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The Cloud-Edge Continuum is a new hyper-distributed computing paradigm that aims at seamlessly interconnecting and abstracting the computing power and storage capacity of the Cloud with the data processing capabilities of edge devices, IoT devices, and sensors. Intelligently balancing tasks in a continuum enables faster response times, lower latency, and more efficient use of network bandwidth. However, efficiently managing extremely heterogeneous Cloud and Edge resources is a pressing concern in real-world large-scale implementations. Such heterogeneity refers to differences in network capabilities, processing power, software stack, APIs, and security protocols across the Cloud-Edge Continuum infrastructure. This raises significant challenges for the network community to develop new and efficient protocols and communication services. Given the potential benefits of the Cloud-Edge Continuum, it is important to explore the current state-of-the-art research and identify the challenges and opportunities in this area.
The Cloud-Edge Continuum (CEC) workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss the latest research, trends, and challenges in ecosystems and environments based on Cloud-Edge Continuum paradigm. The primary goal of this workshop is to foster collaboration and exchange of ideas among researchers and stakeholders. The workshop can provide a platform for participants to share their experiences, best practices, case studies, and to identify emerging research areas and potential solutions to existing challenges. By bringing together experts from different domains, the CEC workshop also aims to provide insights into how Cloud-Edge Continuum can be applied in various fields, such as healthcare, transportation, smart cities, and manufacturing.
We welcome submissions of original research, work-in-progress, and proof of concepts describing original ideas and presenting new directions. We invite submissions covering the aspects around the design, development, and evaluation of architectures, technologies, and applications for the Cloud-Edge Continuum, including but not limited to:
July 1, 2024July 15, 2024
July 15, 2024July 24, 2024
August 31, 2024
September 16th, 2024
Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not under consideration at another conference or journal. Paper submissions should adhere to the IEEE Conference formatting requirements with double column and the font size must be 10 points. The length of the final paper with all its content (including references) must not exceed 6 pages. Papers must include author’s names and affiliations for single-blind peer reviewing by the PC. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. The IEEE template available here.
Please submit your paper using workshop's CEC'24 HotCRP link.
We invite multiple EU projects working in the area of Cloud-Edge Continuum to present a poster in a dedicated poster session during the CEC'24 workshop. The goal of this session is to allow knowledge sharing among EU projects active in the Cloud-Edge Continuum research and foster collaboration among EU researchers and EU organizations from industry and academia. This session will help stimulate conversations and discussions on challenges and preliminary solutions in Cloud-Edge Continuum with real-world use-cases.
Note: As these posters are by invitation and not peer-reviewed, they will not appear in IEEE proceedings. Get in touch with the CEC'24 organizing committee, if you are interested in joining the workshop and presenting a poster on your EU project.
Christof Fetzer received his Ph.D. from UC San Diego (1997). As a student he received a two-year scholarship from the DAAD and won two best student paper awards (SRDS and DSN). He was a finalist of the 1998 Council of Graduate Schools/UMI distinguished dissertation award and won an IEE mather premium in 1999. Dr. Fetzer joined AT&T Labs-Research in August 1999 and was a principal member of technical staff until March 2004. Since April 2004, he is head of the Systems Engineering Chair in the Computer Science Department at the Dresden University of Technology. He is the chair of the Distributed Systems Engineering International Masters Program at the Computer Science Department. Prof. Dr. Fetzer has published over 130 research papers in the field of dependable systems.
Session Chair: Raúl Gracia-Tinedo
Speaker: Christof Fetzer, Professor at TU Dresden
Title: Using Confidential Computing to Protect Applications in a Cloud-Edge Continuum
Abstract: Spreading applications across multiple sites might increase the chances that applications' data,
code, and keys are exposed to adversaries. We need a practical approach that works independently of the underlying infrastructure to protect
applications from adversaries without unnecessarily increasing the complexity. We demonstrate a novel approach -based on confidential
computing and Kubernetes- to protect applications with a minimal increase in complexity.
