PhD Project 1 (TTT)

Fog Node: virtualization and wired communication

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Host: TTTech, Austria, Research & Development Center.

• Main supervisor: Dr. Wilfried Steiner, wilfried.steiner@tttech.com (contact person)

Requirements:

• Mandatory requirements for all PhD positions
• Please contact the main supervisor for additional requirements

Objectives:

1. Design a reference architecture for Fog Nodes for industrial automation and robotics use cases.
2. Develop deterministic virtualization solutions based on hypervisors and dynamic separation kernels, that minimize the interference of mixed-criticality applications on each other.

Note: the project will develop further TTTech’s Nerve Fog Node architecture.

Expected Results:

• Fog Node reference architecture, allowing the execution of applications with differing requirements, in particular in the domains of real-time response, safety, and security, and equipped with advanced networking capabilities to interact with the environment through sensors and actuators as well as to interact with remote Cloud facilities.
• Deterministic virtualization solutions based on hypervisors and separation kernels, that minimize the interference of mixed-criticality applications on each other, considering the interaction of the virtualization solutions and networking.
• Prototype implementations concept Fog Nodes.
• Evaluation of the prototypes on concrete use cases available to TTT.

Planned visits and collaboration:

• TUKL (Prof. Gerhard Fohler): Designing the Fog Node APIs to allow the integration of services such as the scheduling servers from TUKL.

Description:

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Relevant publications:

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