Remote Instrumentation Services on the e-Infrastructure

by Davoli, Franco; Meyer, Norbert; Pugliese, Roberto; Zappatore, Sandro

• ISBN13: 9781441955739
• ISBN10: 1441955739
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-12-30
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The book focuses on all aspects related to the effective exploitation of remote instrumentation and to the building of complex virtual laboratories on top of real devices and infrastructures. These include service oriented architecture (SOA) and related middleware, high-speed networking in support of Grid applications, wireless Grids for acquisition devices and sensor networks, Quality Service (QoS) provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation and methodology, as well as metrology issues in distributed systems.

Table of Contents

Remote Instrumentation Services
Design and Evaluation of a RESTful API for Controlling and Monitoring Heterogeneous Devices	p. 3
Parametric Jobs - Facilitation of Instrument Elements Usage In Grid Applications	p. 15
The Grid as a Software Application Provider in a Synchrotron Radiation Facility	p. 33
Support of Grid Functionalities
An Optimized Architecture for Supporting Data Streaming in Interactive Grids	p. 43
EDGeS Bridge Technologies to Interconnect Service and Desktop Grids	p. 61
Management Challenges of Automated Service Level Agreements	p. 73
Storage and Analysis Infrastructure for Data Acquisition Systems with High Data Rates	p. 85
GridWalker: A Visual Tool for Supporting Advanced Discovery of Grid Resources	p. 103
A Bio-Inspired Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Environments	p. 113
Networking
Topology Design of a Service Overlay Network for e-Science Applications	p. 131
BitTorrent for Storage and File Transfer in Grid Environments	p. 149
Context Awareness in Autonomic Heterogeneous Environments	p. 163
Enabling e-Infrastructures in Italy Through the GARR Network	p. 179
Academic MANs and PIONIER - Polish Road to e-Infrastructure for e-Science	p. 193
Applications in User Communities
The Impact of Global High-Speed Networks on Radio Astronomy	p. 209
Observatory Middleware Framework (OMF)	p. 231
Analysis and Optimization of Performance Characteristics for MPI Parallel Scientific Applications on the Grid (A Case Study for the OPATM-BFM Simulation Application)	p. 241
Network-Centric Earthquake Engineering Simulations	p. 255
A Grid Approach for Calibrating and Comparing Microscopic Road Traffic Models	p. 271
Learning Environments
Networking Resources for Research and Scientific Education in BW-eLabs	p. 285
"The SIP Pod" - A VoIP Student Lab/Playground	p. 303
Index	p. 315
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