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Reliability and Incentive of Performance Assessment for Decentralized Clouds

Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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Abstract

Decentralized cloud platforms have emerged as a promising paradigm to exploit the idle computing resources across the Internet to catch up with the ever-increasing cloud computing demands. As any user or enterprise can be the cloud provider in the decentralized cloud, the performance assessment of the heterogeneous computing resources is of vital significance. However, with the consideration of the untrustworthiness of the participants and the lack of unified performance assessment metric, the performance monitoring reliability and the incentive for cloud providers to offer real and stable performance together constitute the computational performance assessment problem in the decentralized cloud. In this paper, we present a robust performance assessment solution RODE to solve this problem. RODE mainly consists of a performance monitoring mechanism and an assessment of the claimed performance (AoCP) mechanism. The performance monitoring mechanism first generates reliable and verifiable performance monitoring results for the workloads executed by untrusted cloud providers. Based on the performance monitoring results, the AoCP mechanism forms a unified performance assessment metric to incentivize cloud providers to offer performance as claimed. Via extensive experiments, we show RODE can accurately monitor the performance of cloud providers on the premise of reliability, and incentivize cloud providers to honestly present the performance information and maintain the performance stability.

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decentralized cloud computingrobust performance assessmenttrusted execution environment (TEE)

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Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Volume 37 Issue 5,
September 2022
Pages 1176-1199
DOI: 10.1007/s11390-022-2120-y
Cite this article:
Shi J-C, Cai X-Q, Zheng W-L, et al. Reliability and Incentive of Performance Assessment for Decentralized Clouds. Journal of Computer Science and Technology, 2022, 37(5): 1176-1199. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11390-022-2120-y

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Received: 28 December 2021
Accepted: 21 July 2022
Published: 30 September 2022
©Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences 2022
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