Optimizing Inter-server Communication for Online Social Networks

• Main Authors: Tang, Jing, Tang, Xueyan, Yuan, Junsong
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Online Social Networks; Distributed Data Placement
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81970; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41022
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Distributed storage systems are the key infrastructures for hosting the user data of large-scale Online Social Networks (OSNs). The amount of inter-server communication is an important scalability indicator for these systems. Data partitioning and replication are two inter-related issues affecting t...