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Evaluating Collaborative Infrastructure for CSCW Apps Grid/Web Services. COMP 790, Fall 2006 Collaborative Systems. References. CoFrame: A framework for CSCW Applications based on Grid and Web Services - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Evaluating Collaborative Infrastructure for CSCW Apps
Grid/Web Services
COMP 790, Fall 2006
Collaborative Systems
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References• CoFrame: A framework for CSCW Applications based on Grid and
Web Services– Jinlei Jiang et al, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Web
Services (ICWS 2005)• Developing Collaborative Editing Applications using Web Services
– Muhammad Younas, Rahat Iqbal, Coventry University, Coventry, UK• Improving Network Efficiency in Real-Time Groupware with General
Message Compression– Carl Gutwin et al CSCW 2006
• A Collaborative Infrastructure for Aerospace Design– http://ic.arc.nasa.gov/people/filman/text/darwin/ace.pdf
• A Collaborative Infrastructure for IM applications– http://www.imlogic.com/
• A Collaborative Infrastructure for Scalable and Robust News Delivery– http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICDCSW.2002.1030843
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Collaborative Infrastructure
• CSCW Applications and Infrastructure– Are they the same ?
• What is a CSCW Application:– N-user software– Example: Chat Tool
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CSCW Infrastructure• Higher Level of abstraction that provides application
developers a framework to build CSCW applications.• Example:
– We have already used one: – “Sync”: A Java based framework for
developing collaborative applications
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Evaluating CriteriaCriteria Systems Sync CoFrame WS
Flexibility (Automation)
- Awareness Support
- Directory Service
- Communication
Programming Model (Environment)
Programming Cost (Transparency)
Consistency
- Merging
Fault Tolerance
Resource Optimization
- Message Compression
- Resource Replication Policy
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Features Supported / Flexibility• NewsWire collaborative content delivery system
– Deals with real-time delivery of news items– Reduces Compute/Network load
• DARWIN– Collab Infrastructure for AeroSpace Design
• Issues such as: wind tunnel testing data– Focus:
• Storing/Indexing data• Manage visualizations for stored/derived data
• IMLogic– IM Application development infrastructure
• Drawbacks– Specific to one application.– Deal with some core issues but not all
• Alternatives: – Sync (Framework for Collaborative Applications)– Web Services and Grid Computing
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Features supported – Grid/Web• Provide Core Services and additional
services
– Core Services:• Communication
– Cooperative Message Bus (CMB)– RMI (Sync Equivalent)– SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
– Additional Services:• Process Management Service• Awareness Support Service• Interaction-Aided Service
– Directory Service» UDDI (Universal, Description,
Discovery and Integration)» Central Registry (similar to UDDI)» RMI registry (Sync)
– Persistence Visual Cooperation space facility
• Easier to add new functionality as it gets added as another service in the framework
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Programming Model (Environment)
• Grid Computing– Use existing infrastructure to manage data,
resources and to collaborate to solve a large scale problem.
– Use multiple computer (resources) to build a Virtual computer architecture
– Open unlike Sync (closed)
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Programming Model (Environment)
• Scalability– Firewalls
• Description of Services: – CoFrame: WSDL (Web
Services Description Language)
– Sync: Java• Coding Language
– CoFrame– Sync
• Globus Toolkit 3– OpenSource– Industry Standard
Criteria Systems Sync CoFrame
WS
Lang to describe Service
Java WSDL
Coding Language Java Any
Scalable No Yes
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Programming Cost (Transparency)– Developers need to only concern themselves with
services being offered and not how the services are implemented.
– CoFrame Architecture:• Grid layer separates Application layer from Resource layer• Younas/Iqbal doesn’t provide such an abstraction. • Sync (Integrated RMI)
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Consistency of Data
– Younis/Iqbal propose a transaction based model similar to ACID concepts
– ACID (Atomic, Consistent, Isolated, Durable)
– SACReD– CoFrame doesn’t mention
Consistency of data but the SACReD approach can be implemented in the CMB part of the framework
Criteria Systems Sync CoFrame
WS
Merging Support Yes NDE
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Fault Tolerance
• Central server easier to secure (one point of failure)– Grid Architecture (Distributed) – CoFrame provides for:
• Single Sign On Service
Criteria Systems Sync CoFrame
WS
Architecture Centralized Decentralized
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Resource Optimization
• Bottleneck : Network Bandwidth and Latency – Effects:
• Deterioration of user experience
– Example:• Video Chat with video frame updating every two seconds
• How to Fix this: • Improve resources
– Better network layout
• Optimize current resources– Message Compression– Resource Replication Policy
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Resource Optimization: “Message Compression”
• Why Needed ?– Collaborative applications share a lot of data.– Inter-collaborative application messages– Example:
• Dragging a window across screen– Updates need to be sent consistently to all connected clients
– Use of XML– Message must include:
• Sender id, message id, application id, timestamp, message type, fieldnames and data values corresponding to each field
• Send messages less frequently ?• Encoding before sending, decoding on receiving
– Gutwin proposes a mix of Ziv-lempel algorithm, Huffman Coding and building a dictionary of sequences with short lookup codes.
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Message Compression
• Sources of Inefficiency in Groupware messages– Repetition Within a single message
– Repetition between messages
– Inefficient Coding• Encoding of numbers.• Field widths for numeric data types.
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Message Compression - Algorithm
• Within-Message Issues:– Use standard zlib algorithm
• Helpful when sending large messages
• Between-messages Compression– Treat one message as template– Compare subsequent against that template, to
determine repeated sequences– Replace repeated sequences by codes in a
dictionary– Create new templates if messages not similar
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Resource Replication
• Replication of resource– Backup of Data– More optimized – can serve from best source
• Centralization of resource– Easier to implement
• Grids are distributed in nature– Replication model proposed by CoFrame
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Resource Replication
• Resources stored independent of working nodes
• Provider publishes to one server– Broadcast message using CMB to store
metadata
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Heterogeneous Systems
• CSCW Application built for different resources– Example: Two collaborators (A & B) connected using
two different devices– A has good Network (Cable/DSL) while B is on a
relatively poor network (Dialup)– Both on a Video Chat or using a 3D graphics
application
• Compression of data• Lower bit-rate
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ConclusionCriteria Systems Sync CoFrame WS
Flexibility (Automation) - - -
- Awareness Support N Y N
- Directory Service RMI C.REG. UDDI
- Communication RMI/SOAP SOAP SOAP
Programming Model (Environment) Central Dist. Dist.
Programming Cost (Transparency) Y Y Y
Consistency - - -
- Merging Y ? ?
Architecture (Centralized/Decentralized) - - -
Resource Optimization - - -
- Message Compression N N N
- Resource Replication Policy NR Y Y