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Generalized Spot-Checking for Reliable Volunteer Computing
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While volunteer computing (VC) systems reach the most powerful computing platforms, they still have the problem of guaranteeing computational correctness, due to the inherent unreliability of volunteer participants. Spot-checking technique, which checks each participant by allocating spotter jobs, is a promising approach to the validation of computation results. The current spot-checking is based on the implicit assumption that participants never distinguish spotter jobs from normal ones; however generating such spotter jobs is still an open problem. Hence, in the real VC environment where the implicit assumption does not always hold, spot-checking-based methods such as well-known credibility-based voting become almost impossible to guarantee the computational correctness. In this paper, we generalize spot-checking by introducing the idea of imperfect checking. This generalization allows to guarantee the computational correctness under the situation that spot-checking is not fully-reliable and participants may distinguish spotter jobs. Moreover, we develop a generalized formula of the credibility, which enables credibility-based voting to utilize check-by-voting technique. Simulation results show that check-by-voting improves the performance of credibility-based voting, while guaranteeing the same level of computational correctness.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E93-D No.12 pp.3164-3172
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- 2010/12/01
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- 1745-1361
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- 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3164
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- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Networking)
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Kan WATANABE, Masaru FUKUSHI, "Generalized Spot-Checking for Reliable Volunteer Computing" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information,
vol. E93-D, no. 12, pp. 3164-3172, December 2010, doi: 10.1587/transinf.E93.D.3164.
Abstract: While volunteer computing (VC) systems reach the most powerful computing platforms, they still have the problem of guaranteeing computational correctness, due to the inherent unreliability of volunteer participants. Spot-checking technique, which checks each participant by allocating spotter jobs, is a promising approach to the validation of computation results. The current spot-checking is based on the implicit assumption that participants never distinguish spotter jobs from normal ones; however generating such spotter jobs is still an open problem. Hence, in the real VC environment where the implicit assumption does not always hold, spot-checking-based methods such as well-known credibility-based voting become almost impossible to guarantee the computational correctness. In this paper, we generalize spot-checking by introducing the idea of imperfect checking. This generalization allows to guarantee the computational correctness under the situation that spot-checking is not fully-reliable and participants may distinguish spotter jobs. Moreover, we develop a generalized formula of the credibility, which enables credibility-based voting to utilize check-by-voting technique. Simulation results show that check-by-voting improves the performance of credibility-based voting, while guaranteeing the same level of computational correctness.
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