Ad hoc decentralized cloud infrastructure

• US 9,942,317 B2
• Filed: 08/31/2015
• Issued: 04/10/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Vicente, John B., Blakley, James R., Li, Hong, Yarvis, Mark D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Zong, Ruolei
• Application Number:
  US14/841,121
• Publication Number:
  US 20160164967A1
• Time in Patent Office: 953 Days
• Field of Search: 709226, 709201-203, 709216, 709217, 709219, 709224, 709248
• 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. One or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media comprising a plurality of instructions stored thereon that, when executed, cause a compute device to:

identify offers of storage resources local to a plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure;

aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to establish a virtual aggregated node resource on the compute device based on the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices; and

transfer data from the compute device for storage on one or more of the other compute devices.

2. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a storage capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

3. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a bandwidth capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

4. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device comprises to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to form a virtual aggregated node resource that has a storage capacity equal to the sum of the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices.

5. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein to transfer data from the compute device comprises to transfer data to multiple other compute devices of the plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure.

6. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 5, wherein to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices comprises to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices in response to a determination that a number of the multiple other compute devices is greater than a threshold value.

7. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein each offer of storage resources includes a cost for the respective offer of storage resources.

8. The one or more non-transitory, machine-readable storage media of claim 1, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the compute device to send an offer for the storage resources local to each of the other compute devices.

22. The method of claim 5, wherein to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices comprises to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices in response to a determination that a number of the multiple other compute devices is greater than a threshold value.

9. A compute device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more data storage devices having stored therein a plurality of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the compute device to;

identify offers of storage resources local to a plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure;

aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to establish a virtual aggregated node resource on the compute device based on the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices; and

transfer data from the compute device for storage on one or more of the other compute devices.

10. The compute device of claim 9, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a storage capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

11. The compute device media of claim 9, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a bandwidth capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

12. The compute device of claim 9, wherein to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device comprises to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to form a virtual aggregated node resource that has a storage capacity equal to the sum of the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices.

13. The compute device of claim 9, wherein to transfer data from the compute device comprises to transfer data to multiple other compute devices of the plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure.

14. The compute device of claim 13, wherein to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices comprises to transfer data to the multiple other compute devices in response to a determination that a number of the multiple other compute devices is greater than a threshold value.

15. The compute device of claim 9, wherein each offer of storage resources includes a cost for the respective offer of storage resources.

16. The compute device of claim 9, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the compute device to send an offer for the storage resources local to each of the other compute devices.

17. A method comprising:

identify offers of storage resources local to a plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure;

aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to establish a virtual aggregated node resource on the compute device based on the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices; and

transfer data from the compute device for storage on one or more of the other compute devices.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a storage capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein each offer of storage resources identifies a bandwidth capacity of the corresponding other compute device offering the corresponding storage resource.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device comprises to aggregate the offers of storage resources local to each other compute device to form a virtual aggregated node resource that has a storage capacity equal to the sum of the storage resources local to the plurality of other compute devices.

21. The method of claim 17, wherein to transfer data from the compute device comprises to transfer data to multiple other compute devices of the plurality of other compute devices of the decentralized cloud infrastructure.

23. The method of claim 17, wherein each offer of storage resources includes a cost for the respective offer of storage resources.

24. The method of claim 17, wherein the plurality of instructions, when executed, further cause the compute device to send an offer for the storage resources local to each of the other compute devices.