Fault-adaptive Scheduling for Data Acquisition Networks

Eloise Noelle Stein , Cristel Pelsser , Quentin Bramas and Tommaso Colombo

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Abstract

Supporting such an all-to-all traffic matrix is chal- lenging as it can easily lead to congestion. Scheduling pat- terns are designed to avoid such congestion by spreading the communications over time. The time is divided in phases and communications are spread across the phases. However, current scheduling algorithms are not fault-tolerant. In this paper we propose a fault-adaptive congestion-free scheduling to support an all-to-all exchange in fat tree topology. Our approach consist in the computation of the minimum number of communication phases required to support the all-to-all exchange with the available links, and of the scheduling of the communications on these phases. It enables to recover from failures and makes optimal use of the remaining bandwidth. We show that our scheduling approach provides better performance than the most common approach which is the Linear-shift scheduling. The throughput is improved by roughly 80% with our approach, for as little as one link failure.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Conference Paper
Publication Date
October 2023
Published In
The 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)
Publisher
IEEE
Location
Daytona Beach, Florida, USA

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{Stein2023,
	title        = {Fault-adaptive Scheduling for Data Acquisition Networks},
	author       = {Stein, Eloise Noelle and Pelsser, Cristel and Bramas, Quentin and Colombo, Tommaso},
	year         = 2023,
	month        = oct,
	booktitle    = {The 48th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)},
	publisher    = {IEEE},
	address      = {Daytona Beach, Florida, USA},
	organization = {IEEE},
	abstract     = {Supporting such an all-to-all traffic matrix is chal- lenging as it can easily lead to congestion. Scheduling pat- terns are designed to avoid such congestion by spreading the communications over time. The time is divided in phases and communications are spread across the phases. However, current scheduling algorithms are not fault-tolerant. In this paper we propose a fault-adaptive congestion-free scheduling to support an all-to-all exchange in fat tree topology. Our approach consist in the computation of the minimum number of communication phases required to support the all-to-all exchange with the available links, and of the scheduling of the communications on these phases. It enables to recover from failures and makes optimal use of the remaining bandwidth. We show that our scheduling approach provides better performance than the most common approach which is the Linear-shift scheduling. The throughput is improved by roughly 80% with our approach, for as little as one link failure.},
	groups       = {International Conferences},
	keywords     = {all-to-all, fat-tree networks, integer linear programming}
}

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