This deliverable provides a
report from
the first ARCADIA workshop, held in Athens during EuCNC 2016. The workshop gave insights on the ARCADIA
architecture, on -going work, prototype implementation, and established connections with other related initiatives.
Usos una base de datos steven y felipe 901steven_felipe
La base de datos debe tener independencia lógica y física de los datos para permitir modificar información sin afectar otros registros. También debe facilitar consultas complejas y brindar seguridad y auditoría de acceso, además de respaldo y recuperación de información. Asimismo, debe permitir el acceso a la información mediante programas diseñados para los usuarios a través de lenguajes de programación.
El documento describe la estructura del ADN. Explica que un gen es la unidad mínima de información genética y que Watson y Crick publicaron la primera descripción de la estructura del ADN en 1953. Describe que el ADN está compuesto de azúcares, bases y grupos fosfatos y que las bases se unen en pares de A-T y C-G.
El documento describe el Sistema de Aprendizaje Interactivo a Distancia (S.A.I.A.) de la Universidad Fermín Toro. El S.A.I.A. fue fundado en 1998 y depende del Vicerrectorado Académico. Tiene como objetivo establecer principios pedagógicos y técnicos para la enseñanza a distancia a través de nuevos medios telemáticos y capacitar a docentes. Usa la plataforma Moodle y depende tecnológicamente de la red de la universidad.
O documento descreve as características do ciclo menstrual feminino, incluindo: 1) cada menina nasce com centenas de milhares de óvulos nos ovários; 2) o ciclo normal dura aproximadamente 28 dias, variando de 23 a 35 dias; 3) os hormônios FSH, LH, estrogênio e progesterona desempenham papéis importantes no crescimento folicular e preparação do útero.
Usos una base de datos steven y felipe 901steven_felipe
La base de datos debe tener independencia lógica y física de los datos para permitir modificar información sin afectar otros registros. También debe facilitar consultas complejas y brindar seguridad y auditoría de acceso, además de respaldo y recuperación de información. Asimismo, debe permitir el acceso a la información mediante programas diseñados para los usuarios a través de lenguajes de programación.
El documento describe la estructura del ADN. Explica que un gen es la unidad mínima de información genética y que Watson y Crick publicaron la primera descripción de la estructura del ADN en 1953. Describe que el ADN está compuesto de azúcares, bases y grupos fosfatos y que las bases se unen en pares de A-T y C-G.
El documento describe el Sistema de Aprendizaje Interactivo a Distancia (S.A.I.A.) de la Universidad Fermín Toro. El S.A.I.A. fue fundado en 1998 y depende del Vicerrectorado Académico. Tiene como objetivo establecer principios pedagógicos y técnicos para la enseñanza a distancia a través de nuevos medios telemáticos y capacitar a docentes. Usa la plataforma Moodle y depende tecnológicamente de la red de la universidad.
O documento descreve as características do ciclo menstrual feminino, incluindo: 1) cada menina nasce com centenas de milhares de óvulos nos ovários; 2) o ciclo normal dura aproximadamente 28 dias, variando de 23 a 35 dias; 3) os hormônios FSH, LH, estrogênio e progesterona desempenham papéis importantes no crescimento folicular e preparação do útero.
El documento proporciona instrucciones para diferentes actividades de oración y preparación para un evento que se llevará a cabo en mayo, incluyendo una cadena de oración, ayuno, alabanza, vigilias distritales y acciones de gracias. También incluye información sobre la colocación de tarjetas de invitación, libros de memorias, exposiciones y una jornada evangélica.
Este documento presenta la normatividad del Comité Paritario de Salud Ocupacional (COPASST) en Colombia, incluyendo la Resolución 2013 de 1986, el Decreto 1295 de 1994 y el Decreto 1443 de 2014. Resume los aspectos clave de la conformación y funciones del COPASST de acuerdo a la legislación colombiana.
O documento descreve um jogo em desenvolvimento chamado "Pokémons vs Zumbies Kombat", que combina elementos de jogos populares como Mortal Kombat, Plants vs Zombies e Pokémon. O jogo envolve usar Pokémons para defender a casa de um morador de um ataque de zumbis.
In ARCADIA project we consider that a Smart Controller is deployed per Service Provider. Such a Smart Controller is able to operate over a multi-IaaS infrastructure and orchestrate the deployment and operation of numerous services. Given the development of the envisaged software development paradigm along with its mapping with the ARCADIA Smart Controller, a distinguishing characteristic of the proposed approach in comparison with existing or ongoing developments on the era –up to our knowledge- is that it supports the deployment of service graphs that include the entire functionality of an application and not only the set of network oriented functionalities, as proposed in a set of approaches that are tackling the deployment of graphs consisted of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) based on the evolving specifications in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) era.
O documento descreve um encontro do NEICA sobre a criança e a realidade social adulta, incluindo detalhes sobre o filme Mutum, que retrata a infância pobre no sertão brasileiro na década de 1950-1960 e como as crianças interagem com o mundo adulto.
El documento discute la relación entre los sentimientos, los pensamientos y la memoria. Explica que los recuerdos felices o tristes pueden influir en nuestros sentimientos. También cita a un experto que plantea que en el futuro podría desarrollarse métodos para ayudar a la gente a recordar recuerdos positivos con más fuerza que los negativos. Además, explica que los recuerdos incluyen diferentes elementos almacenados en partes del cerebro como el hipocampo y la amígdala, y que la memoria y las asoci
Scoop House offers seasonal holiday posts on social media along with cakes, sandwiches, waffles, and waffle cones. They provide signage and promotional materials with options for toppings on sweet treats including sprinkles, sauces, and more. Drinks include egg creams for $2.24, shakes from $4.25, and malts for $5.25.
O documento apresenta um livro sobre contabilidade que aborda os seguintes tópicos: 1) método das partidas dobradas e conceitos de débito e crédito; 2) demonstrações contábeis como balanço patrimonial e demonstração do resultado; 3) princípios contábeis como entidade e competência.
This deliverable provides a description of the metadata/annotations that are supported by the ARCADIA software development paradigm, based on the identified requirements
This document summarizes dissemination activities for the Project SLOPE from July 4-5, 2016 in Trento, Italy. It describes the dissemination plan, including a timeline of activities such as brochures, newsletters, conferences, and trade fairs planned through the project. It provides updates on the project website, social media, recent events attended, and upcoming events. It also discusses cooperation with other related projects and plans for four technical workshops to disseminate project results.
