Discouraging Free Riding in a Peer-to-Peer CPU-Sharing Grid
HPDC '04 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Realistic Modeling and Svnthesis of Resources for Computational Grids
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
A Self-Organizing Flock of Condors
Proceedings of the 2003 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue: P2P computing and interaction with grids
Free Riding on Gnutella Revisited: The Bell Tolls?
IEEE Distributed Systems Online
An OGSA-based bank service for grid accounting systems
PARA'04 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Applied Parallel Computing: state of the Art in Scientific Computing
Cluster computing on the fly: P2P scheduling of idle cycles in the internet
IPTPS'04 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Automatic grid assembly by promoting collaboration in peer-to-peer grids
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Performance models for hierarchical grid architectures
GRID '06 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
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We here present and evaluate an autonomous accounting scheme that provides accurate results even when the parties (consumer and provider) do not trust each other. Our accounting scheme relies on the observed relative performance among the parties. It is totally autonomous in the sense that it uses only local information, i.e. there is no exchange of information between the parties. This allows for the deployment of the autonomous accounting without requiring any sort of identification infrastructure, such as certificate authorities. The no need of trust or sophisticated infrastructure make our accounting scheme a perfect fit for peer-to-peer grids, which aim to scale much further than traditional grids by allowing free unidentified entry into the grid. Our results show that the proposed scheme performs very close to a perfect accounting scheme whose implementation is infeasible in most systems, including those we target. Although our autonomous accounting scheme was developed to work with OurGrid, it can also be useful for other systems. The basic requirement to use our accounting scheme is that resource consumers must also be resource providers.