DYNAMIC SLA NEGOTIATION BASED ON WS-AGREEMENT

Antoine Pichot, Oliver Wäldrich, Wolfgang Ziegler, Philipp Wieder

2008

Abstract

In Grid, e-Science and e-Business environments Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are often used to establish frameworks for the delivery of services between service providers and the home organisations of the customers. While this high level SLAs, e.g. framework contracts, govern the relationship between the parties, it is desirable for the end-user to have dedicated quality of service (QoS) also for individual services like the orchestration of resources necessary for composed services. Grid level scheduling services typically are responsible for the orchestration and coordination of resources in the Grid, which requires the Grid level scheduler to coordinate resource management systems probably located in different domains. As the site autonomy has to be respected negotiating with the individual sites is the only way to achieve the intended coordination. Electronic SLAs emerged as a new way to negotiate and manage usage of resources in the Grid and are already adopted by a number of management systems. Therefore, it is natural to look for ways to adopt SLAs for Grid level scheduling. To realise this approach we need efficient and flexible protocols supporting dynamic negotiation and creation of SLAs. In this paper we propose and discuss ongoing work on extensions to the WS-Agreement protocol addressing these issues.

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Pichot A., Wäldrich O., Ziegler W. and Wieder P. (2008). DYNAMIC SLA NEGOTIATION BASED ON WS-AGREEMENT . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8111-26-5, pages 38-45. DOI: 10.5220/0001525500380045


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@conference{webist08,
author={Antoine Pichot and Oliver Wäldrich and Wolfgang Ziegler and Philipp Wieder},
title={DYNAMIC SLA NEGOTIATION BASED ON WS-AGREEMENT},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2008},
pages={38-45},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001525500380045},
isbn={978-989-8111-26-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - DYNAMIC SLA NEGOTIATION BASED ON WS-AGREEMENT
SN - 978-989-8111-26-5
AU - Pichot A.
AU - Wäldrich O.
AU - Ziegler W.
AU - Wieder P.
PY - 2008
SP - 38
EP - 45
DO - 10.5220/0001525500380045