Adaptive virtualization for AI-enabled Cloud-edge Continuum

Project Information

CloudSkin

Grant agreement ID: 101092646

DOI

10.3030/101092646

Project closed

EC signature date 17 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• Digital, Industry and Space

Total cost

€ 3 405 322,51

EU contribution

€ 3 405 322,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI
Spain

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Deliverables

Other (5)

Active Ephemeral Data Store Release Candidate and Specification

Interim report with details on integration of active compute elements. Early access prototype and initial results from experiments with different workloads.

Design and early prototype of CLOUDSKIN Learning Plane

Design of the architecture and technologies to produce the CLOUDSKIN Learning Plane, and first prototype with demonstration case.

Initial prototype for Cloud-edge cells

Early software release of Cloud-edge cells virtualisation technology for different environments (C/C++, Python) as well as partial TEE support to ensure confidentiality and integrity of the involved components.

Ephemeral Data Store Release Candidate and Specifications

Interim report with details on data store design including performance tier, disaggregated storage tier and integration with persistent data store for checkpointing/recovery. Early access prototypes and initial results from benchmarking framework and experiments.

Early release of Ephemeral Data Store

Early software release of the data store, focusing on definition of API's and application integrationof the performance tier.

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan, 1st version

First version of the Data Management Plan. Experiments, workloads, benchmarks, and results will be delivered as open data to the community. This deliverable will evolve during the lifetime of the project in order to reflect the current status of data management.

Data Management Plan, 2nd version

This deliverable presents the second version of the project Data Management Plan (DMP). It is submitted on Month 18 as a Mid–Term review of the CLOUDSKIN Data Management Plan.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Public Project Website

A website will be developed in order to provide a continuous update about the project progress and the resultsobtained during it. All public deliverables and publications (Open Access) will be uploaded on the website.

Documents, reports (5)

Experiments, Initial Specifications and Testbed specs

Description of use case scenarios, experiments and benchmarking framework.Initial specifications of the architecture.First version of Cloud-edge testbed with enumeration of required services in different Clouds. The testbed should be available by month M12 to execute first experiments.This deliverable will evolve during the lifetime of the project in order to present the status of the project's reflections on data management.

Communication Report

Description of the dissemination activities with lessons learned andprogress reporting. Further, it will describe community involvement activities.

Learning methods for Infrastructure and Workload management

Specification and first testing models on the different knowledge generation and decision making mechanisms. The produced models and their reproducible validation will be published through open-source distribution channels.

Cloud-edge cells Release Candidate and Specifications

Interim report with details on Cloud-edge cells design and summaries for outcomes of each task. Description of specifications and APIs of backend extensible infrastructure for different clouds and heterogeneous resources. Early access prototypes and initial results for different use cases as well as confidential orchestrator support. It will include early experiment results with use case applications in Python, C++, and JavaScript.

Communication Plan

Definition of the required process and strategy for dissemination activities.Description of the planned dissemination activities and expected progress reporting. Description of initial planned community involvement activities.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (1)

CLOUDSKIN Architecture Specs and Early Prototypes

Specification of the Architecture and APIs. Documentation, early tutorials, and automated tests for the early prototypes of the different software components. First description and evaluation of the results obtained from use cases' validation using different experiments and workloads.

Publications

Conference proceedings (34)

Intelligent Optimization of Distributed Pipeline Execution in Serverless Platforms: A Predictive Model Approach

Author(s): Usama Benabdelkrim Zakan, German Telmo Eizaguirre, Pedro Garcia Lopez
Published in: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3702634.3702951

Optimizing WebAssembly Garbage Collection in Go: Performance Insights, Tuning Tips, and Batch Execution Strategies

Author(s): Safia Guellil, Marc Sánchez-Artigas
Published in: 2025 IEEE 45th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCS63083.2025.00071

Is It Time To Put Cold Starts In The Deep Freeze?

