Reputation mechanism to support trustful interactions of autonomous providers in edge environments

Abstract

A method for improving provision of computing services to a customer, including monitoring computing services provided by a computing services provider to the customer comprising an edge system that comprises hardware and/or software, gathering data concerning the computing services received by the customer, applying a distance function to the data to determine to what extent, if any, the computing services diverge from computing services specified for the customer, as defined by a QoS requirement of an SLA agreed upon by the customer and the computing services provider, based on results of the applying of the distance function, applying a reward function to determine a reward for the computing services provider, and when applying of the distance function indicates that the computing services provided to the customer do not meet the computing services specified in the QoS requirement, automatically triggering a change in the computing services provided to the customer.