Distributed resource discovery in wide area grid environments

Multitude of resources pooled in grid environments require a scalable, efficient, low-cost and self-organizing resource discovery mechanisms. P2P networks possess overlapping characteristics like large scale resource sharing and dynamic nature of participation. P2P style resource discovery approaches have been employed in the grid environments. We propose a P2P based resource discovery approach with modified features like customized neighbourhood defined according to the user preferences and distributed search using directed flow of requests contrary to the blind propagation of P2P systems.