Patent ID: 11924305
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 10:
11. An apparatus for edge node autonomy, the apparatus comprising one or more processors, one or more computer readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable tangible storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors, the program instructions executable to:
for a first edge node of a plurality of edge nodes in a federation in a distributed computing framework, receive a request to be sent to a central node in the distributed computing framework;
determine whether the federation is connected to the central node;
in response to determining that the federation is not connected to the central node, determine, whether a controller capable of processing the request is available in the federation;
in response to determining that the controller capable of processing the request is available in the federation, notify the controller to process the request; and
wherein the first edge node comprises a message queuing telemetry transport (MQTT) module, the program instructions further executable to:
during a disconnection period in which the federation is not connected to the central node, receive a plurality of requests in sequence;
push the plurality of the requests into the MQTT module in sequence; and
in response to a reconnection between the federation and the central node after the disconnection period, send the plurality of the requests in the MQTT module to the central node in sequence.