Continuous prefetch for interactive data applications

Haneen Mohammed, Ziyun Wei, Eugene Wu, Ravi Netravali

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Abstract

Interactive data visualization and exploration (DVE) applications are often network-bottlenecked due to bursty request patterns, large response sizes, and heterogeneous deployments over a range of networks and devices. This makes it difficult to ensure consistently low response times (< 100ms). Khameleon is a framework for DVE applications that uses a novel combination of prefetching and response tuning to dynamically trade-off response quality for low latency. Khameleon exploits DVE's approximation tolerance: immediate lower-quality responses are preferable to waiting for complete results. To this end, Khameleon progressively encodes responses, and runs a server-side scheduler that proactively streams portions of responses using available bandwidth to maximize user-perceived interactivity. The scheduler involves a complex optimization based on available resources, predicted user interactions, and response quality levels; yet, decisions must also be made in real-time. To overcome this, Khameleon uses a fast greedy heuristic that closely approximates the optimal approach. Using image exploration and visualization applications with real user interaction traces, we show that across a wide range of network and client resource conditions, Khameleon outperforms existing prefetching approaches that benefit from perfect prediction models: Khameleon always lowers response latencies (typically by 2-3 orders of magnitude) while keeping response quality within 50-80%.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)2297-2311
Number of pages15
JournalProceedings of the VLDB Endowment
Volume13
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Jul 1 2020
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Science (miscellaneous)
  • General Computer Science

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