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Participants:
Dr. Weili Wu
Dr. Ping Deng
Dr. Yaochun Huang
Dr. Zhongnan Zhang
Dr. Zhao Zhang
Ms Jiaofei Zhong
Project Activities and Findings
In a distributed
database system, multiple copies of data are stored at more than one locations
of a network to achieve the high data availability in presence of link failure.
This is referred as data replication problems, which has been extensively studied
to improve system performance and enhance data reliability in distributed
database. Optimal placements of data
replicas have been studied extensively in the literature for various protocols
(e.g., read-only, write-dominant, majority voting, etc) with different kinds of
network configurations. Our research focuses on studying the optimal placements
in ring network for data replicas in distributed database with majority voting
protocol.
We have been working
on efficient optimal placements focusing on 1) even number of data replicas in
ring network with majority voting protocol, 2) selecting the optimal number of
data replicas, which is not too large compared to the number of data locations,
3) A complete showcase and theoretical prove of optimal placements of replicas
in ring network with majority voting protocol. In addition, we have been
continually working on efficient algorithms focusing on 1) identification of
outlying sensors (i.e., outlying-reading sensors), 2) detection of the reach of
events in sensor networks, 3) carrying out experimental evaluation to verify
our algorithms.
Our research has generated several novel algorithms, some of which improve on the performance and accuracy of previous algorithms, theoretically prove and showcase the optimal placement of data replica to enhance the security in distributed database, and provide an opportunity for the training of several graduate students. Most of our results have been published in various prestigious journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), ICDCS (The International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems) etc.
Zhao Zhang, Weili Wu, and Shashi Shekhar, Placements of Replicas in Ring Network with Majority Voting Protocol (pdf), Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2008), pp 387-394, June 17-20, 2008, Beijing China.
Ning Zhang, Incheol Shin, Feng Zou, Weili Wu, My T. Thai, Trade-off scheme for fault tolerant connected dominating sets on size and diameter (pdf), Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Foundations of Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking and Computing, FOWANC 2008, pp 1-8, Hong Kong, China, May 26, 2008.
Guanfeng Li, Hui Ling, Taieb Znati, and Weili Wu, A Robust On-demand Path Key Establishment framework via Random Key Pre-distribution for Wireless Sensor Networks (pdf), EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, Vol 2006(2006): 1-10.
Weili Wu, Xiuzhen Cheng, Min
Ding, Kai Xing,