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Unclouded Vision

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Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN 2011)

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Current opinion and debate surrounding the capabilities and use of the Cloud is particularly strident. By contrast, the academic community has long pursued completely decentralised approaches to service provision. In this paper we contrast these two extremes, and propose an architecture, Droplets, that enables a controlled trade-off between the costs and benefits of each. We also provide indications of implementation technologies and three simple sample applications that substantially benefit by exploiting these trade-offs.

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  1. Computer Laboratory, Cambridge University, 15, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0FB, UK

    Jon Crowcroft, Anil Madhavapeddy, Malte Schwarzkopf & Theodore Hong

  2. Horizon Digital Economy Research, University of Nottingham, Triumph Road, Nottingham, NG7 2TU, UK

    Richard Mortier

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  1. Microsoft Research Silicon Valley, 1065 La Avenida – bldg. 6, 94043, Mountain View, CA, USA

    Marcos K. Aguilera

  2. School of Computing, National University of Singapore, COM2-04-25, 15 Computing Drive, 117418, Republic of Singapore

    Haifeng Yu

  3. 458 Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, MC-228, 1308 West Main Street, 61801, Urbana, IL, USA

    Nitin H. Vaidya

  4. Alcatel-Lucent Technologies, Manyata Technology Park, Nagawara, 560045, Bangalore, India

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    Romit Roy Choudhury

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Crowcroft, J., Madhavapeddy, A., Schwarzkopf, M., Hong, T., Mortier, R. (2011). Unclouded Vision. In: Aguilera, M.K., Yu, H., Vaidya, N.H., Srinivasan, V., Choudhury, R.R. (eds) Distributed Computing and Networking. ICDCN 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6522. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17679-1_3

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