BDS: A Centralized Near-Optimal Overlay Network for Inter-Datacenter Data Replication

Yuchao Zhang, Junchen Jiang, Ke Xu, Xiaohui Nie, Martin J. Reed, Haiyang Wang, Guang Yao, Miao Zhang, Kai Chen

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Abstract

Many important cloud services require replicating massive data from one datacenter (DC) to multiple DCs. While the performance of pair-wise inter-DC data transfers has been much improved, prior solutions are insufficient to optimize bulk-data multicast, as they fail to explore the capability of servers to store-and-forward data, as well as the rich inter-DC overlay paths that exist in geo-distributed DCs. To take advantage of these opportunities, we present BDS, an application-level multicast overlay network for large-scale inter-DC data replication. At the core of BDS is a fully centralized architecture, allowing a central controller to maintain an up-to-date global view of data delivery status of intermediate servers, in order to fully utilize the available overlay paths. To quickly react to network dynamics and workload churns, BDS speeds up the control algorithm by decoupling it into selection of overlay paths and scheduling of data transfers, each can be optimized efficiently. This enables BDS to update overlay routing decisions in near realtime (e.g., every other second) at the scale of multicasting hundreds of TB data over tens of thousands of overlay paths. A pilot deployment in one of the largest online service providers shows that BDS can achieve 3-5× speedup over the provider’s existing system and several well-known overlay routing baselines.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
ISBN (Electronic)9781450355841
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 23 2018
Event13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: Apr 23 2018Apr 26 2018

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Volume2018-January

Conference

Conference13th EuroSys Conference, EuroSys 2018
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period4/23/184/26/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the HK RGC ECS-26200014, CRF-C703615G, HKUST PDF fund, the China 973 Program (2014CB340300), the National Natural Foundation of China (61472212), EU Marie Curie Actions CROWN (FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES-610524). We would like to thank our shepherd, Paolo Romano, and the anonymous EuroSys reviewers for their valuable feedback.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.

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