MobiSPC-IOTWS 2018: Workshop on IoT approaches for distributed computing, communications and new applications University of University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Gran Canaria, Spain, August 13-15, 2018 |
Conference website | https://bisite.usal.es/en/MobiSPC-IOTWS |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mobispciotws2018 |
Submission deadline | April 13, 2018 |
Notification of acceptance | May 15, 2018 |
Full paper submission | June 15, 2018 |
21.000 million devices will be connected to the Internet by 2021, and 16.000 of them will be part of the Internet of Things. The usage of manifold connected sensors (temperature, humidity, pressure, vibration, air quality, etc.) in different fields (plants, animals, geological phenomena, cities, homes, etc.) will enable the collection of a vast amount of data subsequently transformed into information and knowledge. However, such a knowledge creation process cannot be handled in a totally centralized way and must be combined with distributed computing so that information transmitted is reduced by sharing the processing load among devices. In traditional distributed computing, shared processing is enabled by additional hardware architectures that have to satisfy higher processing capabilities while ensuring lower power consumption.
The distinct characteristics of IoT technologies require a more intricate trade-off communication vs computation. In particular, large number of sensors and QoS strict requirements demand new distributed techniques. As the sensor volume grows, infrastructures for IoT distributed computing must include nodes close to the edge that facilitate data analysis for a cluster of sensors. They must also perform edge analytics to reduce the data sent to the core from high-frequency readings and decrease the bandwidth needed. Finally, they must guarantee that customer experience is not compromised, which requires new robust techniques with strict QoS and latency requirements. The emerging paradigm of fog computing enables to meet these requirements by moving storage and compute services to the network edge or even to the end devices (e.g., to a data hub or to a smart access point).
Consequently, IoT deployments require: new abstraction or multi-agent approaches to distribute tasks among edges and cloud; new techniques and communication standards for sharing information to increase spectrum efficiency while keeping data consistency and availability; and new meta-data, policies, and hardware/software capabilities to aid fog-orchestration in distributed databases.
The aim of this workshop is to provide state-of-the-art solutions tackling the mentioned IoT distributed computing problems. High quality research papers as well as contributions from industry that are not yet published or under review are welcomed.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference:
- Paper format: The submited paper must be formatted according to the guidelines of Procedia Computer Science: MS Word Template, Latex, Template Generic, Elsevier.
- Paper length: Sumitted technical papers must be no longer than 8 pages including all figures, tables and references.
- Paper submission: Authors are requested to submit their papers alectronically in PDF format using easychair.org.
List of Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Distributed information fusion in IoT networks
- Distributed sensing and data gathering for IoT
- Computational complexity reduction approaches for IoT
- Load balancing among edge and cloud nodes for large IoT deployments
- Edge analytics for data and bandwidth reduction
- Multi-agent systems for IoT distributed computing
- Hardware architectures for embedded distributed computing
- Energy harvesting for IoT distributed computing
- Battery efficient IoT devices
- New communications standards for sharing information and increasing spectrum efficiency
- Performance bounds for distributed computing
- Virtualization of edge devices
- Applications of IoT that combine edge and cloud resources
- New sectors of application for IoT solutions (Industry 4.0, Agriculture, eHealth…)
- Synergies between IoT and other disruptive technologies (Blockchain, SmartData, AI…)
Committees
Workshop Chairs
- Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado, University of Salamanca
- Dr. Javier Prieto, University of Salamanca
- Dr. Fernando De la Prieta, University of Salamanca
TPC members
- Dr. Santiago Mazuelas, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics
- Dr. Abbes Amira, Qatar University
- Dr. Vicente-Julián Inglada, Valencia University of Technology
- Dr. Javier Bajo, Polytechnical University of Madrid
- Dra. Sara Rodríguez, University of Salamanca
- Dr. Soumya Prakash Rana, London South Bank University
- Dr. Pablo Chamoso, University of Salamanca
- Dr. Carlos Ramos, Politécnico do Porto
- Dr. Sigeru Omatu, Osaka Institute of Technology
Publication
All accepted papers will be scheduled for oral presentations and will be printed in the conference proceedings published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series (on-line). At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and attend the conference to present the work.
Venue
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2018) conference in Gran Canaria, Spain in August 13-15, 2018.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Prof. Juan M. Corchado: corchado@usal.es.