About CASTOR
What is CASTOR?
The shift of computing resources from centralized cloud infrastructures to edge and far-edge environments continues to accelerate. This has given rise to the concept of a compute continuum where resources and computing capabilities are dispersed across cloud, edge, and user equipment. However, this new architecture has so far lacked the necessary assurance for securely handling end-to-end information sharing.
Funded under the Horizon Europe Innovation Action program, the project CASTOR is a pioneering research initiative focused on ensuring secure, trusted, and optimized communication across the compute continuum. By innovating new technologies and methodologies, CASTOR aims to deliver breakthrough solutions that will empower businesses and users in a wide range of industries to benefit from trustworthy, end-to-end information sharing across distributed infrastructures.
CASTOR Key Innovations
CASTOR is pioneering a high-TRL solution to the complex challenges of trusted-path routing within the compute continuum. The key innovations introduced by CASTOR are:
Adaptive Trust Quantification
CASTOR develops mechanisms for dynamic trust assessment of hardware and software devices.
Anchors trust scores in decentralized roots, ensuring robust trust evaluation across the compute continuum.
Combinatorial Trust and Resource Optimization
Combines trust states from the first innovation with available network resources for path selection.
Utilizes advanced optimization techniques to enhance path establishment.
Trust- and Resource-Aware Path Enforcement
Maps optimized paths to traffic engineering calculations.
Ensures efficient path establishment across diverse hardware/software infrastructures.
To validate the effectiveness of these innovations, CASTOR will deploy prototype implementations across distinct application domains (connected cars, automated mobility, drones in Flying Ad-Hoc Networks, and airspace applications) and will utilize simulation methods to complement these real-world tests, showcasing the system’s versatility and robustness in varying operational contexts.
