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1、ManagingTrustandReputationintheXenoServerOpenPlatformBorisDragovic,StevenHand,TimHarris,EvangelosKotsovinosandAndrewTwiggUniversityofCambridgeComputerLaboratory,Cambridge,UKffirstname.lastnameg@cl.cam.ac.ukAbstract.Participantsinpublicdistributedcomputingd
2、onotnditeasytotrusteachother.Themassivenumberofpartiesinvolved,theirheterogeneousbackgrounds,disparategoalsandindependentnaturearenotagoodbasisforthedevelopmentofrelationshipsthroughpurelysocialmechanisms.Thispaperdiscussesthetrustmanagementissuesthataris
3、einthecontextoftheXenoServerOpenPlatform:apublicin-frastructureforwide-areacomputing,capableofhostingtasksthatspanthefullspectrumofdistributedparadigms.Weexaminethemeaningandnecessityoftrustinourplatform,andpresentourtrustmanage-mentarchitecture,namedXenoT
4、rust.Oursystemallowsparticipantsofourplatformtoexpresstheirbeliefsandadvertisethem,bysubmit-tingthemtothesystem.Itprovidesaggregateinformationaboutotherparticipants'beliefs,bysupportingthedeploymentofrule-sets,deninghowbeliefscanbecombined.XenoTrustfollow
5、sthesamedesignprin-ciplesthatweareusingthroughouttheXenoServerproject:itprovidesa
exibleplatformoverwhichmanyoftheinterestingdistributedtrustmanagementalgorithmspresentedintheliteraturecanbeevaluatedinalarge-scalewide-areasetting.1IntroductionTheXenoServer
6、project[9]isdevelopingapublicinfrastructureforwide-areadis-tributedcomputing,creatingaworldinwhichXenoServerexecutionplatformsarescatteredacrosstheglobeandavailabletoanymemberofthepublic.Usersofourplatformareabletorunprogramsatpointsthroughoutthenetworkino
7、r-dertoreducecommunicationlatencies,avoidnetworkbottlenecksandminimizelong-haulnetworkcharges.Theycanalsouseittodeploylarge-scaleexperimen-talservices,andtoprovideanetworkpresencefortransiently-connectedmobiledevices.Resourceaccountingisanintegralpartofthe
8、XenoServerOpenPlat-form,withclientspayingfortheresourcesusedbytheirprogramsandserveroperatorsbeingpaidforrunningtheprogramsthattheyhost.Thepublicandopennatureoftheplatformimposesaneedforatrustman-agementsyste