A Relaxed-Criteria Bargaining Protocol for Grid Resource Management

Since participants in a computational Grid may be independent bodies, some mechanisms are necessary for resolving their differences. The contribution of this work is designing a bargaining protocol for agents representing Grid participants in negotiating for computational resources. The protocol in this work discerns from existing protocols because agents in this work are programmed to follow a set of fuzzy rules for relaxing bargaining terms with the hope of increasing their chance of successfully acquiring resources before their deadlines. This relaxed-criteria bargaining protocol and an agent-based testbed for simulating Grid resource allocation were implemented in Java

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CCGRID
• Authors: Kwang Mong Sim, Ka Fung Ng
• Keywords: Bargaining Protocol, CCGRID 2006, Cluster Computing, Computational Grid, Relaxed-criteria Bargaining Protocol