Network-aware Peer-to-Peer Based Grid Inter-Domain Scheduling

Grid technologies have enabled the aggregation of geographically distributed resources, in the context of a particular application. The network remains an important requirement for any Grid application, as entities involved in a Grid system (such as users, services, and data) need to communicate with each other over a network. The performance of the network must therefore be considered when carrying out tasks such as scheduling, migration or monitoring of jobs. Moreover, the interactions between different domains are a key issue in Grid computing, thus their effects should be considered when performing the scheduling task. In this paper, we enhance an existing framework that provides scheduling of jobs to computing resources to allow multi-domain scheduling based on peer-to-peer techniques.