The Second International Workshop on Dependability of Clouds, Data Centers and Virtual Machine Technology (DCDV'12), Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/IFIP 42nd Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops, Boston, MA, USA, June 2012
Cloud infrastructures play an increasingly important
role for telecom operators, because they enable internal
consolidation of resources with the corresponding savings in
hardware and management costs. However, this same consolidation
exposes core services of the infrastructure to very
disruptive attacks. This is the case of monitoring, which needs
to be dependable and secure to ensure proper operation of large
datacenters and cloud infrastructures. We argue that currently
existing centralized monitoring approaches (e.g., relying on a
single solution provider, using single point of failure components)
represent a huge risk, because a single vulnerability may
compromise the entire monitoring infrastructure.
In this paper, we describe the TRONE approach to trustworthy
monitoring, which relies on multiple components to
achieve increased levels of reliance on the monitoring data
and hence increased trustworthiness. In particular, we focus on
the TRONE framework for event dissemination, on security-oriented
diagnosis based on collected events and on fast
network adaptation in critical situations based on multi-homing
application support.
To validate our work, we will deploy and demonstrate our
solutions in a live environment provided by Portugal Telecom.
@inproceedings{Casimiro:12a,
author = {Casimiro, Ant\'{o}nio and Ver\'{\i}ssimo, Paulo and Kreutz, Diego and Araujo, Filipe and Barbosa, Raul and Neves, Samuel and Sousa, Bruno and Curado, Marilia and Silva, Carlos and Gandhi, Rajeev and Narasimhan, Priya},
title = {TRONE: Trustworthy and Resilient Operations in a Network Environment},
booktitle = {Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), 2012 IEEE/IFIP 42nd International Conference on},
year = {2012},
month = {june},
doi = {10.1109/DSNW.2012.6264694},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSNW.2012.6264694},
pages = {1--6},
keywords = {Cloud computing;Monitoring;Peer to peer computing;Quality of service;Resilience;Security;Telecommunications;cloud computing;computer network security;trusted computing;Portugal Telecom;TRONE framework;centralized monitoring approach;cloud infrastructures;datacenters;disruptive attacks;event dissemination;multihoming application support;network adaptation;resource consolidation;security-oriented diagnosis;telecom operators;trustworthy and resilient operations in a network environment;trustworthy monitoring;Cloud Computing;Intrusion Tolerance;Root-Cause Analysis;Trustworthy Monitoring;},
abstractURL = {http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~casim/papers/dcdv12/dcdv12.html},
documentURL = {http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~casim/papers/dcdv12/dcdv12.pdf},
}