An Advance Reservation-Based Co-allocation Algorithm for Distributed Computers and Network Bandwidth on QoS-Guaranteed Grids.

Co-allocation of performance-guaranteed computing and network resources provided by several administrative domains is one of the key issues for constructing a QoS-guaranteed Grid. We propose an advance reservation-based co-allocation algorithm for both computing and network resources on a QoS-guaranteed Grid, modeled as an integer programming (IP) problem. The goal of our algorithm is to create reservation plans satisfying user resource requirements as an on-line service. Also the algorithm takes co-allocation options for user and resource administrator issues into consideration. We evaluate the proposed algorithm with extensive simulation, in terms of both functionality and practicality. The results show: The algorithm enables efficient co-allocation of both computing and network resources provided by multiple domains, and can reflect reservation options for resource administrators issues as a first step. The calculation times needed for selecting resources using an IP solver are acceptable for an on-line service. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]