Towards a functional continuum operating system

Project Information

ICOS

Grant agreement ID: 101070177

DOI

10.3030/101070177

Project closed

EC signature date 21 June 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 30 September 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 10 997 675,00

EU contribution

€ 10 997 675,00

Coordinated by

ATOS SPAIN SA
Spain

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (8)

Public Summary Report - First Open Call

Report summarizing the first Open Calls results.

Call Announcement and Guide for Applicants - First Open Call

Report opening calls and setting the guide for the applicants of the first open call

Dissemination, communications, exploitation and communities engagement strategy - Initial version

Description of the proposed activities roadmap for maximizing ICOS communication, dissemination, exploitation and communities engagement activities

Dissemination, communications, exploitation and communities engagement report - Intermediate version

Description of the overall set of communication, dissemination, exploitation and communities engagement activities done up to M18

ICOS ecosystem: Technologies, requirements and state of the art (IT-1)

Report the efforts done towards identifying the ICOS ecosystem for IT-1.

Use cases settings and demonstration strategy

It describes the setup for the four use cases, as well as the strategy and plan for the ICOS validation.

ICOS community

On-line Community customized for ICOS with set strategy

ICOS architectural design (IT-1)

This deliverable describes the first iteration of the ICOS architectural design

Other (3)

Meta-Kernel Layer Module Integrated (IT-1)

Delivers the integrated version of the Meta-Kernel Layer Module at IT-1

First ICOS Release: ICOS Alfa version

Delivery of the ICOS alfa release also reporting on the technical performance results

Data Management, Intelligence and Security Layers (IT-1)

Report on all design and implementation efforts in WP4 as well as delivery of the software developed

Publications

Conference proceedings (25)

Evaluating the Impact of Inter-Cluster Communications in Edge Computing

Author(s): Marc Michalke, Iulisloi Zacarias, Admela Jukan, Kfir Toledo, Etai Lev-Ran
Published in: NOMS 2025-2025 IEEE Network Operations and Management Symposium, 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NOMS57970.2025.11073714

Runtime security monitoring by an interplay between rule matching and deep learning-based anomaly detection on logs

Author(s): Antić, Jan; Costa, Joao Pita; Černivec, Aleš; Cankar, Matija; Martinčič, Tomaž; Potočnik, Aljaž; Elguezabal, Gorka Benguria; Leligou, Nelly; Boigues, Ismael Torres
Published in: 2023 19th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2023
Publisher: International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.7937448

LOMOS: An AI-Based Runtime Security Monitoring System Fit for the Cloud Continuum

Author(s): Joao Pita Costa, Hrvoje Ratkajec, Daniel Vladušič, Tomaž Martinčič, Aleš Černivec, Justin Činkelj, Rosalia Davi, Simone Favrin, Lorenzo Gorza, Gilda di Marco
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90203-1_1

A Stacking Ensemble Learning Model for Waste Prediction in Offset Printing

Author(s): Alexandros S. Kalafatelis, Chris Trochoutsos, Anastasios E. Giannopoulos, Angelos Angelopoulos, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3587889.3588210

ICOS: An Intelligent MetaOS for the Continuum

Author(s): Jordi Garcia, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Anastasios Giannopoulos, Panagiotis Trakadas, Sebastián A. Cajas Ordoñez, Jaydeep Samanta, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo, Ricardo Simón Carbajo, Marc Michalke, Admela Jukan, Artur Jaworski, Marcin Kotliński, Gabriele Giammatteo, Francesco D'Andria
Published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on MetaOS for the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721889.3721929

An Experimental Study of the Response Time in an Edge-Cloud Continuum with ClusterLink

Author(s): Marc Michalke, Fin Gentzen, Admela Jukan, Kfir Toledo, Etai Lev Ran
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90203-1_7

Benchmarking Performance of Various MQTT Broker Implementations in a Compute Continuum

Author(s): Jasenka Dizdarević, Marc Michalke, Admela Jukan, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Francesco D’Andria
Published in: 2024 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID59990.2024.00048

An Edge/Cloud Continuum with Wearable Kinetic Energy Harvesting IoT Devices in Remote Areas

Author(s): Jasenka Dizdarević, David Blažević, Marla Grunewald, Admela Jukan
Published in: ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC51166.2024.10622285

Learning to Fulfill the User Demands in 5G-enabled Wireless Networks through Power Allocation: a Reinforcement Learning approach

Author(s): A. Giannopoulos, S. Spantideas, N. Nomikos, A. Kalafatelis and P. Trakadas
Published in: 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DRCN57075.2023.10108389

