Cloud-Edge Use Cases The Cloud-Edge Use Cases Working Group deals with use cases and applications that could take advantage of the continuum, such as Mobility, Transport and Travel, Energy, Manufacturing and Industry 4.0/5.0, Health, Infrastructures, Smart Buildings & Cities, Tourism & Cultural Heritage, Agriculture & Environment, and Media. This Working Group will contribute to the initial roll-out of next generation use cases as part of a first industrial deployment with European wide scale, showcasing data processing in different sectors to verify functionality, high scalability, interoperability, portability, interconnectivity and compatibility.

AI for Cloud-Edge The AI for Cloud-Edge Working Group works on Meta-orchestration, federation of multi-cloud, IaaS, integration monitoring etc. of continuum, everything about OS and virtualization, containers, hypervisors, virtual networks, virtual storage. The scope will extend to services for serverless services spanning edge-cloud-HPC, service management, application lifecycle orchestration, data services and to the development of infrastructure related services to run on the multi-provider cloud-edge continuum is the basis for real time data services with ultra-low latency and the load balancing for optimised utilization. This will enable sorting, interpreting and prioritizing the storage and processing capabilities of large amounts of data in advance as close as possible to the place of origin and/or consumption of that data.

Cloud-Edge for AI The Cloud-Edge for AI Working Group works on Dataspaces, Data exchange (advanced capabilities), AI tools for FL and lifecycle of AI models, support data-driven applications, digital twins, application deployment, things that need to run on a cloud-edge infrastructure, require complex orchestration, identity and observability across multi-provider continuum. Furthermore, the scope of the WG consists in providing integrated services such as application lifecycle management to build, deploy and maintain apps all over the cloud-edge continuum – platform services -; data management to ease data ingestion, transformation and analysis in a multi-provider, federated environment in accordance with European regulation – data platform; and innovative data processing leveraging AI and ML – smart processing services.

Telco Cloud-Edge The Working Group on Telco Cloud-Edge deals with Open reference architectures for open cloud and edge infrastructure, standards for data centers, AI-based predictive maintenance of datacenters and cloud & edge infrastructure, networking, time synchronization, requirements across providers, security, automated operations, APIs for bare-metal as a service. Furthermore, it will work on optimized data centre design for cloud and edge, advanced simulation and prediction capabilities , security and accessibility of physical infrastructure, open hardware, operating systems, operation management & monitoring, connectivity, network orchestration with multi-cloud orchestration, edge infrastructure deployment, network functions at the edge, connectivity between cloud and edge, edge connectivity at scale. The Working Group will contribute to the setting up of an appropriate and supported next generation infrastructure to manage the technological complexity of the meshed continuum. Lastly, its aim is to develop and set up physical and logical linking of networks including integrated smart network services for the cloud-edge continuum. This will enable the entire network to combine cloud-edge computing processes and data transfer throughout the EU.