An Economic Model for Resource Allocation in Grid Computing

Massimiliano Caramia () and Stefano Giordani ()
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Massimiliano Caramia: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” 00133 Rome, Italy
Stefano Giordani: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Impresa, University of Rome “Tor Vergata,” 00133 Rome, Italy

Operations Research, 2011, vol. 59, issue 4, 956-972

Abstract: Allocating resources in grid computing requires local and external schedulers to communicate in order to achieve an efficient management of the resources themselves. To this end, some economic/market-based models have been introduced in the literature, where users, external schedulers, and local schedulers negotiate to optimize their objectives. In this paper, we propose a tender/contract-net model for the grid resource allocation problem, showing the interactions among the involved actors. The performance of the proposed market-based approach is experimentally compared with a round-robin allocation protocol, a system-centric least-cost allocation approach, and also a market-based approach available from the literature.

Keywords: grid computing; resource management; economic models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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