The peer sampling service: experimental evaluation of unstructured gossip-based implementations
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
Gossip-based aggregation in large dynamic networks
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
P2P '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
ICDCSW '06 Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International ConferenceWorkshops on Distributed Computing Systems
Ordered Slicing of Very Large-Scale Overlay Networks
P2P '06 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
T-Man: gossip-based overlay topology management
ESOA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Engineering Self-Organising Systems
Compositional gossip: a conceptual architecture for designing gossip-based applications
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review - Gossip-based computer networking
Load balancing over heterogeneous networks with gossip-based algorithms
ACC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on American Control Conference
Flexible and efficient resource location in large-scale systems
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware
Utility driven elastic services
Proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Distributed applications and interoperable systems
Distributed computing in the 21st century: some aspects of cloud computing
Dependable and Historic Computing
Design and implementation of a P2P Cloud system
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SLA-driven dynamic capacity forecasting and resource allocation with risk analysis on clouds
International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) protocols have proven efficient to provide scalable support to many large-scale distributed applications, successfully coping with unreliability and dynamics. However, to exploit them in a wider range of environments, such as very large-scale networks of smartphones or set-top boxes, it is imperative to make P2P protocols manageable: we need to be able to start, bootstrap and stop protocols, and assign resources dynamically. In this paper we present a general-purpose framework aimed to support several fully distributed applications running independently over a very large scale and dynamic pool of resources. We call this resource pool a cloud. The basic idea of the framework is a declarative application suit description, that describes what applications should be running on what resources, and a middleware that makes sure the currently available and dynamic cloud self-organizes into the configuration represented by the description, creating the subclouds that are assigned to applications. The middleware also provides additional functionality, such as bootstrapping overlay networks, to support the applications. Our preliminary ideas on the implementation rely on various gossip-based protocols, that are applied to form the subclouds and to implement bootstrapping, monitoring and control services. Most of all, this position paper sets an exciting research agenda to fully exploit the possibilities offered by very large scale dynamic networks.