Entity / Experiment Design

Objective

Provision and freeze reproducible experimental entities that represent the host roles used by the thesis evaluation.

Why this matters

Host-specific behavioral models are only interpretable if each entity has a documented role, starting state, workload, telemetry contract, and reset procedure.

Design considerations

• Define role/workload, OS and base image, compute allocation, network topology, storage, time sync, collector version, clean snapshot, entity identity, isolation boundaries, and reset/reproduction procedure.
• Require each confirmed entity to pass the validated telemetry gate before baseline collection begins.
• Treat additional platforms as breadth extensions until their entity ADR is confirmed.

Key decisions

• ADR-0060 — E1 developer workstation entity — Confirmed
• ADR-0061 — E2 build/CI entity — Confirmed
• ADR-0062 — Windows experiment entity — Tentative
• ADR-0063 — IoT experiment entity — Tentative