SwarMS: Swarm-Computations for Mobile Scenarios

TL;DR

SwarMS introduces an architecture enabling swarm onboarding, coordination, and computation in infrastructure-less ICN networks, leveraging append-only logs and task replication to enhance reliability and trust in mobile scenarios.

Contribution

The paper proposes a novel architecture for swarm management in ICN networks, addressing mobile and infrastructure-less environments with log-based coordination.

Findings

Effective swarm onboarding and coordination in ICN networks.

Improved reliability through task replication.

Enhanced trust in distributed computations.

Abstract

Nowadays, most network systems are based on fixed and reliable infrastructure. In this context Information Centric Networking (ICN) is a novel network approach, where data is in the focus instead of hosts. Therefore, requests for data are independent from the location where the data is actually stored on. This property is optimal for infrastructure-less and swarm networking. However, the ICN does not provide support for networks without infrastructure. In this paper we present SwarMS, an architecture for swarm on-boarding, swarm coordination and swarm computations in ICN style networks. We use append-only logs to solve the challenges of loose mobile swarm organisation and executing computations. By replicating tasks on multiple nodes we achieve more reliability and trust in results.