Agile and Cognitive Cloud edge Continuum management

Projektinformationen

AC3

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 101093129

DOI

10.3030/101093129

Projekt abgeschlossen

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 21 November 2022

Startdatum 1 Januar 2023

Enddatum 30 Juni 2026

Finanziert unter

• Digital, Industry and Space

Gesamtkosten

€ 5 975 500,00

EU-Beitrag

€ 5 975 000,00

Koordiniert durch

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
Greece

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Leistungen

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

WebSite

Launch of public project website and initiation of targeted media channels

Documents, reports (8)

Report on technological tools for CECC

Report on the technological enablers that are envisioned to implement the CECCM. The document surveys the existing tools and technological enablers, such as Kubernetes, Openshift, LFEdge, Kubedge, and provides classification whether adapted to micro-service, cloud, edge, and far edge.

Report on the resource management procedures over CECC – Initial

Initial report on mechanisms that enable green-oriented zero touch management of CECC resources, covering activities related to resource discovery and monitoring, AI/ML methods for resource management, LCM decisions, and networking programmability.

1st Release of the CECC framework and CECCM

Initial report on the CECC framework and CECCM covering the federated and open API, functional blocks of the CECCM.

Business analysis of CECC and use case requirements

Report analysing the technico-economic aspects of the CECC resource federation and identifying the interactions between the stakeholders. Moreover, exploring novel incentive methods to motivate end-users to participate in the CECC infrastructure. Finally, providing detailed requirements of the AC3 use-cases.

Dissemination Communication and Exploitation (D-C-E) plans

Initial version D-C-E plans and mapping of stakeholders.

Report on data management for applications in CECC – Initial

Initial report on the data management mechanisms adopted in AC3 allowing application developers to handle data life cycle.

Report on the application LCM in the CEC – Initial

Initial report on mechanisms to ease application LCM in the CEC, including solutions related to SLA and intent models, application profile models, and stateful service migration

Security and trust management for CECC - Initial

Initial report detailing the security and trust management mechanisms and tools and enablers.

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan - Initial

Initial Data management plan

Data Management Plan - Intermediate

Second Version of the Data Management Plan including the generated datasets from test and trials.

Veröffentlichungen

Conference proceedings (23)

XAI-enabled fine granular vertical resources autoscaler

Autoren: Mekki, Mohamed; Brik, Bouziane; Ksentini, Adlen; Verikoukis, Christos
Veröffentlicht in: 2023 IEEE 9th International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2023, ISSN 2693-9789
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NetSoft57336.2023.10175438

Dynamic Intelligence Placement for Real-Time Data Analytics in Smart Buildings

Autoren: Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Jhofre Ojeda, Kostas Ramantas, Themistoklis Sarantakos, Nikolaos Tsironis, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: 2026 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), 2026
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PERCOMWORKSHOPS68308.2026.11585252

A Unified Application Profile Model for Microservices-Based Applications in the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum

Autoren: Abdelhak Kadouma, Ibrahim Afolabi, Amit Shukla, Miloud Bagaa, Adlen Ksentini, Mohammed Elmusrati
Veröffentlicht in: 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349369

TimeTrack: A Dataset for Exploring Temporal Patterns and Predictive Insights into OpenAirInterface (OAI) CI/CD Cluster

Autoren: Meliani Abd Elghani, Arora Sagar, Adlen Ksentini, Raymond Knopp
Veröffentlicht in: ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICC52391.2025.11161298

Dynamic deployment prediction and configuration in hybrid cloud / edge computing environments using influence-based learning

Autoren: Chrysostomos Symvoulidis , Athanasios Kiourtis, Argyro Mavrogioroug, Jean-Didier Totow Tom-Ata, George Manias, Dimosthenis Kyriazis
Veröffentlicht in: 2023 10th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI), 2023, ISBN 979-8-3503-0686-6
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EECSI59885.2023.10295768

