Predictive Load Control for Flexible Buffer Allocation

Existfen buffer allocat,ion ~nrt.lmrls IISC\ prcca.lculnt,ed para.met,ers t,o nlake I>ufT~r allocation decisions. The main idpa proposed here is to design an ndnp!nhlc hufi’er alloca.lion algorithm that, will aut,onlatically optimize itself for t,he specifir query workload. To achievtt,his adapt.nhili(,y. wf‘ propose IISing rnn-l.ilnc? inforniiiLion, 511c.11 its 1 Iif> loved of t.hc syshn, in onr hllff(~r illlOCi\l ioli d~~cisioiis. In pa.rticlllar, hased on n simple‘ qut~ueing model, we use prcdiciors 1.0 ~st imat,t> whet,het a buffer a.llocat,ion will improve l,he performance of the syst,em. Sinullat.ion results show that the proposed met.hod consist,rnt,ly out,performs existrent. a.lgorit,hmr;.