Description of the Applications’ Lifecycle Management SupportEU ARCADIA PROJECT
Description of the software development methodology that to be followed for deploying highly distributed applications based on the ARCADIA’s project components.
Project SLOPE aims to disseminate results from sustainable forest production widely among stakeholders. Work Package 8 focuses on dissemination, exploitation of results, and standardization contributions. Key activities include developing dissemination materials, maintaining a project website and using social media, organizing workshops and a final conference, contributing to standards, and establishing an industrial advisory board. Progress will be monitored through regular reporting templates.
This document provides a roadmap for deploying nanotechnologies to address health challenges in Latin America, specifically tropical infectious diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. It analyzes the current state of nanomedicine research and development for these diseases in the region. The roadmap makes recommendations to strengthen research, policy and funding, industry involvement, and responsible innovation in nanomedicines for tropical diseases and cancer up to 2015. It is based on interviews and workshops with Latin American experts on nanotechnology and health.
This document summarizes the objectives and tasks of Work Package 8 (WP8) for disseminating and exploiting the results of the SLOPE project. WP8 aims to broadly disseminate project results among stakeholders and ensure visibility of project activities. It involves developing dissemination materials and strategies, organizing workshops and conferences, contributing to standards, and establishing an industrial advisory board. The tasks are led by various project partners and include publishing newsletters and reports, maintaining a website and social media presence, collaborating with related projects, and creating an exploitation plan to ensure benefits of results.
This document
applies as a
report setting out the activity
concerning the presentation and
communication of the work and
relative results of all the work packages achieved during the first
year of the ARCADIA implementation.
The document summarizes the European Commission's policies and initiatives regarding open access to publications resulting from publicly funded research. It discusses the EC's Seventh Framework Programme which provides funding for open access publishing costs. It also describes the Open Access Pilot Project which encourages researchers to make publications open access within 6-12 months. Finally, it outlines the OpenAire project which aims to implement the open access pilot and promote open access in Europe.
All software developed through LoCloud has extensive technical API documentation as well as end-user documentation for applications with an end-user interface including the ingestion and mapping tool MINT, the metadata repository MORE, the lightweight digital library service LoCloud Collections and the Geocoding Application. Documentation is continuously being made available on on the LoCloud support portal where it is edited in a Wiki.
The LoCloud help-desk is a contact point where LoCloud partners can submit questions and receive answers related to the services and applications that are being modified or created in the project. The help-desk is accessible through the support portal at the URL http://support.locloud.eu or can be entered directly through the URL http://support.locloud.eu/osticket
Practically, all technical partners in LoCloud staff the help-desk on a shared basis. PSNC, Athena RC/DCU and AVINET will be responsible for first-line support, i.e. quick response to questions related to usage of services and applications. The developers or owners of the various software packages will be responsible for responding to questions of a technical nature such as bug-reports, modification requests and similar.
The document provides a mid-term review of Project SLOPE, which aims to develop innovative technologies for forestry operations in mountainous areas. It summarizes the status and results of Work Package 8 on dissemination and engagement activities over the first 18 months of the 36 month project. Key activities included developing dissemination strategies and materials, establishing a website and social media presence, organizing conferences and workshops, and initiating an Industrial Advisory Board with members from the forestry industry. The review indicates that dissemination goals have been achieved so far in raising awareness of the project and that focus should now turn to specific technical areas and maintaining engagement over the remainder of the project.
El documento proporciona instrucciones para diferentes actividades de oración y preparación para un evento que se llevará a cabo en mayo, incluyendo una cadena de oración, ayuno, alabanza, vigilias distritales y acciones de gracias. También incluye información sobre la colocación de tarjetas de invitación, libros de memorias, exposiciones y una jornada evangélica.
Este documento presenta la normatividad del Comité Paritario de Salud Ocupacional (COPASST) en Colombia, incluyendo la Resolución 2013 de 1986, el Decreto 1295 de 1994 y el Decreto 1443 de 2014. Resume los aspectos clave de la conformación y funciones del COPASST de acuerdo a la legislación colombiana.
O documento descreve um jogo em desenvolvimento chamado "Pokémons vs Zumbies Kombat", que combina elementos de jogos populares como Mortal Kombat, Plants vs Zombies e Pokémon. O jogo envolve usar Pokémons para defender a casa de um morador de um ataque de zumbis.
In ARCADIA project we consider that a Smart Controller is deployed per Service Provider. Such a Smart Controller is able to operate over a multi-IaaS infrastructure and orchestrate the deployment and operation of numerous services. Given the development of the envisaged software development paradigm along with its mapping with the ARCADIA Smart Controller, a distinguishing characteristic of the proposed approach in comparison with existing or ongoing developments on the era –up to our knowledge- is that it supports the deployment of service graphs that include the entire functionality of an application and not only the set of network oriented functionalities, as proposed in a set of approaches that are tackling the deployment of graphs consisted of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) based on the evolving specifications in the Network Function Virtualization (NFV) era.
O documento descreve um encontro do NEICA sobre a criança e a realidade social adulta, incluindo detalhes sobre o filme Mutum, que retrata a infância pobre no sertão brasileiro na década de 1950-1960 e como as crianças interagem com o mundo adulto.
El documento discute la relación entre los sentimientos, los pensamientos y la memoria. Explica que los recuerdos felices o tristes pueden influir en nuestros sentimientos. También cita a un experto que plantea que en el futuro podría desarrollarse métodos para ayudar a la gente a recordar recuerdos positivos con más fuerza que los negativos. Además, explica que los recuerdos incluyen diferentes elementos almacenados en partes del cerebro como el hipocampo y la amígdala, y que la memoria y las asoci
Scoop House offers seasonal holiday posts on social media along with cakes, sandwiches, waffles, and waffle cones. They provide signage and promotional materials with options for toppings on sweet treats including sprinkles, sauces, and more. Drinks include egg creams for $2.24, shakes from $4.25, and malts for $5.25.
O documento apresenta um livro sobre contabilidade que aborda os seguintes tópicos: 1) método das partidas dobradas e conceitos de débito e crédito; 2) demonstrações contábeis como balanço patrimonial e demonstração do resultado; 3) princípios contábeis como entidade e competência.
This deliverable provides a description of the metadata/annotations that are supported by the ARCADIA software development paradigm, based on the identified requirements
This document summarizes dissemination activities for the Project SLOPE from July 4-5, 2016 in Trento, Italy. It describes the dissemination plan, including a timeline of activities such as brochures, newsletters, conferences, and trade fairs planned through the project. It provides updates on the project website, social media, recent events attended, and upcoming events. It also discusses cooperation with other related projects and plans for four technical workshops to disseminate project results.
