Relaxed-criteria G-negotiation for Grid Resource Co-allocation (Position Paper)

Supporting resource co-allocation is essential for realizing the Grid vision because computational intensive applications may require more resources than a single computing machine can provide in one administrative domain. Given that the various stakeholders often have their own requirements and supply-and-demand patterns, successfully obtaining commitments through concurrent negotiations with multiple resource owners to simultaneously access several resources is a very challenging task. This position paper (i) suggests that a relaxed-criteria G-negotiation mechanism may be used to enhance the success rates of negotiation agents in Grid resource co-allocation, (ii) proposes a testbed for realizing the relaxed-criteria G-negotiation mechanism, (iii) discusses experimental designs for evaluating the proposed mechanism, and (iv) discusses previous results obtained from using a relaxed-criteria G-negotiation protocol for Grid resource allocation.