Distributed Systems CS 15 440 Distributed System Architecture

Distributed Systems CS 15 -440 Distributed System Architecture and Introduction to Networking Lecture 3, Sep 12, 2011 Majd F. Sakr, Vinay Kolar, Mohammad Hammoud

Today… § Last Session: § Trends and challenges in Distributed Systems § Today’s session: § Part I: Distributed System Architectures § Part II: Introduction to Networking § Announcements: § Project 1 design report is due on Wednesday at midnight § Project handout has been updated with a “design deliverable” section

Part I Distributed Systems Architecture

A Distributed System A distributed system is simply a collection of hardware or software components that communicate to solve a complex problem Each component performs a “task” Components performing tasks Communication mechanism

Bird’s eye view of some Distributed Systems Peer 2 Peer 3 sp on se Peer 1 Re Re qu es t Google Expedia Server Search Reservation Client 1 1 Client 2 2 Client Search Reservation Client 33 Client Google Search Airline Booking Peer 4 Bit-torrent Skype How would one classify these distributed systems?

Classification of Distributed Systems What are the entities that are communicating in a DS? a) Communicating entities How do the entities communicate? b) Communication paradigms What roles and responsibilities do they have? c) Roles and responsibilities How are they mapped to the physical distributed infrastructure? d) Placement of entities

Communicating Entities What entities are communicating in a DS? System-oriented entities Processes Threads Nodes Problem-oriented entities Objects (in object-oriented programming based approaches)

Classification of Distributed Systems What are the entities that are communicating in a DS? a) Communicating entities How do the entities communicate? b) Communication paradigms What roles and responsibilities do they have? c) Roles and responsibilities How are they mapped to the physical distributed infrastructure? d) Placement of entities

Communication Paradigms Three types of communication paradigms Inter-Process Communication (IPC) Remote Invocation Indirect Communication Applications, Services Remote Invocation, Indirect Communication IPC Primitives Internet Protocols Middleware layers

Inter-Process Communication (IPC) Relatively low-level support for communication e. g. , Direct access to internet protocols (Socket API) Advantages Enables seamless communication between processes on heterogeneous operating systems Well-known and tested API adopted across multiple operating systems Disadvantages Increased programming effort for application developers Socket programming: Programmer has to explicitly write code for communication (in addition to program logic) Space Coupling (Identity is known in advance): Sender should know receiver’s ID (e. g. , IP Address, port) Time Coupling: Receiver should be explicitly listening to the communication from the sender

Remote Invocation An entity runs a procedure that typically executes on an another computer without the programmer explicitly coding the details for this remote interaction A middleware layer will take care of the raw-communication Examples Remote Procedure Call (RPC) – Sun’s RPC (ONC RPC) Remote Method Invocation (RMI) – Java RMI

Remote Invocation Advantages: Programmer does not have to write code for socket communication Disadvantages: Space Coupling: Where the procedure resides should be known in advance Time Coupling: On the receiver, a process should be explicitly waiting to accept requests for procedure calls

Space and Time Coupling in RPC and RMI The sender knows the Identity of the receiver (space coupling) Time Coupling Request Message do. Operation. . (wait). . (continuation) get. Request. Select operation . Execute operation . Send reply Reply Message Sender Receiver RMI strongly resembles RPC but in a world of distributed objects

Indirect Communication Paradigm Indirect communication uses middleware to: Provide one-to-many communication Some mechanisms eliminate space and time coupling Sender and receiver do not need to know each other’s identities Sender and receiver need not be explicitly listening to communicate Approach used: Indirection Sender A middle-man Receiver Types of indirect communication 1. Group communication 2. Publish-subscribe 3. Message queues

1. Group Communication One-to-many communication Multicast communication Sender Abstraction of a group Group is represented in the system by a group. Id Recipients join the group A sender sends a message to the group which is received by all the recipients Recv 2 Recv 1 Recv 3

1. Group Communication (cont’d) Services provided by middleware Group membership Handling the failure of one or more group members Advantages Enables one-to-many communication Efficient use of bandwidth Identity of the group members need not be available at all nodes Disadvantages Time coupling

