ECO 2024


1st International Workshop on

 Edge to Cloud Orchestration 


Paris, France 

26th June, 2024

co-located with the 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 


Important Dates

Paper Submission: April 15th, 2024   Extended to April 19th, 2024

Notification of Acceptance: May 1st, 2024

Camera-ready: May 15th, 2024  Extended to June 2nd, 2024

Deadlines expire at 23:59:59 UTC


Call for Papers

Scope

Interconnecting a plethora of data sources, devices, and sensors in the current Internet of Things (IoT)-driven Internet era, has introduced new challenges concerning resource and data management in an efficient, yet trustworthy manner. The Cloud-Edge Orchestration establishes a new paradigm that allows for edge devices (IoT, sensors etc) even in wide scale implementations to exploit the computational and storage capacity of the cloud without trading response times, latency, and bandwidth. 

This workshop aims to shed light on the particular aspects of orchestration that deal with fundamental challenges in the Edge-Cloud continuum such as efficient resource and network bandwidth utilization, microservices deployment, data management, adaptive and automated cross-layer configuration, anomaly detection, and security. Paradigms that concern specific use-case applications, pragmatical evaluation and experimentation, are of special interest for this workshop. We also encourage theoretical contributions, such as ML approaches for resource-constraint environments, distributed learning and optimization. 

The workshop aims to strengthen the research agenda in the field by bringing together industrial and academic stakeholders, developers and research project participants. 


Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:




Committees

General Chairs

Vassilis Tsaoussidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Rute Sofia, fortiss GmbH, Germany 


TPC Chair

Lefteris Mamatas, University of Macedonia, Greece


Technical Program Committee

Ana Maria de Almeida, ISCTE-IUL & ISTAR-IUL/ CISUC, Portugal

Marios Anagnostopoulos, Aalborg University, Denmark

Torsten Ingo Braun, University of Bern, Switzerland

Augusto J. D. Casaca, INESC-ID & INOV, Portugal

Eduardo Cerqueira, Federal University of Para, Brazil

Periklis Chatzimisios,  International Hellenic University, Greece

Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa, Italy

Luis M. Contreras, Telefonica, Spain

Roch Guérin, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

David Jimenez, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Dimitrios Kallergis, University of West Attica, Greece

Ioanna Kapetanidou, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece

Dimosthenis Kyriazis, University of Piraeus, Greece

Ibrahim Matta, Boston University, USA

Panagiotis Papadimitriou, University of Macedonia, Greece

Javier Serrano, Technical University of Madrid, Spain

Vasileios Theodorou, Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece

Paul Townend, Umea University, Sweden

Francisco Valera, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Vitor Vieira, INOVA DE, Germany

Usman Wajid, Information Catalyst, UK

Anastasios Zafeiropoulos, National Technical University of Athens, Greece 



Publicity Chair

Skaperas Sotiris, University of Macedonia, Greece




Submission Guidelines

Workshop manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 6 pages in the IEEE double-column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. To download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. 

Papers can be submitted directly to EDAS: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=32313&track=124188 

Note that accepted papers up to 6 pages will be published with no additional charge. Exceeding pages will be charged an additional fee. Papers exceeding 7 pages will not be accepted. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register to the conference and present the paper. Only registered and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2024 proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore. The ISCC proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, DBLP and Scopus. This makes the ISCC conference one of the publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas. 

Program


10:30 - 10:35 Welcome remarks


10:35 - 11:30 Keynote: CODECO: A novel edge-cloud orchestration framework, focusing on data-compute-network  

 Rute Sofia, fortiss GmbH, Germany 


Abstract: In this talk we will introduce the CODECO framework, which is delivering smart, cross-layer orchestration between decentralized dataflow, computation, and networking services, with the aim of providing seamless support for these services across the edge-cloud computing continuum. The CODECO ecosystem includes open-source toolkits, large-scale experimentation, training tools and events, as well as use-cases across 4 vertical domains (smart cities, energy, manufacturing, and smart buildings). The talk will give insight into the use of context-awareness (data, computational, networking resources) and AI to handle a flexible and resilient IoT-Edge-Cloud orchestration and explain how you can interact with CODECO.

Rute C. Sofia (PhD 04) is the Head of Industrial IoT at the Fortiss Research Institute and Invited Associate Professor at the University Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias; Associate Researcher at ISTAR, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Rute's research background has been developed in industry (Grupo Forum, Lisbon; Siemens AG, Nokia Networks, Munich) and academia (FCCN, Lisbon; INESC TEC, Porto; ULHT, Lisbon; Universität der Bundeswehr, Munich). She was scientific director of the Portuguese research unit COPELABS (2013-2017) and co-founder of COPELABS and the Portuguese startup Senception Lda (2013-2019). Her current research interests are: network architectures and protocols; IoT; Edge computing; Edge AI; in-network computing; 6G. Rute has over 80 peer-reviewed publications and 9 patents in her areas of interest. She is the IEEE ComSoc WICE Deputy Liaison for Industry; an ACM Europe Councilor. She leads the 6G CONASENSE platform. She was co-chair of the IEEE ComSoc N2Women Awards Board (20-21). She is an Associate Editor for several venues including IEEE Access, IEEE Network. She is the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe CODECO project.

11:30 - 12:00 Coffee Break

12:00 - 13:00 Hands-on/demo Session: Automated edge-cloud deployment and evaluation based on CODECO Experimentation Framework
George Koukis, ATHENA RC, Greece

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break


14:00 - 15:00 ISCC keynote


15:00 - 17:00 Technical Session

1. Democratizing Predictive Analytics with Generative Artificial Intelligence Towards AI-Native Networks

Georgios Samaras, Marinela Mertiri, Maria-Evgenia Xezonaki, Vasileios Theodorou, Panteleimon-Konstantinos Chartsias, Theodoros Bozios (Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions, Greece)


2. A Genetic Algorithm for Placing VNF Chains with Multiple Flavours

Antonio Serra, Federica Paganelli (University of Pisa, Italy), Paola Cappanera (University of Florence, Italy), Antonio Brogi (University of Pisa, Italy)


3. A Multi-Context Severity-Based SLO Violation Detector

Andreas Tsagkaropoulos, Yiannis Verginadis, Gregoris Mentzas (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, Greece)


4. Evaluating CNI Plugins Features & Tradeoffs for Edge Cloud Applications

Georgios Koukis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), Sotiris Skaperas (University of Macedonia),Ioanna Angeliki Kapetanidou (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece), Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece), Vassilis Tsaoussidis (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)


5. Palindrome.js: 3D Monitoring for Distributed Systems Visual Analysis

Jonathan Rivalan, Long Ngo, Etienne Leclercq (SMILE, France), Anastasios Zafeiropoulos (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems / National Technical University of Athens, Greece)