The constantly increasing interest devoted to grids, both in terms of developments and applications, proves that distributed computing has now achieved a high degree of maturity to be considered as a new network paradigm. Quality of Service as well as service awareness of both network and non netwo…
The constantly increasing interest devoted to grids, both in terms of developments and applications, proves that distributed computing has now achieved a high degree of maturity to be considered as a new network paradigm. Quality of Service as well as service awareness of both network and non network resources are important aspects for both controlling an managing grids. Service awareness concept is derived from autonomic networks for self-organizing purposes. Service awareness in grids will allow the combination of complex grid services with QoS-enabled connectivity or in other words a seamless internetworking of network and non-network resources. In this direction, service composition, service discovery as well as complete service restoration (apart from simple connectivity restoration) are key aspects when distributed grid services are offered.