Advanced Network Architectures Lab
The Advanced Network Architectures Laboratory supports the activities of the CRAAX research group, formally created in 2009 when it was recognized as an official research group by the Generalitat de Catalunya.
The CRAAX research group builds a multidisciplinary team, made up of professors and researchers from the Computer Architecture and Mathematics Departments at the UPC, as well as researchers from the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, all with a long history of research activities in the last 20 years.
The main objectives of CRAAX are high quality research, student training and technology transfer. To this end, CRAAX members actively participate in research projects and contracts with companies in the sector, both nationally and internationally, which results in a large number of scientific contributions and technology transfer activities.
Research activities carried out in the laboratory, usually in close collaboration with industry, set the right stage for PhD candidates to engage in real, close-to-market, potentially high-impact, innovative research.
Services it offers
- Authentication of IoT devices and users in highly dispersed and mobile environments
- Predictive Maintenance tool for complex ICT systems
- System modeling tool (digital twin)
- Cloud continuum management system
Project Hook
Challenge: The unstoppable proliferation of new computing technologies and sensing devices, and the ever-increasing demand for data-intensive applications at the edge and in the cloud, are driving a paradigm shift in computing around a dynamic, intelligent and at the same time seamless interconnection of IoT, Edge and cloud resources in a single computer system to form a continuum. Many research initiatives have focused on deploying some kind of management plan aimed at properly managing the continuum. At the same time, there are several solutions aimed at managing edge and cloud systems that do not adequately address all the challenges of the continuum. The next step is undoubtedly the design of an extended, open, secure, adaptable, technology-agnostic and much more comprehensive management strategy that covers the entire continuum, i.e. IoT-to-edge-to -cloud, leveraging outside the -Interpreter technologies (eg AI, DLT, data, etc.), but also open to accommodate new services as technology advances.
Solution: The HOOK proposal maps this key objective into 4 main critical conceptual aspects for proper continuum management:
i) Facilitate the transparent operation of the devices and technology of the entire infrastructure of the diverse and heterogeneous continuum;
ii) Enable ad hoc on-demand development of the continuum infrastructure to adapt to dynamic data demands, as well as deployment of AI-based edge services;
iii) Consider cyber security as a guarantee throughout the continuum, and;
iv) Create an open platform that facilitates the sharing of resources, models, data and services, increasing the impact on society and promoting new business models (activities, training, knowledge) in the area of the continuum.
Equipment
- Management of edge/cloud environments: Service optimization tool that allows the distribution of the different tasks within the set of resources between the device and the cloud
- Authentication of users and IoT devices: Blockchain-based tool that allows authentication of users and IoT systems, particularly useful when working in highly mobile environments
- Modeling by digital twin: A tool that facilitates the modeling of systems, currently defined in a preliminary phase by humans
- Smart City Testbed: Allows the development and evaluation of services deployed in an emulated Smart City environment
- Predictive Maintenance: Tool that allows advanced detection of AI-based attacks
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