Description of the Applications’ Lifecycle Management SupportEU ARCADIA PROJECT
Description of the software development methodology that to be followed for deploying highly distributed applications based on the ARCADIA’s project components.
Project SLOPE aims to disseminate results from sustainable forest production widely among stakeholders. Work Package 8 focuses on dissemination, exploitation of results, and standardization contributions. Key activities include developing dissemination materials, maintaining a project website and using social media, organizing workshops and a final conference, contributing to standards, and establishing an industrial advisory board. Progress will be monitored through regular reporting templates.
This document provides a roadmap for deploying nanotechnologies to address health challenges in Latin America, specifically tropical infectious diseases like tuberculosis and cancer. It analyzes the current state of nanomedicine research and development for these diseases in the region. The roadmap makes recommendations to strengthen research, policy and funding, industry involvement, and responsible innovation in nanomedicines for tropical diseases and cancer up to 2015. It is based on interviews and workshops with Latin American experts on nanotechnology and health.
This document summarizes the objectives and tasks of Work Package 8 (WP8) for disseminating and exploiting the results of the SLOPE project. WP8 aims to broadly disseminate project results among stakeholders and ensure visibility of project activities. It involves developing dissemination materials and strategies, organizing workshops and conferences, contributing to standards, and establishing an industrial advisory board. The tasks are led by various project partners and include publishing newsletters and reports, maintaining a website and social media presence, collaborating with related projects, and creating an exploitation plan to ensure benefits of results.
This document
applies as a
report setting out the activity
concerning the presentation and
communication of the work and
relative results of all the work packages achieved during the first
year of the ARCADIA implementation.
The document summarizes the European Commission's policies and initiatives regarding open access to publications resulting from publicly funded research. It discusses the EC's Seventh Framework Programme which provides funding for open access publishing costs. It also describes the Open Access Pilot Project which encourages researchers to make publications open access within 6-12 months. Finally, it outlines the OpenAire project which aims to implement the open access pilot and promote open access in Europe.
All software developed through LoCloud has extensive technical API documentation as well as end-user documentation for applications with an end-user interface including the ingestion and mapping tool MINT, the metadata repository MORE, the lightweight digital library service LoCloud Collections and the Geocoding Application. Documentation is continuously being made available on on the LoCloud support portal where it is edited in a Wiki.
The LoCloud help-desk is a contact point where LoCloud partners can submit questions and receive answers related to the services and applications that are being modified or created in the project. The help-desk is accessible through the support portal at the URL http://support.locloud.eu or can be entered directly through the URL http://support.locloud.eu/osticket
Practically, all technical partners in LoCloud staff the help-desk on a shared basis. PSNC, Athena RC/DCU and AVINET will be responsible for first-line support, i.e. quick response to questions related to usage of services and applications. The developers or owners of the various software packages will be responsible for responding to questions of a technical nature such as bug-reports, modification requests and similar.
The document provides a mid-term review of Project SLOPE, which aims to develop innovative technologies for forestry operations in mountainous areas. It summarizes the status and results of Work Package 8 on dissemination and engagement activities over the first 18 months of the 36 month project. Key activities included developing dissemination strategies and materials, establishing a website and social media presence, organizing conferences and workshops, and initiating an Industrial Advisory Board with members from the forestry industry. The review indicates that dissemination goals have been achieved so far in raising awareness of the project and that focus should now turn to specific technical areas and maintaining engagement over the remainder of the project.
The document summarizes the results of WP8 Task 8.1 on dissemination planning and publications. It describes the dissemination activities carried out, including developing dissemination materials, maintaining a project website and social media presence, organizing workshops and conferences, engaging with other related projects, publishing scientific papers and articles, and issuing press releases to promote the project results. The task was completed over the full 36-month project period and ensured visibility of the project activities and wide dissemination of the technical results.
Delivered by EOSC Secretariat Member and EOSC High Level Expert Group (2017-2018) Chair Silvana Muscella at the Plan-E Plenary Meeting in Rome where she discussed what EOSC can do for its stakeholders.
D7.1 - This deliverable describes the activities carried out during the three editions of the Summer School “Design of Archaeological Datasets
Authors:
Carlo Meghini and Anna Molino, CNR (ISTI)
This document outlines an agenda and content for a workshop on the reporting process for partners in Clean Sky projects. The workshop will cover both technical and financial reporting. It will provide information on periodic and final reporting requirements, the SESAM and FORCE systems used for reporting, common problems encountered, and questions from participants. The agenda includes sessions on technical reporting and SESAM, a questions and answers period, and financial reporting and FORCE. It details what must be included in periodic and final reports, how to submit and revise reports, and explanations of costs and certificates required.
This document outlines outputs and findings of the C-SAP "Cascading Social Science Open Educational Resources" project undertaken as part of second phase of UK OER programme.
PATHS Functional specification first prototypepathsproject
The document presents a functional specification for the first prototype of the PATHS system, which aims to make exploring cultural heritage content enjoyable and easy for users, detailing functions like user accounts, workspaces, searching, creating paths and nodes, tagging, and different types of users including general, registered, and administrators. The specification is based on analysis of user requirements to implement core necessary functions for the first prototype while leaving more complex aspects for future iterations.
This document summarizes the dissemination activities of the ARCADIA project in its second year (2016). It describes the dissemination methodology, including channels used such as the project website and social media. It provides an overview of publications, conference presentations, and other dissemination events in year 2. Finally, it outlines future planned dissemination activities targeting the scientific and industrial communities as well as standardization and public dissemination.
This document provides an analysis of INSPIRE requirements that will inform the development of spatial planning standards and recommendations in the Plan4all project. It describes the project scope and objectives, outlines the INSPIRE directive and implementation process, analyzes key INSPIRE themes related to spatial planning, and provides recommendations for metadata, data models, and networking services based on INSPIRE. The analysis was informed by a seminar with external experts to review spatial data infrastructure and planning issues.
Similar to ARCADIA project - Scientific Workshop Report - EuCNC 2016. (20)
This document provides an overview of the ARCADIA Project, a Horizon 2020 funded consortium working on tools and methods for software development. The project runs from 2015-2017 with a budget of 3.5M Euros. It aims to develop approaches for designing reactive systems that can adapt based on their operational environment. This includes making applications more context-aware and composable from independently orchestratable components. The project is developing a software engineering environment, optimization engine, and policies framework to deploy and manage distributed applications across programmable infrastructure using network softwarization technologies. It includes three use cases related to security/privacy, survivable IoT communications, and quality of service/energy efficiency trade-offs.
