On Blockchain-Based Cross-Service Communication and Resource Orchestration on Edge Clouds

Papadakis-Vlachopapadopoulos, Konstantinos; Dimolitsas, Ioannis; Dechouniotis, Dimitrios; Tsiropoulou, Eirini Eleni; Roussaki, Ioanna; Papavassiliou, Symeon

doi:10.3390/informatics8010013

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“…The paper defined two optimization problems: the NFV resource allocation problem, which aims to minimize energy consumption and resource costs for data centers, and the mining task offloading problem, which seeks to minimize energy consumption for mining users. Papadakis et al [27] introduced a blockchain-based network service marketplace and resource orchestration mechanism to enable cross-service communication within the edge cloud. Leveraging the smart contract functionality of the Hyperledger Fabric platform, the paper automated network service interactions and lifecycle management among different tenants.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, its applications extend beyond finance to various industries, including supply chain management, healthcare, and smart contracts, offering enhanced transparency, traceability, and trust in digital transactions [19][20][21][22][23][24]. Notably, recent studies have explored the utilization of blockchain technology in fields associated with the placement, addressing, and resource allocation of VNFs [25][26][27][28].…”

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Enhancing Resource Sharing and Access Control for VNF Instantiation with Blockchain

Dong,

Wang,

et al. 2023

Sensors

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In the realm of Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) are crucial software entities that require execution on virtualized hardware infrastructure. Deploying a Service Function Chain (SFC) requires multiple steps for instantiating VNFs to analyze, request, deploy, and monitor resources. It is well recognized that the sharing of infrastructure resources among different VNFs will enhance resource utilization. However, conventional mechanisms for VNF sharing often neglect the interests of both VNF instances and infrastructure providers. In this context, this paper presents a blockchain-based framework that focuses on resource sharing and access control, with a particular emphasis on ensuring profitability during VNF instantiation. Additionally, a resource sharing game model and a novel greedy matching algorithm are introduced to optimize the benefits for both VNF instances and infrastructure resource providers. Furthermore, a blockchain-based access control mechanism is designed to securely store keys and provide fine-grained access control. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed resource sharing game model and greedy matching algorithm promote healthy competition among resource owners and facilitate effective bargaining between resource owners and infrastructure providers. In comparison to the standard Stackelberg game solution, our proposed method achieves up to an 8.1 times performance improvement while sacrificing fewer optimal social utility values. Furthermore, compared to other CP-ABE methods, the proposed approach enhances security within a blockchain-based framework while maintaining an excellent encryption efficiency and a moderate decryption efficiency.

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Enhancing Resource Sharing and Access Control for VNF Instantiation with Blockchain

Dong,

Wang,

et al. 2023

Sensors

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“…The study in [39] proposes a blockchain-empowered content caching problem to maximize the system utility and develops a new caching scheme using deep reinforcement learning. In [40], [41], the authors present a blockchain-based Service Orchestrator (SO) that establishes cross-service communication between network slices of different tenants while establishing trust between untrusted parties. The main goals of such a SO in [40], [41] are to minimize resource consumption, management and development overhead while ensuring security and faulttolerance.…”

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“…In [40], [41], the authors present a blockchain-based Service Orchestrator (SO) that establishes cross-service communication between network slices of different tenants while establishing trust between untrusted parties. The main goals of such a SO in [40], [41] are to minimize resource consumption, management and development overhead while ensuring security and faulttolerance. The article in [42] targets resource orchestration in Fog/Edge computing environments based on an Ethereum blockchain implementation.…”

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Blockchain-Based Service Orchestration for 5G Vertical Industries in Multicloud Environment

Zeydan

Baranda

Mangues‐Bafalluy

et al. 2022

IEEE Trans. Netw. Serv. Manage.

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Blockchain technologies are gradually being deployed in a variety of industries, including telecommunications. In this paper, due to the strict governance of telecommunication infrastructure, we propose a permissioned distributed ledger (PDL)-based blockchain supported architecture for a network management and orchestration platform. The work focuses on creating a trusted environment for both Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) and Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) for managing the lifecycle of network services (e.g., instantiation, scaling, termination, etc.) in a multi-cloud environment. We also validate our proposed approach with an experimental scenario using the Quorum blockchain network (BCN) to measure various performance metrics (e.g., number of transactions and blocks, time to write, and transactions per second) of different service orchestrator (SO)-related instantiation metrics. Our evaluation results show that the values for the service instantiation time and the corresponding BCN metrics can be completely different, suggesting that some logs arrive very quickly and generate a high transaction load, while others take longer and generate a low number of transactions. As a solution, at the end of the paper, we also provide some recommendations for appropriate optimizations during transfer of SO-related logs to BCNs and some observed challenges.

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“…However, they stay in a theoretical level. [13] a blockchain-based Network Service Marketplace (NSM) and a resource orchestration mechanism that enables the Cross Service Communication (CSC) in edge cloud (EC) for the creation of NSM. The authors present a complete solution for a multi-tenant edge cloud ecosystem described by an architectural diagram.…”

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Evaluation of a Blockchain-Enabled Resource Management Mechanism for NGNs

Xevgenis¹,

Kogias²,

Christidis³

et al. 2021

IJNSA

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A new era in ICT has begun with the evolution of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) and the development of human-centric applications. Ultra-low latency, high throughput, and high availability are a few of the main characteristics of modern networks. Network Providers (NPs) are responsible for the development and maintenance of network infrastructures ready to support the most demanding applications that should be available not only in urban areas but in every corner of the earth. The NP’s must collaborate to offer high- quality services and keep their overall cost low. The collaboration among competitive entities can in principle be regulated by a trusted 3rd party or by a distributed approach/technology which can guarantee integrity, security, and trust. This paper examines the use of blockchain technology for resource management and negotiation among NPs and presents the results of experiments conducted in a dedicated real testbed. The implementation of the resource management mechanism is described in a Smart Contract (SC) and the testbeds use the Raft and the IBFT consensus mechanisms respectively. The goal of this paper is two-fold: to assess its performance in terms of transaction throughput and latency so that we can assess the granularity at which this solution can operate (e.g. support resource re-allocation among NPs on micro-service level or not) and define implementation-specific parameters like the consensus mechanism that is the most suitable for this use case based on performance metrics.

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On Blockchain-Based Cross-Service Communication and Resource Orchestration on Edge Clouds

Cited by 16 publications

References 20 publications

Enhancing Resource Sharing and Access Control for VNF Instantiation with Blockchain

Enhancing Resource Sharing and Access Control for VNF Instantiation with Blockchain

Blockchain-Based Service Orchestration for 5G Vertical Industries in Multicloud Environment

Evaluation of a Blockchain-Enabled Resource Management Mechanism for NGNs

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