Steffen Rusitschka

A Framework for Resource Management in Peer-to-Peer Networks

The huge amount of recent activities in peer-to-peer (P2P) computing led to the development of a number of applications and protocols all dealing with similar problems and providing different noninteroperable implementations. In this paper, we present a framework for resource management and information storage in P2P networks. Our framework aims at providing an easy to use and flexible model for P2P computing encouraging more modularized application development and permitting reuse of components. To provide efficient localization of resources and representation of information, our resource management framework (RMF) forms a distributed information space enabling not only flat storage of information but forming graph structures that can be used to build new kinds of applications enabling the users to browse the contents of a P2P network.

The resource management framework: a system for managing metadata in decentralized networks using peer-to-peer technology

Given the current explosion in peer-to-peer based protocol implementations, application developers require a means of abstracting the individual characteristics of specific peer-to-peer implementations away from their application logic. The Resource Management Framework provides a unified model of peer-to-peer computing which is independent of the underlying protocols. To this end, a data model and APIs for both application and peer-to-peer protocol developers are provided which hide many of the intricate details, such as database management and redundancy, inherent in all peer-to-peer systems. A first application of the Resource Management Framework has been demonstrated via the implementation of a FIPA compliant, distributed, ad-hoc Directory Facilitator for the Java Agent DEvelopment Framework (JADE).