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Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases Webinar

June 14, 2023/in Events, News/by Anastasios Gogos

The “Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases” webinar will take place on 10th of July! It is a co-organized webinar by aerOS and FluiDOS project with the support of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT.

The manufacturing industry has witnessed a remarkable transformation in recent years, driven by rapid technological advancements. From automation to artificial intelligence, emerging trends are reshaping how factories operate and revolutionising traditional manufacturing processes. One of the key drivers of this transformation is the convergence of cloud computing, edge computing, and the Internet of Things (IoT) into a seamless continuum. The CEI continuum offers unprecedented opportunities for manufacturers to optimise operations, enhance productivity, and unlock new levels of efficiency.

This UNLOCK CEI webinar, part of the EUCloudEdgeIoT.eu initiative, aims at providing in-depth market and industry insights for the manufacturing sector, with a specific focus on cloud-edge-IoT use cases.

The event will provide valuable information and knowledge to navigate the evolving manufacturing landscape and unlock the true potential of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum in this sector.

This webinar is co-organised with Meta Operating Systems projects of the EUCEI Community.

Find out more here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/cloud-edge-iot-innovations-in-manufacturing-unveiling-market-insights-and-use-cases/

A Novel Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Game to Identify Online the Changing top-K Flows in Software-Defined Networks – Paper

June 7, 2023/in News, Papers/by Anastasios Gogos

Identifying the top-K flows that require much more bandwidth resources in a large-scale Software-Defined Network (SDN) is essential for many network management tasks, such as load balancing, anomaly detection, and traffic engineering. However, identifying such top-K flows is not trivial, not only because of the fluctuations in flow bandwidth requirements but also because of the combinatorial explosion of problem instance sizes. In this paper, we weaken the tradeoff between exploration and exploitation and innovatively define the online top-K flows identification problem as identifying the top-K arms in a Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit (CMAB) model. Then, we propose a general greedy selection mechanism with some identification strategies that focus on temporal variations in the rewards. Extensive simulation experiments based on real traffic data are conducted to evaluate the performance of different strategies. In addition, the results of numerical simulations demonstrate that our proposed greedy selection mechanism significantly outperforms existing counterparts on top-K arms identification.

Find the paper online here: http://mosaic-lab.org/uploads/papers/6fa449ad-7848-4db5-889f-f81f790b516d.pdf

IEEE WFIoT 2023 Special Session – Call for papers

May 31, 2023/in News, Papers/by Anastasios Gogos

31 May 2023
aerOS and ASSIST-IoT EU research projects co-organise the special session “Future Platforms for Cloud-Edge Continuum – Theoretical Foundations and Practical Considerations” (Track ID: Spes-01) at IEEE 9th World Forum on Internet of Things (IEEE WFIoT 2023), 12–27 October 2023, Aveiro, Portugal.

Description

Internet of Things (IoT) brings fundamental changes to all sectors of society and economy. However, realization of the IoT vision requires data processing (stream, static, or both) in an “optimal location” within the cloud-edge continuum. Within such continuum, data can be produced, stored, and processed “anywhere”. For instance, (1) far/nano-edge devices produce data act upon it locally, (2) fog nodes process data stream locally, while (3) cloud/HPC facilities deliver “unlimited” processing capabilities, need, for instance, to train (large) AI models. Taking into account the, systematically increasing, scale of IoT deployments the question arises: what capabilities must be facilitated by future IoT platforms, which will have to manage processes in multi-stakeholder, multi-cloud, federated, large-scale IoT ecosystems.

Here, key challenges are related to the fact that such platforms (encompassing operating systems, up to applications), will have to jointly leverage continuous progress of multiple enabling technologies, e.g.: 5G/6G networking, privacy and security, distributed computing, artificial intelligence, trust management, autonomous computing, distributed/smart applications, data management, etc. Moreover, they must facilitate intelligent (autonomous) orchestration of physical/virtual resources and tasks, by realizing them at the “optimal location” within the ecosystem (e.g., closer to where data is produced). To achieve this, resource-aware frugal AI is needed, to facilitate self-awareness and decision support, across heterogeneous ecosystem. Finally, it is also absolutely necessary that resource management will consider the CO2 footprint of the ecosystem and efficiently deploy data and tasks and also use multi-owner, heterogeneous sources of renewable energy.

In this context, contributions addressing theoretical and practical aspects of the following topics are invited (this list is, obviously, not exhaustive):

IoT architectures for domain agnostic user-aware, self-aware, (semi-)autonomous edge-cloud continuum platforms, including proposals for novel decentralized topologies, ad-hoc resource federation, time-triggered behaviors
Foundations for next generation of higher-level (meta) operating systems facilitating efficient use of computing capacity across edge-cloud continuum
Resource aware AI, including frugal AI, bringing intelligence to the edge-cloud continuum platforms (and ecosystems)
Cognitive frameworks leveraging AI-techniques to improve optimization of infrastructure usage and services and resources orchestration
Efficient streaming Big Data processing within large-scale IoT ecosystems
Interoperability solutions for multi-user edge-cloud continuum platforms, capable of coping with systematically increasing complexity of connecting vast numbers of heterogeneous devices
Federated data spaces approach for improved data governance, sovereignty and sharing
Privacy, security, trust and data governance in competitive scenarios
CO2 footprint reduction and efficient use of green energy in edge-cloud continuum ecosystems
Practical aspects of resource orchestration within highly heterogeneous, large-scale edge-cloud continuum ecosystems
Intent-based networking and its application to IoT
Swarm intelligence for IoT-edge-cloud continuum

Important Dates:

Deadline for Paper Submissions: July 9th, 2023
Acceptance Notification: July 31st, 2023
Deadline for Camera-Ready Paper Submissions: August 20th, 2023
Deadline for Presentation Submissions: September 25th, 2023
Paper should be six (6) pages in length and follow the instruction provided for the main Conference. The conference allows up to two additional pages for a maximum length of eight (8) pages with payment of extra page charges once the paper has been accepted.

