| Title: |
Arena: a kubernetes-based testbed for evaluating application deployment across the computing continuum |
| Authors: |
Huang, Chih-Kai; Krouti, Konstantinos; Markopoulou, Stella; Tserpes, Konstantinos; Bouloukakis, Georgios |
| Contributors: |
Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris); Département Informatique (TSP - INF); Télécom SudParis (TSP); Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris); Architecture, Cloud continuum, formal Models, artificial intElligence and Services in distributed computing (ACMES-SAMOVAR); Services répartis, Architectures, MOdélisation, Validation, Administration des Réseaux (SAMOVAR); Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris)-Télécom SudParis (TSP); Télécom Paris; Institut Mines-Télécom Paris (IMT)-Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris); AEGIS IT Braunschweig; National Technical University of Athens (NTUA); Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Patras (ECE); University of Patras; IEEE; European Project: 101135775,HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT,HORIZON-CL4-2023-HUMAN-01-CNECT,PANDORA(2024); European Project: 101168465,HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01,HORIZON-CL3-2023-CS-01,MEDIATE(2024) |
| Source: |
ICC 2026 : IEEE International Conference on Communications ; IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) ; https://inria.hal.science/hal-05517164 ; IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), IEEE, May 2026, Glasgow, United Kingdom |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Subject Terms: |
Edge; Cloud; IoT; Emulation; Testbed; Kubernetes; Computing Continuum; [INFO]Computer Science [cs] |
| Subject Geographic: |
Glasgow; United Kingdom |
| Description: |
International audience ; This paper introduces Arena, a Kubernetes-based testbed for evaluating application deployment across computing continuum environments (IoT/Edge/Cloud). Arena enables the emulation of diverse computing nodes using Docker containers and leverages Kubernetes for testbed management. Arena integrates the Chaos Mesh framework to simulate network characteristics and Prometheus with Grafana tools for monitoring and visualization purposes. Experiments on the Grid'5000 platform with a Google microservice application demonstrate that Arena's container-based emulation achieves similar resource usage patterns to virtual machine-based nodes, and its network chaos injection effectively enforces network constraints. Results highlight Arena's capability to provide a practical and reproducible environment for testing containerized applications across diverse computing continuum nodes. |
| Document Type: |
conference object |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//101135775/EU/A Comprehensive Framework enabling the Delivery of Trustworthy Datasets for Efficient AIoT Operation/PANDORA; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement//101168465/EU/Multi facEteD ImplementAtion of a mixed sofTwarE/hardware-based zero-trust framework for the computing continuum/MEDIATE |
| Availability: |
https://inria.hal.science/hal-05517164; https://inria.hal.science/hal-05517164v2/document; https://inria.hal.science/hal-05517164v2/file/ICC2026_arena.pdf |
| Rights: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ; info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.A77C2DBB |
| Database: |
BASE |