Revolutionary Directions for New Generation of Smart, Trusted and Verifiable Distributed Cloud Services

新一代智能、可信、可验证分布式云服务的革命性方向

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-05471
• 负责人: Bentahar, Jamal
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: Concordia University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2019-01-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=685354
• 关键词: Revolutionary; Directions; New; Generation; Smart

***Cloud computing has emerged as a prominent paradigm for offering web-based services providing dynamic and cost-effective computational resources and infrastructure. Traditionally, cloud computing has been designed within a centralized and monopolistic architecture, where infrastructure services were limited to single provider data centers. Recently, the need for a distributed and collaborative configuration has been acknowledged and new concepts such as cloud federations and multicloud have been introduced to make use of heterogeneous resources from multiple providers. Fog and edge computing have also been launched to decentralize computing toward the edge of the network. Very recent academic and industrial initiatives came forward toward decentralizing cloud. Their common aspect is the use of the emerging and very promising blockchain technology, a distributed and immutable database ledger technology that stores registry of assets and transactions over a decentralized peer-to-peer network through a distributed consensus protocol. However, the way of realizing and implementing this distribution along with its respective market is still very limited and many problems persist. For instance, cloud federations are still formed in a centralized way, only few well-established providers with large data centers are dictating the market, and competition and cooperation in such a market are yet to be understood.******The long-term vision of this program is to outclass the long-lasting centralized and monopolistic cloud and even the yet emerging decentralized cloud toward a fully distributed and coopetitive cloud. We aim to contribute in shaping the new generation of autonomous, trusted and verifiable cloud computing within a more democratic and fully distributed market with no intermediaries exhibiting unilateral control. We will focus on pressing problems yet to be addressed, formalized, and solved in terms of framework, market design, decision making, trust, and verification at different conceptual, theoretical, engineering and business levels. We will pursue two central themes. The first one is about introducing a new distributed platform for cloud services. Within this platform, different types of providers will be able to trade computational resources in a free coopetitive market. The second theme is about introducing novel trust and verification frameworks for the distributed cloud and its market mechanism.******This research program is innovative and has the potential to be transformative. It capitalizes on an auspicious opportunity toward contributing to the new generation of blockchain-enabled smart, trusted and verifiable distributed cloud services. Research milestones will have broad and significant impact not only within the community of cloud and services computing, but also the communities of blockchain, multiagent systems and market design. Training HQP while collaborating with the industry will strengthen the position of Canada in these fields. **

***云计算已成为为提供基于Web的服务提供动态和成本效益的计算资源和基础架构的重要范式。传统上，云计算是在集中式垄断架构中设计的，基础架构服务仅限于单个提供商数据中心。最近，已经确认了分布式和协作配置的需求，并引入了诸如云联合会和多云之类的新概念，以利用多个提供商的异质资源。还已经启动了雾和边缘计算，以将计算分散到网络边缘。最近的学术和工业计划朝着分散云方向挺身而出。他们的共同方面是使用新兴和非常有前途的区块链技术，这是一种分布式且不可变的数据库分类帐技术，该技术通过分布式共识协议将资产和交易注册表存储在分散的点对点网络上。但是，实现和实施这一分布及其各自市场的方式仍然非常有限，并且许多问题仍然存在。例如，云联合会仍以集中的方式形成，只有少数具有较大数据中心的良好提供者在决定市场，并且在这种市场中的竞争与合作尚待理解。我们旨在在更民主和完全分布的市场中塑造新一代的自主，可信赖和可验证的云计算，而没有中介机构表现出单方面控制。我们将专注于在框架，市场设计，决策，信任和验证方面解决尚未解决，正式化和解决的问题。我们将追求两个中心主题。第一个是关于引入新的云服务分布式平台。在该平台中，不同类型的提供商将能够在自由合作市场中交易计算资源。第二个主题是为分布式云及其市场机制介绍新颖的信任和验证框架。******该研究计划具有创新性，并且具有变革性的潜力。它利用了一个吉祥的机会，为新一代具有区块链的智能，可信赖和可验证的分布式云服务做出贡献。研究里程碑将不仅在云和服务计算社区中产生广泛而重大的影响，而且还将在区块链，多种系统和市场设计的社区中产生广泛的影响。在与行业合作的同时培训HQP将加强加拿大在这些领域的地位。 **