P2P Based Service Provisioning on Distributed Resources

Dynamic or demand-driven service deployment in a Grid environment is an important issue considering the varying nature of demand. Most distributed frameworks either offer static service deployment which results in resource allocation problems, or, are job-based where for each invocation, the job along with the data has to be transferred for remote execution resulting in increased communication cost. An alternative approach is dynamic demand-driven provisioning of services as proposed in earlier literature, but the proposed methods fail to account for the volatility of resources in a Grid environment. In this paper, we propose a unique peer-to-peer based approach for dynamic service provisioning which incorporates a Bit-Torrent like protocol for provisioning the service on a remote node. Being built around a P2P model, the proposed framework caters to resource volatility and also incurs lower provisioning cost.