diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8aa824d..2272d75 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ replace (
 	k8s.io/kube-proxy => k8s.io/kube-proxy v0.24.6
 	k8s.io/kube-scheduler => k8s.io/kube-scheduler v0.24.6
 	k8s.io/kubectl => k8s.io/kubectl v0.24.6
-	k8s.io/kubelet => github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.2
+	k8s.io/kubelet => github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.5
 	k8s.io/kubernetes => k8s.io/kubernetes v1.24.6
 	k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers => k8s.io/legacy-cloud-providers v0.24.6
 	k8s.io/metrics => k8s.io/metrics v0.24.6
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 6f9425f..eeae11c 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -392,8 +392,8 @@ github.com/kr/pty v1.1.1/go.mod h1:pFQYn66WHrOpPYNljwOMqo10TkYh1fy3cYio2l3bCsQ=
 github.com/kr/text v0.1.0/go.mod h1:4Jbv+DJW3UT/LiOwJeYQe1efqtUx/iVham/4vfdArNI=
 github.com/kr/text v0.2.0 h1:5Nx0Ya0ZqY2ygV366QzturHI13Jq95ApcVaJBhpS+AY=
 github.com/kr/text v0.2.0/go.mod h1:eLer722TekiGuMkidMxC/pM04lWEeraHUUmBw8l2grE=
-github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.2 h1:2KLdb/ErOpqAj068trr+xA3jyj8+d2aN1Pm5Bu2ZQjM=
-github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.2/go.mod h1:MxbSZUx3wXztFneeelwWWlX7NAAStJ6expqq7gY2J3c=
+github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.5 h1:i3BcfBY3fFTzPWi5BCYyhkiSZCrIGczaGNAwgUvga6U=
+github.com/kubewharf/kubelet v1.24.6-kubewharf.5/go.mod h1:MxbSZUx3wXztFneeelwWWlX7NAAStJ6expqq7gY2J3c=
 github.com/libopenstorage/openstorage v1.0.0/go.mod h1:Sp1sIObHjat1BeXhfMqLZ14wnOzEhNx2YQedreMcUyc=
 github.com/liggitt/tabwriter v0.0.0-20181228230101-89fcab3d43de/go.mod h1:zAbeS9B/r2mtpb6U+EI2rYA5OAXxsYw6wTamcNW+zcE=
 github.com/lithammer/dedent v1.1.0/go.mod h1:jrXYCQtgg0nJiN+StA2KgR7w6CiQNv9Fd/Z9BP0jIOc=
diff --git a/pkg/consts/resource.go b/pkg/consts/resource.go
index a902ac9..17a7056 100644
--- a/pkg/consts/resource.go
+++ b/pkg/consts/resource.go
@@ -26,3 +26,9 @@ const (
 const (
 	ResourceNetBandwidth v1.ResourceName = "resource.katalyst.kubewharf.io/net_bandwidth"
 )
+
+// ResourceAnnotationKeyResourceIdentifier nominated the key to override the default name
+// field in pod-resource-server (for qrm-related protocols); if the name field can't be
+// guaranteed to be unique in some cases, we can relay on this annotation to get unique keys
+// (to replace with the default name)
+const ResourceAnnotationKeyResourceIdentifier = "katalyst.kubewharf.io/resource_identifier"