2. Publish-Subscribe An event-based communication mechanism Publishers publish events to an event service Subscribers express interest in particular events Subscribers Publishers Publis h Subscr (Even t 1) ent 1) ibe (Ev Subscribe (Event 3) Publish (Event 2) nt 3) h (Eve Publish-subscribe Event Service Subsc ribe (E Event 1, 2) Large number of producers distribute information to large number of consumers

2. Publish-Subscribe (cont’d) Example: Financial trading Dealer process

3. Message Queues A refinement of Publish-Subscribe where Producers deposit the messages in a queue Messages are delivered to consumers through different methods Queue takes care of ensuring message delivery Advantages Enables space decoupling Enables time decoupling

Recap: Communication Entities and Paradigms Communication Paradigms (how they communicate) Communicating entities (what is communicating) Systemoriented • • • Nodes Processes Threads Problemoriented • Objects • IPC Remote Invocation Sockets • • RPC RMI Indirect Communication • • • Group communication Publish-subscribe Message queues

Classification of Distributed Systems What are the entities that are communicating in a DS? a) Communicating entities How do the entities communicate? b) Communication paradigms What roles and responsibilities do they have? c) Roles and responsibilities How are they mapped to the physical distributed infrastructure? d) Placement of entities

Roles and Responsibilities In DS, communicating entities take on roles to perform tasks Roles are fundamental in establishing overall architecture Question: Does your smart-phone perform the same role as Google Search Server? We classify DS architectures into two types based on the roles and responsibilities of the entities Client-Server Peer-to-Peer

Client-Server Architecture Approach: Server provides a service that is needed by a client Client requests to a server (invocation), the server serves (result) Widely used in many systems e. g. , DNS, Web-servers Client Server Client

Client-Server Architecture: Pros and Cons Advantages: Simplicity and centralized control Computation-heavy processing can be offloaded to a powerful server, Clients can be “thin” Disadvantages Single-point of failure at server Scalability

Peer to Peer (P 2 P) Architecture In P 2 P, roles of all entities are identical All nodes are peers Peers are equally privileged participants in the application e. g. : Napster, Bit-torrent, Skype

Peer to Peer Architecture Example: Downloading files from bit-torrent Peer 1 wants a file. Parts of the file is present at peers 3, 4 and 5 Peer 2 Peer 3 wants a file stored at peers 1, 2 and 6 Peer 1 Peer 3 Peer 6 Peer 4 Peer 5

Architectural Patterns Primitive architectural elements can be combined to form various patterns Tiered Architecture Layering Tiered architecture and layering are complementary Layering = vertical organization of services Tiered Architecture = horizontal splitting of services

Tiered Architecture A technique to: 1. Organize the functionality of a service, and 2. Place the functionality into appropriate servers Airline Search Application Display UI screen Get user Input Client Server Get data from database Server Rank the offers Server

A Two-Tiered Architecture Personal computer or mobile devices Server User view, controls and data manipulation Application and data management

A Three-Tiered Architecture How do you design an airline search application: EXPEDIA Airline Search Application Display user input screen Get user Input Display result to user Rank the offers Tier 1 Tier 2 Organize functionality of a given layer Airline Database Tier 3

A Three-Tiered Architecture Personal computer or mobile devices User view, and controls Application Server Database Server Application logic Database manager User view, and control Application logic

Layering A complex system is partitioned into layers Upper layer utilizes the services of the lower layer A vertical organization of services Layering simplifies design of complex distributed systems by hiding the complexity of below layers Control flows from layer to layer Layer 3 Response flow Request flow Layer 1

Layering – Platform and middleware Distributed Systems can be organized into three layers 1. Platform Low-level hardware and software layers Provides common services for higher layers 2. Middleware Mask heterogeneity and provide convenient programming models to application programmers Typically, it simplifies application programming by abstracting communication mechanisms 3. Applications Operating system

Classification of Distributed Systems What are the entities that are communicating in a DS? a) Communicating entities How do the entities communicate? b) Communication paradigms What roles and responsibilities do they have? c) Roles and responsibilities How are they mapped to the physical distributed infrastructure? d) Placement of entities

