Towards optimized Design and Deployment of a Military Supply Chain on Federated Cloud Continuum supported by simulation-based Performance Evaluation

This research, situated within the military context, primarily aims to design and subsequently simulate a collaborative supply chain. In this document, we will analyze the initial part of the work: the design. To achieve this, the first step involves creating a logical structure that provides insights into how various actors in the supply chain should operate. Following this foundation, an architectural model will be developed that can map the individual operations of the actors into components. Only then a porting across the cloud continuum will be conducted, from the core to the edge, identifying the necessary patterns to integrate the entire infrastructure within this environment, thus achieving a cloud federation. These stages are essential as preparatory work for the upcoming research phase. The ultimate goal, to be pursued in the future, is to simulate the entire system based on the proposed cloud federation architecture