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MistNet: An Experimental Peer-to-peer Platform for the Cloud
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MistNet: An Experimental Peer-to-peer Platform for the Cloud
Description
We are witnessing a significant evolution in the scale and nature of computing systems, with great amounts of resources that currently remain largely unharnessed, uncontrolled, and isolated. Already, research and industry are starting to approach this new reality, notably by the "cloud computing" initiative that investigates new problems and lays down conceptual foundations for federating the vast populations of computing, storage, data, and software resources. The challenge is to federate this power and to control complexity: exploiting parallelism, distribution and heterogeneity; facilitating collaborative and self organizing behavior; easing resource sharing; ensuring security; etc.. The MistNet project will propose an easy-to-use, end-to-end, system-wide approach to cloud management and operation. As part of a just completed SNF project, the Institute of Computer Science at UniNE has developed a generic deployment infrastructure named Splay (www.splay-project.org), which forms a sound basis to building an experimental cloud platform: lightweight server virtualization, sandboxed and OS-agnostic execution environment, networking libraries, etc. The goal of MistNet is to design and implement the next generation of Splay, with novel extensions, enhancements, and services dedicated to supporting cloud applications. The planned MistNet platform will be both an infrastructure and associated services for a lightweight experimental cloud. MistNet will address several key challenges, among which one can highlight (1) the development of high-level facilities for designing distributed data structures, and mapping these structures over the physical networked cloud, hence forming overlay networks tailored to the actual application needs, and (2) the design of new mechanisms for fully decentralized and dynamically scalable storage facilities for applications operating on the cloud, with focus on low latency, high availability, privacy and security. The final outcome of the project will consist of a service-oriented peer-to-peer architecture with dedicated support for communication and overlay management, data storage, and code execution that will greatly ease the use of cloud computing platforms.
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Completed
Date de début
1 Janvier 2010
Date de fin
31 Décembre 2012
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- PublicationMétadonnées seulementAn overview of new features in the SPLAY framework for simple distributed systems evaluation(Neuchatel University of Neuchatel, 2012-1)
; ; ; ; ; Valerio, José - PublicationMétadonnées seulementLayStream: composing standard gossip protocols for live video streaming(: IEEE, 2014-9-8)
; ; ; Oliveira, RuiGossip-based live streaming is a popular topic, as attested by the vast literature on the subject. Despite the particular merits of each proposal, all need to implement and deal with common challenges such as membership management, topology construction and video packets dissemination. Well-principled gossip-based protocols have been proposed in the literature for each of these aspects. Our goal is to assess the feasibility of building a live streaming system, LAYSTREAM, as a composition of these existing protocols, to deploy the resulting system on real testbeds, and report on lessons learned in the process. Unlike previous evaluations conducted by simulations and considering each protocol independently, we use real deployments. We evaluate protocols both independently and as a layered composition, and unearth specific problems and challenges associated with deployment and composition. We discuss and present solutions for these, such as a novel topology construction mechanism able to cope with the specificities of a large-scale and delay-sensitive environment, but also with requirements from the upper layer. Our implementation and data are openly available to support experimental reproducibility. - PublicationRestriction temporaireLightweight, efficient, robust epidemic dissemination(2013)
; ; - PublicationRestriction temporaireBRISA: Combining Efficiency and Reliability in Epidemic Data Dissemination(2012)
; ; - PublicationRestriction temporaireCADA: Collaborative Auditing for Distributed Aggregation(2012)
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- PublicationRestriction temporaireEvaluating the Price of Consistency in Distributed File Storage Services(2013)
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- PublicationRestriction temporaireSPADS: Publisher Anonymization for DHT Storage(2010)
; ; ; Valerio, José