Date: September 4, 1997
Speaker: Ion Stoica, CMU
A Hierarchical Fair Service Curve Algorithm for Link-Sharing, Real-Time and Priority Services
Abstract:
In this talk, we present a new hierarchical resource management model and an algorithm that support both link-sharing and guaranteed real-time services with decoupled delay (priority) and bandwidth allocation. We extend the service curve based QoS model, which defines both delay and bandwidth requirements of a class, to include fairness, which is important for the integration of real-time and hierarchical link-sharing services. The resulting Fair Service Curve link-sharing model formalizes the goals of link-sharing and real-time services and exposes the fundamental tradeoffs between these goals. In particular, with decoupled delay and bandwidth allocation, it is impossible to simultaneously provide guaranteed real-time service and achieve perfect link-sharing. We propose a novel scheduling algorithm called Hierarchical Fair Service Curve (H-FSC) that approximates the model closely and efficiently. The algorithm always guarantees the performance for leaf classes, thus ensures real-time services, while minimizing the discrepancy between the actual services provided to the interior classes and the services defined by the Fair Service Curve link-sharing model.
We have implemented the H-FSC scheduler in the NetBSD environment. By performing simulation and measurement experiments, we evaluate the link-sharing and real-time performances of H-FSC, and determine the computation overhead.
Authors: Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang, T. S. Eugene Ng
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