Author(s): Carlos Segarra, Ivan Durev, Peter Pietzuch
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3698038.3698527

StreamSense: Policy-driven Semantic Video Search in Streaming Systems

Author(s): Gerard Finol, Arnau Gabriel, Pedro García-López, Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, Luis Liu, Reuben Docea, Max Kirchner, Sebastian Bodenstedt
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference Industrial Track on ZZZ, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3700824.3701097

Coupling Orchestration and DNS for Seamless Service Migration in the Edge–Cloud Continuum

Author(s): Michail Dalgitsis, Eftychia Datsika, Marc Palacín, Peini Liu, Javier Santaella Sánchez, Maria A. Serrano, Angelos Antonopoulos
Published in: 2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP65844.2025.11192408

A Last-Level Defense for Application Integrity and Confidentiality

Author(s): Fernandez, Gabriel P.; Brito, Andrey; Hartono, Ardhi Putra Pratama; Sardar, Muhammad Usama; Fetzer, Christof
Published in: IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2023), 2023
Publisher: N/A
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.06154

Glider: Serverless Ephemeral Stateful Near-Data Computation

Author(s): Daniel Barcelona-Pons, Pedro García-López, and Bernard Metzler
Published in: 24th International Middleware Conference (Middleware'2023), ISBN 9798400701771
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3590140.3629119

CloudSkin: ML-based Smart Management for the Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Peini Liu, Anna Maria Nestorov, Marc Palacín, Jordi Guitart, Josep Ll. Berral
Published in: 3rd Workshop on Deep Learning for IoT (DL4IoT-2024)
Publisher: HAL open science

Triad: Trusted Timestamps in Untrusted Environments

Author(s): G. Pereira Fernandez, A. Brito, and C. Fetzer
Published in: 2023
Publisher: arxiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.06156

Pravega: A Tiered Storage System for Data Streams

Author(s): Gracia-Tinedo, Raúl; Junqueira, Flavio; Kaitchuck, Tom; Joshi, Sachin
Published in: ISBN 979-8-4007-0177-1
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3590140.3629113

A Comprehensive Study on the Impact of Vulnerable Dependencies on Open-Source Software

Author(s): Shree Hari Bittugondanahalli Indra Kumar, Lília Rodrigues Sampaio, André Martin, Andrey Brito, Christof Fetzer
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ISSRE62328.2024.00020

The Nanoservices Framework: Co-Locating Microservices in the Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Caron, Eric; Gracia-Tinedo, Raúl
Published in: ISBN 979-8-3503-0322-3
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP59255.2023.10355592

"""Back to the Byte"": Towards Byte-oriented Semantics for Streaming Storage"

Author(s): Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, Flavio Junqueira, Tom Kaitchuck
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference Industrial Track on ZZZ, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3700824.3701099

On Data Processing through the Lenses of S3 Object Lambda

Author(s): Pablo Gimeno Sarroca; Marc Sánchez-Artigas
Published in: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3414-2
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/INFOCOM53939.2023.10228890

GRANNY: Granular Management of Compute-Intensive Applications in the Cloud

Author(s): Carlos Segarra, Simon Shillaker, Guo Li, Eleftheria Mappoura, Rodrigo Bruno, Lluís Vilanova and Peter Pietzuch
Published in: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, 2025
Publisher: USENIX

Is Performance of Object Storage Predictable for Serverless I/O Workloads? A Comparative Study

Author(s): Eizaguirre, Germán T.; Sánchez-Artigas, Marc
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP59255.2023.10355617

A Reliability Score for Video-Analytics Edge-IoT Devices in Urban Environments

Author(s): Marçal Garcia, Joan Oliveras Torra, David Aguilera-Luzón, Peini Liu, Mario José Diván, Josep Lluís Berral
Published in: 2025 21st International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DCOSS-IOT65416.2025.00100

SinClave

Author(s): Franz Gregor, Robert Krahn, Do Le Quoc, Christof Fetzer
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th International Middleware Conference on ZZZ, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3590140.3629107

Let It Unthread: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly within WebAssembly Portable Multithreading

Author(s): Marc Sánchez-Artigas, Julen Bohoyo-Bengoetxea
Published in: IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID'25), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CCGRID64434.2025.00018

FlowState: Sampling-Rate Invariant Time Series Foundation Model with Dynamic Forecasting Horizons

