Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets
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When : 2017-12-11
Where : Las Vegas, USA
Submission Deadline : 2017-08-27
Categories : Cloud Computing , Information Technology Management
Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets(MECC 2017)
December 11-15, 2017, Las Vegas, USA
Call for Papers:
The Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) workshop aims to address the increasing need for closer integration between the different tiers on modern cloud computing platforms.
There is a growing trend of interactive and resource-intensive (e.g., compute, storage, need for big data) applications on mobile devices today, and currently many such applications are provided using resources on infrastructural clouds. However, it is challenging to provide such applications using cloud resources when there is limited connectivity. Harvesting the resources present on nearby mobile devices and/or cloudlets is a viable solution to this problem.
Today, there is also increasing demand for middleware that offers higher level abstractions without hampering expressiveness and performance. However, many distributed systems today are designed for the datacenter, and their assumptions, such as that nodes use fast wired interconnects, no longer hold in edge environments. In particular, edge clouds, such as those made up of only mobile devices at the edge, use unreliable wireless links. These unreliable links directly translate into unavailability and churn. Simultaneously, since mobile devices have limited energy resources, heavyweight distributed algorithms, such as coordination using a leader-based consensus protocol, are impractical.
Papers primarily based on (but not limited to) the following topics are welcome: (Topics include but not limited to)
- Design and performance of middleware platforms for edge clouds and cloudlets
- Mechanisms for the integration of edge clouds with cloudlets
- Security mechanisms for edge clouds including, including but not limited to, storage and computation
- Context-aware services by cloudlets
- Connectivity-as-a-service provided by cloudlets
- Novel theoretical approaches for churn tolerance
- Lightweight replication and fault-tolerance algorithms
- Distributed coordination and cooperation for edge clouds
- Lightweight computation sandboxing for edge clouds
- Novel storage systems for edge clouds, with special focus on geo-aware storage engines
- Tools for testing and benchmarking MECC
- Experimental deployments and applications
- Networking coding approaches for MECC
- P2P overlays and systems for edge clouds
- Gossip based protocols for edge clouds
- Computational frameworks for MECC
- Programming models and abstractions to manage edge to infrastructure cloud interactions
- Middleware platforms for cloud-of-clouds
- Privacy enforcing algorithms for leveraging MECC
- Trust for edge clouds and/or cloudlets
- Interoperability between mobile OSes
- Sensor fusion for MECC
- Infrastructure cloud based services for supporting MECC
IMPORTANT DATES:
- Abstract submission : August 27, 2017
- Paper submission : September 3, 2017
- Notification of Acceptance : September 27, 2017
- Final version : October 10, 2017
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