Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum

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Published April 19, 2024 | Version v1
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Swarmchestrate: Towards a Fully Decentralised Framework for Orchestrating Applications in the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Westminster
  • 2. Edinburgh Napier University
  • 3. ROR icon Technische Universität Berlin
  • 4. ROR icon Institute of Communication and Computer Systems
  • 5. ROR icon Tampere University
  • 6. University of Ljubljana
  • 7. FrontEndART Software
  • 8. ROR icon University of Trento
  • 9. ROR icon Fondazione Bruno Kessler
  • 10. ROR icon Seoul National University
  • 11. ROR icon Institute for Computer Science and Control

Description

Collecting and analysing large amounts of data in the Cloud-to-Edge computing continuum raises novel challenges that traditional centralised orchestration solutions cannot handle efficiently. To overcome the limitations of current centralised application management approaches, this paper presents a fully 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, are managed through blockchain-based trusted solutions and the utilisation of emerging methods such as Self-Sovereign Identities (SSI) and Distributed Identifiers (DID). End-to-end security of the overall system is assured by utilising state-of-the-art cryptographic and privacy-preserving data analytics algorithms. A digital twin, that runs in parallel to the physical system, further improves its behaviour with predictive feedback. The presented concept is going to be implemented in the EU-funded Swarmchestrate project that starts in 2024.

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Funding

European Commission
Swarmchestrate - Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum 101135012
UK Research and Innovation
Application-level Swarm-based Orchestration Across the Cloud-to-Edge Continuum 10101169
UK Research and Innovation
SWARMCHESTRATE - APPLICATION-LEVEL SWARM-BASED ORCHESTRATION ACROSS THE CLOUD-TO-EDGE CONTINUUM 10102651