On Effectiveness of Compressed File Transfers to/from the Cloud: An Experimental Evaluation

Armen Dzhagaryan, Aleksandar Milenković

2018

Abstract

An increasing reliance on cloud and distributed processing of scientific and big data in commercial, academic, and government institutions necessitate new approaches to optimize file transfers. Lossless data compression and decompression is essential in improving the overall effectiveness of file transfers between edge devices and the cloud by increasing communication throughput, reducing connection latency, making effective use of cloud storage, and reducing costs. This paper experimentally evaluates effectiveness of common and emerging general-purpose compression utilities for file transfers between edge devices and the cloud. The utilities are evaluated in terms of throughput and costs during representative file transfers between a workstation and the cloud, while varying LAN network conditions. The results show that the optimal compressed transfer modes improve both upload and download throughputs. For uploads, the peak improvements range from 5.16 to 25.6 times relative to uncompressed file uploads, and from 1.33 to 17.4 times relative to the default compressed uploads. For downloads, the peak improvements range from 3.82 to 19.57 times relative to uncompressed downloads, and from 1.8 to 13.8 times relative to the default compressed downloads. In addition, the best performing compressed transfer modes reduce the costs related to cloud computing.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Dzhagaryan A. (2018). On Effectiveness of Compressed File Transfers to/from the Cloud: An Experimental Evaluation.In Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PEC, ISBN 978-989-758-322-3, pages 35-46. DOI: 10.5220/0006905800350046

in Bibtex Style

@conference{pec18,
author={Armen Dzhagaryan},
title={On Effectiveness of Compressed File Transfers to/from the Cloud: An Experimental Evaluation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PEC,},
year={2018},
pages={35-46},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006905800350046},
isbn={978-989-758-322-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PEC,
TI - On Effectiveness of Compressed File Transfers to/from the Cloud: An Experimental Evaluation
SN - 978-989-758-322-3
AU - Dzhagaryan A.
PY - 2018
SP - 35
EP - 46
DO - 10.5220/0006905800350046