Adaptive group scheduling mechanism using mobile agents in peer-to-peer grid computing environment

  • Authors:

  • Sungjin Choi;Maengsoon Baik;Joonmin Gil;Soonyoung Jung;Chongsun Hwang

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Korea University, Rep. Korea;Samsung SDS, Korea;Department of Computer Science Education, Catholic University of Daegu, Korea;Department of Computer Science Education, Korea University, Rep. Korea;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Korea University, Rep. Korea

  • Venue:
  • Applied Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Peer-to-peer grid computing is an attractive computing paradigm for high throughput applications. However, both volatility due to the autonomy of volunteers (i.e., resource providers) and the heterogeneous properties of volunteers are challenging problems in the scheduling procedure. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a scheduling mechanism that adapts to a dynamic peer-to-peer grid computing environment. In this paper, we propose a Mobile Agent based Adaptive Group Scheduling Mechanism (MAAGSM). The MAAGSM classifies and constructs volunteer groups to perform a scheduling mechanism according to the properties of volunteers such as volunteer autonomy failures, volunteer availability, and volunteering service time. In addition, the MAAGSM exploits a mobile agent technology to adaptively conduct various scheduling, fault tolerance, and replication algorithms suitable for each volunteer group. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the MAAGSM improves performance by evaluating the scheduling mechanism in Korea@Home.