The 5th International Workshop on Recent Advances for Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing (M2EC 2023)
This years workshop will be held in conjunction with the 37th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications. It will take place from March 29th to 31st in Brazil.
This text is originally from the NorNet blog by Chief Research Engineer Thomas Dreibholz from CRNA.
Scope
Today, a large number of enterprises and individuals rely on services offered by clouds to meet their computational and storage demands. However, in general, no single cloud provider is able to provide all the features a user may need in a cost-efficient way, while satisfying the user’s security and performance requirements. For instance, even the most dominant cloud providers have limited geographical presence. Cloud federation enables end users to integrate segregated resources from different cloud providers. The use of Multi-Clouds offers more freedom to the cloud users, and increases the granularity of choices in the application deployment. Growing interest in Multi-Clouds pushes the need to investigate a large number of under-explored research topics, ranging from Multi-Cloud resource provisioning, application deployments, automated configurations, federated networking, adaptations, security, and privacy.
Moreover, with the growing need of real-time data analytics and critical event handling by many modern applications, such as in the Internet of Things (IoT), it is evident that the centralized compute and storage model offered by cloud computing is not suitable for such applications, due to high end-to-end latencies. Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), on the other hand, enables a computing and storage infrastructure provisioned closely to the end-users at the edge of a cellular network. Combining MEC in Multi-Cloud infrastructures can help to combat latency challenges imposed by the cloud-centric architectures.
The intent of our workshop is to bring together people from research and industry, in order to provide a discussion forum for state-of-the-art topics related to cloud, multi-cloud and mobile edge computing technology, networks and applications. The International Workshop on Recent Advances for Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing (M²EC 2023) will include full-paper sessions as well as a poster session (with short presentations) to introduce preliminary ideas as well as work in progress.
Proceedings of the workshop will be published in Springer Series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”. The books of this series are submitted to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.
Topics of Interest
The main topics to be addressed include (but are not limited to):
Design and implementation of Multi-Cloud and Cross-Cloud systems
Networking technologies for Cloud federation
Multi-Cloud middleware
Cloud/Multi-Cloud resilience, robustness, load balancing, failover handling
Cloud/Multi-Cloud monitoring, adaptation and scalability
Cloud/Multi-Cloud security and privacy
Cloud/Multi-Cloud use-case applications
Cloud/Multi-Cloud (application) monitoring, adaptation and scalability
Adaptive Multi-Cloud application provisioning
Design and provisioning of Big Data, Multi-Cloud applications
Inter-operability in Multi-Clouds
Mobile Edge Computing systems
Mobile Edge Computing for 5G network infrastructures
Design and provisioning of Mobile Edge Computing applications
Quality of Service in Multi-Cloud setups
Efficient distributed storage techniques
Low-latency transport protocols
Low-latency storage
Resilient networks and systems
Multi-homed systems and advanced transport protocols
Applications and algorithms for Big Data and Mobile Edge Computing (Multi-)Clouds
Application deployment and support for legacy applications
Organizing committee
General chairs
Thomas Dreibholz, Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory (Fornebu, Viken, Norway)
Publicity chairs
Xing Zhou, Hainan University (Haikou, Hainan, China)
Paweł Skrzypek, 7bulls.com (Warsaw, Poland)
Program committee
Dimitris Apostolou, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens, Greece)
Jörg Domaschka, Ulm University (Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
Thomas Dreibholz, SimulaMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
Ahmed Elmokashfi, SimulaMet – Simula Metropolitan Centre for Digital Engineering (Oslo, Norway)
Ernst Gunnar Gran, NTNU (Gjøvik, Oppland, Norway)
Geir Horn, University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
Quentin Jacquemart, CRNS (Sophia Antipolis, France)
Kyriakos Kritikos, FORTH, Institute of Computer Science (Heraklion, Greece)
Somnath Mazumdar, Copenhagen Business School (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Paresh Saxena, BITS Pilani University (Hyderabad, India)
Jawwad Shamsi, FAST NUCES (Karachi, Pakistan)
Tor Skeie, Fabriscale Technologies (Fornebu, Viken, Norway)
Paweł Skrzypek, 7bulls (Warsaw, Poland)
Yiannis Verginadis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (Athens, Greece)
Øyvind Ytrehus, University of Bergen (Bergen, Hordaland, Norway)
Feroz Zahid, Simula Research Laboratory (Fornebu, Viken, Norway)
Xing Zhou, Hainan University (Haikou, Hainan, China)
Paper submission
Step 1: Paper Submission For Review
Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your manuscript for review.
Authors are invited to submit full or short papers for presentation at the conference. Full papers of up to 12 pages in Lecture Notes Style of Springer Proceedings (http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conftools/Springer/For-the-authors-LECTURE-NOTES-TEMPLATES.zip) should present novel perspectives within the general scope of the conference. Short papers are an opportunity to present preliminary or interim results and are limited to 6 camera-ready pages in length. Short papers will be presented in a poster format and are published in the proceedings. All papers must include title, complete contact information for all authors, abstract, and keywords on the cover page. Please ensure that your paper is formatted in accordance with the guidelines. Visit http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/aina/2023/guidelines.php for detailed paper formatting instructions.
Submit your paper using the EDAS online submission system: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=29652&track=112196.
(You can also navigate to the AINA-2023 entry in EDAS (https://edas.info/N29652), then select «Workshop-M2EC-2023: The International Workshop on Multi-Clouds and Mobile Edge Computing (M2EC-2023)».)Each paper will undergo independent review by at least three reviewers. You will receive an e-mail notification of the outcome of this review.
Step 2: Author Registration and Final Camera-Ready Paper Submission
The information on the camera-ready paper submission is sent to authors of accepted papers by e-mail.
Important dates
Paper Submission Deadline: November 1, 2022
Author Notification: December 25, 2022
Author Registration: January 15, 2023
Camera-Ready Paper Submission: January 15, 2023