The increasing interconnection between computers through the Internet has emergedthe vision of Application Layer Networks. Application Layer Networks comprise anabstract view on overlay networks (e.g. Peer-to-Peer networks, Grid infrastructures) ontop of the TCP/IP protocol. Their common...

This deliverable describes the work done in the first 6 months of task 2.1, " Software components:Specification and design of software components, based on theoretical and experimentalexperience from related and the assessment projects, so that Catallaxy can be implementedin any computational...

This deliverable describes the work done in task 3.1 “Implementation of additionalservices for economic enhanced platforms in Grid/P2P platform: Preparation ofconcepts and mechanisms for implementation” from the WP 3, “Proof-of-ConceptApplications”. The document is divided in five parts:...

The rest of this chapter presents the overall architecture of the simulation process. Thefollowing chapters discuss various aspects of the development of the CATNETS simulator.Chapter 2 introduces the ALN model adopted in simulations and the types of serviceand resource allocation which are...

The deliverable refers to the tasks related to performance evaluation of the CATNETS projectin year 2. In Table 1 the character of this work is illustrated and set into context. In the firstyear of the project a theoretical metrics framework was devised as basis for the evaluation ofthe...

The objective of WP2 - Simulation of the CATNETS project was to identify the requiredfeatures of the CATNETS simulator, to develop it, and to incorporate the centralised andcatallactic service/resource market specifications from WP1: Theoretical and ComputationalBasis. The simulator is to be...

The deliverable reports the performance assessment of the Catallactic approach. Itdepends on the work done and results achieved in the other workpackages, particularlyWP2, the simulator and scenario generator development, and WP3, the prototypedevelopment....

Future Grid network technology will face the problem of the efficient provisioning ofservices to clients by a scalable and dynamic resource allocation (matching) mechanism.The objective of CATNETS is to determine the applicability of a decentralizedeconomic self-organization mechanism for...

Grid Computing is a paradigmatic application forthe requirements associated with the exponentially growingcomplexity in the engineering, operation and maintenance oftoday’s information systems. Grid Computing comprises evergrowingglobal communication infrastructures and millions ofpossible...

The vision of Utility Computing (UtiC) has gained significant interest in the last years and hasbecome a popular buzzword, that describes the idea of packaging of computing resources, such asstorage space, server capacity, bandwidth or computer processing time, as a metered service similarto a...