Building a blockchain-based decentralized ecosystem for cloud and edge computing: an ALLSTAR approach and empirical study

Abstract

Cloud computing has been one of the disruptive technologies to change the traditional application operation for the last decades. The success of Cloud boosts ever more newly-built data centers. Although these data centers are distributed all around the world, the computing resources are managed in a relatively centralized manner within one big data center. For a specific small area, the centralized Cloud lacks the dispersion to satisfy the requirements of collaborative applications, e.g., the nearest data center might still be too far to satisfy the network latency. Through spreading the computing resources at the edge of the network, the emerging Edge computing can complete the data processing before uploading to Cloud. However, Edge computing still stays at the conceptual and experimental stage. Trust and incentive model are missing to motivate the Edge node and micro Cloud owners to share the computing infrastructure resources for building a more generalized and decentralized ecosystem. Traditional method of building trust through authority is not applicable in current edge environment, which is more like peer-to-peer relationship between the customer and provider. To tackle this issue, ALLSTAR

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A Customizable dApp Framework for User Interactions in Decentralized Service Marketplaces

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