Abstract | Future Grid Networks should be able to provide Quality
of Service (QoS) guarantees to their users. In this work
we propose a framework for Grid Networks that provides
deterministic delay guarantees to its Guaranteed Service
(GS) users and best effort service to its Best Effort (BE)
users. The proposed framework is theoretically and experimentally
analyzed. We also define four types of computational
resources based on the type of users (GS, BE) these
resources serve and the priority they give them. We implement
the proposed QoS framework for Grids and verify that
it not only satisfies the delay guarantees given to GS users,
but also improves performance in terms of deadlines missed
and resource use. In our simulations, data from a real Grid
Network are used, validating in this way the appropriateness
and usefulness of the proposed framework. |