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Towards Measuring Quality of Service in Untrusted Multi-Vendor Service Function Chains: Balancing Security and Resource Consumption
Published in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
2019
Volume: 2019-April
   
Pages: 163 - 171
Abstract
The IT infrastructure of large organizations consists of devices and software services purchased from multiple vendors. The problem of measuring the quality of service (QoS) of each of these vendor devices (and services) is challenging since the vendors may tamper with the measurements for monetary benefits or saving debugging efforts. Existing solutions for QoS measurement in trusted environments cannot be extended for this problem since the vendors can easily circumvent them. Solutions borrowed from other areas such as client-server QoS measurement do not help either since they incur unreasonable storage and network overheads, or require extensive modifications to the packet headers. In this paper, we propose the Measuring Tape scheme, comprised of (1) a novel data structure called evidence Bloom filter (e-BF) that can be deployed at the vendor devices (and services), and (2) unique querying techniques, which can be used by the administrator to query the e-BF to measure QoS. While e-BF uses storage and computational resources judiciously, the querying techniques ensure resilience to adversarial behavior. We evaluate our solution based on a few real-world and synthetic traces and with different adversaries. Our results highlight the trade-off between resources (i.e., storage and computation) and the accuracy of QoS predictions, as well as its implications on security. We also present an analytical model of e-BF that establishes the relationship between storage, prediction accuracy, and security. Further, we present security arguments to illustrate how our solution thwarts adversarial attempts to tamper QoS. © 2019 IEEE.
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JournalData powered by TypesetProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
PublisherData powered by TypesetInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISSN0743166X
Open AccessNo
Concepts (14)
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    Data structures
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    Digital storage
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    Economic and social effects
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    Solution mining
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    Telecommunication services
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    Computational resources
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    DEBUGGING EFFORTS
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    IT INFRASTRUCTURES
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    LARGE ORGANIZATIONS
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    Prediction accuracy
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    Resource consumption
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    SERVICE FUNCTIONS
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    SOFTWARE SERVICES
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    Quality of service