UBITECH participates in the “First International Workshop on Programmability for Cloud Networks and Applications” (PROCON 2016), which is held in conjunction with the ITC 28 in Würzburg, technically co-sponsored by IEEE and VDE ITG, and in cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, and supported and initiated by the two EC H2020 projects INPUT and ARCADIA, with a paper introducing a Novel Reconfigurable-by-Design Highly Distributed Applications (HDAs) Development Paradigm over Programmable Infrastructure. The proposed framework relies on the development of an extensible Context Model which will be used by developers to produce annotated source-code and generate HDAs as service chains of application tiers and network functions containing meaningful semantics. A Smart Controller responsible for on-boarding the HDAs will undertake the tasks of translating annotations to optimal infrastructural configuration. Such a controller will enforce an optimal configuration to the registered programmable resources and will pro-actively adjust the configuration plan based on the Infrastructural State and the Application State to meet objectives and apply policies. Driving a HDA through its entire lifetime proves highly beneficial for all stakeholders since the synergy of the introduced applications’ reconfigurability and the underlying infrastructure’s programmability, facilitates the development of new fine-grained strategies able to fulfil new and complex requirements.
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