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Online marketplaces are incredibly popular with customers around the globe selling products, also providing everyone as an online seller with a platform to reach a large, ready-to-buy products. Nonetheless, the issue is that it can be difficult to determine which one to trust as a seller. Especially in the world of 5G, where a marketplace is a mandatory component where developers can upload and verify their developed Network Services (NSs) or chained Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). Since those NSs are provisioned for a production environment, their consumers would need to trust the developer or the owner of that NS. To this end, in this paper we propose a smart distributed NFV Marketplace, in which we try to resolve security weaknesses related to the verification of the integrity of the developed VNFs and NSs.
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This work has been partially supported by the PARITY project, funded by the European Commission under Grant Agreement Number 864319 through the Horizon 2020. Moreover, this scientific work has been performed in the framework of the 5GTANGO project, funded by the European Commission under Grant number H2020ICT-2016-2761493 through the Horizon 2020 and 5G-PPP programs (http://5gtango.eu).
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Kapassa, E., Touloupos, M., Kyriazis, D., Themistocleous, M. (2020). A Smart Distributed Marketplace. In: Themistocleous, M., Papadaki, M. (eds) Information Systems. EMCIS 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44322-1_34
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