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The ultimate goal of the architecture work package of BASMATI is to ensure that all consortium members have a common vision of the global architecture of the system and that all developers are aware of the interfaces exported by any architecture component to others. This deliverable defines the architecture of the BASMATI platform. Overall, the objective of the BASMATI project is to design, implement and evaluate a dynamic and integrated brokerage platform targeting federated clouds that supports the dynamic needs of mobile applications and users. To this end, the BASMATI architecture provides a common ground to address key technological and research challenges in different research fields. These challenges mainly focus on three core aspects: (i) User, application and situation modelling and understanding to drive application placement; (ii) Runtime adaptivity and reconfiguration; (iii) Brokering and Offloading of application and services. The resulting architecture is divided into layers, which stem from several choices taken at design time. The first choice is the separation in the management of those services that natively run on the server side from those that run on a client device. The second choice is to separate the computational plane (how computation is organized, what are the functional dependencies from the services composing the application) from the data plane, in order to foster advanced computation and data orchestration techniques. The last, and probably the most important choice, is the definition of a specific application model (which we refer to as BEAM) that encompasses all the many views of the application within the platform. Finally, the architecture defined in this document has also been designed to support the requirements identified at the beginning of the project, from the use cases, in accordance with both the joint Korean and European use cases' needs. A final version of this document was created at M18.

This deliverable examines the state-of-the-art solutions, both focusing on the scientific literature and on the existing, cutting-edge, technologies that relate to the activities that will be conducted in BASMATI project. Along with the presentation and discussion of the existing approaches and solutions, this report describes possible future trends and presents the project requirement analysis, both the one considering the use cases technical requirements as well as taking into account the technology insight coming both from linked research initiatives and interactions with innovation experts. This document is essentially aimed at a first snapshot resulting from the activity aimed at the identification of research paths and potentially useful approaches. The idea for this report was to comprise a "live document", continuously updated by the consortium members. Changes were incorporated during the first year with the purpose to include new interesting technologies and solutions that were proposed and released. In fact, during the whole course of the project, the technologies and requirements related to BASMATI will continue being investigated in order to ensure that the objectives and innovations of the project are valid, work is performed taking into account the latest state-of-the-art and developments fulfill the identified goals and requirements. However, this stable version of the document will serve as a guide for the baseline technologies and initial requirements upon which BASMATI builds. As such the report comprises a central document that drives the project processes and it is directly linked to the project vision implementation.

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