A Governance Model For Local And Interconnecting Arrowhead Clouds

Information exchange between various elements of industrial systems is one of the cornerstones of the Industry 4.0 movement. Building system-of-systems based on the principles of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) brings flexibility to these heterogeneous infrastructures. In the SOA concept, information exchange is realized through services provided and consumed by systems. This paper proposes new elements to the a governance model of the SOA-based Arrowhead framework that aims to provide interoperability and integrability solutions for industrial system-of-systems. As some operational aspects are already covered within the Arrowhead Local Clouds - and even for intercloud servicing - while these clouds are set up and running, there are uncovered issues regarding the development and deployment procedures. The gaps this paper intends to fill include governing Arrowhead Local Cloud deployments, as well as enabling secure and trusted interactions among Local Clouds with the help of various systems from a global Arrowhead interconnect.