Edge Computing Privacy Framework via Intermediary Datacenters
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Solution Overview
Problem
Self-built edge datacenters face challenges in providing secure and trustworthy infrastructure, especially in regions with stringent user and data privacy regulations, due to the wide distribution nature of edge computing technologies and the risk of compromising user sensitive data.
Innovation Solution
A framework that integrates a technology partner datacenter with self-built edge datacenters, utilizing an edge router, network address translation appliance, and application gateway for security and privacy to anonymize IP addresses and route requests, ensuring compliance with user and data privacy laws by preventing access to protected information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If self-built edge datacenters use private software stacks and protocols to reduce cost and improve service quality, then service quality and cost efficiency are improved, but user privacy and data security are compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a technology partner datacenter as an intermediary between the self-built edge datacenter and the central cloud infrastructure. This intermediary layer provides trusted computing resources and content delivery while maintaining privacy compliance, allowing the edge datacenter to offer enhanced service quality without directly handling sensitive user data that could be compromised by private software stacks.
2Reliability
If a central datacenter provides trusted infrastructure, then data security is improved, but the wide distribution nature of edge computing makes it difficult to provide secure edge infrastructure
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the datacenter infrastructure into multiple functional components: self-built edge datacenters for local content caching and delivery, technology partner datacenters for trusted computing and privacy-compliant processing, and central cloud datacenters for content storage. This segmentation allows each component to perform its specific function securely while simplifying the overall architecture compared to a monolithic centralized system.
Solution Approach 2:
The technology partner datacenter acts as an intermediary layer that bridges the self-built edge datacenters and the central cloud infrastructure. This intermediary provides trusted computing resources and enforces privacy compliance at the edge location, making it easier to maintain data security across the distributed edge infrastructure without requiring direct control of every edge node by the central datacenter.
3Productivity
If edge datacenters are distributed widely to enhance service quality, then service availability and speed are improved, but the risk of compromising user sensitive data increases
Solution Approach 1:
The technology partner datacenter serves as an intermediary that processes data requests from distributed edge locations while maintaining privacy compliance. This intermediary layer ensures that even though edge datacenters are widely distributed for enhanced service availability, user sensitive data is not compromised because the intermediary enforces privacy regulations and security protocols at each edge location.
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AI summary
Systems and method directed to providing a framework for a trustworthy and security compliant edge computing infrastructure are described. Such framework allows self-built edge datacenters to continue providing enhanced service quality in regions where user data and user privacy are of top concerns. In examples, the systems and methods may include an edge router configured to route a communication received from a mobile device to an edge datacenter and provides the request to the edge datacenter. The edge data center may request content and/or services from a technology partner datacenter via an application gateway for security and privacy that is configured to receive the request for content from the edge datacenter and determine if the request for content is associated with user protected information.