CEC Workshop 2024

Location: Charleroi, Belgium
Dates: October 28th, 2024

OVERVIEW

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.

TOPICS (not limited to)

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:

• Network optimization and interoperable protocols for the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Novel system architectures and hardware designs in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Network security, data privacy, confidence, and trust in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Serverless services and models for the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Mobile computing and distributed autonomy in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Federated learning, and swarm intelligence in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• ML, LLM, and GenAI based requirement gathering and resource allocation in Cloud-Edge Continuum
• QoS provisioning, QoE, and SLA management in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Sustainable, energy and carbon efficient connectivity in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
• Next generation smart use-cases enabled by the Cloud-Edge Continuum