Middleware 2003

ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference

Rio Othon Palace Hotel

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

16-20 June 2003


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Large-Scale Service Overlay Networking with Distance-Based Clustering

Jingwen Jin and Klara Nahrstedt (UI Urbana-Champaign)

The problem of service routing (or dynamic service composition) has recently emerged as a
consequence of the distributed composable service model residing in middleware layer(s).
However, existing solutions are mostly suitable for small- or medium-scale service overlay
networks, as service routing is performed over flat overlay topologies such as a mesh. Due to
their increasing routing information maintenance costs, these flat (single-level) topology
solutions cannot cope with large-scale service overlay networking. For better scalability,
in this paper, we provide a hierarchical service routing framework, which comprises three
parts. In the first part, we organize the overlay network nodes into clusters based on their
Internet distances. We then construct a hierarchically fully connected (HFC) topology based
on the clustering result. In such a topology, nodes within a cluster are considered fully
connected, and the clusters themselves are also fully connected by their border nodes. In the 
second part, a hierarchical state information distribution protocol will be provided so that each 
node in the system maintains full state of the nodes in its own cluster and aggregate state of
other clusters in the system. In the third part, we present how service paths can be computed
hierarchically in a divide-and-conquer fashion. Through simulation tests, we demonstrate that
while achieving much better scalability, our framework provides also as good and efficient
service paths as single-level mesh solutions.

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