Wireless discovery, routing and advertisement protocol for secure remote services in a communication environment

A system, comprising:

• at least one processor, coupled to a memory, and configured to:
• in a computing environment comprising a plurality of compute, storage and network assets, initiate at a given asset a join operation for the given asset to become a member of a mesh network formed by the plurality of compute, storage and network assets;
• one of create and update a network neighbor data structure associated with the given asset based on the join operation;
• initiate at the given asset a route discovery operation to identify one or more routes through the mesh network to enable the given asset to access a remote support gateway;
• one of create and update a network routing data structure associated with the given asset based on the route discovery operation, wherein the network routing data structure comprises route weights associated with the identified one or more routes, and wherein the route weights comprise a received signal strength (RSS) magnitude relative to an antenna dynamic range of a positioning beacon associated with the given asset;
• advertise, by the given asset, to the compute, storage and network assets in the computing environment, at least a portion of the routing data structure to enable access of at least one of the compute, storage and network assets to the remote support gateway, wherein advertising the portion of the routing data structure comprises advertising the identified one or more routes with priorities based on their associated route weights;
• and
• broadcasting, by the given asset, multiple remote support gateway versions to which the given asset can connect.

An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having encoded therein executable code of one or more software programs, wherein the one or more software programs when executed by at least one processing device implement steps of:

• in a computing environment comprising a plurality of compute, storage and network assets, initiating at a given asset a join operation for the given asset to become a member of a mesh network formed by the plurality of compute, storage and network assets;
• one of creating and updating a network neighbor data structure associated with the given asset based on the join operation;
• initiating at the given asset a route discovery operation to identify one or more routes through the mesh network to enable the given asset to access a remote support gateway;
• one of creating and updating a network routing data structure associated with the given asset based on the route discovery operation, wherein the network routing data structure comprises route weights associated with the identified one or more routes, and wherein the route weights comprise a received signal strength (RSS) magnitude relative to an antenna dynamic range of a positioning beacon associated with the given asset;
• advertising, by the given asset, to the compute, storage and network assets in the computing environment, at least a portion of the routing data structure to enable access of at least one of the compute, storage and network assets to the remote support gateway, wherein advertising the portion of the routing data structure comprises advertising the identified one or more routes with priorities based on their associated route weights;
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• broadcasting, by the given asset, multiple remote support gateway versions to which the given asset can connect.