A semantics-based routing scheme for grid resource discovery

Grid technologies enable the sharing of a wide variety of distributed resources. To fully utilize these resources, effective resource discovery mechanisms are necessities. However, the complicated and dynamic characteristics of grid resources make sharing and discovering them a challenging issue. In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer (P2P) based overlay network to assist the efficient resource discovery and query. The framework is based on the RDF metadata infrastructure, allowing a rich and extensible description of resources. To avoid flooding the network with a query, we propose a comprehensive semantics-based query forwarding strategy, which only forwards queries to semantically related nodes. After the related nodes have been located, the original RDF query is used to do the final query and retrieval. Results from simulation experiments demonstrate that this architecture is scalable and efficient