Data Grid provides scalable infrastructure for storage resource and data files management,
which supports several large scale applications. Due to limitation of available resources in …

In this paper, we address three issues concerning data replica placement in hierarchical
Data Grids that can be presented as tree structures. The first is how to ensure load balance …

Optimizing the use of grid resources is critical for users to effectively exploit a Data Grid
(DG). Data replication is considered as a major technique for increasing access …

With the rapid development of the cloud and data-intensive computing, many data center
network are growing more large scale, and the number of servers is increasing at an …

Data Grid provides resources for data-intensive scientific applications that need to access a
huge amount of data around the world. Since data grid is built on a wide-area network, its …

Thanks is also due to Professor Balaji Raghavachari for his career advice and insight into
research and academia. He has served as an excellent mentor and a friendly ear on a wide …

Data replication techniques are used in cloud computing to reduce access latency, network
bandwidth and enhance data availability, system reliability. Replica selection involves …