First report on VERGE Edge4AI design

This document will present the initial design of the Edge4AI proposed in VERGE. It will first describe the programming models and practices selected for the distribution and parallelisation of application and network function workflows. Then a description of the edge4AI software components operating in isolation will be presented, whereas a first specification of the required interfaces for the integrations among them will be defined. Finally, an initial version of the cognitive framework will be delivered, covering a limited amount of provided metrics and functionalities.