Blockchain Token Cloud Orchestration for Network Slice Security
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current blockchain systems lack efficient mechanisms for exchanging information, value, or tokens between blockchain networks and the physical world, particularly in securing and managing network slices and resources in cloud-native environments.
Innovation Solution
A blockchain-enabled service-based cloud-native function (CNF) architecture that incorporates a service mesh network, utilizing smart contracts to record network slicing information and manage resources, with slice coins regulating access and usage, and a slice coin orchestrator for instantiating and provisioning network slices.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If blockchain networks are used to manage cloud resources and network slices, then security and decentralization are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of operation increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a service mesh as an intermediary layer between the blockchain network and cloud-native applications. The service mesh handles complex blockchain interactions, smart contract executions, and resource management operations, shielding applications from blockchain complexity while maintaining security benefits. This mediator pattern resolves the contradiction by absorbing system complexity in a dedicated infrastructure layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the system into distinct layers: blockchain layer for security and consensus, service mesh layer for orchestration and management, and application layer for business logic. This segmentation allows each layer to specialize in specific functions, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining the security advantages of blockchain.
2Productivity
If smart contracts are deployed to manage network slicing and resource allocation, then automation and efficiency are improved, but difficulty of detecting and measuring system state increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements feedback mechanisms where the service mesh continuously monitors smart contract executions, resource allocation states, and network slice performance. This feedback is relayed to both blockchain validators and application operators, enabling transparent monitoring of automated processes while maintaining automation efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The service mesh acts as an intermediary that translates complex smart contract states into observable metrics and system states that can be easily detected and measured. It provides standardized interfaces for monitoring resource allocation, network slice status, and smart contract execution outcomes.
3Ease of operation
If a service mesh architecture is implemented to interface blockchain with cloud-native applications, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The service mesh serves as a standardized intermediary layer that provides uniform interfaces between blockchain and diverse cloud-native applications. It handles protocol translations, authentication, and resource management, making blockchain operations easy to use while concentrating infrastructure complexity in a manageable middle layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The service mesh implements universal interfaces and protocols that work across different blockchain networks and cloud-native application types. This multi-functionality simplifies operations by providing consistent patterns for resource management, authentication, and interaction, while the underlying infrastructure handles specific implementation complexities.
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AI summary
A blockchain-enabled service-based cloud native function (CNF) application architecture including a physical cloud infrastructure that includes computing resources, an application service mesh network including CNF that communicate with each other, and a blockchain-supported network slice orchestration of one or more network slices managed by a slice coin orchestrator, each network slice being an instantiated logical network, is defined by a smart contract deployed on a blockchain network. The slice coin orchestrator transacts smart contracts transferring tokens that are configured to be exchangeable for instantiation of a network slice, defined as slice coins, with each slice coin of the plurality of slice coins being configured to regulate at least one of access to and use by the one or more network slices to at least one of the computing resources and the CNF applications of the application service mesh network.