Annual Reports

Technical Reports

2024

    Emir Sahin Hatay, Muhammed Golec, Hoa T. Nguyen, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Panos Patros, Minxian Xu, Manmeet Singh, Omer Rana, Ajith Abraham, Junaid Qadir, Soumya K. Ghosh, Hanan Lutfiyya, Rizos Sakellariou, Salil S. Kanhere, Rami Bahsoon, Steve Uhlig, Ying Mao, and Rajkumar Buyya, Top Research Priorities in Quantum Computing, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2024-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, October 28, 2023.

2023

  1. Leila Ismail and Rajkumar Buyya, Metaverse: A Vision, Architectural Elements, and Future Directions for Scalable and Realtime Virtual Worldspapers/Metaverse.pdf, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2023-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, August 13, 2023.

2022

  1. Hoa T. Nguyen, Muhammad Usman, Rajkumar Buyya, QFaaS: A Serverless Function-as-a-Service Framework for Quantum Computing, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2022-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 30, 2022.

2021

  1. Rajkumar Buyya, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Satish Narayana Srirama, Rami Bahsoon, and San Murugesan,A Strategy for Advancing Research and Impact in New Computing Paradigms, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2021-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 30, 2021.

2020

  1. Sukhpal Singh Gill, Adarsh Kumar, Harvinder Singh, Manmeet Singh, Kamalpreet Kaur, Muhammad Usman, and Rajkumar Buyya, Quantum Computing: A Taxonomy, Systematic Review and Future Directions, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2020-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, September 28, 2020.

2019

  1. Shreshth Tuli, Nipam Basumatary, Sukhpal Singh Gill, Mohsen Kahani, Rajesh Chand Arya, Gurpreet Singh Wander, and Rajkumar Buyya, HealthFog: An Ensemble Deep Learning based Smart Healthcare System for Automatic Diagnosis of Heart Diseases in Integrated IoT and Fog Computing Environments, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2019-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 7, 2019.
  2. Shreshth Tuli, Rajinder Sandhu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Shared Data-Aware Dynamic Resource Provisioning and Task Scheduling for Data Intensive Applications on Hybrid Clouds using Aneka, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2019-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, July 23, 2019.

2016

  1. Nikolay Grozev and Rajkumar Buyya, Dynamic Selection of Virtual Machines for Application Servers in Cloud Environments, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 5, 2016.
  2. Harshit Gupta, Amir Vahid Dastjerdi , Soumya K. Ghosh, and Rajkumar Buyya, iFogSim: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Resource Management Techniques in Internet of Things, Edge and Fog Computing Environments, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-2, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2016.
  3. Minxian Xu, Wenhong Tian, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Survey on Load Balancing Algorithms for VM Placement in Cloud Computing, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-3, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 21, 2016.
  4. Minxian Xu, Amir Vahid Dastjerdi, and Rajkumar Buyya, Energy Efficient Scheduling of Cloud Application Components with Brownout , Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-4, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 6, 2016.
  5. Chenhao Qu, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya, Auto-scaling Web Applications in Clouds: A Taxonomy and Survey, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-5, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 29, 2016.
  6. Redowan Mahmud and Rajkumar Buyya, Fog Computing: A Taxonomy, Survey and Future Directions, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2016-6, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 17, 2016.

2015

  1. Chenhao Qu, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Reliable and Cost-Efficient Auto-Scaling System for Web Applications Using Heterogeneous Spot Instances, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2015-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Sept. 17, 2015.
  2. Sukhpal Singh, Inderveer Chana and Rajkumar Buyya, Agri-Info: Cloud Based Autonomic System for Delivering Agriculture as a Service, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2015-2, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Nov. 27, 2015.
  3. Gaurav Somani, Manoj Singh Gaur, Dheeraj Sanghi, Mauro Conti, and Rajkumar Buyya, DDoS Attacks in Cloud Computing: Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2015-4, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Dec. 27, 2015.