This document describes the ARCADIA project, which developed a novel reconfigurable application development paradigm over programmable infrastructure. The ARCADIA framework allows applications to be built from micro-services that can communicate and be reused. It received over 3.5 million Euros in funding from the European Union and involves multiple partners. Three use cases are being developed around energy efficiency, high-performance communications for IoT, and security/privacy support on the FIWARE platform.
This document describes the ARCADIA project, which received over 3.5 million euros in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program. The ARCADIA project aims to develop an innovative framework that addresses challenges in future computing by enabling optimal use of computing resources and helping application developers take advantage of emerging infrastructure programmability. It will provide a methodology for developing applications that can be reconfigured by design and will enable deployment of ecosystems offering opportunities for software and small/medium enterprises.
This document summarizes the ARCADIA project, which aims to design and validate a new paradigm for developing highly distributed applications that can dynamically reconfigure based on changes to programmable infrastructure. The project received over 3.5 million Euros in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 program and will last 36 months. It involves developing new approaches for application deployment and management over distributed systems while maintaining network reliability, security, and efficiency.
This project received EU funding to develop a framework for highly distributed applications over programmable infrastructure. It has 9 partners across 7 countries working over 3 years with 6 work packages and 19 deliverables. The objectives are to develop a flexible framework, context model, and reference architecture to facilitate design and deployment of distributed applications. Three use cases will demonstrate the framework in different domains: optimizing energy efficiency vs quality of service in software routing; high performance survivable communications for IoT; and security/privacy support for the FI-WARE platform. The project is coordinated by Insight Centre for Data Analytics and technical coordination is led by Ubitech.
The document discusses the ARCADIA project, which is funded by the European Commission to develop a framework for composing, deploying, and managing microservices-based applications across multiple datacenters in a policy-aware and reconfigurable manner. The framework includes components for application and component discovery, policy-aware orchestration using optimization algorithms, multi-datacenter execution middleware to support various infrastructure platforms, and an development environment for designing distributed applications with defined metrics and reconfigurability.
The ARCADIA project is developing a framework to support the development and orchestration of highly distributed applications over programmable infrastructure. The project ran from 2015-2017 with a budget of over 3.5 million euros in EU funding. A newsletter provides updates on project progress including work to support the convergence of network function virtualization and software-defined networking through the ARCADIA framework.
This newsletter provides an update on the ARCADIA project, which aims to develop a platform to facilitate the development and deployment of highly distributed applications over programmable infrastructure. The project started in January 2015, is funded through December 2017 with a budget of over 3.5 million euros, and involves multiple partners. This first issue introduces the project objectives, discusses participation in the Net Futures 2015 conference, and outlines upcoming technical meetings to coordinate progress. Readers are invited to learn more about ARCADIA's goals of simplifying application development while enabling flexibility, availability, and security.
This deliverable presents the data management plan for the
ARCADIA project. This data management plan describes what kind of data is generated or collected in the ARCADIA project and how this data is published openly. A simple decision process is defined that either classifies a result as public or non -public. The publishing platforms used are the pro
ject website, the OwnCloud platform and GitHub for open-sourced code. All these platforms can be accessed openly.
This document describes the activities that have taken place with regards to dissemination of the work and relative results of all the work packages achieved during the first year of the ARCADIA project
ARCADIA aims to provide a novel development paradigm needed to take advantage of the emerging
programmability of the cloud infrastructure, and hence develop reconfigurable -by-design applications that support high performance, scalability, failure prevention and recovery, and in general self-adaptation to changes in the execution environment.
The proposed framework relies on the development
of an extensible Context Model which will be used by developers to produce annotated source -code and generate distributed applications as service chains of application tiers and network functions containing meaningful semantics. A Smart Controller responsible for
on - boarding the HDAs is undertaking the tasks of translating annotations to optimal infrastructural configuration. Such a controller is enforcing an optimal configuration to the registered programmable resources and is pro - actively adjusting the configuration plan based on the Infrastructural State and the Application State to meet
objectives and apply policies. Driving a distributed application through its entire lifetime proves highly beneficial for all stakeholders since the synergy of the introduced applications’ re - configurability and the underlying infrastructure’s programmability, facilitates the development of new fine - grained strategies able to fulfil new and complex equirements.
Use Cases and Performance Evaluation and Validation MethodsEU ARCADIA PROJECT
This deliverable sets the cornerstone in the development of the three use cases of the ARCADIA project . It includes all the necessary information for the successful implementation, validation and performance evaluation of the proposed scenarios, which will ensure the delivery of strong proof -of-concept demonstrations. Three discrete domains are included in the use cases, targeting at
demonstrating and validating the ARCADIA framework for tackling a wide set of distributed applications deployment challenges.
ARCADIA Framework will rely on an extensible Context Model which will be used during the entire lifecycle of an HDA. The purpose of this deliverable is to document the first version of the ARCADIA Context Model. It should be clarified that this model is ‘multi-faceted’ since it consists of complementary models that are conceptually grouped according to their functional purpose.
Description of Highly Distributed Applications and Programmable Infrastructur...EU ARCADIA PROJECT
This deliverable poses the foundation to start the technical activities in the ARCADIA project. In this
respect, it sets the bases for a common and shared vision of the problem and provides the basic set of design and implementation guidelines. The purpose for a common vision is to agree on the problem definition, to share basic knowledge among partners from different fields (mainly software development, computing and networking), and to identify the main research challenges to be addressed. The guidelines to drive the project activities are expressed in terms of requirements.
Requirements are meant to drive the design and development process; they are the constraints that
will help the final framework to best match the initial vision and to satisfy the technological challenges.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Goodbye Windows 11: Make Way for Nitrux Linux 3.5.0!SOFTTECHHUB
As the digital landscape continually evolves, operating systems play a critical role in shaping user experiences and productivity. The launch of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0 marks a significant milestone, offering a robust alternative to traditional systems such as Windows 11. This article delves into the essence of Nitrux Linux 3.5.0, exploring its unique features, advantages, and how it stands as a compelling choice for both casual users and tech enthusiasts.
Communications Mining Series - Zero to Hero - Session 1DianaGray10
This session provides introduction to UiPath Communication Mining, importance and platform overview. You will acquire a good understand of the phases in Communication Mining as we go over the platform with you. Topics covered:
• Communication Mining Overview
• Why is it important?
