Descrizione del progetto
Un nuovo orchestratore decentralizzato a livello di applicazione di sciami interdipendenti auto-organizzati
L’internet delle cose e la crescente collezione di dispositivi connessi al margine, molti dei quali richiedono una trasmissione di dati ad alta velocità e precisione, stanno spingendo al limite le funzioni di elaborazione centralizzata nel cloud. Il fog computing sposta parte dell’elaborazione dal cloud verso il margine e più vicino al dispositivo finale. L’edge computing lo sposta ai margini della rete. Questi nuovi paradigmi altamente distribuiti richiedono approcci di gestione delle applicazioni fondamentalmente nuovi. Il progetto Swarmchestrate, finanziato dall’UE, intende fornire una soluzione con l’auto-organizzazione dei cosiddetti sciami di unità interdipendenti in uno spazio di orchestrazione dinamico. Gli sciami saranno gestiti da agenti di orchestrazione decentralizzati con soluzioni affidabili basate su blockchain, algoritmi crittografici all’avanguardia e analisi dei dati che preservano la privacy.
Obiettivo
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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