A Multi-Agent System-Based Resource Advertisement Model for Grid Environments

The field of resource sharing has become an increasingly important computing field of study for both industry and academia. Facilitating the use of geographically distributed resources is a complex task encompassing many sub tasks. The most important sub-tasks are advertising the available resources across the network and the discovery of these resources. In this paper, the task of advertising the resources has been studied from a network point of view. An advertisement model has been designed using multi-agent system techniques to achieve decentralization and to cope with the dynamic nature and behaviour of the system. The design has been implemented and tested under a simulation environment using the network simulator ns-2. The system evaluation has shown promising results in terms of the system performance itself and the effect of the advertising overhead on a working network's performance. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.