| Chairs: | Brian Tierney
<bltierney@lbl.gov> Richard Hughes-Jones <R.Hughes-Jones@man.ac.uk> |
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The Network Measurements for Applications Research Group (NMA-RG) will focus on the relationship between network performance characteristics and Grid middleware. The objective of NMA-RG is to explore what aspects of the network are most important to Grid middleware, and explore how the knowledge of network behaviour such as bandwidth, latency, or jitter, might be used to build network-aware middleware.
Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
The role of the NMA-RG role is related to, yet quite distinct from that of the Network Measurement Working Group (NM-WG). The NM-WG is focused on specific mechanisms for publishing network monitoring data. The NMA-RG will provide a forum for discussion of how Grid middleware might utilize such information. This is currently an open research question, and one we feel can best be addressed by the GGF. We expect any specific conclusions reached by the NMA-RG to be then standardized by the NM-WG, or some other WG.