Meerkat: Scalable, Network-Aware Failure Recovery for the Internet of Things

Summary: Meerkat: a network-aware fault-tolerance protocol for IoT achieving zero-downtime recovery via redundant operator execution on disjoint network paths and efficient duplicate detection, designed for hierarchical, resource-constrained topologies. Adds dynamic, load-balanced operator placement to adapt to device volatility, yielding up to 70× throughput with only 28% network overhead. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Mar 13 2026)

Paper ID: 14521
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 10,579 | 27.42%
DOI: 10.14778/3778092.3778094

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Authors

1. Anastasiia Kozar (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; Technical University of Berlin)
2. Ankit Chaudhary (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; Technical University of Berlin)
3. Steffen Zeuch (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; Technical University of Berlin)
4. Volker Markl (Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data; German National Research Center for Information Technology; Technical University of Berlin)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kozar_vldb26,
        title = {{Meerkat: Scalable, Network-Aware Failure Recovery for the Internet of Things}},
        author = {Kozar, Anastasiia and Chaudhary, Ankit and Zeuch, Steffen and Markl, Volker},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '26},
        volume = {19},
        number = {3},
        pages = {306--319},
        doi = {10.14778/3778092.3778094},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3778092.3778094},
        year = {2026}
}

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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
111	TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an Uncertain World	2003	CIDR	0.00032990214
612	Twitter Heron: Stream Processing at Scale	2015	SIGMOD	0.0001573018
1,190	Structured Streaming: A Declarative API for Real-Time Applications in Apache Spark	2018	SIGMOD	0.00011743246
1,224	Dhalion: Self-Regulating Stream Processing in Heron	2017	VLDB	0.00011596911
1,422	State Management in Apache Flink: Consistent Stateful Distributed Stream Processing	2017	VLDB	0.00010823039
1,888	Aurora: A Data Stream Management System	2003	SIGMOD	9.5338565e-05
3,117	Chi: A Scalable and Programmable Control Plane for Distributed Stream Processing Systems	2018	VLDB	7.7382559e-05
3,306	Frontier: Resilient Edge Processing for the Internet of Things	2018	VLDB	7.5387095e-05
3,531	Megaphone: Latency-conscious state migration for distributed streaming dataflows	2019	VLDB	7.337549e-05
4,513	Efficient Placement of Decomposable Aggregation Functions for Stream Processing over Large Geo-Distributed Topologies	2024	VLDB	6.6509008e-05
5,215	The NebulaStream Platform: Data and Application Management for the Internet of Things	2020	CIDR	6.3124972e-05
5,241	Load Management and High Availability in the Medusa Distributed Stream Processing System	2004	SIGMOD	6.3019989e-05
5,756	Clonos: Consistent Causal Recovery for Highly-Available Streaming Dataflows	2021	SIGMOD	6.097233e-05
6,349	Grizzly: Efficient Stream Processing Through Adaptive Query Compilation	2020	SIGMOD	5.9049304e-05
10,573	Incremental Stream Query Deployment under Continuous Infrastructure Changes in the Cloud-Edge Continuum	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,176	Fault Tolerance Placement in the Internet of Things	2024	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

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