Self-Organizing Resource Allocation for Autonomic Networks

Application-layer networks (ALN) are software architectures that allow the provisioning of services requiring a huge amount of resources by connecting large numbers of individual computers, e.g. Grids and P2PNetworks. Self-organization, like proposed by the Autonomic Computing concept, might be the key to controlling these systems. The CATNET project evaluates a decentralized mechanism for resource allocation in ALN, based on the economic paradigm of the Catallaxy. The economic model is based on self-interested maximization of utility and self-interested cooperation between software agents, who buy and sell network services and resources to and from each other.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: DEXAW
• Authors: Torsten Eymann, Michael Reinicke, Oscar Ardaiz, Pau Artigas, Felix Freitag, Leandro Navarro
• Keywords: Autonomic Computing Concept, Database, Decentralized Mechanism, DEXAW 2003, Software Architectures