Managing trust in a peer-2-peer information system
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Grid Information Services for Distributed Resource Sharing
HPDC '01 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Automatic methods for predicting machine availability in desktop Grid and peer-to-peer systems
CCGRID '04 Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
A large scale fault-tolerant grid information service
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing
Characterizing resource availability in enterprise desktop grids
Future Generation Computer Systems
Automatic grid assembly by promoting collaboration in peer-to-peer grids
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
Ensuring Collective Availability in Volatile Resource Pools Via Forecasting
DSOM '08 Proceedings of the 19th IFIP/IEEE international workshop on Distributed Systems: Operations and Management: Managing Large-Scale Service Deployment
Resource use pattern analysis for opportunistic grids
Proceedings of the 6th international workshop on Middleware for grid computing
On correlated availability in Internet-distributed systems
GRID '08 Proceedings of the 2008 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing
Modeling machine availability in enterprise and wide-area distributed computing environments
Euro-Par'05 Proceedings of the 11th international Euro-Par conference on Parallel Processing
Business-driven short-term management of a hybrid IT infrastructure
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
A User-Based Model of Grid Computing Workloads
GRID '12 Proceedings of the 2012 ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Grid Computing
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) desktop grids have been proposed as an economical way to increase the processing capabilities of information technology (IT) infrastructures. In a P2P grid, a peer donates its idle resources to the other peers in the system, and, in exchange, can use the idle resources of other peers when its processing demand surpasses its local computing capacity. Despite their cost-effectiveness, scheduling of processing demands on IT infrastructures that encompass P2P desktop grids is more difficult. At the root of this difficulty is the fact that the quality of the service provided by P2P desktop grids varies significantly over time. The research we report in this paper tackles the problem of estimating the quality of service of P2P desktop grids. We base our study on the OurGrid system, which implements an autonomous incentive mechanism based on reciprocity, called the Network of Favours (NoF). In this paper we propose a model for predicting the quality of service of a P2P desktop grid that uses the NoF incentive mechanism. The model proposed is able to estimate the amount of resources that is available for a peer in the system at future instants of time. We also evaluate the accuracy of the model by running simulation experiments fed with field data. Our results show that in the worst scenario the proposed model is able to predict how much of a given demand for resources a peer is going to obtain from the grid with a mean prediction error of only 7.2%.