Available SoonMaria Bermudez-Edo, Universidad de Granada, Spain, SpainCyber-Physical Cloud ServicesJohan Eker, Ericsson Research & Lund University, Sweden, Sweden
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Brief Bio Johan Eker is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson Research and a full Professor in real-time control systems at Lund university. He earned his PhD in 1999 and then joined the Ptolemy group at UC Berkeley. He is leading the WASP research arena on data-driven operations of large scale systems using machine learning. His current research focus is on cloud and 6G services for cyber-physical systems. His research work ranges from programming language design, real-time control systems, mobile communications. software design for mobile devices, adaptive resource management, IoT and cloud technology. He is the co-designer of the CAL Actor Language, which is part of the MPEG standard ISO/IEC 23001-4:2011. He holds over 70 granted patents in the areas of telecom, IoT and cloud computing. He is involved in the operation of the Ericsson Research Data Center and works with industrial cloud applications.
Abstract Cloud services are entering a second wave—moving beyond web storefronts and IT systems to include industrial digitalization. Automation and time-sensitive systems, until recently confined to the factory floor, are being offloaded to the cloud, driven in part by the ultra-low-latency promises of 6G networks. Notably, 6G itself is increasingly software-defined, with network functions virtualized and deployed on cloud infrastructure, making the cloud both the enabler and the platform. The core challenge is timing: industrial control loops demand deterministic, sub-millisecond responses, while cloud platforms and hypervisors introduce virtualization overhead, scheduling jitter, and resource contention that fundamentally conflict with hard real-time guarantees. Even as 6G aims to shrink network latency, the very software stack it runs on faces the same real-time limitations. Yet research on this evolution remains siloed—real-time systems specialists, hypervisor developers, network architects, and 6G researchers tend to work independently, optimizing for one dimension without adequately addressing the others. https://www.kks.se/en/article/johan-eker-good-people-a-coffee-machine-and-a-touch-of-madness/