An Efficient Data Replication Strategy in Large-Scale Data Grid Environments Based on Availability and Popularity

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Computer Science Department, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

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The data grid technology, which uses the scale of the Internet to solve storage limitation for the huge amount of data, has become one of the hot research topics. Recently, data replication strategies have been widely employed in a distributed environment to copy frequently accessed data in suitable sites. The primary purposes are shortening distances of the file transmission and achieving files from nearby locations to requested sites so as to minimize retrieval time and bandwidth usage. In this paper, we propose a new replica selection strategy which is based on response time and security. However, replication should be used wisely because the storage size of each Data Grid site is limited. In addition, we propose a new replica replacement strategy that considers file availability, time of access, access frequency and size of file. The simulation results report that the proposed strategy can effectively improve mean job time, bandwidth consumption for data delivery, and data availability compared with those of the tested algorithms.

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AUT Journal of Modeling and Simulation
Volume 50, Issue 1
June 2018
Pages 39-50

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