2014

  1. Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Kurt Van Mechelen, and Rajkumar Buyya, Auction Mechanism for a Cloud Spot Market, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2014-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Dec. 4, 2014.

2013

  1. Marcos D. Assuncao, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Silvia Bianchi, Marco A. S. Netto, Rajkumar Buyya, Big Data Computing and Clouds: Trends and Future Directions, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2013-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Dec. 17, 2013.

2012

  1. Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Ruppa K. Thulasiram and Rajkumar Buyya, Financial Option Market Model for Federated Cloud Environments, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2012-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, March 10, 2012.
  2. Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, Slaven Marusic, and Marimuthu Palaniswami, Internet of Things (IoT): A Vision, Architectural Elements, and Future Directions, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2012-2, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, June 29, 2012.
  3. Anton Beloglazov, Sareh Fotuhi Piraghaj, Mohammed Alrokayan, and Rajkumar Buyya, Deploying OpenStack on CentOS Using the KVM Hypervisor and GlusterFS Distributed File System, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2012-3, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, August 14, 2012.
  4. Anton Beloglazov and Rajkumar Buyya, OpenStack Neat: A Framework for Dynamic Consolidation of Virtual Machines in OpenStack Clouds - A Blueprint, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2012-4, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, August 14, 2012.
  5. Michael Mattess, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya, Scaling MapReduce Applications across Hybrid Clouds to Meet Soft Deadlines, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2012-5, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, August 15, 2012.

2011

  1. Bahman Javadi and Rajkumar Buyya, Comprehensive Statistical Analysis and Modeling of Spot Instances in Public Cloud Environments, Technical Report CLOUDS-TR-2011-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, March 30, 2011.

2010

  1. Marco A. S. Netto and Rajkumar Buyya, Coordinated Rescheduling of Bag-of-Tasks for Executions on Multiple Resource Providers, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-1, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Jan 22, 2010.
  2. Adam Barker and Rajkumar Buyya, Decentralised Orchestration of Service-Oriented Workflows, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-2, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 31, 2010.
  3. Anton Beloglazov, Rajkumar Buyya, Young Choon Lee, and Albert Zomaya, A Taxonomy and Survey of Energy-Efficient Data Centers and Cloud Computing Systems, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-3, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 30, 2010.
  4. Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Sheng Niu, Ahsan Khandoker, and Rajkumar Buyya, An Autonomic Cloud Environment for Hosting ECG Data Analysis Services, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-4, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, August 3, 2010.
  5. Linlin Wu and Rajkumar Buyya, Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-5, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, September 3, 2010.
  6. Suraj Pandey and Rajkumar Buyya, Scheduling Data Intensive Workflow Applications based on Multi-Source Parallel Data Retrieval in Distributed Computing Networks, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-6, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, September 16, 2010.
  7. Linlin Wu, Saurabh Kumar Garg, and Rajkumar Buyya, SLA-based Admission Control for a Software-as-a-Service Provider in Cloud Computing Environments, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2010-7, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, September 20, 2010.

