Research Article
Network as a resource: G-lambda project and its architecture
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/gridnets.2007.2289, author={Tomohiro Kudoh and Shuichi Okamoto and Yukio Tsukishima and Hideaki Tanaka and Masahiko Jinno and Michiaki Hayashi and Atsuko Takefusa and Tomohiro Otani and Atsushi Taniguchi and Akira Hirano and Takahiro Miyamoto and Hidemoto Nakada and Yasunori Sameshima}, title={Network as a resource: G-lambda project and its architecture}, proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Networks for Grid Applications}, publisher={ICST}, proceedings_a={GRIDNETS}, year={2007}, month={10}, keywords={Network as a resource bandwidth provisioning G-lambda GNSWSI}, doi={10.4108/gridnets.2007.2289} }- Tomohiro Kudoh
Shuichi Okamoto
Yukio Tsukishima
Hideaki Tanaka
Masahiko Jinno
Michiaki Hayashi
Atsuko Takefusa
Tomohiro Otani
Atsushi Taniguchi
Akira Hirano
Takahiro Miyamoto
Hidemoto Nakada
Yasunori Sameshima
Year: 2007
Network as a resource: G-lambda project and its architecture
GRIDNETS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/gridnets.2007.2289
Abstract
In computing systems, hardware components such as CPUs, memories and storages are “resources”. Resources are managed by resource managers (c.f. a queuing system of a computing center), and a user can use them while they are allocated to the user. To provide a stable service using “resources” connected to a wide area network, network itself should be also considered as a “resource” and bandwidth should be allocated to users appropriately. Resource is provided to a user or upper layer middleware by a resource manager. Therefore, to realize “network as a resource”, bandwidth of network should be managed by a network resource manager, and an interface to provide resource service to users or middleware is required. National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technologies (AIST), KDDI R&D Laboratories, NTT and National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) are promoting collaborative project, called G-lambda, to establish such a standard interface, which is called GNS-WSI (Grid Network Service-Web Services Interface). In this paper, we will briefly introduce the architecture we assume in the G-lambda project to define GNS-WSI.
