TY - GEN
T1 - Shape sensitive geometric monitoring
AU - Sharfman, Izchak
AU - Schuster, Assaf
AU - Keren, Daniel
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in a communication efficient manner. Specifically, we assume that each node holds a time varying input vector, and we are interested in determining, at any given time, whether the value of an arbitrary function on the average of these vectors crosses a predetermined threshold. In this paper, we introduce a new method for monitoring distributed data, which we term shape sensitive geometric monitoring. It is based on a geometric interpretation of the problem, which enables to define local constraints on the data received at the nodes. It is guaranteed that as long as none of these constraints has been violated, the value of the function does not cross the threshold. We generalize previous work on geometric monitoring, and solve two problems which seriously hampered its performance: as opposed to the constraints used so far, which depend only on the current values of the local input vectors, here we incorporate their temporal behavior into the constraints. Also, the new constraints are tailored to the geometric properties of the specific function which is being monitored, while the previous constraints were generic. Experimental results on real world data reveal that using the new geometric constraints reduces communication by up to three orders of magnitude in comparison to existing approaches, and considerably narrows the gap between existing results and a newly defined lower bound on the communication complexity.
AB - A fundamental problem in distributed computation is the distributed evaluation of functions. The goal is to determine the value of a function over a set of distributed inputs, in a communication efficient manner. Specifically, we assume that each node holds a time varying input vector, and we are interested in determining, at any given time, whether the value of an arbitrary function on the average of these vectors crosses a predetermined threshold. In this paper, we introduce a new method for monitoring distributed data, which we term shape sensitive geometric monitoring. It is based on a geometric interpretation of the problem, which enables to define local constraints on the data received at the nodes. It is guaranteed that as long as none of these constraints has been violated, the value of the function does not cross the threshold. We generalize previous work on geometric monitoring, and solve two problems which seriously hampered its performance: as opposed to the constraints used so far, which depend only on the current values of the local input vectors, here we incorporate their temporal behavior into the constraints. Also, the new constraints are tailored to the geometric properties of the specific function which is being monitored, while the previous constraints were generic. Experimental results on real world data reveal that using the new geometric constraints reduces communication by up to three orders of magnitude in comparison to existing approaches, and considerably narrows the gap between existing results and a newly defined lower bound on the communication complexity.
KW - Algorithms
KW - Performance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=57349119892&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1376916.1376958
DO - 10.1145/1376916.1376958
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:57349119892
SN - 9781605581088
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems
SP - 301
EP - 310
BT - PODS'08
T2 - 27th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems 2008, PODS'08
Y2 - 9 June 2008 through 11 June 2008
ER -