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...

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 Grid Market Middleware (GMM) design, implementation and early evaluation have beenthoroughly described in previous deliverables. Development in core GMM components (agenthosting, group communication, metric collection) has been frozen since Year 2, oncerequirements have been met. For this...