• How can it help today’s business and the benefits
• Phases in Communication Mining
• Demo on Platform overview
• Q/A
In the rapidly evolving landscape of technologies, XML continues to play a vital role in structuring, storing, and transporting data across diverse systems. The recent advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) present new methodologies for enhancing XML development workflows, introducing efficiency, automation, and intelligent capabilities. This presentation will outline the scope and perspective of utilizing AI in XML development. The potential benefits and the possible pitfalls will be highlighted, providing a balanced view of the subject.
We will explore the capabilities of AI in understanding XML markup languages and autonomously creating structured XML content. Additionally, we will examine the capacity of AI to enrich plain text with appropriate XML markup. Practical examples and methodological guidelines will be provided to elucidate how AI can be effectively prompted to interpret and generate accurate XML markup.
Further emphasis will be placed on the role of AI in developing XSLT, or schemas such as XSD and Schematron. We will address the techniques and strategies adopted to create prompts for generating code, explaining code, or refactoring the code, and the results achieved.
The discussion will extend to how AI can be used to transform XML content. In particular, the focus will be on the use of AI XPath extension functions in XSLT, Schematron, Schematron Quick Fixes, or for XML content refactoring.
The presentation aims to deliver a comprehensive overview of AI usage in XML development, providing attendees with the necessary knowledge to make informed decisions. Whether you’re at the early stages of adopting AI or considering integrating it in advanced XML development, this presentation will cover all levels of expertise.
By highlighting the potential advantages and challenges of integrating AI with XML development tools and languages, the presentation seeks to inspire thoughtful conversation around the future of XML development. We’ll not only delve into the technical aspects of AI-powered XML development but also discuss practical implications and possible future directions.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
TrustArc Webinar - 2024 Global Privacy SurveyTrustArc
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In the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey, we asked over 1,800 global privacy professionals and business executives to share their perspectives on the current state of privacy inside and outside of their organizations. This year’s report focused on emerging areas of importance for privacy and compliance professionals, including considerations and implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, building brand trust, and different approaches for achieving higher privacy competence scores.
See how organizational priorities and strategic approaches to data security and privacy are evolving around the globe.
This webinar will review:
- The top 10 privacy insights from the fifth annual Global Privacy Benchmarks Survey
- The top challenges for privacy leaders, practitioners, and organizations in 2024
- Key themes to consider in developing and maintaining your privacy program
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Revision History
Version Date Editor(s) Remark(s)
0.1 23/06/2016 M. Repetto (CNIT) Document template, TOC
0.2 04/07/2016 M. Repetto (CNIT) Added short summary of topics discussed
at the workshop
0.3 18/07/2016 M. Repetto (CNIT) Added main discussions items in final
panel and conclusions
1.0 28/07/2016 M. Repetto (CNIT) Changed according to internal review
Statement of originality:
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Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through
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Executive Summary
This deliverable provides a report from the first ARCADIA workshop, held in Athens during EuCNC 2016. The
workshop gave insights on the ARCADIA architecture, on-going work, prototype implementation, and
established connections with other related initiatives.
The workshop included presentation of the ARCADIA project, presentations from the industry, and
presentations from other EU projects. Following the invited speeches, a panel was organized to discuss the
relevance of the ARCADIA framework to the evolving cloud landscape, to highlight novel trends that have
emerged after the project proposal, to reinforce collaboration with parallel EU projects, and to gather
suggestions, ideas, remarks in order to improve the project. To this aim, members of the Advisory Board
were invited to attend the workshop.
This document briefly summarizes the main content of the invited speeches and the main topics discussed
during the panel. It also summarizes the main directions and suggestions that emerged during the
discussion.
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Table of Contents
REVISION HISTORY ...................................................................................................................................................................... 3
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................................................................................ 4
TABLE OF CONTENTS .................................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 SCOPE ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.2 AUDIENCE .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6
1.3 STRUCTURE ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 6
2 WORKSHOP FACTSHEET .................................................................................................................................................... 7
3 OBJECTIVES AND MOTIVATIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 8
3.1 OBJECTIVES ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
3.2 MOTIVATIONS ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 8
3.3 SCOPE ......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8
3.4 ORGANIZATION ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
4 WORKSHOP SUMMARY .................................................................................................................................................... 10
4.1 WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................................................... 10
4.2 NETWORK SOFTWARIZATION .............................................................................................................................................................. 10
4.3 NFV AND SDN INTERPLAY AND ORCHESTRATION CHALLENGES ................................................................................................... 12
4.4 THE ARCADIA FRAMEWORK: A COMPLETE FRAMEWORK FOR SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT, ORCHESTRATION, DEPLOYMENT,
AND EXECUTION .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
4.5 BRINGING COMPUTING AT THE NETWORK EDGE FOR VIRTUALIZATION OF DEVICES AND THINGS: THE INPUT
INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FOG COMPUTING ......................................................................................................................................................... 14
4.6 PANEL DISCUSSION ................................................................................................................................................................................ 15
4.6.1 Design of SDN/NFV solutions .................................................................................................................................................... 16
4.6.2 Energy efficiency in 5G infrastructures ................................................................................................................................ 17
5 MAIN OUTCOMES FROM THE WORKSHOP ................................................................................................................ 18
6 CONCLUSIONS ...................................................................................................................................................................... 20
ANNEX I: REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................................................. 21
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1 Introduction
1.1 Scope
As part of its dissemination strategy, ARCADIA planned to organize three scientific workshops, targeted to
the scientific and industrial communities in the domains of software development, cloud computing, and
virtualization [1].
This report documents the 1st
ARCADIA workshop, planned for presenting the project’s intermediate result,
namely the definition of the ARCADIA Context Model and the design and specification of the ARCADIA
Framework.
1.2 Audience
This deliverable is intended for public dissemination (including the Commission Services).
1.3 Structure
The document is structured as follows:
§ Section 1 introduces the deliverable, its scope, and its structure.
§ Section 2 provides a quick factsheet of the workshop.
§ Section 3 explains the main objectives for this workshop and the overall strategy behind its
organization.
§ Section Error! Reference source not found. reports a brief summary of the speeches and final
discussion.
§ Section 6 gives the conclusions.
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2 Workshop factsheet
Title ARCADIA Special Session on Software engineering approaches aligned with the
Softwarization of Networks and Services
Event European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC 2016)
http://www.eucnc.eu
Athens, Greece, June 27-30, 2016
Venue Divani Apollon Palace & Thalasso, Room Kleoniki B
Agiou Nikolaou 10, Vouliagmeni, Athens 166 71, Greece
Date Wednesday, 29 June 2016, 11:00-12:30
Chair Raffaele Bolla (CNIT, Italy)
Participants 40 participants attended the workshop, including people from the industry (telcos,
vendors), people from SMEs active in the 5G domain, as well as people from the academia
and research institutes.
