  Emerging use-cases like smart manufacturing and smart cities pose challenges
in terms of latency, which cannot be satisfied by traditional centralized
networks. Edge networks, which bring computational capacity closer to the
users/clients, are a promising solution for supporting these critical low
latency services. Different from traditional centralized networks, the edge is
distributed by nature and is usually equipped with limited connectivity and
compute capacity. This creates a complex network to handle, subject to failures
of different natures, that requires novel solutions to work in practice. To
reduce complexity, more lightweight solutions are needed for containerization
as well as smart monitoring strategies with reduced overhead. Orchestration
strategies should provide reliable resource slicing with limited resources, and
intelligent scaling while preserving data privacy in a distributed fashion.
Power management is also critical, as providing and managing a large amount of
power at the edge is unprecedented.
