Title: RARS: a Resource-Aware Replica Selection and co-allocation scheme for mobile grid

Authors: Yue-Shan Chang, Guo-Jie Zou, Ching-Lung Chang

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Road, Sanhsia, Taipei County, 237 Taiwan. ' Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taipei University, 151, University Road, Sanhsia, Taipei County, 237 Taiwan. ' Department of Electronics and Information Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin County, 64002, Taiwan

Abstract: This paper presents a design for a mobile data grid architecture using agent technology, on which is based our proposed Resource-Aware Replica-Scheduling co-allocation algorithm for the mobile data grid environment. Mobile clients can access replicas of desired data from parallel, mobile grid nodes. These offer effective, efficient and reliable ways of using a variety of superior resources, such as the remaining energy, the bandwidth and the stability of connection in the nodes. The simulations presented here show that the RARS performs excellently and in the transmission time and the survival rate of the mobile nodes it exceeds all other approaches.

Keywords: mobile grid; data grid; replica scheduling; mobile computing; grid computing; co-allocation; resource awareness; simulation; mobile agents; agent-based systems; multi-agent systems; MAS; replica selection.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2010.034323

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2010 Vol.6 No.2, pp.99 - 113

Published online: 31 Jul 2010 *

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