Deadline-Guaranteed Point-to-Multipoint Bulk Transfers in Inter-Datacenter Networks

Many modern cloud services are operated across geographically distributed datacenters, and they are usually associated with a demand of transferring bulk data among datacenters for achieving a high performance and reliability. These transfers (e.g., data replications and synchronizations) may require the inter-datacenter networks to deliver data from one Point (or datacenter) to Multiple Points (or datacenters) and impose a deadline on the transfer for providing a guaranteed service to end users. However, very little work has been done to manage an efficient point-to- multipoint bulk transfer while considering the deadline requirements. In this paper, we investigate the deadline- aware point-to-multipoint (P2MP) transfer problem and propose a centralized deAdline- Guaranteed transfEr (AGE) approach that can guarantee the deadline for P2MP transfers while efficiently utilizing the inter-datacenter bandwidth resources. For each arriving request, AGE jointly determines the transfer source selections and bandwidth allocations such that the number of deadline-guaranteed transfers can be maximized. Our simulation experiments show that AGE can accommodate up to 53.3% more transfers whose deadline requirements are met. In addition, AGE can achieve 20% higher network utilization than prior bulk transfer approaches.