Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Networks
Kamana Sigdel · 2005
In a heterogeneous computing environment like Grid, a suite of different machines ranging from personal computer to supercomputer, is loosely inter-connected to provide a variety of computational capabilities to execute collections of application tasks that have diverse requirements. An important research problem for such computing infrastructure is how to assign computation and communication resources to tasks and to schedule the order of their execution in order to maximize some performance criterion. It has been shown that resource heterogeneity impacts the resource allocation in quite significant way in terms of performance, reliability, robustness, scalability and fault tolerance. So, the system managing those complex environment needs to be scalable, reliable smart and adaptable to change its allocation mechanism depending on the environment and its user requirements. Centralized techniques for managing