Please submit your paper for this Special Session using the link to eWorks: https://www.scomminc.com/pcm/wfiot/wfiot.cfm

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Marcin Paprzycki: marcin.paprzycki@ibspan.waw.pl

More information also available at https://wfiot2023.iot.ieee.org/program/special-sessions

Organizers:

Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, and Manjrasoft Pvt Ltd, Melbourne, Australia
Maria Ganzha, Warsaw University of technology and Systems Research Institute
Levent Gürgen, Kentyou, Grenoble, France
Carlos Palau, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia
Marcin Paprzycki, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences
Tarik Taleb,The University of Oulu and MOSAIC Lab, Oulu, Finland

Concertation and Consultation Meeting of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT

May 24, 2023/in Events, News/by Anastasios Gogos

Our Project Coordinator, Professor Carlos Enrique Palau from Universitat Politècnica de València UPV and Vasilis Pitsilis from NCSR “DEMOKRITOS” presented insights of our project during the Concertation and Consultation Meeting of EUCLOUDEDGEIoT in Brussels! The meeting took place on 10th & 11th of May 2023.

The blurring barriers between Cloud and Edge computing are giving birth to a computing continuum where services and data must be managed and secured efficiently. Especially with new trends like the Metaverse, the demand for (hybrid) cloud computing services and edge computing is expected to skyrocket. As recent studies suggest, new data processing needs are appearing at the edge. This not only for reducing latency but also to ensure data availability and privacy protection. Running and managing data analytics and AI where it is more efficient and effective is to be supported in the Cloud-Edge-IOT continuum.

Advancing the IoT can avoid skyrocketing communication and storage costs, energy consumption and produce benefits for citizens and businesses thanks to the integration of AI and Machine Learning.

In addition, an open ecosystem built around Open Source and Open Standards is key to unleashing the potential of the European industry in driving green and digital transformation while preserving EU strategic autonomy. Software defined infrastructures based on Open Source and Open Standards will support the next step in the Cloud-Edge-IOT continuum while preventing lock-in and favouring a competitive economy for the benefit of EU citizens.

These trends have called for a shift towards the technical and business convergence of the so-far formally separated Cloud, Edge and IoT domains, towards an open Cloud, Edge and IoT Computing Continuum.

In the recent years, the European community of researchers and innovators at work on the next generation Cloud, Edge and IoT computing has been growing in relevance, diversity and impact. For Europe to ensure its technological sovereignty and ground the vision of a computing continuum as the backbone of an open and inclusive society, it is necessary to overcome fragmentation, bring together organisations and individuals from different communities and leverage Open Source.The Concertation and Consultation on Computing Continuum: From Cloud to Edge to IoT meeting is a 2-day physical event organised within the context of the European, Cloud, Edge and IoT Continuum initiative by the OpenContinuum consortium in close collaboration with the UNLOCK-CEI and SW Forum projects and guided by the European Commission DG CNECT E.2 and E.4 Units. Find out more here: https://eucloudedgeiot.eu/concertation-and-consultation-on-computing-continuum-from-cloud-to-edge-to-iot/

DEFEA 2023

May 17, 2023/in Events, News/by Anastasios Gogos

InQbit and INFOLYSis partners were at DEFEA 2023 promoting our project with communication material! DEFEA took place on 9-11 May 2023, at Athens Metropolitan EXPO. DEFEA was addressed to several sectors such as defense and Security. fAt Defense Exhibition Athens top Greek defense industry manufacturers and the most important international companies presented the latest technologies and cutting-edge defense systems. You may find out more here: https://defea.gr/

“aerOS: A Meta Operating System for the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum” presentation

May 10, 2023/in News, Presentations/by Anastasios Gogos

Harilaos Koumaras from NCSR DEMOKRITOS, aerOS Technical Manager presented “aerOS: A Meta Operating System for the IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum” during International Conference on Internet of Things (ICIOT), 2023.
The conference aim was to provide an outstanding opportunity for both academic and industrial communities to share their knowledge on new trends and challenges in emerging technologies and progress in standards on topics relevant to todays fast moving technology trends into the Internet of Things. It also provided a platform for the discussion of new results in the field of Internet of things. The Conference had different themes for each day and each theme contains different thought-provoking sessions.
Find out more here: https://www.iciot.in/?fbclid=IwAR0Xtre7IHOqKNzlzyMk9w1MQcT-mfXqovC4mTWg4M36239_DCB2zoUUouI

Cloud-Edge-IoT Innovations in Manufacturing: Unveiling Market Insights and Use Cases Webinar

A Novel Combinatorial Multi-Armed Bandit Game to Identify Online the Changing top-K Flows in Software-Defined Networks – Paper