SCC-IRG TRACK 2: A Novel Architecture for Secure, Energy-Efficient Community-Edge-Clouds with Application in Harlem (SEEC HARLEM) this proposal

该项目采取综合办法，解决数字鸿沟日益扩大的服务不足的城市社区所面临的技术、法律的和社会挑战。研究了一种新型的社区拥有的边缘云计算架构，该架构将边缘设备分解，以降低成本，提高能源效率，简化管理和增强安全性。该项目针对哈莱姆内的一个社区进行初步的概念探索。 事实上，像许多不同的城市社区一样，哈莱姆社区正面临着宽带接入以外的障碍，包括整个家庭、办公室和物联网/智慧城市技术生态系统。 除了边缘云，该项目还将包括开发低成本KVM（键盘、视频和鼠标）系统，将由不同的社区成员使用，以建立边缘云的概念验证和性能指标，并确定社区的系统可用性，特别是当它与缩小数字鸿沟有关时。将开发原型硬件和软件，以在实验室环境、用户试验和社区用户参与技术评估。最佳设计规则将根据实验性能数据并结合哈莱姆社区内的用户约束和用例，为城市社区导出。将调查社区所有权，作为克服长期存在的法律的和社会挑战的一种手段。社区边缘云将作为一个构建的公地进行研究，并将考虑不同的利益相关者关系来探索治理模型。该项目将为边缘云和社区网络所有权提供一个新的维度和理解，可以广泛应用于其他地方的智慧城市环境。分散的设备为新型消费者界面开辟了潜力，其成本和能耗显著降低，软件和硬件管理以及安全性也很简单。 通过在边缘云中虚拟化这些技术，可以实现潜在的变革性好处。 这种技术将为消除日益扩大的数字鸿沟提供一个强有力的工具。

This project takes a holistic approach to address the technical, legal, and social challenges facing under-served urban communities experiencing a growing digital divide. A novel community-owned edge cloud computing architecture is investigated that disaggregates the edge equipment for lower cost, improved energy efficiency, simplified management and intrinsically stronger security. The project targets a community within Harlem for initial concept exploration. Indeed, the Harlem community like many diverse urban communities is facing obstacles that extend beyond broadband access and include the entire home, office and IoT/smart city technology eco-system. Beyond the edge cloud, the project will include development of low-cost KVM (Keyboard, Video, and Mouse) systems that will be used by a diverse set of community members to establish proof of concept and performance metrics for the edge cloud, and identify system usability by community especially as it relates to closing the digital divide.Prototype hardware and software will be developed to study this architecture in both a lab environment, user trials, and in participatory technology assessments by users in the community. Optimal design rules will be derived for urban communities based on experimental performance data and incorporating user constraints and use cases within the Harlem community. Community ownership will be investigated as a means to overcome longstanding legal and social challenges. The community edge cloud will be studied as a constructed commons and governance models will be explored considering different stakeholder relationships. This project will provide a new dimension to and understanding of edge clouds and community network ownership that can be widely applied in smart city environments elsewhere. Disaggregated devices open up the potential for a new breed of consumer interfaces with dramatically lower cost and energy use - as well as simple software and hardware management and security. By virtualizing these technologies within the edge cloud, potentially transformative benefits can be realized. Such technology would provide a powerful tool in combating growing digital divides.