Programme 11:00-11:20 “Network softwarization”, Antonio Manzalini (TIM)
11:20-11:40 “NFV and SDN interplay and orchestration challenges”, Pedro A. Aranda
Gutiérrez (TELEFONICA I+D)
11:40-11:55 “The ARCADIA Framework: a complete framework for software development,
orchestration, deployment, and execution”, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (UBITECH)
11:55-12:10 “Bringing computing at the network edge for virtualization of devices and
things: the INPUT infrastructure for fog computing”, Roberto Bruschi (CNIT)
12:10-12:30 Panel: “Deploying distributed applications over next-generation programmable
infrastructure: vision, challenges and research directions”, moderated by Dr. Nikos
Koutsouris (WINGS), Dr. Antonio Manzalini (TELECOM ITALIA), Dr. Roberto Bruschi (CNIT).
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3 Objectives and motivations
3.1 Objectives
The 1st
ARCADIA workshop was conceived for presenting the project’s intermediate results after the first
year of activity, and to gather feedbacks, interests, suggestions from the community.
3.2 Motivations
The first year of activity in ARCADIA was mainly devoted to framework specifications, including the
identification of relevant use cases, the collection of requirements, the outlining of the overarching
ARCADIA framework (software development paradigm and orchestration environment), the preliminary
definition of the Context Model for developing and deploying ARCADIA-compliant applications. All these
activities were carried out in Work Package 2 (WP2) and documented by the relative deliverables1
.
The work undertaken during the first year was specifically focused to blur the demarcation line between
infrastructure and software development, by understanding how the emerging programmability of cloud
environments could be reflected and exploited by programmers in order to make their applications
“ductile”, namely adaptable to mutable execution environments and conditions. In this respect, the idea
beyond the first workshop was to foster the discussion about the synergy between novel software
development paradigms and the increasing levels of infrastructure programmability; in particular, ARCADIA
envisions a still largely unexplored potential of network programmability in the implementation and
deployment of complex software ecosystem, including the concept of Software-Defined Networking (SDN).
Given the above considerations, the Project decided to present the ARCADIA vision and preliminary results
in a networking/communication context, deferring the debate with the software development community
to the following workshops, when more focused technical achievements would have been available for
discussion.
3.3 Scope
The grow of Internet-centric paradigms (like the Internet of Services, the Internet of Things) is boosting
the need for more distributed and modularized applications. New computing architectures are emerging to
tackle these paradigms, like cloud federations and “fog” computing. This evolution brings a new dimension
to the software development process, which shall take into account the prominent role of networking and
its implications for distributed systems (QoS, security, dependability, ...) as well as the increasing trend
towards the softwarization of networks and services.
Given the heterogeneity of the computing and networking solutions, it is vital to introduce novel
software development paradigms that facilitate the automatic deployment and reconfiguration of the
applications over distributed infrastructures, by taking advantage of the increasing programmability of such
underlying infrastructures. To this aim, principles and techniques already available in recent software
engineering paradigms shall also consider ground-breaking concepts in the networking domain, like
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software Defined Networking (SDN).
1
Public deliverables are available on the ARCADIA website. URL: http://www.arcadia-
framework.eu/wp/documentation/deliverables/.
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The intention of the workshop was to gather prominent experts from both academic and industry and
promote an open discussion on the development of Reconfigurable-by-design applications, fostering a
tighter collaboration between the Software Development, the Computing and the Networking domains.
The workshop provided an overview of on-going work in the EU projects ARCADIA and INPUT, and
presentation of related initiatives in the SDN/NFV domain. The main goal was to share bleeding-edge
knowledge, to cluster complementary activities, and to stimulate the synergy and cooperation from
different technology domains and research project.
3.4 Organization
Given the motivation outlined in Section 3.2, the workshop was organized to foster the discussion with
relevant experts and parallel initiatives from the networking domain. Key topics for the discussion were
cutting-edge technologies in this field, namely Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Software-Defined
Networking. Invited speakers were selected in order to depict a clear and authoritative vision about the
main trends in the industry and in the research community. Further, a representative from the Advisory
Board was highly recommended.
The following people were invited for a speech:
• Dr. Antonio Manzalini, Innovation/Future Centre at TIM (Italy). His interests include innovative
networking technologies and architectures, network virtualization, 5G, pervasive robotics, Internet
of Things. He is strongly involved in SDN standardization.
• Dr. Diego R. R. Lopez, Senior Technology Expert, Telefonica I+D (Spain). He is responsible for the
definition and coordination of research projects in the areas of new networking technologies and
network infrastructures. He is currently Chair of the ETSI NFV Technical Steering Committee, Co-
chair of the NFVRG. Dr. Lopez was replaced by Dr. Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, Technology
Exploration, Network Innovation & Virtualisation, Telefonica I+D. He is the coordinator of the
NetIde project.
• Dr. Roberto Bruschi, Research Scientist at CNIT (Italy). He is the Project Coordinator of INPUT, an
H2020 research project targeting novel virtualization paradigms at the network edge.
Dr. Antonio Manzalini is also a member of the ARCADIA Advisory Board.
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4 Workshop summary
This Section reports a brief summary from each speech. It is not intended to be a mere copy of the
presentations, rather to extrapolate the key messages and to bring them to the attention of the project
Consortium and all interested readers.
The full presentations are available on the ARCADIA websites (only for Consortium members and the EC).
4.1 Welcome and introduction
Prof. Raffaele Bolla, chair of the workshop, gave an initial introduction to the main scope of the workshop,
as well as the program that is going to be followed.
4.2 Network softwarization
SPEAKER: Antonio Manzalini, TIM
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Networks are undergoing an unprecedented techno-economic transformation driven by the ever growing
deployment of IT equipment within communication infrastructures, with the prime aim to realize most
legacy functions in software. This trend will ultimately deploy a large amount of computing and storage
resources into the network, building a vast programmable execution environment that open the
opportunities for far more services beyond mere voice/data transport (5G networks). Telecoms are
carefully looking at this evolution, because of the higher revenue margins for value-added services over
their traditional business model.
