Abstract
Resource location or discovery is a key issue for Grid systems in which
applications are composed of hardware and software resources that need to be
located. Classical approaches to Grid resource location are either centralized
or hierarchical and will prove inefficient as the scale of Grid systems
rapidly increases. On the other hand, the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) paradigm emerged
as a successful model that achieves scalability in distributed systems. One
possibility would be to borrow existing methods from the P2P paradigm and to
adopt them to Grid systems taking into consideration the existing differences.
Several such attempts have been made during the last couple of years. This
paper aims to serve as a review of the most promising Grid systems that use
P2P techniques to facilitate resource discovery in order to perform a
qualitative comparison of the existing approaches and to draw conclusions
about their advantages and weaknesses. Future research directions are also
discussed.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 864-878 |
Journal | Future Generation Computer Systems |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2007 |
MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Keywords
- Grid
- Peer-to-Peer system
- Resource discovery
- Structured
- Unstructured