x The First IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'16)

Program


Thursday, October 27

7:15

Continental breakfast

8:15-8:30

Introductory remark by Steering Committee Chair and
Program Chair

8:30-9:30

Session 1: Keynote Talk: Guenter Klas, Vodafone Group: Computing at the Edge - A Carrier Perspective

9:30-9:45

Coffee break

9:45-11:45

Session 2: Architecture and Implementation (Session Chair: Jason Flinn)

ParaDrop: Enabling Lightweight Multi-tenancy at the Network's Extreme Edge

Peng Liu, Dale Willis, Suman Banerjee

Fast, scalable and secure onloading of edge functions using AirBox

Ketan Bhardwaj, Ming-Wei Shih, Pragya Agarwal, Ada Gavrilovska, Taesoo Kim, Karsten Schwan

A Middleware Infrastructure for Utility-based Provisioning of IoT Cloud Systems

Stefan Nastic, Hong-Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar

Enabling Campus Edge Computing using GENI Racks and Mobile Resources

Abhimanyu Gosain, Mark Berman,Marshall Brinn, Thomas Mitchell,Chuan Li, Yuehua Wang, Hai Jin, Jing Hua, Hongwei Zhang

11:45-13:00

Lunch
Samee Khan, NSF Program Director: NSF Funding Opportunities

13:00-14:00

Session 3: Trust and Verify (Session Chair: Landon Cox)

Establishing Trusted Identities in Disconnected Edge Environments

Sebastián Echeverría, Dan Klinedinst, Keegan Williams, Grace A. Lewis

DeepCham: Collaborative Edge-Mediated Adaptive Deep Learning for Mobile Object Recognition

Dawei Li, Theodoros Salonidis, Nirmit V. Desai, Mooi Choo Chuah

14:00-14:15

Coffee Break

14:15-15:15

Session 4: Industry Panel (Moderator: Rong Chang)

Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel), Pablo Rodriguez (Telefonica),
Rolf Schuster (Open Edge Computing Initiative and Fachhochschule Dortmund), Dinesh Verma (IBM), Fred Douglis (Dell EMC),
Chuck Byers (Cisco)

15:15-15:45

Session 5: Preview of Posters and Demos (Chair: Tamer Nadeem)

1-minute previews by authors of posters/demos

15:45-17:30

Session 6: Posters and Demos (Chair: Tamer Nadeem)

18:00-20:00

Banquet
IEEE/ACM Fellow Recognition Ceremony



Friday, October 28

7:15

Continental breakfast

8:30-9:30

Session 7: Keynote Talk: Bruce Maggs, Duke University and Akamai: The Internet at the Speed of Light

9:30-9:45

Coffee Break

9:45-11:15

Session 8: Sensors at the Edge (Session Chair: Pieter Simoens)

Low-cost Video Transcoding at the Wireless Edge

Jongwon Yoon, Peng, Suman Banerjee

Smart LaBLEs: Proximity, Autoconfiguration, and a Constant Supply of
Gatorade

Albert F Harris III, Vansh Khanna, Guliz Seray Tuncay,, Robin Hillary
Kravets

SOUL: An Edge-cloud System for Mobile Applications in a Sensor-rich
World

Minsung Jang, HyunJong Lee, Karsten Schwan, Ketan Bhardwaj

11:15-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-12:30

Session 9: Programming the Edge (Session Chair: Klara Nahrstedt)

SpanEdge: Towards Unifying Stream Processing over Central and Nearthe-Edge Data Centers

Hooman Peiro Sajjad, Ken Danniswara, Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov

FocusStack: Orchestrating Edge Clouds Using Location-Based Focus of Attention

Brian Amento, Bharath Balasubramanian, Robert J. Hall, Kaustubh Joshi, Gueyoung Jung, K. Hal Purdy

12:30-13:30

Lunch
Eric Anderson, Senior Scientist, NIST: Edge Computing for Public Safety: A NIST Perspective

13:30-15:00

Session 10: Invited Talks (Session Chair: Satya)

Victor Bahl (Microsoft Research): Distributed Video Analytics

Valerie Young (Intel): How Edge Computing is Changing the Way We Live

Glenn Ricart (US Ignite): Slicing in Locavore Infrastructures

15:00-15:15

Coffee break

15:15-16:15

Session 11: Panel on Mission-Critical Edge Computing
(Moderator: Grace Lewis)

John Garofolo (NIST), Priya Narasimhan (CMU), Gurdip Singh (NSF), Yu Xiao (Aalto University), Ted Woodward (DARPA)

16:15

Closing remarks by General Chair


Important Date

Submission deadline: 23:59 EST, March 2, 2016, hard deadline, no extensions

Acceptance notifications: June 15, 2016

Posters/Demos Submission Deadline: June 30, 2016

Posters/Demos Notification: July 5, 2016

Posters/Demos Camera-ready: July 13, 2016

Camera-ready deadline: July 13, 2016

Conference: October 27-28, 2016

 

Announcement

-Selected papers will be invited to submit a magazine-style version to IEEE Internet Computing fast track.

-IEEE instructions for camera-ready formatting can be found here.

-NSF program director will talk about the latest programs related to Edge Computing at SEC 2016.