• SWITCH - Software Workbench for Interactive, Time Critical and Highly self-adaptive cloud applications
The Client : Evropska komisija ( SWITCH )
Project type: European projects
Project duration: 2015 - 2018
  • Description

The SWITCH project addresses the urgent industrial need for developing and executing time critical applications in Clouds. Time critical applications such as disaster early warning, collaborative communication and live event broadcasting can only realise their expected business value when they meet critical requirements for performance and user experience. The very high requirements on network and computing services, particularly for well-tuned software architecture with sophisticated data communication optimisation, mean that development of such time critical applications is often customised to dedicated infrastructure, and system performance is difficult to maintain when infrastructure changes. This fatal weakness in the existing architecture and software tools yields very high development cost, and makes it difficult fully to utilize the virtualised, programmable services provided by networked Clouds to improve system productivity. SWITCH aims at improving the existing development and execution model of time critical applications by introducing a novel conceptual model: application-infrastructure co-programming and control model, in which application Quality of Service (QoS)/Quality of Experience (QoE), together with the programmability and controllability of the Cloud environments, can all be included in the complete lifecycle of applications.

Based on this conceptual model SWITCH provides:

  1. a SWITCH Interactive Development Environment (DRIP) - an interactive environment for developing applications and controlling their execution,
  2. a Distributed Real-time Infrastructure Planner (DRIP) - a real-time infrastructure planner for deploying applications in Clouds, and
  3. an Autonomous System Adaptation Platform (ASAP) - for monitoring and adapting system behaviour.

The SWITCH consortium has well-balanced partners with complementary expertise from both academic and industrial backgrounds. By demonstrating the software using diverse use cases, the consortium specifically aims at exploitation of the business potential of the SWITCH results.

Collaborating Laboratories: Laboratory for Data Technologies

Project Coordinator: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

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