Descripción del proyecto
Un nuevo orquestador descentralizado a nivel de aplicación de enjambres interdependientes autoorganizados
El internet de las cosas y el aumento de dispositivos conectados en el borde, muchos de los cuales requieren una transmisión de datos de alta velocidad y gran precisión, están llevando al límite las funciones centralizadas de procesamiento en la nube. La computación en la niebla traslada parte del procesamiento desde la nube hacia el borde y más cerca del dispositivo final. La computación en el borde lo traslada al borde de la red. Estos nuevos paradigmas altamente distribuidos requieren métodos de gestión de aplicaciones fundamentalmente nuevos. El equipo del proyecto Swarmchestrate, financiado con fondos europeos, pretende ofrecer uno con la autoorganización de los llamados enjambres de unidades interdependientes en un espacio dinámico de orquestación. Los enjambres serán gestionados por agentes de orquestación descentralizados con soluciones de confianza basadas en cadena de bloques, algoritmos criptográficos de última generación y análisis de datos que preservan la privacidad.
Objetivo
Collecting and analysing large amounts of data in the Cloud-to-Edge computing continuum raises novel challenges. Processing all this data centrally in cloud data centres is not feasible anymore as transferring large amounts of data to the cloud is time-consuming, expensive, degrade performance and may raise security concerns. Therefore, novel distributed computing paradigms, such as edge and fog computing emerged to support processing data closer to its origin. However, such hyper-distributed systems require fundamentally new methods.
To overcome the limitation of current centralised application management approaches, Swarmhestrate will develop a completely novel decentralised application-level orchestrator, based on the notion of self-organised interdependent Swarms. Application microservices are managed in a dynamic Orchestration Space by decentralised Orchestration Agents, governed by distributed intelligence that provides matchmaking between application requirements and resources, and supports the dynamic self-organisation of Swarms. Knowledge and trust, essential for the operation of the Orchestration Space, will be managed through blockchain-based trusted solutions using methods of Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) and Distributed Identifiers (DID). End-to-end security of the overall system will be assured by utilising state-of-the-art cryptographic algorithms and privacy preserving data analytics.
Due to the imminent complexity of the decentralised system, novel simulation approaches will be developed to test and optimise system behaviour (e.g. energy efficiency) in the early stages of development. Additionally, the simulator will be further extended into a digital twin running in parallel to the physical system and improving its behaviour with predictive feedback. The Swarmchestrate concept will be prototyped on four real-life demonstrators from the areas of flood prevention, parking space management, video analytics and a digital twin of natural habitat.
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