Title

Adaptive communication system (ACS): Design and evaluation

Date of Award

2001

Degree Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Advisor(s)

Salim Hariri

Keywords

Adaptive communication, Message passing, Scheduling, Distributed computing

Subject Categories

Computer Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics

Abstract

With recent advances in computer network technologies, we have seen a rapid development of high-performance distributed systems that utilize heterogeneous resources which are geographically dispersed across a wide-area network (e.g., grid-computing, meta-computing environments). The resources of grid-computing include a wide-range of computing systems that vary from high-performance computers (e.g., supercomputers, special-purpose parallel machines) to desktop computers/workstations and networks that are wired or wireless and that have a wide range of transmission speeds (e.g., from a few Kbps to Gbps). Grid-computing when compared to centralized computing systems offers to a network-centric application many benefits including increased performance, reliability, extensibility, cost-effectiveness, and scalability. However, network-centric applications have not fully exploited the potential of high-performance distributed systems because of excessive copying, operating system overhead, and inflexible communication systems, just to name a few. Furthermore, network-centric applications have different Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, and even one single application has multiple QoS requirements during the course of its execution. In order to support network-centric applications efficiently, message-passing tools should provide high performance and dynamic communication services to meet the requirements of a wide range of network-centric applications. We believe that these requirements cannot be efficiently achieved by using merely one approach. We need to develop adaptable and efficient message-passing tools using multithreading, middle-ware , and agent techniques.

In this dissertation we have designed, developed, and evaluated the multithread, agent-based, message-passing system, Adaptive Communication System ( ACS ), for network-centric computing environments. ACS supports programmable communication, control and management services that can be optimized to meet the quality of service requirements of network-centric applications. For a given class of applications, ACS selects the appropriate multicast/broadcast algorithms using an ACS application-aware scheduling algorithm that can meet the application quality of service requirements. In addition, the implementation of an ACS resource-aware scheduling algorithm takes into consideration the types of machines and current system and network loads. The performance of ACS has been analyzed and compared with other message-passing tools such as p4, PVM, and MPI in terms of point-to-point, multicasting, and application performance. Benchmarking results show that ACS outperforms other message-passing systems and provides flexible communication services for various classes of applications.

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