Author(s): Lars Graf, Thomas Ortner, Stanislaw Wozniak, Angeliki Pantazi
Published in: Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
Publisher: NeurIPS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2508.05287

Exploring Secure and Efficient Temporary Data Sharing between co-located Kubernetes Containers

Author(s): Aitor Arjona, Bernard Metzler, Pascal Spörri
Published in: CEC Workshop (IEEE ICNP'24), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858528

Serverful Functions: Leveraging Servers in Complex Serverless Workflows (industry track)

Author(s): Germán T. Eizaguirre, Daniel Barcelona-Pons, Aitor Arjona, Gil Vernik, Pedro García-López, Theodore Alexandrov
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference Industrial Track on ZZZ, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3700824.3701095

Practical Storage-Compute Elasticity for Stream Data Processing

Author(s): Gracia-Tinedo, Raúl; Junqueira, Flavio; Zhou, Brian; Xiong, Yimin; Liu, Luis
Published in: ISBN 979-8-4007-0427-7
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3626562.3626828

Mobility Usecase: Intelligent Service Migration in Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Peini Liu, Joan Oliveras Torra, Marc Palacín, Michail Dalgitsis, Maria A. Serrano, Eftychia Datsika, Angelos Antonopoulos, Javier Santaella Sánchez, Jordi Guitart, Josep Ll. Berral, Ramon Nou
Published in: 2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP65844.2025.11192452

Understanding the Latency-Security Tradeoff: TEE-based Confidential Computing for Streaming Workloads

Author(s): Alan Cueva Mora, K.P.N. Jayasena, Robert Krahn, Enrique Chirivella-Perez, Christof Fetzer
Published in: 2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP65844.2025.11192400

Towards Multi-Tier Stream Data Tiering in the Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Omar Jundi, Raúl Gracia-Tinedo, Sean Ahearne, Pascal Spörri, Bernard Metzler
Published in: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858547

Mosaic: Optimizing Cloud Resource Efficiency with Lazily-Packaged Application Modules

Author(s): Serhii Ivanenko, Carlos Segarra, Rodrigo Bruno
Published in: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3721465.3721864

Manifesting the Elasticity of Serverless Data Pipelines: a Metabolomics Use Case

Author(s): Elena Díez-Cuadrado, Germán Telmo Eizaguirre, Enrique Molina-Giménez
Published in: Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3774899.3775018

Data-Connector: An Agent-Based Framework for Autonomous ML-Based Smart Management in Cloud-Edge Continuum

Author(s): Peini Liu, Joan Oliveras Torra, Marc Palacín, Jordi Guitart, Josep Ll. Berral, Ramon Nou
Published in: 2024 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP61940.2024.10858515

Quantifying Serverless Elasticity: The gumeter Benchmark Suite

Author(s): Germán T. Eizaguirre, Pedro García-López, Carlos Molina, Enrique Molina, and Gerard Finol
Published in: International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17701734

Integrating Reliability into Intent-Driven Orchestration on Kubernetes-based Edge Nodes

Author(s): Josep Lluís Berral, David Aguilera-Luzón, Peini Liu, Ramon Nou, Maria Serrano, Angelos Antonopoulos, Javier Santaella, Mario José Diván
Published in: 2025 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICNP65844.2025.11192389

Dynamic In-node Group-Aware Scheduling for Multi-Tenant Machine Learning Services on Kubernetes

Author(s): Peini Liu, Jordi Guitart
Published in: 2025 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD67622.2025.00017

Dexter: A Performance-Cost Efficient Resource Allocation Manager for Serverless Data Analytics

Author(s): Anna Maria Nestorov, Diego Marrón, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Chen Wang, Claudia Misale, Alaa Youssef, David Carrera, Josep Lluís Berral
Published in: Proceedings of the 25th International Middleware Conference, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3652892.3700753

CRISP: Confidentiality, Rollback, and Integrity Storage Protection for Confidential Cloud-Native Computing

Author(s): Hartono, Ardhi Putra Pratama; Brito, Andrey; Fetzer, Christof
Published in: 2024 IEEE 17th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2408.06822

Book chapters (3)

