Cooperative cloud infrastructure using blockchains for hardware ownership and access

摘要

A system includes a memory, a processor in communication with the memory, a hypervisor executing on the processor, a pool of hypervisor resources, and a cloud-sharing module (CSM). The CSM runs in a kernel to assign an anonymous identity to a hypervisor resource from the pool of hypervisor resources. The CSM broadcasts a transaction for the hypervisor resource and determines which provider owns the hypervisor resource. A first provider is associated with a second anonymous identity and a second provider is associated with a third anonymous identity. Additionally, the CSM receives mining information that includes a block associated with the transaction, where the block is part of a blockchain. The CSM completes the transaction for the first anonymous identity associated with the hypervisor resource between the second anonymous identity and the third anonymous identity.