Autonomous, Collaborative Control for Resilient Cyber Defense (ACCORD)
Stuart S. Wagner, Eric van den Berg, Jim Giacopelli, Andrei Ghetie, Jim Burns, Miriam Tauil, Soumya Sen, Michael Szu-Yuan Wang, Mung Chiang, Tian Lan, Robert Laddaga, Paul Robertson, Prakash Manghwani · 2012
ACCORD addresses the need for robust, rapidly adaptive resource allocation mechanisms in cloud computing. It employs a distributed, game-theoretic approach to apportion computational loads in an efficient, prioritized, Pareto-optimal fashion among geographically dispersed cloud computing infrastructure. This paper describes ACCORD algorithms, software implementation, and initial experimental results. Our results illustrate how a distributed, ACCORD-enabled cloud architecture autonomously adapts to the loss of computing resources (e.g., due to failures, poor network connectivity, or cyber attack) while ensuring that users receive maximal, prioritized utility from available cloud resources.