The Grid computing vision promises to provide the needed platform for a new and more demanding range of applications. For this promise to become true, a number of hurdles, includin...
Alexandru Iosup, Catalin Dumitrescu, Dick H. J. Ep...
Resource management constitutes an important infrastructural component of a computational grid environment. The aim of grid resource management is to efficiently schedule applicat...
Junwei Cao, Stephen A. Jarvis, Daniel P. Spooner, ...
Slowdown, defined as the ratio of a request’s queueing delay to its service time, is accepted as an important quality of service metric of Internet servers. In this paper, we i...
Xiaobo Zhou, Yu Cai, C. Edward Chow, Marijke F. Au...
— In global Grid computing, users and resource providers organize various Virtual Organizations (VOs) to share resources and services. A VO organizes other sub-VOs for the purpos...
Enabling quality of service (QoS) in the Grids requires not only resource management strategies but also the development of protocols enabling structured negotiation for the use of...