Host Welcome

Vikram Venkataraghavan

Open Remarks

Jim Xu (Deactivated) TSC Chair, LFEdge General Board Member

Oleg Berzin TSC Co-Chair

Keynotes from LFEdge

Tina Tsou (Deactivated) Board Chair, LF Edge 

K8s Edge storage with Lightbits and Sherlock

Abstract: In this talk, we will use Sherlock, an open source performance framework to run and stress databases on K8s (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLserver and MongoDB). The Lightbits CSI driver is utilizing NVMe/TCP as the transport. NVMe over TCP was added to the Linux kernel in version 4.10 and has been maintained by a growing community of developers from various companies. For the storage part we will use Lightbits software to create the fastest possible software defined storage solution for K8s.

Sagy Volkov, Distinguished Performance Architect, Lightbits

Daniil Egranov System Architect, Arm

BIO: Daniil Egranov is a System Architect in the Arm Architecture Technology Group. He is part of the Infrastructure Security Team and working on platform and firmware security architectures. His main focus is researching security solutions for cloud and edge platforms.  

Imran Yusuf, Director Hardware Ecosystem, Arm

Cilium introduction and improvement

Jiang Wang, Linux Kernel Engineer, Bytedance

Abstract: 

Cilium is a eBPF based open source software for Kubernetes and Docker containers. By using eBPF, Cilium can achieve a very high scale with low overhead. In this talk, we will first introduce eBPF and then Cilium networking functions. We will also discuss SNAT and Direct Server Return (DSR) modes and how to improve DSR.

BIO: Jiang Wang is a Linux Kernel Engineer of System Technologies and Engineering team at ByteDance. He has been working on Linux Kernel for more than 10 years. He works in various areas for upstreaming Linux, including security, virtualization and networking. His recent work involves eBPF and Cilium.

Panel: ORAN at Edge, Where we are now, and will be in the future?

Moderator: Sunil Chinnaraju (Synopsis)

Panelists: Keesang Song (AMD), Sukhdev Kapur (Juniper), Joe Madden (Mobile Experts)

ORAN

Abstract: 

By disaggregating RAN deployments, 5G presents great opportunities as well challenges to build disaggregated multi-vendor solutions. ORAN Alliance is standardizing the orchestration and management of RAN networks so that vendors can comply with these standards to build standardized multi-vendor solutions. 

In this talk I will give a brief overview of activities in ORAN working groups and somewhat details about the Service Management Orchestration (SMO) and ORAN Cloud (O-Cloud)

Sukhdev Kapur Senior Distinguished Engineer, Juniper

BIO: Sukhdev Kapur is Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks. He is part of CTO organization and is driving the Contrail architecture, 5G, Edge, and Cloud Native initiatives. Sukhdev is a networking veteran with over 20 years experience in highly available distributed systems, cloud computing, virtualization, disaster recovery, policy based mobile workloads management, and software defined networks. He has held architectural positions in Arista Networks, F5, Cisco, Alteon, and others. He holds several patents in cloud computing, hierarchical data center deployments, cloud based disaster recovery, high availability, data center fabric automation,  etc.

AnyLog: A Micro-services based Data Fabric for Decentralized Data and Applications

Abstract: 
AnyLog’s platform is an open, virtual data fabric that unifies the vast amounts of Edge data and makes it appear like it is stored in a centralized cloud database. By keeping data decentralized and at the Edge, real-time applications and Edge AI become possible; and companies can derive meaningful insights from their data. AnyLog’s software architecture inherently supports horizontal scaling and virtualization to provide a unified view of the distributed data. AnyLog’s fully automated solution and standard APIs eliminate the need for proprietary solutions and professional services at the Edge. 

Flavio Bonomi, CTO, AnyLog

Bio: 
Flavio Bonomi is a visionary entrepreneur and an innovator with expertise spanning from low level silicon to the broad level of distributed and cyber-physical systems. Until recently, Flavio Bonomi was Board Advisor to Lynx Software Technologies. Prior to Lynx, he was the Founder and CEO/CTO at Nebbiolo Technologies, a startup delivering the first complete Fog/Edge Computing software platform for the Industrial Automation market. Flavio spent 14 years at Cisco Systems and, as a Cisco Fellow and VP, he led the vision and technology initiatives for Cisco’s forward looking work. 

Vehicle Computing: Vision and Challenges

Abstract: Vehicles have been majorly used for transportation in the last century. With the proliferation of onboard computing and communication capabilities, we envision that future connected vehicle (CVs) will be serving as a mobile computing platform in addition to their conventional transportation role for the next century. In this article, we present the vision of Vehicle Computing, i.e., CVs are the perfect computation platforms, and connected devices/things with limited computation capacities can rely on surrounding CVs to perform complex computational tasks. We also discuss Vehicle Computing from several aspects, including several key and enabling technologies, case studies, open challenges, and the potential business model. 

Weisong Shi, Professor, IEEE Fellow

Robotics Edge HPC - Human safety and emergency commands are utmost priority for robot operation. Achieving reliable voice command response in mobile / SWaP-constrained robots – in the presence of servo motor noise, background conversations and sounds, and intermittent Internet dropout – requires high performance computing under severe size and power constraints. Noise removal, false positive resilience, variability in human commands, and personnel / proprietary sound privacy requirements pose difficult challenges. At the same time robots must utilize cloud connectivity for essential microservices (e.g. non-real-time such as location, coordination with other robots), containerization, orchestration, and maintenance telemetry. For the CPS Robot SSES Blueprint, Signalogic is adding 20,000 word vocabulary onboard ASR (automatic speech recognition) to demonstrate the onboard HPC approach

Jeff Brower, Signalogic

Introduction of Nephio

Kandan Kathirvel Product Lead - Telco Cloud & Orchestration, Google

BIO: An established industry leader in delivering results in Product development, technology & telecommunications solutions, across strategy, and research & innovation with 20+ years of Telecommunications, Cloud & Datacenter experience. Former Akraino TSC Chair.

Host Welcome

Practice and Thinking of CFN (Computing Force Network) in China Mobile

Abstract: Introduces the new concept, new goal and vision of China Mobile's Computing Force Network (CFN), as well as including China Mobile's research progress and practice in multi-cloud management, ubiquitous computing force scheduling etc.

Yanjun Chen

hanyu ding

PCIe Net enable Object Storage at Edge

As the edge computing prevailing, the number of edge clusters are growing in million scales. The traditional mega data center with millions servers located in one site evolve to millions of small clusters worldwide. Hence we need a new solution not only account for this architecture shift, but also for energy constrains.

In this talk, we will introduce a novel PCIe-based system-level interconnect model and arm based micro-server cluster to make clusters more compact and energy-saving. As the practical application, we use object storage as an example and show how well the energy efficiency this architecture can achieve.

Keywords: PCIe Net, object storage, micro-server cluster, edge computing.

Bio: Dr. Fu Li (LEO) Fu Li
the pioneer of cloud native application on PCIe-based networking system. Dr. Fu Li comes with experience on cloud computing, HPC, named-data networking and system-level architecting and algorithm optimization.

China Unicom's 5G MEC and Private Network Practices

Abstract: China Unicom's practices on MEC and 5G Private Network will be introduced.

Rong Huang

OpenStack at the Edge

Ildiko Senior Manager Community & Ecosystem, Open Infrastructure Foundation

BIO: As a senior manager I have a strong strategic mindset with an attention to detail and over 10 years of experience in technical leadership. An experienced speaker, I have been on stage in front of thousands of people, work with media and analysts, create strategic content for blogs and articles and can address both executives and developers at their level.

Highlights of LF Edge/Akraino Cloud Game White Paper

Davy ZhangY-semi Computing

Break (Lunch time at APAC)

NextArch at the Edge

Cloud-native infra on edge clouds

Modern computing workloads are moving to the edge (eg CDN or MEC networks) to achieve better performance and security. However, traditional cloud native toolchains and architecture are too heavy and too slow for edge cloud’s resource constraints and performance requirements. WebAssembly is emerging as a secure, lightweight, high performance, and Kubernetes-compatible sandbox for edge-based microservices.

Streaming functions

A typical IoT edge application consists of data streams from devices or other sources, and a time series database for data storage and analysis. A streaming function intercepts the data stream, processes each data point, and then decides the next actions (eg to save to DB or to raise an alert). It allows streaming data to be processed on the fly.

Edge AI

Edge data often needs to be processed locally or on the close edge for performance and security. Edge functions could apply AI models for inference on heterogeneous hardware (eg GPU, NPU, TPU and AI accelerator chips) on edge devices or edge cloud nodes.

Realtime Collaboration on Web

HTTP/3 and WebTransport protocol enables presence events with real-time synchronization, implements decentralized collaboration features on browser.

Speakers:

 Michael Yuan, Founder & CEO of SecondState, Maintainer of WasmEdge Runtime. https://github.com/WasmEdge/WasmEdge

C.C. Fan, Founder & CEO of AllegroCloud, Maintainer of YoMo, https://github.com/yomorun/yomo

Akraino Release 7 Planning

Jim Xu (Deactivated)

Akraino  TSC Chair, LFEdge Board Member

Principal Engineer, Zenlayer Inc.

Akraino Subcommittee Annual Report

Jeff Brower, Signalogic

Akraino API subcommittee chair, TSC member

Where the Edges Meet, Infra Forms, Apps Land and Work Flows: Overview of the Public Cloud Edge Interface (PCEI) blueprint and the MEC Federation solution based on PCEI for ETSI - LF Edge Hackathon 2022.

The PCEI blueprint provides the multi-domain orchestrator to enable infrastructure orchestration and cloud native application deployment across public clouds (core and edge), edge clouds, interconnection providers and network operators. The notable innovations in PCEI are the integration of Terraform as a microservice to enable DevOps driven Infrastructure-as-Code provisioning, integration of Ansible as a microservice to enable automation of configuration of infrastructure resources (e.g., servers) and deployment of Kubernetes and its critical components (e.g., CNIs) on the edge cloud, and introduction of a workflow engine to manage the stages and parameter exchange for infrastructure orchestration and application deployment as part of a composable workflow. PCEI can help simplify the process of multi-domain orchestration by enabling uniform representation of diverse services, features, attributes, and APIs used in individual domains as resources and data in the code that can be written by developers and executed by the orchestrator, effectively making the infrastructure orchestration across multiple domains DevOps-driven.

Oleg Berzin Distinguished Engineer, Office of the CTO, Equinix

BIO: 

Oleg Berzin received his Ph.D. from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Berzin worked at Verizon for 20 years, where he held technology leadership roles, including development of the 4G LTE network and capabilities for enterprise mobile and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services. Oleg is currently a Distinguished Engineer, Technology and Architecture at the Office of the CTO at Equinix, where he is responsible for development of innovation strategies and architectures and prototypes in the areas of Mobile and Fixed Edge Infrastructures, Internet of Things, Next Generation Interconnection and Networking, Virtualization, and Network Automation. Oleg is proud to hold Lifetime Emeritus status for his three CCIE certifications (R&S, WAN Switching, SP). He is honored to be serving as Co-chair of the Linux Foundation Edge Akraino Technical Steering Committee and as Project Technical Lead of the Linux Foundation Akraino Public Cloud Edge Interface blueprint.

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