A system and methods for adaptive negotiation strategies generation in edge cloud

A computer program comprising program code to be executed by processing circuitry of an edge node, whereby execution of the program code causes the edge node to perform operations comprising:

• responsive to the edge node determining that the edge node is unable to fulfill requirements of a service request received, determining assets to be negotiated in a negotiation request based on a service request received, the negotiation request having an indication of the assets to be negotiated to process the negotiation request;
• responsive to previously discovered or executed negotiation strategies stored in a negotiation strategy repository that are similar to the negotiation request, mapping the negotiation request to negotiation strategies previously discovered or executed by:
• mapping data about the negotiation request to a Markovian Decision Process, MDP, model associated with the previously discovered or executed negotiation strategies to identify a current state and possible actions to be applied and the corresponding rewards according to the MDP model;
• responsive to no negotiation strategies being found:
• collecting on-the-fly data from the edge node about status of edge node assets, constraints to be considered, and events experienced by the edge node to generate a list of negotiation strategies that would reflect a current status of the edge node based on using reinforcement learning techniques to model the data as a MDP and solving the MDP to create a new MDP model;
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• mapping data about the received negotiation request to the new MDP model generating a list of possible negotiation strategies to be applied based on negotiation criteria, the list of possible strategies including a current state of the edge node and one or more sets of an action, a next state, a reward, and a Q-value;
• training a reinforcement learning, RL, agent to find an optimum negotiation strategy from the list of possible negotiation strategies;
• identifying negotiation details and defined criteria including defining a type of negotiation and a negotiation style to define a negotiation contract with the other edge nodes;
• selecting edge nodes to initiate a process of negotiation following the defined criteria;
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• publishing the negotiation contract using the type of negotiation and the negotiation style and sending negotiation requests to the edge nodes selected.