5812125
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10.1007/s12083-021-01198-z
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Shi, Zeshun
University of Amsterdam
Ouyang, Xue
National University of Defense Technology
Zhao, Zhiming
University of Amsterdam
Building a Blockchain-based Decentralized Ecosystem for Cloud and Edge Computing: an ALLSTAR approach and empirical study
Zhou, Huan
National University of Defense Technology
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<p>Cloud computing has been one of the disruptive technologies to change the traditional application operation for the last</p>
<p>decades. The success of Cloud boosts ever more newly-built data centers. Although these data centers are distributed all</p>
<p>around the world, the computing resources are managed in a relatively centralized manner within one big data center. For</p>
<p>a specific small area, the centralized Cloud lacks the dispersion to satisfy the requirements of collaborative applications,</p>
<p>e.g., the nearest data center might still be too far to satisfy the network latency. Through spreading the computing resources</p>
<p>at the edge of the network, the emerging Edge computing can complete the data processing before uploading to Cloud.</p>
<p>However, Edge computing still stays at the conceptual and experimental stage. Trust and incentive model are missing</p>
<p>to motivate the Edge node and micro Cloud owners to share the computing infrastructure resources for building a more</p>
<p>generalized and decentralized ecosystem. Traditional method of building trust through authority is not applicable in current</p>
<p>edge environment, which is more like peer-to-peer relationship between the customer and provider. To tackle this issue,</p>
<p>ALLSTAR is proposed, which is a blockchain-based approach to enhance the trust for equally combining all the Cloud</p>
<p>and Edge resources to be seamlessly leveraged by the application. The ALLSTAR approach is a systematic solution to</p>
<p>realize decentralized resource management, including Cloud and Edge resource sharing and trading, and target at building</p>
<p>the trustworthy ALLSTAR ecosystem. In this paper, we first analyze the challenges of utilizing distributed Cloud and Edge</p>
<p>resources, and describe the overall architecture of ALLSTAR, including the related key techniques, detailed application</p>
<p>development and operations processes as well as the new business model. Moreover, an empirical study on the permissioned</p>
<p>blockchain evaluation is conducted. The study not only demonstrates the ALLSTAR approach is feasible but also provides</p>
<p>insights of which blockchain to choose when constructing such an ecosystem.</p>
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2021-06-30
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Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications
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3578–3594
2021-06-30