Application scheduling studies on large-scale shared resources have advocated the use of resource provisioning in the form of advance reservations for providing predictable and de...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing grids consist of peer nodes that communicate directly among themselves through wide-area networks and can act as both clients and servers. These syste...
Grids allow large scale resource-sharing across different administrative domains. Those diverse resources are likely to join or quit the Grid at any moment or possibly to break dow...
Francesc Guim, Ivan Rodero, M. Tomas, Julita Corba...
Advance reservation allows users to request available nodes in the future, whereas economy provides an incentive for resource owners to be part of the Grid, and encourages users t...
Abstract Mobile and wireless devices become more popular and their capabilities increase as well. At the same time, most of the today's PC power is unused, as a study of the G...