Preamble-Based Security Orchestration for Low-Latency Edge Compute
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Solution Overview
Problem
The challenge in network orchestration for edge computing systems is the complexity of providing data security, isolation, and compute needs due to their highly distributed and heterogeneous nature, making it difficult to meet the requirements of diverse execution devices.
Innovation Solution
A last-mile orchestration decision-making system that represents end-user or compute requirements using a preamble to manage security, isolation, and compute needs in edge computing environments, ensuring low latency and resource efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If compute resources are placed in remote locations (cell towers, base stations, central offices) to enable edge computing, then network latency is reduced and service capabilities are improved, but security clearance becomes unknown and security levels fluctuate over time
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary security assessment and classification of compute nodes before they are utilized. Security attributes are evaluated in advance and stored in a database, enabling subsequent rapid deployment decisions without needing to re-assess security status at runtime. This resolves the contradiction by establishing security clearance beforehand, allowing remote compute nodes to be used immediately while maintaining known security levels.
Solution Approach 2:
The system continuously monitors and updates security attributes of compute nodes, providing feedback loops that track security clearance changes over time. This enables the system to adapt to fluctuating security conditions in remote locations while maintaining reliable security awareness, resolving the contradiction between utilizing remote low-latency resources and maintaining known security clearance.
2Productivity
If a highly distributed and heterogeneous edge computing system is deployed to improve service capabilities and reduce backhaul traffic, then resource allocation complexity increases and security management becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the complex security management task into discrete, manageable components: individual security attributes are assessed separately for each compute node, and security decisions are made at the node level rather than system-wide. This segmentation reduces the complexity of managing security across highly distributed heterogeneous environments while maintaining comprehensive security coverage.
Solution Approach 2:
The security assessment framework is designed as a universal system that can evaluate diverse compute nodes with different security characteristics using a common set of attributes and evaluation criteria. This multi-functional approach simplifies security management across heterogeneous edge devices by applying unified standards rather than requiring device-specific security protocols.
3Loss of energy
If compute nodes are deployed at remote locations to reduce network backhaul traffic and energy consumption, then the ability to guarantee fixed security levels becomes impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The system transitions from static security clearance guarantees to dynamic security assessment that adapts to changing conditions at remote compute nodes. Security attributes are continuously updated to reflect current security states, enabling the system to maintain reliable security awareness even as security conditions fluctuate over time at distributed locations.
Solution Approach 2:
Security assessment is performed preliminarily before compute nodes are activated for use. By evaluating and storing security attributes in advance, the system can guarantee known security levels at deployment time while still allowing flexible operation at remote locations, thus maintaining both energy efficiency and security reliability.
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AI summary
Various aspects of methods, systems, and use cases include security-based orchestration. A method may include evaluating, within a secure environment of an untrusted device, a preamble to determine a set of security requirements. The method may include, providing, to an attestation server, an indication of security parameters for services of the untrusted device corresponding to security requirements of the set of security requirements, and in response to receiving a confirmation from the attestation server, providing a request to the untrusted device outside the secure environment to generate a trusted domain including the services.