Written By Leena Vedanth Vaibhav Laasya Under Guidence of Chanda Raj Kumar In contemporary software engineering systems, it has become commonplace to design under the presumption of "High Availability." We build systems around global cloud regions and auto-scaling clusters connected by high-speed fiber optic networks. There is also a standard expectation of at least 99.999% uptime. But what happens when your connection to the cloud - located thousands of miles away - is lost or disrupted? In military environments, this is known as a DDIL environment (Degraded, Disrupted, Intermittent, and Low Bandwidth). In such environments, traditional AI architectures do not just slow down - they fail completely. Without connectivity, AI models become isolated and unusable. To solve this, we explore Collaborative Edge Intelligence (CEI) and introduce a concept called a self-healing orchestrator, capable of redistributing computational intelligence across a decentralized network.…