Multi-component Application Mapping Across the Continuum

Author(s): Jordi Garcia, Montse Farreras, Waseem Sajjad, Xavi Masip-Bruin
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90203-1_8

Potential of implementing operational metasystems in agriculture using the ICOS project as an example

Author(s): Esfandiyar, Iman
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.11077225

Navigating the Dynamic Heterogeneous Computing Sphere: The Role of EdgeHarbor as a Multi-edge Orchestrator

Author(s): Francesco D’Andria, Alex Volkov, Josep Martrat
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90203-1_6

ClusterLink: Redefining Application Connectivity for the Multi-cloud Era

Author(s): Kfir Toledo, Pravein Govindan Kannan, Michal Malka, Etai Lev-Ran, Or Ozeri, Vita Bortnikov, Ziv Nevo, Kathy Barabash
Published in: 2025 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD67622.2025.00030

Zenoh: Unifying Communication, Storage and Computation from the Cloud to the Microcontroller

Author(s): Angelo Corsaro, Luca Cominardi, Olivier Hecart, Gabriele Baldoni, Julien Enoch Pierre Avital, Julien Loudet, Carlos Guimares, Michael Ilyin, Dmitrii Bannov
Published in: 2023 26th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DSD60849.2023.00065

Scaling Serverless Functions in Edge Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach

Author(s): Bensalem, Mounir; Ipek, Erkan; Jukan, Admela
Published in: IEEE Conference on Global Communications (GLOBECOM), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.13130

A Stacking Ensemble Learning Model for Waste Prediction in Offset Printing

Author(s): Alexandros S. Kalafatelis, Chris Trochoutsos, Anastasios E. Giannopoulos, Angelos Angelopoulos, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: Proceedings of the 2023 10th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Applications, 2023
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3587889.3588210

Uplink NOMA for UAV-Aided Maritime Internet-of-Things

Author(s): N. Nomikos, A. Giannopoulos, P. Trakadas and G. K. Karagiannidis
Published in: 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DRCN57075.2023.10108290

COOLER: Cooperative Computation Offloading in Edge-Cloud Continuum Under Latency Constraints via Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

Author(s): Anastasios Giannopoulos, Ilias Paralikas, Sotirios Spantideas, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: 2024 International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication, Networking and Services (ICCNS), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCNS62192.2024.10776151

Towards a Functional Continuum Operating System – ICOS MetaOS

Author(s): Artur Jaworski, Marcin Kotlinski, Izabela Zrazinska, Xavier Masip-Bruin, Jordi Garcia, Iman Esfandiyar
Published in: Communications in Computer and Information Science, Global Internet of Things and Edge Computing Summit, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78572-6_8

Adaptive Machine Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments

Author(s): Sebastián A. Cajas Ordóñez, Jaydeep Samanta, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo, Ricardo Simón Carbajo
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Discovering Drift Phenomena in Evolving Landscapes, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82346-6_1

An NIDS for Known and Zero-Day Anomalies

Author(s): Hussain, Ayaz; Aguiló Gost, Francisco de Asis L.; Simó Mezquita, Ester; Marín Tordera, Eva; Masip Bruin, Xavier
Published in: 2023 19th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DRCN57075.2023.10108319

Enhanced Smart Advertising through Federated Learning

Author(s): R. Seyghaly, J. Garcia, X. Masip-Bruin and M. M. Varnamkhasti
Published in: 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IWCMC58020.2023.10183266

Towards Optimal Serverless Function Scaling in Edge Computing Network

Author(s): Bensalem, Mounir; Carpio, Francisco; Jukan, Admela
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2023
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2305.13896

Hierarchical Management of Extreme-Scale Task-Based Applications

Author(s): Francesc Lordan; Gabriel Puigdemunt; Pere Vergés; Javier Conejero; Jorge Ejarque; Rosa M. Badia
Published in: Euro-Par 2023: Parallel Processing ISBN: 9783031396977, 2023
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39698-4_8

Placing Computational Tasks Within Edge-Cloud Continuum: A DRL Delay Minimization Scheme

Author(s): Anastasios Giannopoulos, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Francesco D’Andria, Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Euro-Par 2024: Parallel Processing Workshops, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-90203-1_4

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Data Aging Matters: Federated Learning-Based Consumption Prediction in Smart Homes via Age-Based Model Weighting

Author(s): Skianis, Konstantinos; Giannopoulos, Anastasios; Gkonis, Panagiotis; Trakadas, Panagiotis
Published in: Electronics, Vol 12, Iss 14, p 3054 (2023), 2023, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics12143054

A comprehensive survey on reinforcement-learning-based computation offloading techniques in Edge Computing Systems

