He, Ligang, Calleja, Mark, Hayes, Mark and Jarvis, Stephen A. (2009) Performance prediction for running workflows under role-based authorization mechanisms. In: 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing, Rome, Italy, 23-29 May 2009. Published in: 2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing pp. 2767-2774.

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Abstract

When investigating the performance of running scientific/commercial workflows in parallel and distributed systems, we often take into account only the resources allocated to the tasks constituting the workflow, assuming that computational resources will accept the tasks and execute them to completion once the processors are available. In reality, and in particular in Grid or e-business environments, security policies may be implemented in the individual organisations in which the computational resources reside. It is therefore expedient to have methods to calculate the performance of executing workflows under security policies. Authorisation control, which specifies who is allowed to perform which tasks when, is one of the most fundamental security considerations in distributed systems such as Grids. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), under which the users are assigned to certain roles while the roles are associated with prescribed permissions, remains one of the most popular authorisation control mechanisms. This paper presents a mechanism to theoretically compute the performance of running scientific workflows under RBAC authorisation control. Various performance metrics are calculated, including both system-oriented metrics, (such as system utilisation, throughput and mean response time) and user-oriented metrics (such as mean response time of the workflows submitted by a particular client). With this work, if a client informs an organisation of the workflows they are going to submit, the organisation is able to predict the performance of these workflows running in its local computational resources (e.g. a high-performance cluster) enforced with RBAC authorisation control, and can also report client-oriented performance to each individual user.

Item Type:	Conference Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Electronic computers. Computer science. Computer software
Divisions:	Faculty of Science > Computer Science
Series Name:	International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)
Journal or Publication Title:	2009 IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Publisher:	IEEE
ISBN:	9781424437511
ISSN:	1530-2075
Official Date:	2009
Dates:	Date Event 2009 Published
Number of Pages:	8
Page Range:	pp. 2767-2774
Identifier:	10.1109/IPDPS.2009.5161190
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Conference Paper Type:	Paper
Title of Event:	23rd IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Type of Event:	Conference
Location of Event:	Rome, Italy
Date(s) of Event:	23-29 May 2009
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/16748

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