2009

  1. Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Rajiv Ranjan, Cesar A. F. De Rose, and Rajkumar Buyya, CloudSim: A Novel Framework for Modeling and Simulation of Cloud Computing Infrastructures and Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2009-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 13, 2009.
  2. William Voorsluys, James Broberg, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya, Cost of Virtual Machine Live Migration in Clouds: A Performance Evaluation, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2009-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 5, 2009.
  3. Mukaddim Pathan, James Broberg, and Rajkumar Buyya, Maximizing Utility for Content Delivery Clouds, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2009-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 16, 2009.
  4. Christian Vecchiola, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Aneka: A Software Platform for .NET-based Cloud Computing, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-4, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 25, 2009.
  5. Marco A. S. Netto, Christian Vecchiola, Michael Kirley, Carlos A. Varela, and Rajkumar Buyya, Resource Co-Allocation based on Application Profiling: A Case Study in Multi-Objective Evolutionary Computations, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-5, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 3, 2009.
  6. Suraj Pandey, Kapil Kumar Gupta, Adam Barker, and Rajkumar Buyya, Minimizing Cost when using Globally Distributed Cloud Services: A Case Study in Analysis of Intrusion Detection Workflow Application, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-6, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 7, 2009.
  7. Christian Vecchiola, Mani Abedini, Michael Kirley, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Classification of Gene Expression Data on Public Clouds, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-7, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 7, 2009.
  8. Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg and Rajkumar Buyya, OpenPEX: An Open Provisioning and EXecution System for Virtual Machines, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-8, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 25, 2009.
  9. Saurabh Kumar Garg, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg and Rajkumar Buyya, Double Auction based Meta-Scheduling of Parallel Applications on Global GridsTechnical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-9, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 3, 2009.
  10. Saurabh Kumar Garg,Chee Shin Yeo, Arun Anandasivam, and Rajkumar Buyya, Energy-Efficient Scheduling of HPC Applications in Cloud Computing Environments, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-10, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 4, 2009.
  11. Suraj Pandey, Linlin Wu, Siddeswara Guru, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Particle Swarm Optimization-based Heuristic for Scheduling Workflow Applications in Cloud Computing Environments, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-11, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 16, 2009.
  12. Bhathiya Wickremasinghe, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, and Rajkumar Buyya, CloudAnalyst: A CloudSim-based Visual Modeller for Analysing Cloud Computing Environments and Applications, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-12, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 23, 2009.
  13. Saurabh Kumar Garg and Rajkumar Buyya, Mandi: A Market Exchange for Trading Utility Computing Services, Technical Report, CLOUDS-TR-2009-13, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 17, 2009.

2008

  1. Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Negotiation Mechanism for Advance Resource Reservation using the Alternate Offers Protocol, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 7, 2008.
  2. Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, and Rajkumar Buyya, Coordinated Load Management in Peer-to-Peer Coupled Federated Grid Systems, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 15, 2008.
  3. Sungjin Choi, Rajkumar Buyya, Hongsoo Kim, Eunjoung Byun, Maengsoon Baik, Joonmin Gil, and Chanyeol Park, A Taxonomy of Desktop Grids and its Mapping to State-of-the-Art Systems, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 20, 2008.
  4. Xingchen Chu, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Grid Resource Broker for Scheduling Component-based Applications on Distributed Resources, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 27, 2008.
  5. James Broberg and Rajkumar Buyya, Flow Networking in Grid Simulations, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 13, 2008.
  6. Chao Jin, Jayavardhana Gubbi, Rajkumar Buyya, and Marimuthu Palaniswami, Jeeva: Enterprise Grid-enabled Web Portal for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 15, 2008.
  7. Marcos Dias de Assuncao and Rajkumar Buyya, Performance Analysis of Multiple Site Resource Provisioning: Effects of the Precision of Availability Information, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2008.
  8. Marcos Dias de Assuncao and Rajkumar Buyya, Performance Analysis of Allocation Policies for InterGrid Resource Provisioning, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 9, 2008.
  9. Xingchen Chu, Rajkumar Buyya, and Rosa M. Badia, A Novel Approach for Realising Superscalar Programming Model on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-9, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, July 3, 2008.
  10. Ivona Brandic, Srikumar Venugopal, Michael Mattess, and Rajkumar Buyya, Towards a Meta-Negotiation Architecture for SLA-Aware Grid Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-10, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 8, 2008.
  11. James Broberg, Rajkumar Buyya, and Zahir Tari, MetaCDN: Harnessing ‘Storage Clouds’ for high performance content delivery, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 15, 2008.
  12. Suraj Pandey, William Voorsluys, Mustafizur Rahman, Rajkumar Buyya, James Dobson, and Kenneth Chiu, Brain Image Registration Analysis Workflow for fMRI Studies on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-12, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 15, 2008.
  13. Rajiv Ranjan and Rajkumar Buyya, Decentralized Overlay for Federation of Enterprise Clouds, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 29, 2008.
  14. Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic, Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-14, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sept. 27, 2008.
  15. Chao Jin and Rajkumar Buyya, MapReduce Programming Model for .NET-based Distributed Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-15, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 17, 2008.
  16. Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Autonomic Metered Pricing for a Utility Computing Service, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct. 28, 2008.
  17. Marco Netto and Rajkumar Buyya, Offer-based Scheduling of Deadline-Constrained Bag-of-Tasks for Utility Computing Systems, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2008-17, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 8, 28, 2008.