Placement Observation: A large number of heterogonous hardware (machines, network). Smart mapping of entities (processes, objects) to hardware helps performance, security and fault-tolerance. “Placement” maps entities to underlying physical distributed infrastructure. Placement should be decided after a careful study of application characteristics Example strategies: Mapping services to multiple servers Moving the mobile code to the client

Placement Entities Physical infrastructure Web search indexing Hi-performance Server Userinterface Mobile Code Desktop Smart-phone

Recap So far, we have covered primitive architectural elements Communicating entities Communication paradigms of entities IPC, RMI, RPC, Indirect Communication Roles and responsibilities that entities assume, and resulting architectures Client-Server, Peer-to-Peer, Hybrid Placement of entities

Part II Introduction to Networking

Introduction to Networking – Learning objectives You will identify how computers over Internet communicate. After today’s class You will be able to identify different types of networks After the next class Describe networking principles such as layering, encapsulation and packet-switching Examine how packets get routed and how congestion is avoided Analyze scalability, reliability and fault-tolerance of Internet

Networks in Distributed Systems Distributed System is simply a collection of components that communicate to solve a problem Why should distributed systems programmers know about networks? Networking issues severely affect performance, fault-tolerance and security in Distributed Systems. e. g. , Gmail outage on Sep 1, 2010 – Google Spokesman said “we had slightly underestimated the load which some recent changes placed on the request routers. …. few of the request routers became overloaded… causing a few more of them to also become overloaded, and within minutes nearly all of the request routers were overloaded. ”

Networks in Distributed Systems Networking Issue Comments on Distributed System design Performance Affects latency and data-transfer-rate of messages. Scalability Size of Internet is increasing. Expect greater traffic in future. Reliability Detect communication errors and perform errorchecks at the application layer Security Install firewalls. Deploy end-to-end authentication, privacy and security modules. Mobility Expect intermittent connection for mobile devices. Quality-of-service Internet is best-effort. It is hard to ensure strict Qo. S guarantees for, say, multimedia messages.

Network Classification Important ways to classify networks 1. Based on size Body Area Networks (BAN) Personal Area Networks (PAN) Local Area Networks (LAN) Wide Area Networks (WAN) 2. Based on technology Ethernet Networks Wireless Networks Cellular Networks

Network classification – BANs and PANs Body Area Networks (BAN): Devices form wearable computing units Several Body Sensor Units (BSUs) communicate with Body Central Unit (BCU) Typically, low-cost and low-energy networking Personal Area Networks (PAN): PAN connects various digital devices carried by a user (mobile phones, tablets, cameras) Low-cost and low-energy networking e. g. , Bluetooth

Network Classification – LAN Computers connected by single communication medium e. g. , twisted copper wire, optical fiber High data-transfer-rate and low latency LAN consists of 1. Segment Usually within a department/floor of a building Shared bandwidth, no routing necessary 2. Local Networks Serves campus/office building Many segments connected by a switch/hub Typically, represents a network within an organization

Network classification – WAN Generally covers a wider area (cities, countries, . . . ) Consists of networks of different organizations Traffic is routed from one organization to another Routers Bandwidth and delay Varies Worse than a LAN Largest WAN = Internet

Brief Summary of Important Networks (Based on Size) A Segment A Network

Types of Networks – Based on Technology Ethernet Networks Predominantly used in the wired Internet Wireless LANs Primarily designed to provide wireless access to the Internet Low-range (100 s of m), High-bandwidth Cellular networks (2 G/3 G) Initially, designed to carry voice Large range (few kms) Low-bandwidth

Typical Performance for Different Types of Networks Network Example Range Bandwidth (Mbps) Latency (ms) Wired LAN Ethernet 1 -2 km 10 – 10, 000 1 – 10 Wired WAN Internet Worldwide 0. 5 – 600 100 – 500 Wireless PAN Bluetooth 10 – 30 m 0. 5 – 20 Wireless LAN Wi. Fi 0. 15 – 1. 5 km 11 – 108 5 – 20 Cellular 2 G – GSM 100 m – 20 km 0. 270 – 1. 5 5 Modern Cellular 3 G 1 – 5 km 100 – 500 348 – 14. 4

Next Class Describe networking principles such as layering, encapsulation and packet-switching Examine how packets get routed and how congestion is avoided Analyze scalability, reliability and fault-tolerance of Internet

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