Application US20190297544

DISTRIBUTED HANDOFF-RELATED PROCESSING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS
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US20190297544

1. A tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by one or more processors effectuate operations comprising: (16) (3)

obtaining, with one or more processors, a distributed-application address of a distributed handoff application, wherein: the distributed-application address is a cryptographic hash value that uniquely identifies the distributed handoff application among a plurality of distributed applications executable on peer nodes of a peer-to-peer network of computing devices;

the distributed handoff application is accessible via one or more of the peer nodes identified by entries in a distributed hash table linked, directly or indirectly, via the distributed hash table, to a key value in the distributed hash table corresponding to the distributed-application address;

the distributed handoff application executes on one or more peer nodes of the peer-to-peer network of computing devices; and

the distributed handoff application comprises a distributed-handoff application program interface (API) by which handoff from one wireless base station to another wireless base station is coordinated at least in part by at least some of the peer nodes of the peer-to-peer network;

calling, with one or more processors, the distributed-handoff API with a request to handoff a current wireless data session between a first base station and a mobile computing device to another base station, wherein: the request causes the distributed handoff application to determine one or more parameters of a handoff of the wireless data session from the first base station to a second base station, such that, after the handoff, the mobile computing device continues the wireless data session with the second base station;

the determination causes the one or more parameters of the handoff of the wireless data session to be sent to both the mobile computing device and the second base station; and

the determination causes a record of the second base station receiving the handoff to be stored in a tamper-evident, distributed ledger encoding records of a plurality of previous handoffs in a directed acyclic graph of cryptographic hash pointers; and

receiving, with one or more processors, a result of the distributed-handoff API request and, in response, at least partially effectuating the handoff of the wireless data session from the first base station to the second base station.

2. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (3)

3. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (4)

the peer-to-peer network of computing devices is an ad hoc peer-to-peer network of untrusted computing devices;

each peer on the peer-to-peer network is identified by a global unique identifier based on a respective public key of an asymmetric encryption protocol;

at least some communication between peers on the peer-to-peer network is authenticated by peers cryptographically signing at least part of respective communications with a private cryptographic key corresponding to the public cryptographic key; and

the distributed hash table encodes at least part of a peer routing table by which the distributed handoff application is accessed.

4. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (1)

5. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (1) (1)

a previously assigned public Internet Protocol address of the mobile computing device persists across the handoff, such that the mobile computing device is reachable via the same public Internet Protocol address before and after the handoff.

7. The medium of claim 5, wherein: (0) (6)

the operations comprise obtaining a geolocation of the mobile computing device determined by a location sensor of the mobile computing device;

the geolocation of the mobile computing device is determined by the location sensor of the mobile computing device based on wireless beacons received from a plurality of satellites;

the plurality of candidate base stations are selected based on the obtained geolocation;

the public Internet Protocol address is associated with the first base station by a distributed hash table before the handoff; and

the public Internet Protocol address is associated with the second base station by a distributed hash table after the handoff

6. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (0) (1)

8. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (2)

9. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (2)

10. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (1) (1)

12. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (1) (2)

transferring program state for a dynamic federated cluster that moves with the mobile computing device onto different edge-based data centers associated with base stations designated to communicate with the mobile computing device, wherein:

the program state is based on data from a plurality of sensors of the mobile computing device streamed to the dynamic federated cluster, at least in part, via the first base station.

13. The medium of claim 12, wherein: (0) (1)

14. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (1)

15. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (1)

16. The medium of claim 1, wherein: (0) (1)

17. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (0) (2)

18. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (0) (1)

19. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (0) (1)

20. The medium of claim 1, the operations comprising: (0) (1)

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Application US20190297544

DISTRIBUTED HANDOFF-RELATED PROCESSING FOR WIRELESS NETWORKS

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