2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services will be held in the scope of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), on June 9-13, 2024, in Denver, Colorado, USA.
2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services will be held in the scope of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), on June 9-13, 2024, in Denver, Colorado, USA.
Important
Dates
Paper Submission Deadline:
4 February 2024
Notification of Acceptance:
6 March 2024
Camera-Ready Paper Deadline:
15 March 2024
We look forward to your submissions and participation in the "Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services" workshop.
Workshop Description
Beyond 5G (B5G) applications and services offer unprecedented opportunities for innovation and progress. Nonetheless, achieving such a vision requires a new breed of intelligent mechanisms, protocols and autonomous architectures capable of truly taking advantage of the entire edge-to-cloud computing spectrum.
This year, the 2nd International Workshop on Intelligent Cloud Continuum for B5G Services is co-located with IEEE ICC 2024 in Denver, Colorado, USA, marking the second edition of an event dedicated to addressing the challenges and opportunities in the realm of cross-domain cloud continuum scenarios and Beyond 5G (B5G) applications and services.
In particular, cross-domain scenarios, which include multi-cloud and multi-provider, are mostly comprised of heterogeneous technological domains requiring intelligent, efficient and close coordination among all the parts. Such a federated and collaborative view has been set as the path forward for unlocking the required automation and flexibility and achieving the extreme requirements and constraints of the next generation of applications. In that sense, this workshop intends to cover four key strands:
Cross-domain edge-to-cloud continuum management:
This strand focuses on architectures, mechanisms, protocols, and automated approaches for having and coordinating closed loops across multi-domain scenarios. This includes zero-touch-like strategies for dealing with a heterogeneous edge-to-cloud continuum across multiple domains. This also includes supporting tools for composing and coordinating closed loops spanning several domains.
Cloud continuum for B5G services, applications, and enablers:
This strand focuses on the various services, applications, and enablers allowing the realization of the various Beyond 5G (B5G) applications and services, including complex Internet of Things (IoT) verticals, Mixed Reality, Extended Reality (XR) collaborative applications, next generation of holographic applications, and tactile Internet scenarios. This strand covers B5G services and applications experiments, pilots and evaluation of novel mechanisms and approaches for enabling such scenarios over the cloud continuum.
AI nativeness in cloud-continuum:
This strand focuses on network and service intelligence. Intelligence can be introduced in network elements or by interacting across network elements. Alternatively, intelligence can be achieved via a dedicated intelligence plane that would select AI/ML algorithms and the associated AI/ML life cycle management, e.g., inference and training. Intelligence can also be applied in deciding and orchestrating how to manage, configure and coordinate AI/ML in different network parts. This includes formal methods for creating, selecting and applying closed loops to achieve automation and assist the network management and control in the planning, deployment and optimization phases.
Privacy, security, and trust in cross-domain cloud continuum:
This strand focuses on specific privacy, security, and trust challenges, such as cutting-edge proposals and solutions for ensuring privacy, security, and trust targeting cross-domain B5G scenarios running on a cloud continuum. This includes formal methods for attesting and establishing trust liaisons in cross-domain scenarios and novel AI-powered mechanisms for timely responding and addressing incidents such as cyber-attacks or privacy violations in these cloud-continuum scenarios.
The proposed workshop topics specifically target cutting-edge and novel approaches for dealing with the emerging challenges of B5G Services and applications spanning multiple-domain cloud continuum and the intrinsical need to abstract and manage the underlying infrastructure to make those scenarios viable. This is a less explored topic of the leading conference. This workshop will be a platform to discuss the latest advancements in cloud-continuum B5G services and cross-domain computing management.
