Grid Policy Administrator with MDP-Based Resource Management Scheme

Grid computing enables the virtualization of distributed computing and data resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity to create a single system image. The complexity of resource management in Grid significantly increases as the grid computing grows. To solve the problem we propose grid policy administrator with MDP-based resource management scheme. The grid policy administrator has a QoS-constrained grid resource management architecture based on Quorum and MDP-based policy decision scheme for considering management cost and QoS guarantee. Available resource quorums are generated by preplanned policy decision scheme with various SLAs, grid resource and network resource information in advance. The results show that our proposed scheme guarantees flexible QoS for grid applications.