Journal on Communications ›› 2023, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (11): 213-224.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2023217

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xStripeMerge: efficient wide stripe generation approach based on erasure coding storage

Meiguang ZHENG, Taofei HUA, Xinyu ZHANG, Zhigang HU   

  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
  • Revised:2023-10-24 Online:2023-11-01 Published:2023-11-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62172442);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62172451);Youth Science Foundation of Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(2020JJ5775)

Abstract:

To address the issue of wide stripe generation in existing erasure coding storage systems, where storage scaling approaches resulted in a significant increase in wide stripe generation bandwidth and stripe merge scheme was constrained by dual-stripes, an efficient wide stripe generation approach was proposed for the wide stripe generation problem under multi stripes merging.Two key operators for the multi-stripes merging progress were defined, and the wide stripe generation problem was modeled as a combinatorial optimization problem.The efficient wide stripe generation approach xStripeMerge was proposed that prioritize the search for narrow-stripes combining schemes with small parity block transmission costs.Experimental results show that xStripeMerge can reduce the wide stripe generation bandwidth by 75% compared to the advanced storage scaling method.The time and space complexity of xStripeMerge is much better than that of the extended dual-stripes merge approach.xStripeMerge can get the wide stripe generation scheme with similar performance in a shorter period of time and it is also suitable for large-scale storage systems.

Key words: distributed storage, erasure coding, wide stripe, stripe merge, parity align

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