Author(s): Diego Hortelano, Ignacio de Miguel, Ramón J. Durán Barroso, Juan Carlos Aguado, Noemí Merayo, Lidia Ruiz, Adrian Asensio, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Patricia Fernández, Rubén M. Lorenzo, Evaristo J. Abril
Published in: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Issue 216, 2023, ISSN 1084-8045
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JNCA.2023.103669

A Survey on IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Systems: Status, Challenges, Use Cases, and Open Issues

Author(s): Panagiotis Gkonis; Anastasios Giannopoulos; Panagiotis Trakadas; Xavi Masip-Bruin; Francesco D’Andria
Published in: Future Internet 2023, 2023, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.20944/PREPRINTS202311.0532.V1

settings Order Article Reprints Open AccessReview Distributed Machine Learning and Native AI Enablers for End-to-End Resources Management in 6G

Author(s): Orfeas Agis Karachalios, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Kimon Kontovasilis, and Symeon Papavassiliou
Published in: Electronics 2023, 2023, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/electronics12183761

Intelligent Edge Computing and Machine Learning: A Survey of Optimization and Applications

Author(s): Sebastián A. Cajas Ordóñez, Jaydeep Samanta, Andrés L. Suárez-Cetrulo, Ricardo Simón Carbajo
Published in: Future Internet, Issue 17, 2025, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FI17090417

HOODIE: Hybrid Computation Offloading via Distributed Deep Reinforcement Learning in Delay-Aware Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Anastasios E. Giannopoulos; Ilias Paralikas; Sotirios T. Spantideas; Panagiotis Trakadas
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2024, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.36227/TECHRXIV.173161211.11891475/V1

Beyond Multi-Access Edge Computing: Essentials to Realize a Mobile, Constrained Edge

Author(s): Elisa, Rojas; Guimaraes, Carlos; de la Oliva, Antonio; Bernardos, Carlos Jesus; Gazda, Robert
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 2024, ISSN 1558-1896
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10512505

A Survey on IoT-Edge-Cloud Continuum Systems: Status, Challenges, Use Cases, and Open Issues

Author(s): Gkonis, Panagiotis; Giannopoulos, Anastasios; Trakadas, Panagiotis; Masip, Xavi; D'Andria, Francesco
Published in: Future Internet, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 383 (2023), 2023, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/fi15120383

SBNNR: Small-Size Bat-Optimized KNN Regression

Author(s): Seyghaly, Rasool; García Almiñana, Jordi; Masip Bruin, Xavier; Kuljanin, Jovana
Published in: Future Internet, 2024, ISSN 1999-5903
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/FI16110422

IEEE Access

Author(s): Panagiotis K. Gkonis; Spyros Lavdas; George Vardoulias; Panagiotis Trakadas; Lambros Sarakis; Konstantinos Papadopoulos
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3422349

Distributed Machine Learning and Native AI Enablers for End-to-End Resources Management in 6G

Author(s): Orfeas Agis Karachalios, Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, Kimon Kontovasilis, Symeon Papavassiliou
Published in: Electronics, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2079-9292
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ELECTRONICS12183761

Security in DevSecOps: Applying Tools and Machine Learning to Verification and Monitoring Steps

Author(s): Matija Cankar; Nenad Petrović; Joao Pita Costa; Aleš Černivec; Jan Antić; Tomaž Martinčič; Dejan Štepec
Published in: ICPE '23 Companion: Companion of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, 2023, ISSN 2377-570X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10055331

IEEE Access

Author(s): A. Angelopoulos, A. Giannopoulos, N. Nomikos, A. Kalafatelis, A. Hatziefremidis and P. Trakadas
Published in: IEEE Access, 2024, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3350777

5G/6G Architecture Evolution for XR and Metaverse: Feasibility Study, Security, and Privacy Challenges for Smart Culture Applications

Author(s): Maria Christopoulou, Ioannis Koufos, George Xilouris, Nikos Dimitriou
Published in: IEEE Access, Issue 13, 2025, ISSN 2169-3536
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3578595

Data-Centric Service-Based Architecture for Edge-Native 6G Network

Author(s): Baldoni, Gabriele; Quevedo, Jose; Guimaraes, Carlos; De la Oliva, Antonio; Corsaro, Angelo
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, 2024, ISSN 1558-1896
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.8335531

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Author(s): Diego Hortelano, Ignacio de Miguel, Ramón J. Durán Barroso, Juan Carlos Aguado, Noemí Merayo, Lidia Ruiz, Adrian Asensio, Xavi Masip-Bruin, Patricia Fernández, Rubén M. Lorenzo, Evaristo J. Abril
Published in: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2023, ISSN 1084-8045
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnca.2023.103669