RECON: a novel approach to fighting unreliability in peer-to-peer grids. (8th June 2011)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sun, Hailong; Huai, Jinpeng; Liu, Xudong; Li, Jing
• Is Part Of: International journal of grid and utility computing. Volume 2:Number 2(2011)
• Page Start: 77
• Page End: 84
• Publication Date: 2011-06-08
• Subjects: reliability -- scheduling -- peer-to-peer grids -- P2P grids -- grid computing -- reliable task execution -- unreliable resources -- customer bidding price -- simulation; Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Management -- Computer programs -- Periodicals; 004.605
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-847X

Abstract

Peer-to-peer and grid computing are two important and successful computing paradigms. In peer-to-peer grids, resources are usually unreliable due to the lack of centralised control. Thus, it is critical to design a mechanism to enable reliable task execution in unreliable resource environments like peer-to-peer grids. In this work, we present RECON, which combines reliability and economic incentives to achieve such a goal. RECON aims at ensuring consumer tasks to be reliably executed while the economic revenue of service peers is maximised. First, we design a scheme to determine the minimum reliability threshold based on the bidding price of a consumer. Second, we propose a group of scheduling heuristics to obtain the maximum revenue of service providers under the constraint of the computed reliability threshold. Finally, we perform extensive simulations to evaluate the effectiveness of our solution.