We welcome high-quality, original, and unpublished submissions on the above strands. Topics of interest, but are not limited to:
June 9th, 08:30 - 10:15
Workshop Program
Keynote on "HAPS Mobile Communications"
30 minutes
Prof. Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan
Professor Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Keio University, Japan
Tomoaki Otsuki (Ohtsuki) received the B.E., M.E., and Ph. D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Keio University, Yokohama, Japan in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively. From 1994 to 1995 he was a Post Doctoral Fellow and a Visiting Researcher in Electrical Engineering at Keio University. From 1993 to 1995 he was a Special Researcher of Fellowships of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science for Japanese Junior Scientists. From 1995 to 2005 he was with Science University of Tokyo. In 2005 he joined Keio University. He is now a Professor at Keio University. From 1998 to 1999 he was with the department of electrical engineering and computer sciences, University of California, Berkeley. He is engaged in research on wireless communications, optical communications, signal processing, and information theory. Dr. Ohtsuki is a recipient of the 1997 Inoue Research Award for Young Scientist, the 1997 Hiroshi Ando Memorial Young Engineering Award, Ericsson Young Scientist Award 2000, 2002 Funai Information and Science Award for Young Scientist, IEEE the 1st Asia-Pacific Young Researcher Award 2001, the 5th International Communication Foundation (ICF) Research Award, 2011 IEEE SPCE Outstanding Service Award, the 27th TELECOM System Technology Award, ETRI Journal’s 2012 Best Reviewer Award, 9th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China 2014 (CHINACOM ’14) Best Paper Award, 2020 Yagami Award, and The 26th Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC2021) Best Paper Award. He has published more than 260 journal papers and 485 international conference papers.
He is now serving as a Director of the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Board. He served as a Chair of IEEE Communications Society, Signal Processing for Communications and Electronics Technical Committee. He served as a technical editor of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine and an editor of Elsevier Physical Communications. He is now serving as an Area Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology and an editor of the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials. He has served as general-co chair, symposium co-chair, and TPC co-chair of many conferences, including IEEE GLOBECOM 2008, SPC, IEEE ICC 2011, CTS, IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, SPC, IEEE ICC 2020, SPC, IEEE APWCS, IEEE SPAWC, and IEEE VTC. He gave tutorials and keynote speeches at many international conferences including IEEE VTC, IEEE PIMRC, IEEE WCNC, and so on. He was Vice President and President of the Communications Society of the IEICE. He is a senior member and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE, a fellow of the IEICE, and a member of the Engineering Academy of Japan.
Panel on "Cloud Based Telco"
40 minutes
Panel Moderator: Prof. Jin Nakazato, University of Tokyo, Japan
Panelists:
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, Mexico
Kazuki Maruta, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
Luís Cordeiro, OneSource, Portugal
Technical session
30 minutes
Moderator: Luís Cordeiro, OneSource
Six accepted papers (5min each)
Papers:
#96 1570988942
“Adaptive Risk-Aware Resource Orchestration for 5G Microservices over Multi-Tier Edge-Cloud Systems”
Xingqi Wu (University of Michigan, USA); Junaid Farooq (University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA); Juntao Chen (Fordham University, USA)
#271 1570989583
“A New Approach for Evaluating the Performance of Distributed Latency-Sensitive Services”
Theodoros Theodoropoulos (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece); John Violos (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada); Antonios Makris (Harokopio University, Greece); Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece)
#337 1570989708
“Time-Series-Aware User Scheduling for Multi-user Massive MIMO Null-Space Expansion”
Yuki Sasaki (Tokyo University of Science, Japan); Kabuto Arai (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan); Jin Nakazato (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kazuki Maruta (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
#821 1570996272
“ML Driven Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in Telco Microservices Continuum”
Stefan Enz and Silvan Nigg (Zurich University of Applied Sciences ZHAW, Switzerland); Orhan Ermiş (Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg & LIST, Luxembourg); Onur Kalinagac (Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland); Gürkan Gür (Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Switzerland)
#832 1570996308
“Edge-to-Cloud Federated Learning with Resource-Aware Model Aggregation in MEC”
Noah Ploch (Technical University of Munich, Germany); Sebastian Troia (Politecnico di Milano, Italy); Wolfgang Kellerer (Technische Universität München, Germany); Guido Maier (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
#856 1570996746
“Towards Efficient Traffic Engineering via Distributed Optimization in Large-Scale LEO Constellation”
Linhui Wei (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Tien Thanh Le (Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI, Japan); Yusheng Ji (National Institute of Informatics, Japan); Mingqian Wang, Yu Liu and Yumei Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); John Chi Shing Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Workshop Organizers
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
OneSource, Portugal
Lenovo, Germany
Futurewei, USA
University of Tokyo, Japan
ETRI, Korea
Program Committee Members
