Recent Advances in Trusted Grids and Peer-to-Peer Computing Systems

Summary form only given. Computational grids and peer-to-peer (P2P) are emerging as two of the most promising distributed computing technologies that may change the world in the next decade. In this talk, Dr. Hwang presents recent advances in network security technologies, cyber trust systems, and integrated solutions for trusted computing over the Internet. The talk covers the integration of Web services with P2P grid computing, new cybertrust models, Internet worm containment, P2P reputation systems, and hybrid defense systems to protect distributed resources from network worms, DDoS attacks or peer intrusions or collusions. Research findings and benchmark results from the USC GridSec project might be reported for automated trust management to facilitate security binding and defense against worms and DDoS attacks in grids, P2P systems, and Web services. The author assesses frontier research topics on fast reputation aggregation for trusted P2P file sharing, security-aware grid job scheduling, game-theoretic modeling of non-cooperative grids, new performance metrics, and DETER experiments for cybertrust development. The fortified grids, P2P systems, and Internet resources can benefit many security-sensitive applications in digital government, e-commerce, distance learning, distributed supercomputing, etc.