CloudEx: A fair-Access financial exchange in the cloud

Ahmad Ghalayini, Jinkun Geng, Vighnesh Sachidananda, Vinay Sriram, Yilong Geng, Balaji Prabhakar, Mendel Rosenblum, Anirudh Sivaraman

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Abstract

Financial exchanges have begun a move from on-premise and custom-engineered datacenters to the public cloud, accelerated by a rush of new investors, the rise of remote work, cost savings from the cloud, and the desire for more resilient infrastructure. While the promise of the cloud is enticing, the cloud's varying network latencies can lead to market unfairness: orders can be processed out of sequence, and market data can be disseminated to market participants at incorrect times due to varying latencies between participants and the exchange. We present CloudEx, a fair-Access cloud exchange, which leverages high-precision software clock synchronization to compensate for noisy network conditions in the public cloud. We also discuss refinements to the CloudEx design that were informed by lessons learned from deploying CloudEx in two academic courses and conclude by outlining future research directions.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHotOS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages96-103
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450384384
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 1 2021
Event18th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS 2021 - Virtual, Online, United States
Duration: Jun 1 2021Jun 3 2021

Publication series

NameHotOS 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems

Conference

Conference18th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems, HotOS 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/1/216/3/21

Keywords

  • clock synchronization
  • fair-Access exchanges
  • financial exchanges
  • high-frequency trading
  • low-latency systems

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Hardware and Architecture

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