Center for Autonomic Computing Intel Portland, April 30, 2010 Autonomic Virtual Networks and Applications in Cloud and Collaborative Computing Environments Renato Figueiredo Associate Professor Center for Autonomic Computing ACIS Lab University of Florida

2 Outlook  Architecting autonomic virtual networks Isolation, security, encapsulation, dynamic configuration, migration Self-configuration, self-healing, self-optimization  Applications in cloud and collaborative environments Virtual Private Clusters Social VPNs  Archer: a collaborative environment for computer architecture simulation  Ongoing/future work

3 Social VPNs  Focus on usability of security VPNs: can recover Internet end-to-end connectivity From a user’s perspective: it needs to be simple  My computer gets a virtual network card It connects me directly to my social peers All IP packets: authenticated, encrypted, end-to-end  Leverage well-known PKI techniques No configuration besides establishing social links  All I need to do to is log in to a web based social network  Applications, middleware work as if the computers were on the same local-area network

4 Social VPN Overview Alice Carol Bob Social Network Web interface Social network (e.g. Google chat) Overlay network (IPOP) carol.facebook.ipop node0.alice.facebook.ipop Social Network API Social network Information system Alice’s public key certificate Bob’s public key certificate Carol’s public key certificate Social relationships web-based profiles, /chat networks. Public key certificates retrieved through social API or XMPP Symmetric keys exchanged and point-to- point private tunnels created on demand; Multicast-based resource discovery Bob: browses Alice’s SMB share Alice’s services: Samba share RDP server VoIP, Chat Advertise to Bob, Carol

5 SocialVPN Control Plane  Use APIs of well-established social networks for peer discovery and certificate exchange Centralized user identity and data store for certificate exchange  Facebook APIs and data store Federated user identities and peer-to-peer messaging for synchronous certificate exchange  XMPP online chat protocol (Google chat, Jabber.org; Facebook has partial support)  May use DHT for asynchronous certificate exchange

6 SocialVPN Data Plane  IPOP core, with end-to-end security  Dynamic IP address assignment Key to supporting IPv4 in large social networks  Facebook has more users than there are class A private IPs! Avoid conflicts with local private networks Dynamic IP translation; supports mobility Key: while whole social network is huge, my social network fits in a subnet [Figueiredo et al, COPS 2008]

7 SocialVPN dynamic IP translation Non-conflicting private network Alice x.y Alice: Bob: Ann: Ann x.y Ann: Alice: Src: Dst: VNIC Src: Dst: Src: AliceOverlayID Dst: AnnOverlayID Bill:

8 SocialVPN Connection times 128 nodes on Amazon EC2, 450 nodes on PlanetLab -Majority of links formed in less than a second -DHT lookup, symmetric key exchange -Few additional seconds for NAT traversal

9 Per-node Bandwidth Small cost of maintaining overlay connections - 1KByte/s for 128 peers

10 Trust relationships  I manage who I trust - SocialVPN Alice friend of Bob, Bob friend of Carol Social VPN links: Alice Bob, Bob Carol  No direct connection between Alice and Carol  Self-signed certificates  Small-scale, ad-hoc; social VPN is not all-to-all connected  I delegate trust to a third party - GroupVPN Alice, Bob and Carol trust Trent, a group moderator Social VPN links: A B, B C, A C  Trent acts as CA, signing as a side-effect of approving user  GroupVPN is all-to-all connected

11 GroupVPN security management  IPOP creates VPN links autonomously But who decides on VPN membership? How to multiplex many virtual private IP overlays over the same P2P overlay?  Key approaches: Namespaces: separation of virtual IP address spaces VPN configuration: Web-based group front-end to manage certificates, automatic signing and configuration Centralized user and certificate management, decentralized VPN routing  Users create, configure VPN groups, namespaces Group owner manages joining/leaving of a group  Certificate signing/revocation is automated PKI infrastructure, simple usage model for virtual clusters