Fabric

Jed Liu, Michael D. George, K. Vikram, Xin Qi, Lucas Waye, Andrew C. Myers
2009 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles - SOSP '09  
Fabric is a new system and language for building secure distributed information systems. It is a decentralized system that allows heterogeneous network nodes to securely share both information and computation resources despite mutual distrust. Its high-level programming language makes distribution and persistence largely transparent to programmers. Fabric supports data-shipping and functionshipping styles of computation: both computation and information can move between nodes to meet security
more » ... quirements or to improve performance. Fabric provides a rich, Java-like object model, but data resources are labeled with confidentiality and integrity policies that are enforced through a combination of compile-time and run-time mechanisms. Optimistic, nested transactions ensure consistency across all objects and nodes. A peer-to-peer dissemination layer helps to increase availability and to balance load. Results from applications built using Fabric suggest that Fabric has a clean, concise programming model, offers good performance, and enforces security.
doi:10.1145/1629575.1629606 dblp:conf/sosp/LiuGVQWM09 fatcat:c6wmwnf6a5g7fjrbslusgkgcjy