2007

  1. Christoph Reich, Matthias Banholzer, and Rajkumar Buyya, Autonomic Container for Hosting WSRF-based Web Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Jan. 15, 2007.
  2. Srikumar Venugopal, Krishna Nadiminti, Hussein Gibbins and Rajkumar Buyya, Designing a Resource Broker for Heterogeneous Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 5, 2007.
  3. Rajkumar Buyya, Seven Tips for Enhancing Your Research Visibility and Impact, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 8, 2007.
  4. Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy and Survey of Content Delivery Networks, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 12, 2007.
  5. Christian Vecchiola, Krishna Nadiminti and Rajkumar Buyya, Image Filtering on .NET-based Desktop Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 13, 2007.
  6. Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Scalable Self-Managing Architecture for WSRF Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 16, 2007.
  7. Rajiv Ranjan, Lipo Chan, Aaron Harwood, Rajkumar Buyya, Shanika Karunasekera, A Scalable, Robust, and Decentralised Resource Discovery Service for Large Scale Federated Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 18, 2007.
  8. Marco A. S. Netto, Kris Bubendorfer, Rajkumar Buyya, SLA-based advance reservations with flexible and adaptive time QoS parameters, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 28, 2007.
  9. Christoph Reich, Kris Bubendorfer, Matthias Banholzer, and Rajkumar Buyya, A SLA-Oriented WSRF Container Architecture, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-9, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 28, 2007.
  10. Jia Yu and Rajkumar Buyya, Workflow Schdeduling Algorithms for Grid Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-10, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 31, 2007.
  11. Agustin Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carri´on, and Rajkumar Buyya, Extending GridSim with an Architecture for Failure Detection, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, June 1, 2007.
  12. Hui Li and Rajkumar Buyya Model-Driven Simulation of Grid Scheduling Strategies, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-12, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, July 13, 2007.
  13. Tom Kobialka, Rajkumar Buyya, and Christopher Leckie, Open Sensor Web Architecture: Stateful Web Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, July 13, 2007.
  14. Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood, and Rajkumar Buyya, Peer-to-Peer Tuple Space: A Novel Protocol for Coordinated Resource Provisioning, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-14, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, August 13, 2007.
  15. Rajiv Ranjan, Xingchen Chu, Carlos A. Queiroz, Aaron Harwood, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Self-Organising Federation of Alchemi Desktop Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-15, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, August 13, 2007.
  16. James Broberg, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya, Market-oriented Grids and Utility Computing: The state-of-the-art and future directions, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, August 13, 2007.
  17. Marco A. S. Netto and Rajkumar Buyya, A Flexible Resource Co-Allocation Model based on Advance Reservations with Rescheduling Support, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-17, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, October 9, 2007.
  18. Marcos Dias de Assuncao and Rajkumar Buyya, A Resource Exchange Mechanism for Peak Load Management in InterGrid Environments, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-18, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, October 11, 2007.
  19. Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg and Rajkumar Buyya, An Approach for QoS-Driven Performance Modeling of Peering Content Delivery Networks, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-19, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, October 31, 2007.
  20. Agustin Caminero, Anthony Sulistio, Blanca Caminero, Carmen Carrion, and Rajkumar Buyya, Simulation of Buffer Management Policies in Networks for Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-20, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, October 31, 2007.
  21. Chao Jin and Rajkumar Buyya, A Dataflow System with a Local Optima-based Scheduling for Enterprise Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-21, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, November 19, 2007.
  22. Pramod Kumar Konugurthi, Krishnan Ramakrishnan and Rajkumar Buyya, A Heuristic Genetic Algorithm based Scheduler for Clearing House Grid Broker, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2007-22, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, November 20, 2007.

