TNA Offer

The TNA projects can be related to the various activities carried out at UNIBO-DISI. The UNIBO-DISI focuses on middleware for advanced and mobile distributed systems exploiting the cloud continuum concept. In particular, the lab performs research activities on orchestration of virtualized networking, computing, and storage resources for wired-wireless integrated environments with 5G, WiFi6, and ZigBee network segments. One of the main focus is the investigation and development of novel ML techniques for advanced resource allocation and dynamic monitoring/control/reconfiguration in order to properly manage QoS indicators. Further more, at UNIBO-DISI there are 2 testbeds that can be used by the TNA visitor. The first allows the researchers to experiment network management techniques and big data analytics for Industry4.0 scenarios by exploiting a real mini manufactoring factory. The testbed includes 3D printing machines (polymers, metal, ...), stations for polishing, finishing, and metrology of produced items, robotic arms, Autonomous Ground Vehicles, industrial gateways, industrial cloud, and heterogeneous wired/wireless connectivity. Of central interest for our research group, the testbed includes edge cloud nodes, a private 5G cell with MEC node capabilities, heterogeneous wireless links based on WiFi6, BT/BLE, and ZigBee, and some Time Sensitive Networking switches. Extensions of EdgeXFoundry are used and integrated as the basic sw support platform for the cloud continuum. The second allows the researchers to develop, deploy, experiment, and evaluate the performance of distributed cloud solutions for the 5G-enabled cloud continuum. A small local datacenter is integrated with industrial gateways and programmable network routers, as well as with 5G ETSI Multi-access Edge Computing nodes. Virtualized resource allocation, monitoring, control, reconfiguration, and management are relatively easy to be experimented thanks to the availability of our middleware for distributed resource orchestration, also with mobility-enabled quality of service management. Different types of containers are supported and integrated. QoS management in terms of latency and reliability requirements is performed also over heterogeneous networks in the cloud continuum, also by exploiting dynamically selected neywork acceleration techniques.