Edge Object Attestation Using AIOs for Trusted Telemetry
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Solution Overview
Problem
Edge computing environments face challenges in orchestration, security, processing, and network resource management, particularly in complex mobility settings with multiple participants, leading to concerns about workload execution and data quality in decentralized systems.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of Telemetry Information Objects (TIO) and Attestation Information Objects (AIO) to assess data quality and reliability, ensuring trustworthy data consumption and aggregation without extensive coordination, using methods and apparatus to generate and integrate AIOs with TIOs for intelligent decision-making.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If workload execution is decentralized in edge environments, then processing speed and data quality improve, but security and reliability deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an attestation service as an intermediary between edge computing resources and workload consumers. This service provides cryptographic attestation that verifies the trustworthiness of edge resources without requiring direct trust relationships, thus enabling decentralized execution while maintaining security through the mediating attestation mechanism
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements preliminary attestation verification before workload execution is permitted. The attestation service pre- validates the security posture of edge computing resources, generating attestation reports that confirm their trustworthiness in advance, allowing workloads to be confidently deployed to decentralized edge locations
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple participants are involved in edge environments, then system capability and versatility improve, but coordination complexity and communication overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal attestation service that serves multiple participants (workload consumers, edge computing resources, and the attestation service itself) with a single standardized interface. This multi-functional service handles authentication, authorization, and trust verification for all participants, reducing the need for separate coordination mechanisms between each pair of participants
Solution Approach 2:
The attestation service acts as a central mediator that simplifies multi-party coordination. Instead of requiring direct communication and trust establishment between multiple edge participants, the attestation service provides a single point of verification that all participants can rely on, significantly reducing coordination complexity
3Reliability
If data quality verification is implemented, then data reliability improves, but processing time and computational overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs data quality verification and attestation generation in advance, before workloads are executed. By pre-validating the trustworthiness of edge computing resources and their data, the system avoids time-consuming verification during actual data processing, thus maintaining high data reliability without significant processing time penalties
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AI summary
Methods and apparatus to attest objects in edge computing environments are disclosed. An example apparatus generate an attestation information object in an edge computing environment includes an evidence collector to collect evidence for an attestation information object to attest the authenticity of a first object, a temporal data generator to generate temporal information associated with data associated with the object, the evidence collector to associate the evidence and the temporal information with the first object, and an interface generator to generate an interface for the attestation information object.