SimStore: Efficient Data Management for Network Propagation Simulation

Abstract

Abstract-Simulation is widely adopted in large scale network propagation analytics. Plenty of analytics scenarios require to retrieve, review the simulation status of a given time points or interval. Unfortunately, it is unaffordable to re-run the simulation due to the long running time and other costs in many cases. In this paper, we introduce a system (SimStore) to enable efficient storage and retrieval of simulation snapshots. We present a novel technique to compress a series of simulation snapshots in order to reduce the storage cost. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of the proposed methods.