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CloudAgora: Democratizing the Cloud

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In this paper we present CloudAgora, a platform that enables the realization of a democratic and fully decentralized cloud computing market where participating parties enjoy significant advantages: On one hand, cloud consumers have access to low-cost storage and computation without having to blindly trust any central authority. On the other hand, any individual or company, big or small, can potentially serve as cloud provider. Idle resources, be it CPU or disk space, are monetized and offered in competitive fees, regulated by the law of supply and demand. In the heart of the platform lies the blockchain technology, which is used to record commitment policies, publicly verify off-chain services and trigger automatic micropayments. Our prototype is built on top of the Ethereum blockchain and is provided as an open source project.

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Acknowledgments

This research is co-financed by Greece and the European Union (European Social Fund- ESF) through the Operational Programme “Human Resources Development, Education and Lifelong Learning 2014–2020” in the context of the project “Data Sovereignty through the use of Blockchain” (MIS 5004883).

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  1. Computing Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Katerina Doka, Tasos Bakogiannis, Ioannis Mytilinis & Georgios Goumas

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  1. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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  2. CSIRO Data61, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Surya Nepal

  3. IBM Research – Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

    Qi Zhang

  4. Kingdee International Software Group Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, China

    Liang-Jie Zhang

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Doka, K., Bakogiannis, T., Mytilinis, I., Goumas, G. (2019). CloudAgora: Democratizing the Cloud. In: Joshi, J., Nepal, S., Zhang, Q., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Blockchain – ICBC 2019. ICBC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23404-1_10

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