Data location mechanism in agent-based autonomic storage systems
Yong Su, Jingli Zhou, Shengsheng Yu, Minghua Jiang, Gang Liu · Wuhan University Journal of Natural Sciences · 2007
This paper introduces agent-based methodology to build a distributed autonomic storage system infrastructure, and an effectively negotiation mechanism based on agent is applied for data location. We present Availability-based Data Allocation (ADA) algorithm as a data placement strategy to achieve high efficient utilization of storage resources by employing multiple distributed storage resources. We use Bloom filter in each storage device to track the location of data. We present the data lookup strategy that small size of read request is handled directly, and large size of read request is handled by cooperation with storage devices. The performance evaluation shows that the data location mechanism is high available and can work well for heterogeneous autonomic storage systems.