2006

  1. Marcos Dias de Assuncao and Rajkumar Buyya, InterGrid: A Case for Internetworking of Islands of Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb 21, 2006.
  2. Marcos Dias de Assuncao and Rajkumar Buyya, An Evaluation of Communication Demand of Auction Protocols in Grid Environments, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Feb 26, 2006.
  3. Srikumar Venugopal and Rajkumar Buyya, A Set Coverage-based Mapping Heuristic for Scheduling Distributed Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 8, 2006.
  4. Chee Shin Yeo and Rajkumar Buyya, Managing Risk of Inaccurate Runtime Estimates for Deadline Constrained Job Admission Control in Clusters , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, March 9, 2006.
  5. Anthony Sulistio, Gokul Poduval, Rajkumar Buyya, and Chen-Khong Tham, On Incorporating Differentiated Network Service into GridSim , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia and Computer Communication Networks Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 9, 2006.
  6. Martin Placek and Rajkumar Buyya, Storage Exchange: A Global Trading Platform for Storage Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 12, 2006.
  7. Chee Shin Yeo, Rajkumar Buyya, Marcos Dias de Assunção, Jia Yu, Anthony Sulistio, Srikumar Venugopal, and Martin Placek, Utility Computing on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, April 13, 2006.
  8. Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood and Rajkumar Buyya SLA-Based Coordinated Superscheduling Scheme and Performance for Computational Grids, Technical Report, GRID S-TR-2006-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 8, 2006.
  9. Hussein Gibbins and Rajkumar Buyya, Gridscape II: A Customisable and Pluggable Grid Monitoring Portal and its Integration with Google Maps, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-9, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 12, 2006.
  10. Thamarai Selvi Somasundaram, R.A.Balachandar, Vijayakumar Kandasamy, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajagopalan Raman, N.Mohanram and S.Varun, Semantic-based Grid Resource Discovery and its Integration with the Grid Service Broker, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-10, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 25, 2006.
  11. Martin Placek and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy of Distributed Storage Systems, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR- 2006-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, July 3, 2006.
  12. Xingchen Chu, Tom Kobialka and Rajkumar Buyya, Open Sensor Web Architecture: Core Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-12, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Jul 6, 2006.
  13. Xingchen Chu, Andrew Lonie, Peter Harris, S.Randall Thomas, Rajkumar Buyya, KidneyGrid: A Grid Platform for Integration of Distributed Kidney Models and Resources, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 22, 2006.
  14. Sherman C.P. Cheung, X. Chu, S.J. Xu, R. Buyya and J.Y. Tu, A Grid Based e-Research Platform for Clinical Management in the Human Respiratory and Vascular System, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-14, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 25, 2006.
  15. Carlos Queiroz, Marco A. S. Netto, Rajkumar Buyya, Message Passing over Windows-based Desktop Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-15, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 29, 2006.
  16. Rajkumar Buyya, Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, James Broberg and Zahir Tari, A Case for Peering of Content Delivery Networks , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Sep. 07, 2006.
  17. Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood and Rajkumar Buyya, A Study on Peer-to-Peer Based Discovery of Grid Resource Information, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-17, P2P Networks Group and Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 10, 2006.
  18. Chao Jin, Zheng Zhang, Lex Stein, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Dataflow System for Unreliable Computing Environments, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-18, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 21, 2006.
  19. Rajkumar Buyya and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, Innovative Master’s Program in Distributed Computing @ Melbourne, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-19, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 27, 2006.
  20. Marcos Dias de Assunção, Werner Streitberger, Torsten Eymann, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Framework for Simulating Service-Oriented Grid Applications, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-20, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2, 2006.
  21. Al-Mukaddim Khan Pathan, Rajkumar Buyya, James Broberg and Kris Bubendorfer, Economy-based Content Replication for Peering Content Delivery Networks, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-21, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 4, 2006.
  22. YuZheng Zhai, XingChen Chu, Arthur Hsu, Saman K Halgamuge and Rajkumar Buyya, Scalable Text Clustering on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2006-22, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laborat ory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 4, 2006.

