A Trustworthy Blockchain-based Decentralised Resource Management System in the Cloud

Abstract

Quality Critical Decentralised Applications (QC-DApp) have high requirements for system performance and service quality, involve heterogeneous infrastructures (Clouds, Fogs, Edges and IoT), and rely on the trustworthy collaborations among participants of data sources and infrastructure providers to deliver their business value. The development of the QCDApp has to tackle the low-performance challenge of the current blockchain technologies due to the low collaboration efficiency among distributed peers for consensus. On the other hand, the resilience of the Cloud has enabled significant advances in software-defined storage, networking, infrastructure, and every technology; however, those rich programmabilities of infrastructure (in particular, the advances of new hardware accelerators in the infrastructures) can still not be effectively utilised for QCDApp due to lack of suitable architecture and programming model.

OpenIaC: Open Infrastructure as Code - The Network is My Computer

“…3 Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering, Oslo, Norway. 4 SINTEF Digital, Trondheim, Norway.…”

“…The management and deployment of the infrastructure as well capabilities for 5G networks built on global and hyperlocalized services is likely to require extensive automation. Automation of management and creation of infrastructure to support 5G networks will require a common framework upon which a vast variety of service/application providers and hardware vendors can build on [4]. This is one of the motivations of our proposed OpenIaC effort.…”

“…The ongoing adoption of the 5G networking technologies and applications poses a significant challenge to the infrastructure and networking community who will be tasked with deploying and operating a full stack of services that are a composition of hyperlocalized, municipal, regional, national, and international infrastructure and services [1,2,3]. A recent (2020) paper by Duan et al [4] provides an overview of challenges and opportunities inherent in the convergence of networking and cloud computing that will be at the core of 5G. It is clear that this convergence will pose significant challenges to operators who seek to provide a secure, reliable, and sustainable infrastructure only reduce network latency and improve efficiency [9] but also create more service scenarios and unlock data value on top of IoT and blockchain [10,11].…”