Decentralized Trust System for Multi-Provider Virtual Network Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current service models in the telecommunications industry face challenges in providing agile and flexible orchestration for multi-provider services due to complex interactions across multiple vertical management layers, leading to slow and inflexible resource integration across different service providers.
Innovation Solution
A decentralized trust system, utilizing Blockchain technology, enables direct interactions between Lifecycle Management (LCM) components by using local tags to represent services and enabling smart contracts for consensus-based negotiations, allowing for efficient and flexible resource allocation and orchestration.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional multi-layered orchestration mechanisms are used between service providers, then service coordination can be achieved, but the orchestration process becomes slow and inflexible due to complex interactions across multiple vertical management layers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a decentralized trust system acting as an intermediary layer between LCM components of different service providers. This trust system enables direct peer-to-peer interactions while maintaining security and coordination, eliminating the need for complex multi-layered orchestration mechanisms and significantly accelerating the orchestration process
Solution Approach 2:
LCM components are empowered to autonomously negotiate and execute service orchestrations through smart contracts on the decentralized trust system. This self-service capability eliminates dependency on external orchestration layers, allowing LCM components to independently coordinate resource allocation and service delivery across provider boundaries
2Adaptability or versatility
If detailed descriptions of local services are shared across all service providers, then service compatibility is improved, but information overload and processing complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The service description information is segmented into two levels: local tags with essential service characteristics for broad compatibility, and detailed descriptions available on-demand for specific interactions. This segmentation allows LCM components to efficiently filter and match services using local tags while accessing detailed information only when necessary, reducing information overload
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements partial information sharing by using local tags that contain sufficient information for initial service matching and compatibility verification. Full detailed descriptions are only retrieved when actually needed for specific service interactions, avoiding the excessive action of sharing all information universally and improving processing efficiency
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus for providing multi-provider services in a virtualised network. The method in a first lifecycle management, LCM component, in a virtual network; wherein the virtual network comprises trusted provider configured to provide a decentralised trust system between a plurality of LCM components controlled by different service providers in the virtual network. The method comprises storing a detailed description of one or more local services that the first service provider is capable of providing; generating a local tag representative of the one or more local services, wherein the local tag comprises less detail about the one or more local services than the detailed description; and enrolling with the decentralised trust system using the local tag.