Most social networks allow connections amongst many people based on shared interests.Social networks have to offer shared data like videos,photos with minimum latency to the group,which could be challenging as the sto...Most social networks allow connections amongst many people based on shared interests.Social networks have to offer shared data like videos,photos with minimum latency to the group,which could be challenging as the storage cost has to be minimized and hence entire data replication is not a solution.The replication of data across a network of read-intensive can potentially lead to increased savings in cost and energy and reduce the end-user’s response time.Though simple and adaptive replication strategies exist,the solution is non-deter-ministic;the replicas of the data need to be optimized to the data usability,perfor-mance,and stability of the application systems.To resolve the non-deterministic issue of replication,metaheuristics are applied.In this work,Harmony Search and Tabu Search algorithms are used optimizing the replication process.A novel Har-mony-Tabu search is proposed for effective placement and replication of data.Experiments on large datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed technique.It is seen that the bandwidth saving for proposed harmony-Tabu replication per-forms better in the range of 3.57%to 18.18%for varying number of cloud data-centers when compared to simple replication,Tabu replication and Harmony replication algorithm.展开更多
文摘Most social networks allow connections amongst many people based on shared interests.Social networks have to offer shared data like videos,photos with minimum latency to the group,which could be challenging as the storage cost has to be minimized and hence entire data replication is not a solution.The replication of data across a network of read-intensive can potentially lead to increased savings in cost and energy and reduce the end-user’s response time.Though simple and adaptive replication strategies exist,the solution is non-deter-ministic;the replicas of the data need to be optimized to the data usability,perfor-mance,and stability of the application systems.To resolve the non-deterministic issue of replication,metaheuristics are applied.In this work,Harmony Search and Tabu Search algorithms are used optimizing the replication process.A novel Har-mony-Tabu search is proposed for effective placement and replication of data.Experiments on large datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed technique.It is seen that the bandwidth saving for proposed harmony-Tabu replication per-forms better in the range of 3.57%to 18.18%for varying number of cloud data-centers when compared to simple replication,Tabu replication and Harmony replication algorithm.