2005

  1. Jia Yu and Rajkumar Buyya, A Taxonomy of Workflow Management Systems for Grid Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, March 10, 2005.
  2. S.Thamarai Selvi, Rajkumar Buyya, M.R. Rajagopalan, K.Vijayakumar, and G.N.Deepak, Multilingual Interface for Grid Market Directory Services: An Experience with Supporting Tamil, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 17, 2005.
  3. Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, and Kotagiri Ramamohanarao, A Taxonomy of Data Grids for Distributed Data Sharing, Management and Processing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 21, 2005.
  4. Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, and Rajkumar Buyya, The Gridbus Grid Service Broker and Scheduler (2.0) User Guide, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 22, 2005.
  5. Tianchi Ma and Rajkumar Buyya, Critical-Path and Priority based Algorithms for Scheduling Workflows with Parameter Sweep Tasks on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2005.
  6. Anthony Sulistio and Rajkumar Buyya, A Time Optimization Algorithm for Scheduling Bag-of-Task Applications in Auction-based Proportional Share Systems, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 6, 2005.
  7. Chee Shin Yeo and Rajkumar Buyya, Handling Penalty to Enhance Profitability for Service Level Agreement based Allocation of Cluster Resources, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 7, 2005.
  8. Jia Yu, Rajkumar Buyya, and Chen-Khong Tham, QoS-based Scheduling of Workflow Applications on Service Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 9, 2005.
  9. Hussein Gibbins, Krishna Nadiminti, Brett Beeson, Rajesh Chhabra, Brian Smith, and Rajkumar Buyya, The Australian BioGrid Portal: Empowering the Molecular Docking Research Community, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-9, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 13, 2005.
  10. Chen-Khong Tham and Rajkumar Buyya, SensorGrid: Integrating Sensor Networks and Grid Computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-10, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 24, 2005.
  11. Marcos Dias de Assunção, Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Tianchi Ma, Rajkumar Buyya, An Integration of Global and Enterprise Grid Computing: Gridbus Broker and Xgrid Perspective, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 11, 2005.
  12. Harold Soh, Shazia Haque, Weili Liao, Krishna Nadiminti and Rajkumar Buyya, GTPE: A Thread Programming Environment for the Grid, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-12, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 25, 2005.
  13. Anthony Sulistio, Uros Cibej, Borut Robic and Rajkumar Buyya, A Tool for Modelling and Simulation of Data Grids with Integration of Data Storage, Replication and Analysis, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov. 8, 2005.
  14. Rafael Moreno-Vozmediano, Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Ana B Alonso-Conde, Hussein Gibbins, and Rajkumar Buyya, Distributed Portfolio and Investment Risk Analysis on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-14, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov . 14, 2005.
  15. Krishna Nadiminti, Srikumar Venugopal, Hussein Gibbins, Tianchi Ma and Rajkumar Buyya, The Gridbus Grid Service Broker and Scheduler (2.4) User Guide, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-15, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, November 14, 2005.
  16. Krishna Nadiminti and Rajkumar Buyya , Enterprise Grid Computing: State-of-the-Art , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2005-16, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, Nov . 24, 2005.

