DLT federation for Edge robotics
This addresses the need for private and secure orchestration of Edge robotics services across undisclosed domains, though it appears incremental as it applies existing DLT concepts to a specific scenario.
The paper tackled the problem of expanding Edge robotics services across multiple administrative domains by proposing a solution using Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for secure federation, achieving deployment and federation in about 19 seconds without service downtime.
The concept of federation in 5G and NFV networks aims to provide orchestration of services across multiple administrative domains. Edge robotics, as a field of robotics, implements the robot control on the network edge by relying on low-latency and reliable access connectivity. In this paper, we propose a solution that enables Edge robotics service to expand its service footprint or access coverage over multiple administrative domains. We propose application of Distributed ledger technologies (DLTs) for the federation procedures to enable private, secure and trusty interactions between undisclosed administrative domains. The solution is applied on a real-case Edge robotics experimental scenario. The results show that it takes around 19 seconds to deploy & federate a Edge robotics service in an external/anonymous domain without any service down-time.