Technology Infrastructure for energy aware: supporting the use of green energy

Autoren: Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla
Veröffentlicht in: El papel de las universidades en los objetivos de desarrollo sostenible: innovación docente y experiencias significativas // The Role of Universities in Sustainable Development Goals: Educational Innovation and Meaningful Experiences, 2023, ISBN 978-84-09-55515-4
Herausgeber: Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Mapping stellar populations and star formation in nearby galaxies fromMEGADES: An AC3 project application

Autoren: Mario Chamorro-Cazorla, Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla, Armando Gil de Paz, África Castillo-Morales, J. Gallego and MEGADES Team
Veröffentlicht in: Sociedad Española de Astronomía Scientific Meeting, 2026
Herausgeber: Sociedad Española de Astronomía Scientific Meeting

"""Leveraging Interpretability in the Transformer to Automate the Proactive Scaling of Cloud Resources """

Autoren: Amadou Ba; Pavithra Harsha; Chitra Subramanian
Veröffentlicht in: AAAI-2025 Deployable AI Workshop, 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2409.03103

Future Workload and Cloud Resource Usage: Insights from an Interpretable Forecasting Model

Autoren: Amadou Ba
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BIGDATA62323.2024.10825137

SD-WAN for Cloud Edge Computing Continuum interconnection

Autoren: Ayoub Mokhtari, Adlen Ksentini
Veröffentlicht in: GLOBECOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2025, ISSN 2576-6813
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM52923.2024.10901751

Data Management Over Cloud Edge Continuum in the Context of AC³

Autoren: Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Dimitrios Klonidis, Adlen Ksentini, Vrettos Moulos, Souvik Sengupta, Nikolaos Tsironis, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942767

"""Harnessing Data Spaces to Build Intelligent Smart City Infrastructures Across the Cloud-Edge Continuum """

Autoren: Dimitrios Amaxilatis; Themistoklis Sarantakos; Nikolaos Tsironis; Souvik Sengupta; Kostas Ramantas; Jhofre Ojeda
Veröffentlicht in: IEEE NFV-SDN 2025, 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2512.21340

SDN-based L4S Congestion Control in Beyond 5G

Autoren: Sofiane Messaoudi, Adlen Ksentini, Franck Messaoudi, Christian Bonnet
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), 2024, ISSN 2325-5609
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/HPSR62440.2024.10636004

Filling in the Blanks: Applying Data Imputation in incomplete Water Metering Data

Autoren: Dimitrios Amaxilatis; Themistoklis Sarantakos; Ioannis Chatzigiannakis; Georgios Mylonas
Veröffentlicht in: 10th IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2506.08882

Real-Time Machine Learning-Based IoT Data Analysis in the Edge Cloud Continuum Using AC³

Autoren: Jhofre Ojeda, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Nikolaos Tsironis, Themistoklis Sarantakos, João Fonseca, Gereziher Adhane, Golshan Famitafreshi, Swastika Roy, Shreya K. Chari, Navideh Ghafouri, Kostas Ramantas, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942957

Causal Latency Modelling for Cloud Microservices

Autoren: Christopher Lohse, Diego Tsutsumi, Amadou Ba, Pavithra Harsha, Chitra Subramanian, Martin Straesser, Marco Ruffini
Veröffentlicht in: 2025 IEEE 18th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD67622.2025.00024

Scalable and Distributed Processing of 3D Astronomical Data Cubes for Galaxy Evolution Studies Using the AC3 Framework

Autoren: Mario Chamorro-Cazorla, Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla, Ray Carroll, Ben Capper, Ryan Jenkins
Veröffentlicht in: 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349539

Budget-Aware Resource Pricing in Cloud and Edge Computing Continuum

Autoren: Akram Boutouchent, Karim Boutiba, Adlen Ksentini
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM), 2024, ISSN 2165-963X
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/CNSM62983.2024.10814451

