Supervision : Guy PUJOLLE

Co-supervision : SECCI Stefano, DOTTA Virginie

Blockchain technologies and their application to secure virtualized infrastructure control

Blockchain is a technology making the shared registry concept from distributed systems a reality for a number of application domains, from the cryptocurrency one to potentially any industrial system requiring decentralized, robust, trusted and automated decision making in a multi-stakeholder situation. > > In this thesis, we aim at providing the community with a vademecum on blockchains, which has for a goal to help the reader to decide WHEN to use blockchain, WHICH blockchain technology to use and HOW to use it. Furthermore, we present the B-VMOA blockchain to secure virtual machine orchestration operations for cloud computing and network functions virtualization systems. We parameterize and validate our model with data collected from a realistic testbed, presenting an empirical study to characterize system performance and identify potential performance bottlenecks. Furthermore, we analyze the structural properties of several DCN topologies with the aim to reduce B-VMOA overhead costs. >

2016-2019 Publications

• 2019
  • N. Bozic : “Blockchain technologies and their application to secure virtualized infrastructure control”, thesis, phd defence 10/18/2019, supervision Pujolle, Guy, co-supervision : Secci, Stefano, Dotta, Virginie (2019)
  • M. Belotti, N. Bozic, G. Pujolle, S. Secci : “A Vademecum on Blockchain Technologies: When, Which and How”, Communications Surveys and Tutorials, IEEE Communications Society, vol. 21 (4), pp. 3796-3838, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (2019)
• 2017
  • N. Bozic, G. Pujolle, S. Secci : “Securing Virtual Machine Orchestration with Blockchains”, 2017 Cyber Security in Networking (CSNET 2017) Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (IEEE) (2017)
• 2016
  • N. Bozic, G. Pujolle, S. Secci : “A Tutorial on Blockchain and Applications to Secure Network Control-Planes”, Smart Cloud Networks & Systems (SCNS), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, pp. 1-8, (IEEE) (2016)