Research Article
End-to-End Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation for Grid applications
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374418, author={Charaka Palansuriya and Maarten B\'{y}chli and Kostas Kavoussanakis and Anand Patil and Chrysostomos Tziouvaras and Arthur Trew and Alan Simpson and Robert Baxter}, title={End-to-End Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation for Grid applications}, proceedings={3rd International IEEE/Create-Net Workshop on Networks for Grid Applications}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={GRIDNETS}, year={2006}, month={10}, keywords={}, doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374418} }- Charaka Palansuriya
Maarten Büchli
Kostas Kavoussanakis
Anand Patil
Chrysostomos Tziouvaras
Arthur Trew
Alan Simpson
Robert Baxter
Year: 2006
End-to-End Bandwidth Allocation and Reservation for Grid applications
GRIDNETS
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2006.4374418
Abstract
Production Grid infrastructure requires end-to- end guarantees on the Quality of Service from the underlying networks. In this paper, we present use cases for advance network resource reservation and then describe a multi-layered architecture that can support them. The architecture presents a single bandwidth broker, called BAR, which sits at the Grid layer. BAR not only provides a single point of access to Grid applications to reserve guaranteed end-to-end bandwidth, but also presents its interface in application terms (instead of networking terms). We expose two guaranteed bandwidth services: the Guaranteed Delivery File Transfer and Virtual Leased Line services. Integrated with the GEANT2 bandwidth on demand infrastructure, our bandwidth broker deals with multiple network domains, further insulating the applications from network concerns. We also define additional components required for an end-to-end reservation as well as the interfaces between the components. Our deployed prototype demonstrated the world's first software-based, inter-domain bandwidth reservations based on Premium IP.