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Summary: IEEE NCA 05: The 4th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, pp. 267-270, Boston MA,
August 2005.
Controlling the Coverage of Grid Information Dissemination Protocols
Bhavin Gandhi, Sameer Tilak, Michael J. Lewis and Nael B. Abu-Ghazaleh
Department of Computer Science
State University of New York, Binghamton NY 13902
bgandhi, sameer, mlewis, nael¡ @cs.binghamton.edu
Abstract
Grid information dissemination protocols distribute infor-
mation about the dynamic state of computational resources
throughout interconnected wide area Grids. Performance
metrics for these protocols include the overhead of informa-
tion packets, and the accuracy of the information at the time
it is used to schedule applications. Our previous work ad-
vocated non-uniform protocols to keep dissemination local
to the information source, as a method of keeping overhead
manageable while achieving adequate freshness and accu-
racy. This paper considers the problem of providing better
control over the dissemination of information and influenc-
ing the "coverage footprint" that defines where the infor-
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