Bilkent University
Department of Computer Engineering
S E M I N A R
Publish-Subscribe Overlay Network Design
Dr. Melih Onuş
Designing an overlay network for publish/subscribe communication in a system where nodes may subscribe to many different topics of interest is of fundamental importance. For scalability and efficiency, it is important to keep the degree of the nodes in the publish/subscribe system low. It is only natural then to formalize the following problem: Given a collection of nodes and their topic subscriptions connect the nodes into a graph which has least possible maximum degree and in such a way that for each topic t, the graph induced by the nodes interested in t is connected. We present the first polynomial time logarithmic approximation algorithm for this problem and prove an almost tight lower bound on the approximation ratio. Our experimental results show that our algorithm drastically improves the maximum degree of publish/subscribe overlay systems. We also propose a variation of the problem by enforcing that each topic-connected overlay network be of constant diameter, while keeping the average degree low. We present a heuristic for this problem which guarantees that each topic-connected overlay network will be of diameter 2 and which aims at keeping the overall average node degree low. Our experimental results validate our algorithm showing that our algorithm is able to achieve very low diameter without increasing the average degree by much.
Bio: Melih Onus is an Instructor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Bilkent University. Dr. Melih Onus worked as an Instructor at TOBB University of Economics and Technology between September 2009 and April 2011. Dr. Melih Onus received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Arizona State University in 2009. He earned B.S. degree in Computer Engineering at Bilkent University in 2003. Dr. Onus’s main area of research is in distributed computing. Dr. Onus has top conference papers in the area of distributed computing (ICDCS), networking (INFOCOM) and theory (SPAA). Dr. Onus was the recipient of Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Work as a Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University. Dr. Onus was the recipient of gold, silver, bronze medals in national (TUBITAK) and international (IMO) mathematical olympiads in high school. His research interests are in the areas of distributed computing, computer networks and algorithms.He is giving this talk for applying Bilkent University, Department of Computer Engineering as an assistant professor and also as a full-time instructor.
DATE: 16 May, 2011, Monday @ 13:30
PLACE: EA409