A framework for quality of service over a shared resource and shared network environment

"Volunteer" and Peer-to-Peer (p2p) computing are classes of resource management systems that make use of volunteered resources for off-line computation or file distribution. We propose a framework that uses these resources as a medium for deploying on-line on-demand Internet services. For our experiments we chose Web Delivery and Data Base Management System (DBMS) as together they are used to deliver wide-area Web based applications or services. They also both require computing resources and network resources. Using PlanetLab we examine several contributing factors to service performance such as resource configuration, resource loading and the wide-area network. From these results we continue to develop resource selection algorithms and a probe based monitoring system that contribute to an overall resource management framework.