NebulOus

In the realms of cloud and fog computing brokerage, it’s important to introduce advanced methods and tools. This is the aim of the EU-funded NebulOus project. NebulOus will enable secure and optimal application provisioning and reconfiguration over the cloud computing continuum. Specifically, it will develop a novel Meta Operating System and platform for enabling transient fog brokerage ecosystems that seamlessly exploit edge and fog nodes. This will be in conjunction with multi-cloud resources, to cope with the requirements posed by low latency applications

The envisaged NebulOus solution includes the following main directions of work:
i. Development of appropriate modelling methods and tools for describing the cloud computing continuum, application requirements, and data streams; these methods and tools will be used for assuring the QoS of the provisioned brokered services.
ii. Efficient comparison of available offerings, using appropriate multi-criteria decision-making methods that are able to consider all dimensions of consumer requirements.
iii. Intelligent applications, workflows and data streams management in the cloud computing continuum.
iv. Addressing in a unified manner the security aspects emerging in of transient cloud computing continuums (e.g. access control, secure network overlay etc.).
v. Conducting and monitoring smart contracts-based service level agreements.