On incorporating differentiated levels of network service into GridSim

  • Authors:

  • Anthony Sulistio;Gokul Poduval;Rajkumar Buyya;Chen-Khong Tham

  • Affiliations:

  • Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia;Computer Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, 111 Barry St, Carlton VIC 3053, Australia;Computer Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Future Generation Computer Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Grid computing technologies are increasingly being used to aggregate computing resources that are geographically distributed. Commercial networks are being used to connect these resources, and thus serve as a fundamental component of Grid computing. Since these Grid resources are connected over a shared infrastructure, it is essential that we consider the effects of using this shared infrastructure during simulations. In this paper, we discuss how new additions to the GridSim simulation toolkit can be used to explore network effects in Grid computing. We also investigate techniques to incorporate differentiated levels of service, background traffic and the collection of information from the network during runtime in GridSim. As a result, these features enable GridSim to realistically model Grid computing experiments.