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TClouds
Trustworthy Clouds - Privacy and Resilience for Internet-scale Critical Infrastructure

The goal of the TClouds project is to provide a computing and network platform to enable resilient and privacy-enabled deployment of Internet-scale critical information and communication infrastructures. The aim is to provide this while addressing the challenges of cross-border privacy, end-user usability, and acceptance, which are essential for wide deployment of such an infrastructure.

Our contribution to the TClouds project concentrates on the following aspects:

Security-enhanced Cloud Components

Clouds Computing services are based on individual components such as storage, networks, and virtual machines. We aid in securing these components to prevent data leakage and improve the resilience of applications and individual machines. In order to achieve these goals, we focus on specialised run-time environments and tailored virtualization support.

Middleware for Adaptive Resilience

Our task is the development of approaches for resource-efficient intrusion-tolerant services and to focus on implementation of reactive behaviour to address attacks and faults. This will be realized by defining programming interfaces with specific focus on virtualization and checkpointing of applications. Furthermore, the outcomes of the security-enhanced cloud components will be integrated and tested.

Project partners

FP7 The EU FP7 research project TClouds consists of the following institutions:

  • Technikon Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft (Austria)
  • IBM Research GmbH (Switzerland)
  • Philips Electronics Nederland B.V. (Netherlands)
  • SIRRIX Aktiengesellschaft (Germany)
  • Fundacao da Faculdade de Ciencias da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
  • Unabhaengiges Landeszentrum fuer Datenschutz (Germany)
  • University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
  • Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
  • Fondazione Centro San Raffaele Del Monte Tabor (Italy)
  • Electricidade de Portugal (Portugal)
  • UNU MERIT (University of Maastricht) (Netherlands)
  • EFACEC Engenharia SA (Portugal)
  • Technische Universität Darmstadt (Germany)

Project members at IBR

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Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Kapitza
Ehemaliger Abteilungsleiter
rrkapitz[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
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Johannes Behl
Ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
behl[[at]]cs.fau.de
+49 9131 8520115
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Dr. Stefan Brenner
Ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
brenner[[at]]ibr.cs.tu-bs.de
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Klaus Stengel
Ehemaliger Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
+49 9131 8527909

Publications

  • Klaus Stengel, Florian Schmaus and Rüdiger Kapitza: EsseOS: Haskell-based Tailored Services for the Cloud, in Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware, ACM, December 2013 (stengel13aem, BibTeX)
  • Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler and Rüdiger Kapitza: DQMP: A Decentralized Protocol to Enforce Global Quotas in Cloud Environments, in Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS '12), Toronto, Canada, October 2012 (behl12sss, BibTeX)
  • Alysson Bessani, Rüdiger Kapitza, Dana Petcu, Paolo Romano, Spyridon V. Gogouvitis, Dimosthenis Kyriazis and Roberto G. Cascella: A look to the old-world sky: EU-funded dependability cloud computing research, in SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., Vol. 46, No. 2, pages 43-56, July 2012 (bessani120osr, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Alysson Bessani and Rüdiger Kapitza: Summary of the 1st European Workshop on Dependable Cloud Computing, in SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev., Vol. 46, No. 2, pages 36-37, July 2012 (kapitza12osr, BibTeX)
  • Johannes Behl, Tobias Distler, Florian Heisig, Rüdiger Kapitza and Matthias Schunter: Providing Fault-tolerant Execution of Web-service-based Workflows within Clouds, in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP '12), Guillaume Pierre and Valentin Cristea, Bern, Switzerland, pages 7:1-7:6, 2012 (behl12cloudcp, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Rüdiger Kapitza, Johannes Behl, Christian Cachin, Tobias Distler, Simon Kuhnle, Seyed Vahid Mohammadi, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and Klaus Stengel: CheapBFT: Resource-efficient Byzantine Fault Tolerance, in Proceedings of the EuroSys 2012 Conference (EuroSys '12), European Chapter of ACM SIGOPS, Bern, Switzerland, pages 295-308, 2012 (kapitza12eurosys, DOI, BibTeX)
  • Reinhard Tartler, Anil Kurmus, Andreas Ruprecht, Bernhard Heinloth, Valentin Rothberg, Daniela Dorneanu, Rüdiger Kapitza, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat and Daniel Lohmann: Automatic OS Kernel TCB Reductionby Leveraging Compile-Time Configurability, in Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Hot Topics in System Dependability (HotDep '12), USENIX, Hollywood, CA, USA, 2012 (tartler12hotdep, BibTeX)

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