— Resource reservations in advance are a mature concept for the allocation of various resources, particularly in grid environments. Common grid toolkits support advance reservati...
Lars-Olof Burchard, Barry Linnert, Joerg Schneider
We present a hierarchical distributed communication and control architecture for Smart Grids. The proposed topology consists of multiple layers to allow for robust and flexible d...
Grid computing technologies enable widespread sharing and coordinated us of networked resources, including computing resources. Open Grid Service Architecture (OGSA) marries Web se...
Weiqin Tong, Jingbo Ding, Jianquan Tang, Bo Wang, ...
Abstract— We consider the problem of providing QoS guarantees to Grid users through advance reservation of resources. Advance reservation mechanisms provide the ability to alloca...
Claris Castillo, George N. Rouskas, Khaled Harfous...
Abstract— Metadata annotations of Grid resources can potentially be used for a number of purposes, including accurate resource allocation to jobs, discovery of services, and prec...