COHERENT24: The 1st International Workshop on the Orchestration of the Serverless Edge-Cloud Continuum Big Island, Hawaii Kona, HI, United States, July 31, 2024 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/view/coherent2024/ |
Poster | download |
Submission deadline | March 4, 2024 |
COHERENT is a workshop focussed on the innovative application of the Serverless Function as a Service model to the Edge-Cloud continuum. It addresses various critical challenges, encouraging research into novel architectural designs for resource-constrained Edge environments, efficient Edge-Cloud distributed scheduling and resource allocation strategies.
The workshop will be an opportunity to bring together researchers working on topics such as Edge/Fog Computing, the Internet of Things, Virtualised Infrastructure Systems and Architectures and Security and Privacy in Communications, Networks, and Testbeds from the ICCCN conference where it will hosted. It will identify new problems, challenges, and potential innovative solutions for extending the Serverless FaaS model to the Edge-Cloud Continuum.
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: March 4, 2024
- Notification of acceptance: April 26, 2024
- Camera-ready paper due: May 10, 2024 (Hard Deadline)
- Workshop date: July 31, 2024
Scope
We invite researchers, practitioners, and experts in Serverless Computing, Edge Computing, and Cloud Computing to submit papers addressing the integration of Serverless FaaS into the Edge-Cloud continuum. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Innovative architectural designs based on the Serverless FaaS model for geo-distributed and resource-constrained Edge-Cloud environments.
- Efficient distributed scheduling and resource allocation strategies in the Edge-Cloud continuum using the Serverless FaaS model.
- Approaches to guarantee seamless scalability of Serverless FaaS applications, minimising the energy consumption of resource-constrained edge nodes and considering applications SLAs.
- Solutions to enable the orchestration of functions in the Edge-Cloud continuum considering hybrid models and offloading to non-serverless Clouds.
- Efficient execution of Serverless FaaS workflows by trading off edge resources pre-warming and function cold start considering data locality and geographic resource distribution.
- Design of strategies and mechanisms to manage application state alongside functions for implementing stateful applications running in the Edge-Cloud continuum.
- Techniques enabling real-time processing and automation in IoT applications on the Edge-Cloud continuum using the Serverless FaaS model.
- Federated management and deployment of Serverless FaaS platforms in the heterogeneous multi-provider Edge-Cloud resource continuum.
- Solutions to address the hardware heterogeneity of the Edge-Cloud continuum, ranging from resource-constrained edge nodes to data centres, possibly including hardware accelerators.
- Strategies and best practices for ensuring security and data protection in Serverless FaaS applications at the edge.
- Autonomic network management of the Serverless FaaS Edge-Cloud Continuum
- Real-world case studies, use cases, and practical experiences of the Serverless FaaS model in the Edge-Cloud continuum.
Instructions for Authors
Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and submitted via Easychair as PDF files (formatted for 8.5×11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 6 pages. Submitted papers cannot have been previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The workshop program committee reserves the right not to review papers that exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es).
Review and Publication of Manuscripts
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the workshop program committee and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and presentation quality. An accepted paper must be presented at the ICCCN 2024 venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each workshop registration covers up to two workshop papers by an author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICCCN proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. IEEE reserves the right to exclude a paper from distribution after the conference, including IEEE Xplore® Digital Library, if the author does not present the paper at the conference.
Journal Special Issue
We are working on organising a Special Issue for the Journal of Grid Computing, focusing on the topics covered by the workshop. Selected authors will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for consideration.
Committee
Workshop Co-Chairs
- Francesco Tusa, University of Westminster, UK
- Stuart Clayman, University College London, UK
Technical Program Committee
- Marcos Assuncao, ETS Montreal, Canada
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
- David Breitgand, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
- Berk Camberk, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom
- Claudio Cicconetti, IIT-CNR, Italy
- Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Halima Elbiaze, University of Quebec Montreal, Canada
- Roberto Rodrigues Filho, University of Campinas, Brazil
- Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy
- Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
- Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
- Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, United Kingdom
- József Kovács, HUN-REN SZTAKI, Hungary
- Hanan Lutfiyya, University of Western Ontario, Canada
- Alberto P. Martí, OpenNebula Systems, Spain
- Stefan Nastic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Marc-Oliver Pahl, IMT Atlantique, France
- Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
- Filippo Poltronieri, University of Ferrara, Italy
- Charalampos Rotsos, Lancaster University, United Kingdom
- Gabriele Russo Russo, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
- José Santos, Ghent University — imec, Belgium
- Müge Sayıt, Ege University, Turkey
- Balázs Sonkoly, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
- Davide Taibi, University of Oulu, Finland
- Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
- Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia
- Paul Townend, Umeå University, Sweden
- Amjad Ullah, Edinburgh Napier University, United Kingdom