Advanced Techniques for Scheduling, Reservation, and Access Management for Remote Laboratories

In Grid and Service Oriented Architecture-based environments the use of technologies supporting Service Level Agreements, advance reservation, and Virtual Organisations mark the start of a new way accessing distributed resources or services. Experience made so far indicate the potential for overcoming the limitations of the hitherto best effort approaches. In this paper we propose an approach that integrates remote laboratories as another resource into the Grid. We show how techniques developed for compute, storage, or network resources in Grids may be used for managing access to Collaborative Remote Laboratories. In particular we discuss how existing technologies for advance reservation, Service Level Agreements, and Virtual Organisations can help to set up, configure, and manage remote laboratories and provide support in the preparation of collaborative control of and mutual access to laboratory equipment.