The key driver in this evolution is the definition of some kind of middleware that is able to run
heterogeneous services on heterogeneous and distributed hardware, in a transparent, seamless and
automated way. This middleware can be designed in a similar way to a modern operating system, offering
standardized interfaces to applications and services (similar to system calls and libraries), abstracting the
resource diversity (through some abstraction similar to device drivers). The Network Operating System
(NOS) should provide a platform for automated operation, bringing together communication
infrastructures, IT equipment, terminals. The definition of a NOS entails several on-going initiatives,
including the Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) unification paradigm, service interfacing and templates (e.g.,
IETF intent framework, OASIS TOSCA/YANG), virtualization environments (e.g., OpenStack, NFV, ONOS),
programming and configuration protocols (OpenFlow, Netconf, …), commoditization of Telco central office
and disaggregation into edge/fog components (Telecom Infra Project, Open Compute, Mobile Edge
Computing, etc.).
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The topic has been discussed for several years, and there are many components that could be assembled
together in a common architecture (e.g., CORD2
). However, such a distributed and heterogeneous
environment will be characterized by a higher level of complexity than today, and this will be a challenging
issue for proper automated control and management.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) may be the right solution for complexity. AI has been already used successfully for
detection of cyber-attacks, and its usage is under investigation in different sectors: car driving, smart
ambient, financial and market prediction, genetics and DNA programming. But the challenging question is:
could AI be the “end of code”? May we envision a new paradigm, i.e., AI-defined network for making large-
infrastructures and big-data “actionable”?
4.3 NFV and SDN interplay and orchestration challenges
SPEAKER: Pedro A. Aranda Gutiérrez, TELEFONICA I+D
NFV and SDN are promising technologies for networking. However, their real potential is currently
overlooked. As a matter of fact, many traditional networking guys are prone to see Network Functions as
the “open” version of their legacy middle-boxes and the SDN controller as the delightful replacement of
their patch panels. NFV/SDN bring far more opportunities than deploying network services while
comfortably sitting at the own desk!
The fine-grained control over packet forwarding enabled by SDN is very useful to optimize service graphs in
NFV and to compose applications and services. NFV strongly relies on the concept of recursive composition,
starting from elementary software components, to VNFs and Network Services. The notion of application
composition goes farer than mere service chaining, envisioning the possibility to perform in parallel several
tasks (e.g., firewalling, natting, monitoring), to assemble the result and to apply it to the packet.
From another perspective, SDN is enabling DevOps development cycles which benefit from prior
experiences in software development, such as Agile development. The standard software cyclic lifecycle
made of design, implementation, test, deployment could be easily adopted for network services and
applications, with great benefits in terms of release times and development costs.
Finally, another issue in NFV/SDN converge concerns packaging. NFV is already defining its packaging
formats (e.g., OpenMANO, TOSCA), while SDN applications are usually shipped in the controller-specific
format (e.g., jar file, python script). There is still a missing gap in bringing these technologies together and
converging to a common and overarching standard.
Going further, the last remark is for current description languages. For example, current way of describing
Service Graphs in NFV-MANO is human-readable, but.. is it human-understandable? “Intent” is the magic
word in this context; it indicates the possibility to specify what is expected from the network, rather than
how to configure the underlying infrastructure. Current efforts in such direction are still at the early stage,
and with several drawbacks (e.g., FlowObjectives, Boulder, NEMO).
The final message is a warning to avoid being “seduced” by the buzz recurrent words in NFV/SDN: these are
very powerful concepts, though the implementation of their full potential is very challenging and many
aspects still need investigation.
2
Central Office Re-architected as a Datacenter (CORD), Open Networking Lab in collaboration with
AT&T. [Online] Available: http://onrc.stanford.edu/protected%20files/PDF/ONRC-CORD-Larry.pdf.
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applications over multiple IaaS, by interpreting the Context Model and by adapting applications/services to
the current execution environment.
ARCADIA is currently developing several artefacts to build its framework: a web IDE for inserting
annotations into applications and building service graphs, a software repository for ARCADIA-compliant
components and service graphs, a policy specification and enforcement framework, an optimization
algorithm for distributing software components over multiple IaaS, resource management and overlay
networking.
ARCADIA is particularly interested in SDN/NFV. On the one side, SDN enables the programmatic network
control necessary to deploy highly-distributed applications; on the other side, Virtual Network Functions
are useful to be integrated into complex applications and services (e.g., load balancers, firewalls, etc.).
4.5 Bringing computing at the network edge for virtualization of devices and
things: the INPUT infrastructure for fog computing
SPEAKER: Roberto Bruschi, CNIT
The INPUT project is targeting fog computing paradigms by exploiting ICT installation at the Telcos’ network
edge. The main motivation is the increasing virtualization trend, with an ever larger number of applications
and services moved to the cloud, and the difficulty to meet stringent QoS constraints for interactive and
multimedia applications. As a matter of fact, latency and bandwidth are key factors for applications like
voice and video services, on-line gaming, grid protection, trading, remote control.
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INPUT focuses on a specific use case, namely the creation of personal network services. Following the trend
to move applications to the cloud, even traditional home devices could be (at least partially) virtualized,
leaving only simpler hardware at home. Several reasons motivate this approach: more
computation/storage resources available, more flexibility in upgrading the application, less energy
consumption at home. In this respect, this Use Case represents an evolution of the Home Gateway
virtualization already envisioned by telecoms and the ETSI NFV framework. The Personal Network is a very
challenging service, since the end user must have the feeling his devices are still functioning locally, with
negligible latency.
To implement Personal Network services, INPUT is defining an execution environment at the network edge.
The execution environment provides virtualization capabilities (both as IaaS and PaaS) in order to run
Service_Apps, and exploits in-network programmability (through SDN/NFV) to create the correct resource
slicing. The main INPUT feature is the capability to follow the user, by moving his Service_Apps close to his
current point of attachment to the network. The INPUT orchestrator is responsible to decide which
applications should move, in order to avoid bandwidth wasting.
As part of the project activities, INPUT is developing OpenVolcano, a complete virtualization framework
including the capability of providing virtual computing, storage and networking, a high-performance virtual
switch based on DPDK, and an SDN controller.
Two challenging use cases have already been identified to demonstrate the INPUT framework. The first
concerns IoT: simple sensors are deployed at home, while their management/processing software is
deployed as virtual instance at the network edge and data are stored in a legacy cloud. The second
concerns the virtualization of set-top-boxes: video is decoded at the network edge and the stream is
directly sent to network-attached TVs. In both cases the purpose is to show how the INPUT framework
enables service providers to design their (Personal Network) services, to deploy the service for each users,
and to achieve very low-latency performance.
