A Negotiation Mechanism for Advance Resource Reservations Using the Alternate Offers Protocol

Author

Venugopal, Srikumar ; Chu, Xingchen ; Buyya, Rajkumar

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Software Eng., Melbourne Univ., Melbourne, VIC

fYear

2008

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

49

Abstract

Service level agreements (SLAs) between grid users and providers have been proposed as mechanisms for ensuring that the users´ quality of service (QoS) requirements are met, and that the provider is able to realise utility from its infrastructure. This paper presents a bilateral protocol for SLA negotiation using the alternate offers mechanism wherein a party is able to respond to an offer by modifying some of its terms to generate a counter offer. We apply this protocol to the negotiation between a resource broker and a provider for advance reservation of compute nodes, and implement and evaluate it on a real grid system.

Keywords

grid computing; quality of service; advance resource reservations; alternate offers protocol; grid system; grid users; negotiation mechanism; quality of service requirements; resource broker; service level agreements; Computer architecture; Contracts; Counting circuits; Grid computing; Laboratories; Proposals; Protocols; Quality of service; Resource management; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Quality of Service, 2008. IWQoS 2008. 16th International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Enschede

ISSN

1548-615X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2084-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWQOS.2008.10

Filename

4539666