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Experiments on Network Services for the Grid
Dublin, Ireland October 15-October 18
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LCN.2007.7832nd IEEE Conference on Local Compute ...
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Christoph Barz, University of Bonn, Germany
Peter Martini, University of Bonn, Germany
Markus Pilz, University of Bonn, Germany
Florian Purnhagen, University of Bonn, Germany
For demanding Grid applications that use resources at different cluster sites a reservation mechanism can ensure the availability of resources to guarantee a certain level of QoS. Besides computational and storage resources, we see the network as a reservable resource as well. Our approach to QoS is to schedule resources in the network for exclusive usage in advance. For this purpose, a flexible reservation mechanism is needed to meet the requirements of Grid applications and schedulers. In this paper we introduce a wider notion of network service than previous work. Special focus is on a file transfer service that guarantees the timely availability of data at the different Grid sites. To cope with these requirements, strategies and algorithms for a flexible network reservation service are introduced and evaluated systematically. Here, algorithms using a single path strategy are compared to algorithms using multiple paths. Our simulation results show that data transport via multiple paths leads to a higher user and network provider satisfaction than single path transfers.
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Christoph Barz, Peter Martini, Markus Pilz, Florian Purnhagen, "Experiments on Network Services for the Grid," lcn, pp.45-54, 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), 2007
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