Fabric: a platform for secure distributed computation and storage

Fabric is a new system and language for building secure distributed information systems. It is a decentralized system that allows heterogeneous network nodes to securely share both information and computation resources despite mutual distrust. Its high-level programming language makes distribution and persistence largely transparent to programmers. Fabric supports data-shipping and function-shipping styles of computation: both computation and information can move between nodes to meet security requirements or to improve performance. Fabric provides a rich, Java-like object model, but data resources are labeled with confidentiality and integrity policies that are enforced through a combination of compile-time and run-time mechanisms. Optimistic, nested transactions ensure consistency across all objects and nodes. A peer-to-peer dissemination layer helps to increase availability and to balance load. Results from applications built using Fabric suggest that Fabric has a clean, concise p...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: SOSP
• Authors: Jed Liu, Michael D. George, K. Vikram, Xin Qi, Lucas Waye, Andrew C. Myers
• Keywords: Fabric Supports, Heterogeneous Network Nodes, Java-like Object Model, Operating System, SOSP 2009