A Feedback-based Decentralised Coordination Model for Distributed Open Real-Time Systems
Ref: HURRAY-TR-120713 Publication Date: Sep 2012
A Feedback-based Decentralised Coordination Model for Distributed Open Real-Time Systems
Ref: HURRAY-TR-120713 Publication Date: Sep 2012Abstract:
Moving towards autonomous operation and management of increasingly complex open distributed real-time systems poses very significant challenges. This is particularly true when reaction to events must be done in a timely and predictable manner while guaranteeing Quality of Service (QoS) constraints imposed by users, the environment, or applications. In these scenarios, the system should be able to maintain a global feasible QoS level while allow- ing individual nodes to autonomously adapt under different constraints of resource availability and input quality.
This paper shows how decentralised coordination of a group of autonomous interdependent nodes can emerge with little communication, based on the robust self-organising principles of feedback. Positive feedback is used to reinforce the selection of the new desired global service solution, while neg- ative feedback discourages nodes to act in a greedy fashion as this adversely impacts on the provided service levels at neighbouring nodes.
The proposed protocol is general enough to be used in a wide range of scenarios characterised by a high degree of openness and dynamism where co- ordination tasks need to be time dependent. As the reported results demon- strate, it requires less messages to be exchanged and it is faster to achieve a globally acceptable near-optimal solution than other available approaches.
Document:
Published in Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Elsevier, Volume 85, Issue 9, pp 2145-2159.
DOI:10.1016/j.jss.2012.04.033.
WOS ID: 000306728500014.
Record Date: 24, Jul, 2012