Leveraging Expert Knowledge for Real-Time Online Adaptation of Intraoperative Liver Registration

Author(s): Peng Liu, Sebastian Bodenstedt, Fiona Kolbinger, Carina Riediger, Jürgen Weitz, Stefanie Speidel, Micha Pfeiffer
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Shape in Medical Imaging, 2024
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-75291-9_11

$$\text {T}^{2}$$GS: Comprehensive Reconstruction of Dynamic Surgical Scenes with Gaussian Splatting

Author(s): Jinjing Xu, Chenyang Li, Peng Liu, Micha Pfeiffer, Liwen Liu, Reuben Docea, Martin Wagner, Stefanie Speidel
Published in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2025, 2025
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-05114-1_57

Sicherheitsmechanismen des Cloud-Computings zur Verwendung in Korrekturverfahren

Author(s): Robert Krahn, Christof Fetzer
Published in: Thermo-energetische Gestaltung von Werkzeugmaschinen, 2025
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-45180-6_14

Peer reviewed articles (9)

Journal of Systems Architecture

Author(s): Jordi Guitart
Published in: Journal of systems architecture, ISSN 1383-7621
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SYSARC.2024.103157

Spatial metabolomics: from a niche field towards a driver of innovation

Author(s): Theodore Alexandrov
Published in: Nature Metabolism 2023, ISSN 2522-5812
Publisher: Nature metabolism
DOI: 10.1038/S42255-023-00881-0

Nature Communications

Author(s): Bishoy Wadie; Lachlan Stuart; Christopher M. Rath; Bernhard Drotleff; Sergii Mamedov; Theodore Alexandrov
Published in: Nature Communications, 2023, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nat Commun
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-52213-9

MLLess: Achieving cost efficiency in serverless machine learning training

Author(s): Pablo Gimeno Sarroca; Marc Sánchez-Artigas
Published in: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, ISSN 0743-7315
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.JPDC.2023.104764

Scalable energy-aware VM allocation on cloud data centers through mathematical programming models

Author(s): Roberto Meroni, Jordi Guitart
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 174, 2025, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2025.108011

Forecasting Trends in Cloud-Edge Computing: Unleashing the Power of Attention Mechanisms

Author(s): Berend J. D. Gort, Godfrey M. Kibalya, Maria A. Serrano, Angelos Antonopoulos
Published in: IEEE Communications Magazine, Issue 63, 2025, ISSN 0163-6804
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2300583

DyEndoVO: scene dynamics-aware pose estimation of endoscope in minimally invasive surgery

Author(s): Jinjing Xu, Reuben Docea, Micha Pfeiffer, Martin Wagner, Marius Distler, Stefanie Speidel
Published in: International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2025, ISSN 1861-6429
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11548-025-03549-0

Enhancing the output of time series forecasting algorithms for cloud resource provisioning

Author(s): Ferran Agulló, Alberto Gutierrez-Torre, Jordi Torres, Josep Ll. Berral
Published in: Future Generation Computer Systems, Issue 170, 2025, ISSN 0167-739X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.FUTURE.2025.107833

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Author(s): Reuben Docea; Jinjing Xu; Wei Ling; Alexander C. Jenke; Fiona R. Kolbinger; Marius Distler; Carina Riediger; Jürgen Weitz; Stefanie Speidel; Micha Pfeiffer
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2024, ISSN 0018-9294
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2024.3424771

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Optimizing serverless architectures for data-intensive analytics workloads

Author(s): Anna Maria Nestorov
Publisher: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
DOI: 10.5821/DISSERTATION-2117-409989

Other (2)

Modeling and predicting quality of service for application migrations in the cloud-edge continuum

Author(s): Oliveras Torra, Joan
Published in: 2024
Publisher: UPC

Scaling a Variant Calling Genomics Pipeline with FaaS

Author(s): Aitor Arjona; Arnau Gabriel-Atienza; Sara Lanuza-Orna; Xavier Roca-Canals; Ayman Bourramouss; Tyler K. Chafin; Lucio Marcello; Paolo Ribeca; Pedro García-López
Published in: Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-3414-2
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3631295.3631403