Recovering Internet Symmetry in Distributed Computing
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Dynamic topology adaptation of virtual networks of virtual machines
LCR '04 Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Workshop on languages, compilers, and run-time support for scalable systems
A self-organizing flock of Condors
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
Smartsockets: solving the connectivity problems in grid computing
Proceedings of the 16th international symposium on High performance distributed computing
VTDC '06 Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization Technology in Distributed Computing
IP over P2P: enabling self-configuring virtual IP networks for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
A virtual network (ViNe) architecture for grid computing
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
VIOLIN: virtual internetworking on overlay infrastructure
ISPA'04 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
The organic grid: self-organizing computation on a peer-to-peer network
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans
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Deploying virtual organizations (VOs) is difficult for small- and medium-scale collaborations: the overheads in establishing and managing trust, and in deploying and managing computational resources distributed across multiple organizations are daunting to many potential users, presenting a barrier to entry that significantly hinders wider deployment of VOs. We advocate an approach where social networking and self-configuring overlay virtual networks are integrated in a novel way that allows simple deployment and management of ad-hoc infrastructures for VOs. There are three central principles in our approach: (1) user relationships which have been increasingly recorded in social networking systems provide the opportunity to bootstrap trust relationships; (2) connections established at a social networking layer can efficiently be mapped to the IP layer of virtual network overlays to support existing TCP/IP applications for collaboration and resource sharing while maintaining security against untrusted parties; and (3) systems integrating social and virtual networks can be self-configuring, enabling deployment of collaborative infrastructures by non-experts. We discuss motivations for this approach, describe a prototype implementation which integrates the Facebook social network and the IPOP overlay network, and discuss a use case scenario towards ad-hoc social cycle-sharing virtual Condor pools.