4.6 Panel discussion
Following the main opinions and works presented in the previous sessions, a short discussion session took
into consideration the critical issues still to be tackled, and identified some expected contributions by the
industrial and scientific community.
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The main aspects emerged from the discussion are briefly described in the following.
4.6.1 Design of SDN/NFV solutions
There has been a great effort in understanding and developing the concepts of Software-Defined
Networking and Network Function Virtualization in recent years. Many initiatives have been undertaken
both in standardization fora, international research projects, and early industrial and commercial
prototyping. Such broad range of interests and initiatives have led to many different architectural
approaches and technical solutions, reflective the heterogeneity in scope, background and objectives.
To move from concept to real-world products and services, it is now necessary to find a large consensus
towards common and shared architectures, interfaces, protocols, and methodologies, in order to design
interoperable solutions that nourish the large ecosystem expected. In this respect, standardization plays a
key role, and all stakeholders are requested to contribute.
Among others, EU projects are carrying out a great work on architectures, prototyping, service definitions
in this field, but often they do not put enough emphasis on standardization. More effort in standardization
is expected from EU projects, in order to capitalize their work, to achieve wide consensus, and to boost the
convergence towards common and interoperable technologies and systems.
Several NFV frameworks have been designed with their own internal APIs and interfaces, but the common
belief is that none of them will prevail on the others, and the upcoming industrial solutions will be an open
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ecosystem made of interoperable components coming from different initiatives. In this respects, common
open APIs (southbound, northbound, peer interfaces) are expected for management of network functions,
service orchestration as well as support of automated deployment and orchestration of distributed
applications.
With the large plethora of different solutions available, it will be crucial to compare them in a standard and
uniform way, in order to select the best approaches and to foster convergence among the most promising
directions.
4.6.2 Energy efficiency in 5G infrastructures
ICT infrastructures are requested to lower their power consumption for long term sustainability. In recent
years, several studies have demonstrated that a large share of power consumption is ascribable to low
efficiency in the way networking systems are operated. Re-design of networking components and low-
power hardware helps in cutting down energy, but it is clear since several years that the most effective
power reduction would only come with global strategies that coordinate the whole system.
SDN and NFV are moving towards new networking paradigms and are expected to bring a tight
convergence with computing infrastructures. As a matter of fact, ever more IT equipment is being deployed
in network infrastructure, and the virtualization trend is blurring the boundary between the networking
and the IT worlds. In this situation, the challenge is a better integration between network and data centres,
including peripheral installations at the very edge of the network. There must be a trade-off between
performance (in terms of QoS, reliability, availability, dependability) and the power consumed by the
infrastructure. The softwarization trend, which decouples applications from the underlying hardware,
provides a great flexibility for workload consolidation and efficient hardware usage, but also brings
additional complexity in understanding the power consumption and the energy efficiency of software
instances.
5G infrastructures are explicitly asked to face the above challenge, and to find sustainable and effective
solutions for an ever increasing connected word.
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5 Main outcomes from the workshop
Summing up the main topics outlines by presentations and the discussed in the panel, the following main
issues have been identified:
• Issue 1. There is a need for the harmonization of the "chaos" that exists in the design and
development of various SDN and NFV solutions, including the set of service/network functions
orchestration approaches.
• Issue 2. There is a need for contributions in the relevant standardization bodies on behalf of the EU
projects, as well as collaboration among the standardization bodies for production of common
specifications.
• Issue 3. There is a need for the design and development of open APIs (southbound, northbound,
peer interfaces) for management of network functions, service orchestration as well as support of
automated deployment and orchestration of distributed applications.
• Issue 4. There is a need for common benchmarking methodologies and set of key performance
indicators in order to have comparable performance evaluation results and identify advantages and
disadvantages per approach.
• Issue 5. There is a need for the design and deployment of mechanisms that can support in a holistic
way energy efficiency in 5G infrastructures. The cost in terms of energy consumption of the
softwarization of the Internet has to be examined.
Consequently, a list of suggested actions to be undertaken or strengthened by the ARCADIA Consortium in
the next months have been derived:
Currently, some representatives from ARCADIA are already taken part into the following initiatives:
• the Technical Committee on OASIS Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Application
(TOSCA)3
;
• the ETSI Environmental Engineering committee (TC EE), part of the Energy Efficiency technology
cluster4
.
More effort is expected to align the ARCADIA software framework to parallel initiatives and projects, in
order to identify common interfaces for service orchestration and automated deployment of applications.
The ARCADIA framework should also target the NVF environment, as a particular Use Case for service
orchestration and deployment.
The main objective is to produce evaluation results that can be easily compared with those produces by
other solutions and architectures.
3
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=tosca
4
http://www.etsi.org/technologies-clusters/technologies/energy-efficiency
Action 1 – Insist on standardization. The Consortium is encouraged to continue its effort in
standardization bodies.
Action 2 – Common benchmarking. The Consortium is encouraged to define evaluation metrics for its
Use Case demonstrators in compliance with other projects/initiatives.
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6 Conclusions
The 1st
ARCADIA workshop was a great opportunity for the Consortium to meet experts from the SDN/NFV
fields. From invited speeches and the final short discussion, it was clear that SDN and NFV are still evolving,
and no prevailing architectures and solutions have clearly emerged yet. Upcoming networking
infrastructures will be very complex system to manage, and the availability of automatic mechanisms for
service deployment and lifecycle management is an inescapable need. This basically confirms the worth of
the ARCADIA approach, and also motivates to design quite general solutions, not still tailored to any
existing framework.
From the 1st
ARCADIA workshop, the Project has earned a general approval about its architecture and the
relevance for the NFV use case. However, the Consortium has also received a clear indication that much
effort is expected in standardization and harmonization with other undergoing initiatives. ARCADIA is
already participating in standardization initiatives, both in the field of software orchestration and energy
efficiency. However, the definition of common interfaces and interoperability issues should be explicitly
taken into account. In addition, the Project should also consider the definition of common benchmarking
metrics to produce evaluation results that are easily comparable with other architectures.
The ARCADIA Consortium is therefore mainly committed to propose/adopt open interfaces in its
framework, and to take part into relevant standardization fora. The objective is to improve the current
architecture and prototype implementation before the next workshop.
The following two workshops envisioned for the second and third years of activity will target the software
development community. In such events, the ARCADIA framework will be presented to get preliminary
feedback (2nd
workshop), then improved and evaluated in the three project Use Cases (3rd
workshop).