A group-based architecture for grids

作者：Lloret Jaime^*; Garcia Miguel; Tomas Jesus; Sendra Sandra

来源：Telecommunication Systems, 2011, 46(2): 117-133.

DOI：10.1007/s11235-010-9279-1

• Grid architecture
• Group-based logical network
• Neighbor selection
• Peer-to-peer network
• Intergrid protocol

A group-based network architecture provides many benefits for the whole network increasing the content availability, providing fault tolerance and giving more scalability. Many grid architectures have been developed since the first proto-grid systems in the early 70's, but no one of them is based on groups. This paper proposes a group-based grid architecture using an efficient neighbor node selection. The architecture organizes logical connections between nodes from different groups of nodes allowing sharing resources, data or computing time between groups. Connections are used to find and share available resources from other groups and they are established based on node's available capacity. Suitable nodes have higher roles in the architecture and their function is to organize connections based on a node selection process. Nodes' logical connections topology changes depending on some dynamic parameters. The architecture is scalable and fault-tolerant. The designed protocol, its management and real measurements are shown. It could be used as an intergrid protocol.

• 出版日期2011-2