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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing
(ICFEC 2022)
May 16, 2022, Taormina (Messina), Italy
in conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2022
URL:
https://icfec2022.eecis.udel.edu/
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We are delighted to invite you to the 6th IEEE International
Conference on Fog and Edge Computing to be held in Taormina
(Messina), Italy.
INTRODUCTION
The number of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices is predicted to
reach 38.6 billion by 2025. These connected devices, ranging from
user devices to more complex systems, such as vehicles and power
grids, are equipped with sensing, actuating, communication,
processing, and storage capabilities, and they generate huge
amounts of data of various types. However, the need to operate the
scale of heterogeneous IoT devices while being
performance-efficient in real-time is challenging. Typically, the
data generated by the IoT devices are transferred to and processed
centrally by services hosted on geographically distant clouds.
This is untenable given the communication latency incurred and the
ingress bandwidth demand.
A new and disruptive paradigm spear-headed by academics and
industry experts is taking shape so that applications can leverage
resources located at the edge of the network and along the
continuum between the cloud and the edge. These edge resources may
be geographically or in the network topology closer to IoT
devices, such as home routers, gateways, or more substantial micro
data centers. Edge resources may be used to offload selected
services from the cloud to accelerate an application or to host
edge-native applications. The paradigm within which the edge is
harnessed is referred to as “Fog/Edge computing†.
The Fog/Edge computing paradigm is expected to improve the agility
of service deployments, to allow the usage of opportunistic and
cheap computing, and to leverage the network latency and bandwidth
diversities between these resources. Numerous challenges arise
when using edge resources, which require the re-examination of
operating systems, virtualization and containers, and middleware
techniques for fabric management. New abstractions and extensions
to current programming and storage models are necessary to allow
developers to design novel applications that can benefit from
massively distributed and data-driven edge systems. Addressing
security, privacy, and trust of the edge resources is of paramount
importance while managing the resources and context of mobile,
transient and hardware-constrained resources. The integration of
edge computing and 5G will also bring new opportunities and unique
challenges. Enabling machine/deep learning at the edge is critical
for many applications. Lastly, emerging domains like autonomous
vehicles and smart health need to be supported by fog and edge
resources.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The conference seeks to attract high-quality contributions
covering both theory and practice over systems research and
emerging domain-specific applications related to next-generation
distributed systems that use the edge and the fog. Some
representative topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Data centers and infrastructures for fog/edge computing
* Mobility management in fog/edge computing
* Distributed and federated machine learning in the fog and on the
edge
* 5G and fog/edge computing
* Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures
* Programming models for fog/edge computing
* Storage and data management platforms for fog/edge computing
* Scheduling and resource management for fog/edge infrastructures
* Security, privacy, trust and provenance issues in fog/edge
computing
* Distributed consensus and blockchains at the edge and in the fog
* Modeling and simulation of fog/edge environments
* Performance monitoring and metering of fog/edge infrastructures
* Innovative, latency-sensitive and locality-critical applications
of fog/edge computing
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
We invite original manuscripts that have neither been published
elsewhere nor are under review at a different venue. Papers should
follow the IEEE template for conference proceedings. Authors
should submit papers, written in English, electronically in PDF
format and may not exceed 8 letter-size pages in length, including
all figures, tables, and references. All manuscripts will be
reviewed and judged on originality, technical strength,
significance, presentation, and relevance to the conference by at
least three reviewers.
Papers may be submitted online at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfec22
IMPORTANT DATES
* Paper submissions: January 7, 2022
* Notifications: February 13, 2022
* Camera-ready due: March 6, 2022
PUBLICATION
Papers that are accepted for publication may be accepted as
REGULAR paper (8 pages) or SHORT papers (5 pages), depending on
the reviewer recommendations. Accepted papers will be included in
the conference proceedings that will be published through the IEEE
Computer Society Conference Publishing Services.
ORGANIZATION
General Chairs
* Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
* Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Program Chairs
* Stefan Schulte, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany (
stefan.schulte@tuhh.de)
* Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA (
mlena@udel.edu)
Steering Committee:
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Adrian Lebre, INRIA, France
* Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
* Haiying Shen, University of Virginia, USA
* Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
* Anthony Simonet, iExec Blockchain Tech, France
* Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK
* Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy
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