Security and Trust Management in Cloud Edge Continuum: AC³ Project Approach

Autoren: Sofiane Messaoudi, Abd-Elghani Meliani, Ayoub Mokhtari, Adlen Ksentini
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942825

"""Distributed processing of Integral Field Spectroscopy data within the European AC3 Project """

Autoren: Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla
Veröffentlicht in: XVI Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.13914767

AI-Native CECC Management architecture: Enabling Scalable and Intelligent Cloud-Edge Computing

Autoren: Abd Elghani Meliani, Adlen Ksentini, Mekki Mohamed, Abdelhak Kadouma, Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Amadou Ba, Eduardo Ojeda Coronado, John Beredimas, Vrettos Mouloss, Souvik Sengupta, Dimitris Klonidis, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: 2025 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software-Defined Networking (NFV-SDN), 2025
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/NFV-SDN66355.2025.11349565

Bridging Cognitive Computing with Multi-Cloud Integration

Autoren: Souvik Sengupta, Ali Nikoukar, Maria Barros Weiss, Sara Madariaga, Asimakis Lykourgiotis, Athanasios Kordelas, John Beredimas
Veröffentlicht in: 2024 IEEE 29th International Workshop on Computer Aided Modeling and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD), 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CAMAD62243.2024.10942944

Proof of concept: the potential of Use Case 3 within the AC3 Project to process astronomy data

Autoren: Mario Chamorro-Cazorla; Cristina Catalán-Torrecilla; Ray Carroll; Ben Capper; Ryan Jenkins; Valeriia Shapoval
Veröffentlicht in: IEEE CAMAD 2024, 2024
Herausgeber: IEEE

Peer reviewed articles (5)

Optimizing service migration in AC3: A cache-aided, data-mobility-aware framework

Autoren: Jeffrey Redondo, Kostas Ramantas, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Ausgabe 254, 2026, ISSN 1084-8045
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.JNCA.2026.104547

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Autoren: Artemi Camps-Fariña, Mario Chamorro-Cazorla et al.
Veröffentlicht in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Herausgeber: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2511.04745

Resiliency focused proactive lifecycle management for stateful microservices in multi-cluster containerized environments

Autoren: Abd Elghani Meliani, Mohamed Mekki, Adlen Ksentini
Veröffentlicht in: Computer Communications, Ausgabe 236, 2025, ISSN 0140-3664
Herausgeber: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMCOM.2025.108111

MEGADES: MEGARA galaxy disc evolution survey

Autoren: M. Chamorro-Cazorla, A. Gil de Paz, A. Castillo-Morales, A. Camps-Fariña, J. Gallego, E. Carrasco, J. Iglesias-Páramo, R. Cedazo, M. L. García-Vargas, S. Pascual, N. Cardiel, A. Pérez-Calpena, P. Gómez-Álvarez, I. Martínez-Delgado, C. Catalán-Torrecilla, J. Zamorano
Veröffentlicht in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Ausgabe 705, 2026, ISSN 0004-6361
Herausgeber: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202556147

A Tutorial on Cognitive Biases in Agentic AI-Driven 6G Autonomous Networks

Autoren: Hatim Chergui, Farhad Rezazadeh, Merouane Debbah, Christos Verikoukis
Veröffentlicht in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Ausgabe 7, 2026, ISSN 2644-125X
Herausgeber: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2026.3692946

Other (1)

Containerized Spectral Analysis in a Federated Cloud-Edge Continuum: The AC3 Approach

Autoren: C. Catalán-Torrecilla, M. Chamorro-Cazorla, B. Capper, R. Carroll, and R. Jenkins
Veröffentlicht in: European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, 2026
Herausgeber: European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting

Book chapters (1)

Edge-Based Federated Learning Methods for Remaining Useful Life Estimation in IIoT

Autoren: Dimitrios Amaxilatis, Sarantis Papachristofilou, Christos Zaroliagis
Veröffentlicht in: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing, 2025
Herausgeber: Springer Nature Switzerland
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-94677-6_6