Nephele
A LIGHTWEIGHT SOFTWARE STACK AND SYNERGETIC META-ORCHESTRATION FRAMEWORK FOR THE NEXT GENERATION COMPUTE CONTINUUM
Full project details (EU Research results portal): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101070487
Project description:
The vision of NEPHELE is to enable the efficient, reliable and secure end-to-end orchestration of hyper-distributed applications over programmable infrastructure that is spanning across the compute continuum from Cloud-to-Edge-to-IoT, removing existing openness and interoperability barriers in the convergence of IoT technologies against cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, and introducing automation and decentralized intelligence mechanisms powered by 5G and distributed AI technologies.The NEPHELE project aims to introduce two core innovations, namely: (i) an IoT and edge computing software stack for leveraging virtualization of IoT devices at the edge part of the infrastructure and supporting openness and interoperability aspects in a device-independent way. Through this software stack, management of a wide range of IoT devices and platforms can be realised in a unified way, avoiding the usage of middleware platforms, while edge computing functionalities can be offered on demand to efficiently support IoT applications’ operations.(ii) a synergetic meta-orchestration framework for managing the coordination between cloud and edge computing orchestration platforms, through high-level scheduling supervision and definition, based on the adoption of a “system of systems” approach.The NEPHELE outcomes are going to be demonstrated, validated and evaluated in a set of use cases across various vertical industries, including areas such as disaster management, logistic operations in ports, energy management in smart buildings and remote healthcare services. Two successive open calls will also take place, while a wide open-source community is envisaged to be created for supporting the NEPHELE outcomes.
EuroVoc IDs: /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/internet/internet of things
EU Programme: Horizon Europe
EU Project
Project publications:
| EU Project | Has Title | Has Category | Has Type | Has Year | Has DOI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NEPHELE | Data Management and Exchange between a Meta-Orchestration Platform and Data Spaces | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1145/3685651.3686698 |
| NEPHELE | Virtual On-board Unit Migration in a Multi-access Smart-Campus 5G Architecture. | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10625002 | |
| NEPHELE | A. Securing Authentication and Authorization in Computing Continuum | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15275068 |
| NEPHELE | Nephele - Remote Healthcare Services, Ultrasound Medical Device Dematerialization | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16902436 |
| NEPHELE | Open Source approach in two metaOS projects | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.1145/3721889.3721930 |
| NEPHELE | Dynamic Schedule Computation for Time-Aware Shaper in Converged IoT-Cloud Environments | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10991840 |
| NEPHELE | Distributed multi-robot exploration approach with connectivity maintenance | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16941308 |
| NEPHELE | IRIS: Interference and Resource Aware Predictive Orchestration for ML Inference Serving | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8135715 |
| NEPHELE | The NEPHELE Meta-Orchestration Approach for Distributed Applications in the Computing Continuum | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17223325 | |
| NEPHELE | Dynamic Management of Wireless Sensor Networks using Virtual Objects and a Rule Engine | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16940420 |
| NEPHELE | Future Generation Computer Systems | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Peer reviewed articles | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.10620887 | |
| NEPHELE | Intent-Driven Distributed Applications Management Over Compute and Network Resources in the Computing Continuum | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10620928. |
| NEPHELE | Joint Placement and Scheduling for Time-Sensitive Applications in Edge Computing | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.15813486 |
| NEPHELE | A Multi-Tenant System for 5/6G Testbed as-a-Service | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10654015 |
| NEPHELE | TinyReptile: TinyML with Federated Meta-Learning | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191845 |
| NEPHELE | Multi-Robot Exploration via Flocking Coordination and Machine Learning-Driven Connectivity Assessment | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16941232 |
| NEPHELE | Overlay_dx - Automating forecasting evaluation | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17053604 |
| NEPHELE | A Fuzzy Based Approach for Managing Smart Edge-Enhanced IoT Devices in Mission-Critical Applications | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2025 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.16940448 |
| NEPHELE | A Lightweight Software Stack for IoT Interoperability within the Computing Continuum | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2023 | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10620911 |
| NEPHELE | B5G/6G Cyber Security Testbed | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17393071 | |
| NEPHELE | Palindrome. js: 3D monitoring for distributed systems visual analysis | Cloud, Edge, and Continuum Computing | Conference proceedings | 2024 | https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.17053326 |