Negotiation Model Supporting Co-Allocation for Grid Scheduling

In order to fulfil the complex resource requirements of some users in grid environments, support for co-allocation between different resource providers is needed. Here, it is quite difficult to coordinate these different services from different resource providers, because a grid scheduler has to cope with different policies and objectives of the different resource providers and of the users. Agreement-based resource management is considered a feasible solution to solve many of these problems as it supports the reliable interaction between different providers and users. However, most current models do not well support co-allocation. Here, negotiation is needed to create such bi-lateral agreements between several grid parties. Such a negotiation process should be automated with no or minimal human interaction, considering the potential scale of grid systems and the amount of necessary transactions. Therefore, strategic negotiation models play an important role. In this paper, a negotiation models which supports the co-allocation between different resource providers are proposed and examined. First simulations have been conducted to evaluate the presented system. The results demonstrate that the proposed negotiation model are suitable and effective for grid environments