Pilot 1

Overview

Pilot 1 is a critical part of the ELASTIC project, aimed at validating the developed framework in real-world scenarios. This pilot will demonstrate the practical application and benefits of the ELASTIC technologies, focusing on an IoT data fabric as a native 6G infrastructure capability.

Objectives

The primary objective of Pilot 1 is to validate the ELASTIC framework in a smart manufacturing use case. This involves deploying portable modules developed using Wasm/eBPF technologies across various nodes, ensuring secure runtimes and their attestation status, and constructing user-friendly processing pipelines. The pilot will also investigate how data-processing optimizations can be identified from observed metrics and provide recommendations to improve efficiency.

 

Key Tasks and Activity

Specification of Demonstrators for Testing and Validation

  • Task Lead: ZEN
  • Participants: TUC, ERF, THD, THS, ERS
  • Description: This task involves specifying the demonstrators for validating the developed solutions based on WebAssembly, TEE-enabled Confidential Computing, and eBPF with XDP for service orchestration in distributed environments. It includes defining pilot workflows, identifying relevant components and infrastructure, and preparing a validation plan with specific evaluation criteria and KPIs​.

 

Setup Orchestration Infrastructure and Confidential Computing Testbed

  • Task Lead: UVC
  • Participants: THD, ERF, ERS
  • Description: Setting up and operating a cloud computing testbed incorporating both private and public cloud resources. This task ensures that the necessary infrastructure is available for hosting the demonstrators, considering specific hardware, software, network, and other resource requirements​.

 

Demonstrator 1: An IoT Data Fabric as a Native 6G Infrastructure Capability

  • Task Lead: ERF
  • Participants: ERS, TUC, IME, UVC, ZEN
  • Description: Validating the ELASTIC framework in a smart manufacturing use case by constructing a processing pipeline to deploy portable modules across various nodes. This task includes evaluating secure runtimes, discovering portable functions, constructing pipelines, converting user designs to machine-readable workflow instructions, and optimizing data processing based on observed metrics​.

Expected Outcomes

  • Validation of ELASTIC Framework: Successful deployment and validation of ELASTIC technologies in a real-world smart manufacturing scenario.
  • Enhanced Efficiency and Security: Demonstrating the efficiency and security of Wasm/eBPF technologies and TEE-enabled Confidential Computing in an IoT data fabric context.
  • User-Friendly Processing Pipelines: Development of user and developer-friendly ways to construct and optimize processing pipelines using the ELASTIC orchestration capabilities.
  • Recommendations for Data Processing Optimizations: Providing actionable insights and recommendations based on observed metrics to improve the efficiency of data processing operations.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Resource Utilization Efficiency: Improve the resource utilization of the deployed IoT data fabric by 50% compared to scenarios where ELASTIC is not used.
  • Faster Attack Detection: Reduce the monitoring, attack detection, and analysis time by at least 25% compared to the event processing latency in the absence of ELASTIC.
  • Network Workload Performance: Enhance the performance of current network workload processing technologies by at least 2x through the incorporation of novel ELASTIC high-speed and secure communication algorithms.
  • Security Data Analysis: Implement efficient mechanisms for analyzing and understanding security and privacy data within the serverless ecosystem using diverse ELASTIC instantiations.

     

    Pilot 1 plays a crucial role in demonstrating the practical applications and benefits of the ELASTIC project, ensuring that the developed technologies are robust, efficient, and ready for deployment in future 6G networks.