The Second International Workshop on Smart Edge Computing and Networking

(SmartEdge 2018)

Athens, Greece March 23, 2018 http://swimsys.cs.odu.edu/SmartEdge/

Important Dates Paper Submission due:

December 1st, 2017 (extended) Notification of acceptance:

December 23rd, 2017 Final camera-ready due:

January 12th, 2018  

Call For Papers We are approaching a fundamental shift in the computational era as the number of smart edge devices (e.g., smartphones, tablets, smart watches, smart glasses, smart meters, connected vehicles, etc.) is expected to exceed 4 billion by the end of 2018. Recent surveys on mobile consumers show that these edge devices become the significant source for wireless data access as well as data generation. While edge devices generate a vast amount of valuable data, the same devices also offer a massive infrastructure for computing. Similarly, smartphones already possess more storage capacity than all servers combined. For example, it is expected that the collective computing and storage capacity of smartphones will surpass all worldwide servers by 2017. Moreover, it is expected that individual devices will exhibit server-like features in the coming decade. The rapid growth of peer sharing businesses have shown that individuals are increasingly willing to share their homes, cars, and even meals when they are rewarded for it. It is reasonable, then, to infer that the owners of the devices will be willing to share their data and infrastructure in return for a reward. Moreover, the explosion of edge devices coupled with a growing proliferation of cloud-based applications requires a new breed of intelligent edge computing infrastructures to deliver optimal performance to a variety of users, devices, and applications sharing the network edge. SmartEdge'18 aims at bringing together experts from several research communities spanning pervasive & mobile computing, wireless networks, embedded systems, Internet of Things, big data, and data analytics to discuss data needs and interests, challenges to be addressed, tools to be developed, and new research problems on edge wireless infrastructure, edge mobile systems, rich set data accessed or generated by edge devices and the Internet of Things.

Workshop Chairs

Tamer Nadeem Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Glenn Ricart US Ignite, USA

Theodoros Salonidis IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

TPC members (to be finalized)

Kevin Chan, Army Research Lab, USA Jinzhu Chen, General Motors Research & Development, USA Landon Cox, Duke Univ, USA

Utsav Drolia, NEC Research, USA Khalid Elgazzar, Univ of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Carol Fung, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern University, USA Emir Halepovoc, AT&T Research Labs, USA Khaled Harras, CMU, Qatar Ahmed Helmy, University of Florida, USA Pan Hui, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong George Iosifidis, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Puneet Jain, HP Labs, USA Shubham Jain, Old Dominion University, USA Thanasis Korakis, University of Thessaly, Greece Iordanis Koutsopoulos, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Ulas Kozat, Huawei, USA Kin Leung, Imperial College London, UK Rick McGeer, US Ignite, USA Tadashi Okoshi, Keio University, Japan Giovanni Pau, UPMC - LIP6, France Peter Van Roy, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium Mostafa Uddin, Nokia-Bell Labs, USA Moustafa Youssef, Egypt-Japan Univ. of Science. & Tech. (E-JUST), Egypt

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Edge systems, applications and services • Interactions between the edge and the cloud. • Architecture of edge systems. • Wireless communications and networking architecture for edge systems. • Resource indexing, monitoring, and metering. • Device-to-Device communication and cooperation. • Fault-tolerance, availability and replication for the edge. • Collective context awareness. • Edge-based data management and data analytics • Edge-based quality of service and experience. • Load balancing and resource management for the edge. • Edge authentication, authorization, and billing. • Security and privacy for edge systems. • Blockchain and other consensus approach for edge systems • Internet-of-Things, fog computing, cloud-let computing and related ideas. • Energy efficiency and spectral efficiency enhancements for the edge. • Programming models and toolkits for edge systems. • Software defined networking (SDN) for the edge. • Co-existence of wireless technologies in the edge. • Crowdsourcing and crowd sensing for edge systems. • Buffering, queuing, and caching in the edge. • Edge-based cyber-physical solutions. • Smart devices and wearable technologies. • Self-driving and connected vehicles, V2V/V2X. • Human factors for edge computing. • Machine learning techniques for smart mobile and edge systems. • Mobile augmented reality systems on the edge.

Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by other conferences, workshops or journals. Full papers should be restricted to 6 camera-ready pages (in 10pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures, and references. Authors must follow the formatting guidelines at http://www.percom.org/?q=cfp and http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting. Papers must be submitted electronically to https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23951