The results of the first eighteen months of the ARCADIA H2020- project have been successfully demonstrated during the first project review on 9th of September at the European Commission in Brussels. These results include the first release of the ARCADIA Framework, consisting of the ARCADIA Orchestrator (called Smart Controller) and the ARCADIA Development toolkit. Through the ARCADIA Development Toolkit, the software developer is able to design and develop reconfigurable-by-design applications. Through the ARCADIA Orchestrator, a Service Provider is able to deploy and manage reconfigurable-by-design applications over programmable infrastructure, by enforcing in parallel a set of defined policies.
UBITECH, with the role of technical coordinator of the project, was actively involved in the design of the overall framework and the implementation of a set of components consisting the ARCADIA Orchestrator as well as the ARCADIA Development Toolkit. Indicatively, UBITECH developed the Policies Enforcement and Optimisation Engine, the Deployment and Execution Manager, the set of Monitoring mechanisms, the Overlay Networking mechanisms, as well as the set of Repositories for storing the developed components, applications and policies and the ARCADIA Dashboard. Work in progress regards the development of the Resource Manager and a set of virtual functions that can be enabled in an automated manner (e.g. load balancer supporting horizontal scalability characteristics).
A video highlighting the main features of the ARCADIA Framework implemented by UBITECH is available here.
