University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

GNuggies: A proposal for hosting resilient stateless services using untrusted nodes

Agarwal, Harshit

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Title
GNuggies: A proposal for hosting resilient stateless services using untrusted nodes
Author(s)
Agarwal, Harshit
Issue Date
2018-04-26
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Gupta, Indranil
Department of Study
Computer Science
Discipline
Computer Science
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Level
Thesis
Keyword(s)
  • Distributed systems
  • distributed computing
  • grid computing
  • public cloud
  • incentive mechanism
  • crowdsourced cloud
  • serverless computing
  • untrusted machines
  • web services
  • censorship
  • volunteer compute
Abstract
This thesis outlines a proposal for a serverless cloud compute system hosted on untrusted nodes. We call this proposed system “GNuggies”. It is designed to feel instantly familiar to existing serverless offerings such as AWS Lambda or Azure Cloud Functions. The key difference between GNuggies and existing offerings is that GNuggies proposes leveraging spare compute resources by allowing anyone to contribute nodes into the system. These contributed nodes must be treated as untrusted and this is where the bulk this thesis’s contributions arise: 1. A proposed architecture that adapts well understood Distributed Systems concepts to situations involving untrusted nodes and to run in the absence of central authorities. 2. A proposed system wherein actors choose to contribute spare compute and are effectively incentivized to do so. 3. An incentive structure that makes actors less willing to behave in a malicious manner. This thesis discusses the methods to be used and evaluates their strengths and weaknesses. It also argues that decentralized serverless is a direction that the internet will potentially benefit from moving towards.
Graduation Semester
2018-05
Type of Resource
text
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Copyright 2018 Harshit Agarwal

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