Friday, 3/31/2017
The High Assurance
Software Laboratory (HASLab) of the EEUM is starting a new European project focusing
on computing in edge networks. The project will run until the end of 2019.
LightKone, Lightweight Computation
for Networks at the Edge, is the new European project featuring INESC TEC. Represented
by the HASLab of the EEUM, the project aims to develop a scientifically solid
and validated model to perform distributed computing in edge networks.
These edge networks consist of a set of nodes situated at the end of a
connection network. Some examples of these networks are those including mobile
devices and personal computers. Internet applications are increasingly running
on edge networks to reduce latency, increase scalability, resilience, and
security, and permit local decision making.
Researchers
working in this area have identified a few problems and LightKone will try to
solve them using two scientific advances in distributed computing. More
specifically, the researchers will use free synchronisation programming models
and hybrid models to disseminate data, in order to create a natural combination
on the edge network, which will ultimately lead to new scientifically tested
programming
models and algorithms that will be implemented in industrial environments
and evaluated in large-scale systems.
The research team includes, among others, Carlos Baquero, Paulo Sérgio
Almeida, José Bacelar Almeida and José Proença (professors from the Department
of Informatics of the EEUM), Georges Younes (student of the Doctoral Programme
in Informatics MAP-i), Vítor Duarte (student of the Integrated Master programme
in Informatics Engineering) and also Ali Shoker, Hugo Pacheco e João Silva (researchers
from the HASLab).
The LightKone will last until the end of 2019 and will receive a total
of €3.5M from the European Commission. The kick-off meeting took place on 24th
and 25th January 2017 at the Université Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium.
+ info: http://haslab.uminho.pt/
