Hadronic resonances, having very short lifetime, like K * 0 , can act as useful probes to understand and estimate lifetime of hadronic phase in ultra-relativistic proton-proton, p-Pb and heavy-ion collisions. Resonances with relatively longer lifetime, like φ meson, can serve as a tool to locate the QGP phase boundary. We estimate a lower limit of hadronic phase lifetime in Cu-Cu and Au-Au collisions at RHIC, and in pp, p-Pb and Pb-Pb collisions at different LHC collision energies. Also, we obtain the effective temperature of φ meson using Boltzmann-Gibbs Blast-Wave function, which gives an insight to locate the QGP phase boundary. We observe that the hadronic phase lifetime strongly depends on final state charged-particle multiplicity, whereas the QGP phase and hence the QCD phase boundary shows a very weak multiplicity dependence. This suggests that the hadronisation from a QGP state starts at a similar temperature irrespective of charged-particle multiplicity, collision system and collision energy, while the endurance of hadronic phase is strongly dependent on final state charge-particle multiplicity. PACS numbers: 25.75.Dw,14.40.Pq * Corresponding Author Email: Raghunath.Sahoo@cern.ch servations of QGP-like properties such as strangeness enhancement [4], double-ridge structure [5] etc. in smaller collision systems like pp and p-Pb collisions are note worthy. These developments have important consequences on the results obtained from heavy-ion collisions, as pp collisions are used as baseline measurements while characterizing the medium properties in heavy-ion collisions.A closer look at the LHC pp collisions, especially the high-multiplicity events is a call of time.