Session Chair: Raúl Gracia-Tinedo
1030-1050: Towards Multi-tier Stream Data Tiering in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Authors: Omar Jundi (Dell Technologies), Raúl Gracia-Tinedo (Dell Technologies),
Sean Ahearne (DELL Technologies), Pascal Spörri (IBM Research, Zurich), Bernard Metzler (IBM Research, Zurich)
1050-1110: Exploring secure and efficient temporary data sharing in co-located Kubernetes containers
Authors: Aitor Arjona (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Bernard Metzler (IBM Research, Zurich),
Pascal Spörri (IBM Research, Zurich)
1110-1130: Data-connector: An agent-based framework for autonomous ML-based smart management
Authors: Peini Liu (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Joan Oliveras (Barcelona Supercomputing Center),
Marc Palacín (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Jordi Guitart (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya),
Josep Ll. Berral (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), Ramon Nou (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
1130-1150: ELEVATE: Optimal scheduling of time-sensitive tasks on the heterogeneous reconfigurable Edge
Authors: Ingo Hoyer (Fraunhofer IMS), Tarek Zaarour (Dell Technologies), Ahmed Khalid (Dell Technologies),
Alexander Utz (Fraunhofer IMS), Karsten Seidl (Fraunhofer IMS), Ken Brown (University College Cork),
Ahmed H. Zahran (University College Cork)
1150-1210: Enhancing HPC with Serverless Computing: Lithops on MareNostrum5
Authors: Andrés Benavides Arévalo (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Daniel Coll Tejeda (Universitat Rovira i Virgili),
Aaron Call (Barcelona Supercomputing Center), Pedro García López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili),
Ramon Nou Castell (Barcelona Supercomputing Center)
Session Chair: Christof Fetzer
1340-1400: Toward Private, Trusted, and Fine-Grained Inference Cloud Outsourcing
Authors: Shuai Zhang (Huawei Technologies), Jie Ma (Huawei Technologies), Haili Bai (Huawei Technologies),
Yuxin Ren (Huawei Technologies), Ning Jia (Huawei Technologies), Xinwei Hu (Huawei Technologies)
1400-1420: Integrating PQ Plugins for IPsec Offloads to DPUs in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Authors: Abraham Cano Aguilera (Nvidia), Carlos Rubio Garcia (Eindhoven University of Technology),
Raphael Frantz (Eindhoven University of Technology), Idelfonso Tafur Monroy (Eindhoven University of Technology),
José Luis Imaña (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (Nvidia)
1420-1440: Efficient Data Confidence Fabrics with Compact Annotations
Authors: Asfa Khalid (University College Cork), Seán Óg Murphy (University College Cork), Cormac Sreenan (University College Cork),
Utz Roedig (University College Cork)
1440-1500: Safeguarding Blockchain and DLTs From Arbitrary and Malicious Content
Authors: Ahmed Khalid (Dell Technologies), Alan Barnett (Dell Technologies),
Merry Globin (Dell Technologies), Tarek Zaarour (Dell Technologies), Sean Ahearne (Dell Technologies
NearData: Extreme Near-Data Processing Platform
INTEND: Intent-Based Data Operation In The Computing Continuum
CLEVER: Collaborative edge-cLoud continuum and Embedded AI for a Visionary industry of thE futuRe
GLACIATION: Green responsibLe privACy preservIng dAta operaTIONs
CloudSkin: Adaptive virtualization for AI-enabled Cloud-edge Continuum
SmartEdge: Semantic Low-code Programming Tools for Edge Intelligence
CAMEO: Creating an Architecture for Manipulating Earth Observation data
AI for Edge: The Future of Orchestration in the Computing Continuum
Session Chair: Marc Sánchez-Artigas
Open networking session for multiple EU Research project to provide an update on their progress and outcomes.
For any question or doubt, please reach us at Pedro.Garcia@urv.cat, Ahmed.Khalid@dell.com, and Raul.Gracia@dell.com.
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