Ad hoc decentralized cloud infrastructure

• US 9,130,939 B2
• Filed: 12/28/2012
• Issued: 09/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Vicente, John B., Li, Hong C., Yarvis, Mark D., Blakley, James R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US13/729,623
• Publication Number:
  US 20140189120A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226, 709201-203, 709/216, 709/217, 709/219, 709/224, 709/248
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5072 Grid computing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1068 Discovery involving direct consultation or announcement among potential requesting and potential source peers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1078 Resource delivery mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/51 based on terminal or device properties
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Technologies for establishing and utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure using a plurality of mobile computing devices include broadcasting for the formation of the decentralized cloud computing and storage infrastructure and establishing wireless communications between the plurality of mobile computing devices. The plurality of mobile computing devices self-organize and cooperate with one another to establish a structured decentralized cloud infrastructure to expose and sharing resources, services, and/or applications for ad hoc or socially-driven decentralized, cloud computing purposes.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device for utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure, the mobile computing device comprising:

a communication module to (i) broadcast for the formation of the decentralized cloud infrastructure, and (ii) establish a wireless communication connection with at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

a decentralized service module to (i) establish the decentralized cloud infrastructure by sharing decentralized cloud services with the at least one secondary mobile computing device and (ii) establish shared cloud resources usable by the mobile computing device and the at least one secondary mobile computing device, wherein to establish the shared cloud resources comprises to;

offer local resources of the mobile computing device to the at least one secondary mobile computing device;

receive offers of shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

aggregate the local resources of the mobile computing device and the shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device to generate a virtual aggregated node resource.

2. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the decentralized service module is further to retrieve at least one decentralized service not on the mobile computing device from a stationary computing device.

3. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the decentralized service module is to establish shared cloud resources in response to establishing the decentralized cloud infrastructure, the shared cloud resources comprising at least one of computational resources, storage resources, and cloud service resources.

4. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the decentralized service module is to transmit decentralized services to the at least one secondary mobile computing device and to retrieve from the at least one secondary mobile computing device any required decentralized service not on the mobile computing device to share the decentralized services.

5. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the decentralized service module comprises a decentralized service module to establish one or more service layers over the decentralized cloud infrastructure in a peer-to-peer mesh structure to establish a decentralized cloud network.

6. The mobile computing device of claim 5, wherein the one or more service layers comprises at least one of:

a decentralized platform service layer, a decentralized information technology service layer, and a decentralized user services layer.

7. The mobile computing device of claim 1, wherein the decentralized service module is to permit the mobile computing device to share the established shared cloud resources in response to a determination that a number of computing devices included in the decentralized cloud infrastructure exceeds a predefined critical number within a predefined period of time.

8. A mobile computing device for joining a decentralized cloud infrastructure having a plurality of nodes, the mobile computing device comprising:

a communication module to (i) establish a wireless communication connection with at least one node of the decentralized cloud infrastructure and (ii) receive one or more decentralized cloud services from the at least one node;

a bootstrap module to bootstrap the one or more decentralized services on the mobile computing device; and

a decentralized service module to establish shared cloud resources as a function of (i) offers of local resources of the mobile computing device to the at least one node and (ii) receipts of offers of shared local resources of the at least one node, wherein to establish the shared cloud resources comprises to aggregate the local resources of the mobile computing device and the shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device to generate a virtual aggregated node resource.

9. The mobile computing device of claim 8, wherein the one or more decentralized cloud services received from the at least one node comprises decentralized services not on the mobile computing device.

10. The mobile computing device of claim 9, wherein the decentralized service module is to establish shared cloud resources in response to bootstrapping the one or more decentralized services.

11. A method for utilizing a decentralized cloud infrastructure on a mobile computing device, the method comprising:

broadcasting, from the mobile computing device, for the formation of the decentralized cloud infrastructure;

establishing, with the mobile computing device, a wireless communication connection with at least one secondary mobile computing device;

establishing, using the mobile computing device, the decentralized cloud infrastructure by sharing decentralized cloud services with the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

establishing, using the mobile computing device, shared cloud resources usable by the mobile computing device and the at least one secondary mobile computing device by (i) offering local resources of the mobile computing device to the at least one secondary mobile computing device, (ii) receiving offers of shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device, and (iii) aggregating the local resources of the mobile computing device and the shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device to generate a virtual aggregated node resource.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising retrieving, with the mobile computing device, at least one decentralized cloud service not on the mobile computing device from a stationary computing device.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein establishing the shared cloud resources comprises establishing cloud resources in response to establishing the decentralized cloud infrastructure.

14. The method of claim 11, wherein sharing the decentralize services comprises:

transmitting, from the mobile computing device, decentralized services to the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

retrieving, with the mobile computing device, any required decentralized service not on the mobile computing device from the at least one secondary mobile computing device.

15. One or more non-transitory machine readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, in response to being executed, result in a mobile computing device:

broadcasting for the formation of the decentralized cloud infrastructure;

establishing a wireless communication connection with at least one secondary mobile computing device;

establishing the decentralized cloud infrastructure by sharing decentralized cloud services with the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

establishing shared cloud resources usable by the mobile computing device and the at least one secondary mobile computing device by (i) offering local resources of the mobile computing device to the at least one secondary mobile computing device, (ii) receiving offers of shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device, and (iii) aggregating the local resources of the mobile computing device and the shared local resources of the at least one secondary mobile computing device to generate a virtual aggregated node resource.

16. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 15, wherein the plurality of instructions further result in the mobile computing device retrieving at least one decentralized cloud service not on the mobile computing device from a stationary computing device.

17. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 15, wherein establishing the shared cloud resources comprises establishing cloud resources in response to establishing the decentralized cloud infrastructure.

18. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 15, wherein sharing the decentralize services comprises:

transmitting, from the mobile computing device, decentralized services to the at least one secondary mobile computing device; and

retrieving, with the mobile computing device, any required decentralized service not on the mobile computing device from the at least one secondary mobile computing device.

19. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 15, wherein establishing the decentralized cloud infrastructure comprises establishing a decentralized cloud network by establishing one or more service layers over the decentralized cloud infrastructure in a peer-to-peer mesh structure.

20. The one or more non-transitory machine readable storage media of claim 19, wherein establishing the one or more service layers comprises establishing, over the decentralized cloud infrastructure, at least one of:

a decentralized platform service layer, a decentralized information technology service layer, and a decentralized user services layer.