has two components: transmission time (variable with message size) and latency (fixed). This research improves on existing models by incorporating a “fixed plus variable cost” model of the network response time. In this research, we: (1) develop a distributed database design approach that incorporates a “fixed plus variable cost”, network response time function; (2) run a set of experiments to create designs using this model, and (3) evaluate the impact the new model had on the design in various types of networks.

This is a followup paper by the same author:
Modeling Network Latency and Parallel Processing in Distributed Database Design

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