Decentralized resource sharing platform exploiting in-network guidance information

Currently, most of cloud computing services based on IaaS are provided by one specific provider for many users. However, this has some problems in terms of initial cost or ISP transit cost. In addition, individual small use is difficult because the services tend to be provided in a large unit to use. To solve these problems, we advocate a “participating cloud computing platform” that personal or small company level resource suppliers participate in, configure and provide cloud computing. Then, to efficiently search nearby resources among many and various ones in the platform, we propose Resource Breadcrumbs (RBC) as a key technology to provide in-network guidance capability for users´ requests. This enables to supply users a smaller unit of resources: computing resource, memory resource, content, application etc. in comparison to traditional IaaS service. In the proposal, supplier-nodes distribute, around them, guidance information directed to themselves with dedicated control message. The distributed information enables user to autonomously locate nearby resources. In addition, distributed management reduces computational load on central database and enables to build cloud platform with lower cost.