Edge Cloud Cluster Union Formation via Intermediary Orchestration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud service providers face challenges in forming edge stations that adequately cover large geographic areas due to high investment costs and difficulties in orchestrating software components, leading to limited user experience from network latency and bandwidth constraints, while privately owned infrastructure remains underutilized without a standard way to share resources.
Innovation Solution
The formation of cloud-native clusters using privately owned infrastructure, allowing cloud service providers to access and utilize edge stations closer to end-users, with software and hardware solutions that configure private infrastructure as edge stations, enabling cloud functionality and prioritizing private use cases, and providing infrastructure as a service to customers.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If cloud service providers deploy edge stations to cover large geographic areas, then user proximity to edge computing resources is improved, but investment costs and deployment complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a union server as an intermediary that manages and orchestrates multiple edge stations. This mediator handles the complexity of deploying, monitoring, and coordinating edge stations across geographic areas, allowing cloud service providers to benefit from reduced latency without directly managing the complex deployment infrastructure.
Solution Approach 2:
The system enables private infrastructure owners to self-register their edge stations with the union server and automatically make their resources available for cloud service provider use. This self-service mechanism reduces the need for manual deployment and management, lowering deployment complexity while expanding geographic coverage.
2Area of stationary object
If cloud service providers invest in hardware and real estate for edge stations, then edge computing coverage is improved, but maintenance costs and operational burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The union server provides universal management capabilities that serve multiple edge stations simultaneously. It handles provisioning, monitoring, and coordination functions across the entire edge station network, reducing the operational burden on individual cloud service providers and enabling broader geographic coverage without proportional increases in maintenance effort.
Solution Approach 2:
The union server acts as an intermediary that absorbs maintenance and operational complexities. Instead of cloud service providers directly managing hardware and real estate, the union server mediates between providers and physical infrastructure, simplifying operations while expanding geographic coverage.
3Productivity
If privately owned infrastructure is shared with cloud service providers, then resource utilization is improved, but orchestration complexity and access management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The union server serves as an intermediary layer between private infrastructure owners and cloud service providers. It manages the orchestration of software components, handles access requests, and coordinates resource allocation, thereby enabling improved resource utilization without exposing the full complexity of orchestration to either party.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where the union server monitors resource usage, availability, and performance of shared infrastructure. This feedback enables dynamic orchestration and automatic adjustments, improving resource utilization while managing complexity through automated control loops rather than manual intervention.
4Loss of energy
If edge stations are deployed closer to end users, then network bandwidth consumption is reduced, but hardware acquisition and real estate costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system leverages self-service mechanisms where private infrastructure owners voluntarily contribute their existing hardware resources to the edge station network. By incentivizing owners to self-register and share their underutilized infrastructure, the system reduces bandwidth consumption without requiring cloud service providers to directly invest in new hardware and real estate.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent recovers and repurposes underutilized private infrastructure for cloud service provider use. Instead of discarding idle hardware resources, the union server orchestrates their utilization for edge computing workloads, reducing the need for new hardware investment while enabling edge stations closer to end users that conserve bandwidth.
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AI summary
Cloud-native clusters are disclosed and configured to for an edge cloud. The edge cloud includes using private infrastructure to include edge stations that are configured to perform cloud-native applications. The edge stations are geographically closer to end users and end user devices.