Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Quality of Service, 2008. IWQoS 2008. 16th International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Enschede
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2084-1
DOI :
10.1109/IWQOS.2008.10
