Federation Architecture

Federation Architecture

This diagram shows the complete federated architecture with consistent node representation.

graph TB
    subgraph Node_A[Node A]
        A_DB[(Database)]
        A_AKEL[AKEL Instance]
        A_Users[Users]
    end
    
    subgraph Node_B[Node B]
        B_DB[(Database)]
        B_AKEL[AKEL Instance]
        B_Users[Users]
    end
    
    subgraph Node_C[Node C]
        C_DB[(Database)]
        C_AKEL[AKEL Instance]
        C_Users[Users]
    end
    
    subgraph Federation_Layer[Federation Infrastructure]
        Sync[Sync Layer
Version Bundles
Signatures & Trust]
        Storage[(IPFS / S3
Evidence Files)]
    end
    
    Node_A <-->|Content Sync| Sync
    Node_B <-->|Content Sync| Sync
    Node_C <-->|Content Sync| Sync
    
    A_AKEL -.->|Knowledge Exchange| B_AKEL
    B_AKEL -.->|Knowledge Exchange| C_AKEL
    A_AKEL -.->|Knowledge Exchange| C_AKEL
    
    Sync -.->|Large Files| Storage
    Storage -.-> Node_A
    Storage -.-> Node_B
    Storage -.-> Node_C