24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04)
sFlow: Towards Resource-Efficient and Agile Service Federation in Service Overlay Networks
Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan
March 24-March 26
ISBN: 0-7695-2086-3
Existing research work towards the composition of complex federated services has assumed that service requests and deliveries flow through a particular service path or tree. In this paper, we extend such a service model to a directed acyclic graph, allowing services to be delivered via parallel paths and interleaved with each other. Such an assumption of the service flow model has apparently introduced complexities towards the development of a distributed algorithm to federate existing services, as well as the provisioning of the required quality in the most resource-efficient fashion. To this end, we propose sFlow, a fully distributed algorithm to be executed on all service nodes, such that the federated service flow graph is resource efficient, performs well, and meets the demands of service consumers.
Citation:
Mea Wang, Baochun Li, Zongpeng Li, "sFlow: Towards Resource-Efficient and Agile Service Federation in Service Overlay Networks," icdcs, pp.628-635, 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'04), 2004