ICOS Continuum¶

The ICOS Continuum consist of on a set of logical components to better manage its complexity and analyse its design D2.2 - ICOS Design. Two types of ICOS Nodes have been identified:

• the ICOS Controller (responsible for managing the continuum and the run-time) and
• the ICOS Agent (responsible for executing offloaded users services).

The ICOS software (that will run on all the ICOS Nodes has been logically decomposed in multiple layers (concepts functionalities):

• The Distributed Meta-Kernel Layer responsible for the management of the Continuum and the Runtime Manager which is responsible for the execution of user's applications.

• The Security Layer responsible for guaranteeing the security aspects in a proactive way for all operations and at all levels: from devices and users authentication and authorisation to application behaviour anomaly detection and compliance enforcement.

• The Intelligence Layer responsible to provide artificial intelligence capabilities to ICOS operations and decisions like optimisation of application deployment and resources usage, suggestion of recovery actions and predictive analysis of monitoring data.

• The Data Management Layer: a horizontal component that will be used by the other layers to store, exchange, and process data within the system in a secure and distributed manner.

• The ICOS Shell Layer: responsible for exposing all the system functionalities to the users providing graphical and command line interfaces, management, and DevOps tools.

To explore ICOS Continuum read the following documentation: