Model-based approach for semantic-driven deployment of containerized applications to support future internet services and architectures

Due to increasing number of connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices, enormous amount of data needs to be transmitted to the Cloud for processing, while the network is becoming Cloud computing?s bottleneck. On the other side, the privacy and security issues in more sensitive application domains could dramatically restrict the freedom of data movement, so it is not possible to offload all the data to the Cloud for processing. Furthermore, the manual operations related to tuning and deployment of these applications are time-consuming and require additional effort. In this paper, a model-based framework for automated, semantic-driven (re-)deployment of containerized applications is presented, leveraging the synergy of Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) and SDN, tackling the mentioned issues.