Swarm OS control plane: An architecture proposal for heterogeneous and organic networks

Computing swarms, consisting of smart networked sensors and actuators in the connected world, enable an extension of the info-sphere into the physical world. We call this extended cyber-physical info-sphere Swarm. This work presents a proposal for the Swarm Framework Architecture. Envisioning the Swarm ecosystem, challenges and characteristics were identified and a control plane framework was proposed. In order to exercise this framework, a use case was designed and the system simulated. The work presents a computational control plane architecture proposition for organic and heterogeneous networks leveraging the Swarm concept.