A discreet, fault-tolerant, and scalable software architectural style for Internet-sized networks
by Yuriy Brun
Abstract:
Large networks, such as the Internet, pose an ideal medium for solving computationally intensive problems, such as NP-complete problems, yet no well-scaling architecture for Internet-sized systems exists. I propose a software architectural style for large networks, based on a formal mathematical study of crystal growth that will exhibit properties of (1) discreetness (nodes on the network cannot learn the algorithm or input of the computation), (2) fault-tolerance (malicious, faulty, and unstable nodes cannot break the computation), and (3) scalability (communication among the nodes does not increase with network or problem size). I plan to evaluate the style both theoretically and empirically for these three properties.
Citation:
Yuriy Brun, A discreet, fault-tolerant, and scalable software architectural style for Internet-sized networks, in Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium at the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2007, pp. 83–84.
Bibtex:
@inproceedings{Brun07icse-doc-symp,
  author = {Yuriy Brun},
  title =
  {\href{http://people.cs.umass.edu/brun/pubs/pubs/Brun07icse-doc-symp.pdf}{A
  discreet, fault-tolerant, and scalable software architectural style for
  {I}nternet-sized networks}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium at the 29th International
  Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)},
  venue = {ICSE DocSymp},
  address = {Minneapolis, {MN}, {USA}},
  month = {May},
  date = {20--26},
  year = {2007},
  pages = {83--84},
  doi = {10.1109/ICSECOMPANION.2007.12},
  accept = {$\frac{11}{48} \approx 23\%$},

  note = {\href{https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSECOMPANION.2007.12}{DOI:
  10.1109/ICSECOMPANION.2007.12}},

  abstract = {Large networks, such as the Internet, pose an ideal medium for
  solving computationally intensive problems, such as NP-complete problems, yet
  no well-scaling architecture for Internet-sized systems exists. I propose a
  software architectural style for large networks, based on a formal
  mathematical study of crystal growth that will exhibit properties of (1)
  discreetness (nodes on the network cannot learn the algorithm or input of the
  computation), (2) fault-tolerance (malicious, faulty, and unstable nodes
  cannot break the computation), and (3) scalability (communication among the
  nodes does not increase with network or problem size). I plan to evaluate the
  style both theoretically and empirically for these three properties.},
}