@MISC{n.n._fia:collaborative, author = {n.n.}, title = {FIA: Collaborative Research: NEBULA -- A Future Internet That Supports Trustworthy Cloud Computing }, year = {} }
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We propose NEBULA, a future Internet architecture that is intrinsically more secure and addresses threats to the emerging computer utility capabilities called cloud computing while meeting the challenges of flexibility, extensibility and economic viability. NEBULA’s architecture surrounds a highly-available and extensible core network interconnecting data centers with new trustworthy transit and access networks that enable many new forms of distributed communication and computing. NEBULA mobile users will have quick, secure, 24x7 access to services such as financial transactions and electronic medical services at any location. Local device software systems will evolve to select from a continuum of distributed computing and storage services provided by data centers accessible via NEBULA. A major technical concern for such an architectural vision is trustworthiness, e.g., that each user’s data is kept private and that communication is always available. NEBULA addresses the security properties of confidentiality, integrity and availability with a systems approach. NEBULA has three interrelated parts: (1) the NEBULA Data Plane (NDP) that establishes policy-compliant paths and provides both flexible access control and defense against availability attacks, e.g., DoS; (2) NEBULA Virtual and Extensible Networking Techniques (NVENT), a control plane for NEBULA, that provides access to application-selectable service and network abstractions such as