Grid Networks (eBook)

Franco Travostino is Director for Nortel's Advanced Technology, Office of the CTO. He propelled Nortel's leadership in the networking aspects of the Grid vision, and their implementation in widely-known Research & Education settings (e.g., OMNInet, SURFnet, GLIF exchanges, etc.). Since March 2003, Franco co-chairs the Grid High Performance Networking Research Group at the Global Grid Forum (GGF). Franco has authored more than 30 peer-reviewed technical publications, 25 patent disclosures, and has at least 6 standard-track IETF RFCs in the queue. Gigi Karmous-Edwards. Since joining MCNC as a Principal Scientist, Gigi has focused her research on novel optical technologies and their role in Grid Computing, and leads research activities focusing on advance networking technologies for Grid computing. She has published several papers in that area. She organized and chaired the 1st International workshop for the "Optical Control Plane for the Grid Community". Joel J. Mambretti is Director of the International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University. He has served on the advisory boards of major technology corporations, is a frequent speaker at national and international communications technology forums, and has authored multiple articles on advanced communications.

Editors and Contributors.

Contributors.

Foreword.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: The Grid and Grid Networks.

1. The Grid and Grid Network Services (Joe
Mambretti).

2. Grid Network Requirements and Driver Applications.

3. Grid Network Requirements and Architecture (Joe Mambretti
and Franco Travostino).

4. Relevant Emerging Network Architecture from Standards Bodies
(Franco Travostino).

5. Grid Network Services and Implications for Network Service
Design (Joe Mambretti, Bill St. Arnaud, Tom DeFanti, Maxine
Brown, and Kees Neggers).

6. Grid Network Services: Building on Multiservice Networks
(Joe Mambretti).

7. Grid Network Middleware (Franco Travostino and Doan
Hoang).

8. Grid Networks and TCP Services, Protocols, and Technologies
(Bartek Wydrowski, Sanjay Hegde, Martin Suchara, Ryan Witt, and
Steven Low).

9. Grid Networks and UDP Services, Protocols, and Technologies
(Jason Leigh, Eric He, and Robert Grossman).

10. Grid Networks and Layer 3 Services (Joe Mambretti and
Franco Travostino).

11. Layer 2 Technologies and Grid Networks (John Strand,
Angela Chiu, David Martin, and Franco Travostino).

12. Grid Networks and Layer 1 Services (Gigi Karmous-Edwards,
Joe Mambretti, Dimitra Simeonidou, Admela Jukan, Tzvetelina
Battestilli, Harry Perros, Yufeng Xin, and John Strand).

13. Network Performance Monitoring, Fault Detection, Recovery,
and Restoration (Richard Hughes-Jones, Yufeng Xin, Gigi
Karmous-Edwards, John Strand).

14. Grid Network Services Infrastructure (Cees de Laat, Freek
Dijkstra, and Joe Mambretti).

15. Emerging Grid Networking Services and Technologies (Joe
Mambretti, Roger Helkey, Olivier Jerphagnon, John Bowers, and
Franco Travostino).

Appendix: Advanced Networking Research Testbeds and Prototype
Implementations.

Index.

"...networking professionals (and Grid-oriented experts and
application developers) will certainly benefit from its up-to-date
content and its references providing pointers to further
information." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, February
2007)

"...can serve even newcomers to grids...networking
professionals (and Grid-oriented experts and application
developers) will certainly benefit from its up-to-date
content..." (IEEE Distributed Systems Online, February
2007)