Modular Research-Based Composably Trustworthy Mission-Oriented Resilient Clouds (MRC2)
Abstract
This is the final report for our (MRC) 2 project, culminating a four-year research and development effort that has investigated clean-slate secure networking and security for cloud computing and cloud storage, with emphasis on resilience and trustworthiness. The MRC2 project was a joint effort between SRI International and the University of Cambridge. The project focused on switching, software-defined networking, and application dataflow in datacenters, with a number of subtended efforts including aligning algorithm and network topology, achieving greater energy efficiency, understanding the concomitant security tradeoffs, exploring multi-scale computing techniques (including work on multi-threaded and multi-core CHERI), and developing capability-based system-oriented application security models. We have extended Cambridges CIEL distributed computing environment to address security, incorporating the lightweight Mirage OS operating system, and also developed Dios a distributed operating system. Dios provides robustness as well as security and compartmentalization, and uses properties of CIEL computations to drive resource allocation, protection, and monitoring at the datacenter scale.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 2016
- Accession Number
- AD1005641
Entities
People
- Alan Mujumdar
- Alex Horsman
- Alexandre Joannou
- Andrew W. Moore
- Anil Madhavapeddy
- Bjoern A. Zeeb
- Brooks Davis
- Charalampos Rotsos
- Colin Rothwell
- Jonathan Anderson
- Jonathan Woodruff
- Jong H. Han
- Malte Schwarzkopf
- Matt Huxtable
- Nirav Dave
- Peter G. Neumann
- Phillip Porras
- Prashanth Mundkur
- Robert N. Watson
- Robert Norton
- Simon W. Moore
- Steven M. Hand
- Theo Markettos
- Vinod Yegneswaran
Organizations
- SRI International