An optimal replication strategy for data grid systems

Abstract

Data access latency is an important metric of system performance in data grid. By means of efficient replication strategy, the amount of data transferred in a wide area network will decrease, and the average access latency of data will decrease ultimately. The motivation of our research is to solve the optimized replica distribution problem in a data grid; that is, the system should utilize many replicas for every data with storage constraints to minimize the average access latency of data. This paper proposes a model of replication strategy in federated data grid and gives the optimized solution. The analysis results and simulation results show that the optimized replication strategy proposed in this paper is superior to LRU caching strategy, uniform replication strategy, proportional replication strategy and square root replication strategy in terms of wide area network bandwidth requirement and in the average access latency of data.