Subjects: Computer Science >> Integration Theory of Computer Science submitted time 2018-05-18 Cooperative journals: 《计算机应用研究》
Abstract: Cloud storage system often adopts replica technique to guarantee availability and reliability, and replica placement is a key issue. In order to solve the problem of high access overhead to replicas, this paper proposed a replica placement algorithm based on discrete glowworm swarm optimization. Through mathematical mode establishment for user access overhead, this algorithm computed the fitness function of glowworm position, updated individual position and then obtained appropriate nodes for replica placement. It conducted several simulations and compared with the replica placement strategy based on ant algorithm. The results show that the proposed algorithm can select appropriate nodes for replica placement, have a better convergence and reduce the replica access overhead.