2004

  1. Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya and Lyle Winton, A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling Distributed Data-Oriented Applications on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, February 2004.
  2. Rajkumar Buyya and Srikumar Venugopal, The Gridbus Toolkit for Service Oriented Grid and Utility Computing: An Overview and Status Report, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 2004.
  3. Anthony Sulistio and Rajkumar Buyya, A Grid Simulation Infrastructure Supporting Advance Reservation , Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-3, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, April 2004.
  4. Baden Hughes, Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya, Grid-based Indexing of a Newswire Corpus, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 2004.
  5. Parvin Asadzadeh, Rajkumar Buyya, Chun Ling Kei, Deepa Nayar, and Srikumar Venugopal, Global Grids and Software Toolkits: A Study of Four Grid Middleware Technologies, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 1, 2004.
  6. Agus Setiawan, David Adiutama, Julius Liman, Akshay Luther and Rajkumar Buyya, GridCrypt: High Performance Symmetric Key using Enterprise Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, July 7, 2004.
  7. Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, and Srikumar Venugopal, The Grid Economy, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 16, 2004.
  8. Krishna Nadiminti, Yi-Feng Chiu, Nick Teoh, Akshay Luther, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya, ExcelGrid: A .NET Plug-in for Outsourcing Excel Spreadsheet Workload to Enterprise and Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 17, 2004.
  9. Brett Beeson, Steve Melnikoff, Srikumar Venugopal, David G. Barnes, A Portal for Grid-enabled Physics, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-9, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Oct 19, 2004.
  10. Rajiv Ranjan, Aaron Harwood and Rajkumar Buyya, Grid Federation: An Economy Based Distributed Resource Management System for large-scale Resource Coupling. Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-10, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec 7, 2004.
  11. Srikumar Venugopal and Rajkumar Buyya, An Economy-based Algorithm for Scheduling Data-Intensive Applications on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-11, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec 8, 2004.
  12. Chee Shin Yeo and Rajkumar Buyya, A taxonomy of market-based resource management systems for utility-driven cluster computing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-12, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec 8, 2004.
  13. Anthony Sulistio, Gokul Poduvaly, Rajkumar Buyya, and Chen-Khong Tham, Constructing A Grid Simulation with Differentiated Network Service Using GridSim, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2004-13, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, Dec 9, 2004.

2003

  1. Jia Yu, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya, A Market-Oriented Grid Directory Service for Publication and Discovery of Grid Service Providers and their Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-0, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, January 2003.
  2. Ding Choon Hoong and Rajkumar Buyya, Guided Google: A Meta Search Engine and its Implementation using the Google Distributed Web Services, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-1, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, January 2003.
  3. Rajkumar Buyya, Susumu Date, Yuko Mizuno-Matsumoto, Srikumar Venugopal, and David Abramson, Composition of Distributed Brain Activity Analysis and its On-Demand Deployment on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-2, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, January 2003.
  4. Giorgos Cheliotis, Chris Kenyon, and Rajkumar Buyya, Grid Economics: 10 Lessons from Finance, Joint Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-3, IBM Research Zurich and Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, April 2003.
  5. Rajkumar Buyya, Manzur Murshed, David Abramson, and Srikumar Venugopal, Scheduling Parameter Sweep Applications on Global Grids: A Deadline and Budget Constrained Cost-Time Optimisation Algorithm, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, June 2003.
  6. Martin Placek and Rajkumar Buyya, G-Monitor Enhanced: A Web Portal for Managing and Monitoring Application Execution on Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-5, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, August 2003.
  7. Manjuka Soysa, Rajkumar Buyya, and Baikunth Nath, GridEmail: A Case for Economically Regulated Internet-based Interpersonal Communications, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-6, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, December 2003.
  8. Ding Choon-Hoong, Sarana Nutanong, Rajkumar Buyya, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks for Content Sharing, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-7, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, December 2003.
  9. Akshay Luther, Rajkumar Buyya, Rajiv Ranjan, and Srikumar Venugopal, Alchemi: A .NET-based Grid Computing Framework and its Integration into Global Grids, Technical Report, GRIDS-TR-2003-8, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, University of Melbourne, Australia, December 2003.
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