Federation of distributed domains in the Cloud-Edge-IoT Continuum

The realization of the Cloud-Edge-IoT continuum is a vibrant field of research that promises to integrate heterogeneous and dispersed computing elements as an integrated piece to achieve an efficient distribution of containerized workloads. Among the unresolved challenges, some stand out, such as the homogeneous and ubiquitous sharing of the current state of the resources, or the dynamic handling of underlying network complexities. This paper tackles both problems by proposing a mix of theoretical and technological implementation approach departing from the investigations undertaken in the Horizon Europe project aerOS. A lightweight solution is formulated based on the federation of distributed domains drawing on the establishment of peer-to-peer connections between computing nodes.