Farshid Farhat

The combined impact of node architecture and workload characteristics on off-chip network traffic with performance/cost analysis has not been investigated before in the context of emerging cloud applications. Motivated by this observation, this paper performs a thorough characterization of twelve cloud workloads using a full-system datacenter simulation infrastructure. We first study the inherent network characteristics of emerging cloud applications including message inter-arrival times… Show more

The combined impact of node architecture and workload characteristics on off-chip network traffic with performance/cost analysis has not been investigated before in the context of emerging cloud applications. Motivated by this observation, this paper performs a thorough characterization of twelve cloud workloads using a full-system datacenter simulation infrastructure. We first study the inherent network characteristics of emerging cloud applications including message inter-arrival times, packet sizes, inter-node communication overhead, self-similarity, and traffic volume. Then, we study the effect of hardware architectural metrics on network traffic. Our experimental analysis reveals that (1) the message arrival times and packet-size distributions exhibit variances across different cloud applications; (2) the inter-arrival times imply a large amount of self-similarity as the number of nodes increase; (3) the node architecture can play a significant role in shaping the overall network traffic; and finally, (4) the applications we study can be broadly divided into those which perform better in a scale-out or scale-up configuration at node level and into two categories, namely, those that have long-duration, low-burst flows and those that have short-duration, high-burst flows. Using the results of (3) and (4), the paper discusses the performance/cost trade-offs for scale-out and scale-up approaches and proposes an analytical model that can be used to predict the communication and computation demand for different configurations. It is shown that the difference between two different node architecture's performance per dollar cost (under same number of cores system wide) can be as high as 154 percent which disclose the need for accurate characterization of cloud applications before wasting the precious cloud resources by allocating wrong architecture. Show less

The combined impact of node architecture and workload characteristics on off-chip network traffic with performance/cost analysis has not been investigated before in the context of emerging cloud applications. Motivated by this observation, this paper performs a thorough characterization of twelve cloud workloads using a full-system datacenter simulation infrastructure. We first study the inherent network characteristics of emerging cloud applications including message inter-arrival times… Show more

The combined impact of node architecture and workload characteristics on off-chip network traffic with performance/cost analysis has not been investigated before in the context of emerging cloud applications. Motivated by this observation, this paper performs a thorough characterization of twelve cloud workloads using a full-system datacenter simulation infrastructure. We first study the inherent network characteristics of emerging cloud applications including message inter-arrival times, packet sizes, inter-node communication overhead, self-similarity, and traffic volume. Then, we study the effect of hardware architectural metrics on network traffic. Our experimental analysis reveals that (1) the message arrival times and packet-size distributions exhibit variances across different cloud applications; (2) the inter-arrival times imply a large amount of self-similarity as the number of nodes increase; (3) the node architecture can play a significant role in shaping the overall network traffic; and finally, (4) the applications we study can be broadly divided into those which perform better in a scale-out or scale-up configuration at node level and into two categories, namely, those that have long-duration, low-burst flows and those that have short-duration, high-burst flows. Show less

MapReduce framework is widely used to parallelize batch jobs since it exploits a high degree of multi-tasking to process them. However, it has been observed that when the number of mappers increases, the map phase can take much longer than expected. This paper analytically shows that stochastic behavior of mapper nodes has a negative effect on the completion time of a MapReduce job, and continuously increasing the number of mappers without accurate
scheduling can degrade the overall… Show more

MapReduce framework is widely used to parallelize batch jobs since it exploits a high degree of multi-tasking to process them. However, it has been observed that when the number of mappers increases, the map phase can take much longer than expected. This paper analytically shows that stochastic behavior of mapper nodes has a negative effect on the completion time of a MapReduce job, and continuously increasing the number of mappers without accurate
scheduling can degrade the overall performance. We analytically
capture the effects of stragglers (delayed mappers) on the performance. Based on an observed delayed exponential distribution (DED) of the response time of mappers, we then model the map phase by means of hardware, system
, and application parameters. Mean sojourn time (MST), the time needed to sync the completed map tasks at one reducer, is mathematically formulated. Following that, we optimize MST by finding the task inter-arrival time to each mapper node. The optimal mapping problem leads to an equilibrium property
investigated for different types of inter-arrival and service time
distributions in a heterogeneous datacenter (i.e., a datacenter with different types of nodes). Our experimental results show the performance and important parameters of the different types of schedulers targeting MapReduce applications. We also show that, in the case of mixed deterministic and stochastic schedulers, there is an optimal scheduler that can always achieve the lowest MST. Show less

Performance of routing is severely degraded when misbehaving nodes drop packets instead of properly forwarding them. In this paper, we propose a Game-Theoretic Adaptive Multipath Routing (GTAMR) protocol to detect and punish selfish or malicious nodes which try to drop information packets in routing phase and defend against collaborative attacks in which nodes try to disrupt communication or save their power. Our proposed algorithm outranks previous schemes because it is resilient against… Show more

Performance of routing is severely degraded when misbehaving nodes drop packets instead of properly forwarding them. In this paper, we propose a Game-Theoretic Adaptive Multipath Routing (GTAMR) protocol to detect and punish selfish or malicious nodes which try to drop information packets in routing phase and defend against collaborative attacks in which nodes try to disrupt communication or save their power. Our proposed algorithm outranks previous schemes because it is resilient against attacks in which more than one node coordinate their misbehavior and can be used in networks which wireless nodes use directional antennas. We then propose a game theoretic strategy, ERTFT, for nodes to promote cooperation. In comparison with other proposed TFT-like strategies, ours is resilient to systematic errors in detection of selfish nodes and does not lead to unending death spirals.
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Security techniques have been designed to obtain certain objectives. One of the most important objectives all security mechanisms try to achieve is the availability, which insures that network services are available to various entities in the network when required. But there has not been any certain parameter to measure this objective in network. In this paper we consider availability as a security parameter in ad-hoc networks. However this parameter can be used in other networks as well… Show more

Security techniques have been designed to obtain certain objectives. One of the most important objectives all security mechanisms try to achieve is the availability, which insures that network services are available to various entities in the network when required. But there has not been any certain parameter to measure this objective in network. In this paper we consider availability as a security parameter in ad-hoc networks. However this parameter can be used in other networks as well. We also present the connectivity coefficient of nodes in a network which shows how important is a node in a network and how much damage is caused if a certain node is compromised.
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A new authentication method in UMTS