Efficient Resources Distribution for an Ephemeral Cloud/Edge continuum

This paper presents the idea and the concepts behind the vision of an Ephemeral Cloud/Edge Continuum, a cloud/edge computing landscape that enables the exploitation of a widely distributed, dynamic, and context-aware set of resources. The Ephemeral Continuum answer to the need of combining a plethora of heterogeneous devices, which nowadays are pervasively embedding anthropic environments, with both federations of cloud providers and the resources located at the Edge. The aim of the Ephemeral Continuum is to realise a context-aware and personalised federation of computational, data and network resources, able to manage their heterogeneity in a highly distributed deployment.