WORKSHOP 1

Joint CLEEN and ACROSS Workshop on Cloud Technology and Energy Efficiency in Mobile Communications

  • Monday, 29 June, 09:00-17:30, Room 5
  • Organisers:

    • Dario Sabella (Telecom Italia, Italy)

    • Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA-LETI, France)

    • Arianna Morelli (Telecom Italia, Italy)

    • Hans van den Berg (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

 

Morning Session (09:00 – 12:30): ACROSS

Virtualization of hard- and software (e.g. SaaS, IaaS) and the recent emergence of advanced cloud concepts like cloud brokerage, cloud migration, cloud-bursting and cloud-bridging, opens up nearly unbounded possibilities for the creation and implementation of new and innovative services. A fundamental characteristic is that services combine and integrate functionalities of other services. A challenging factor in service reliability and quality provisioning here is the highly dynamic nature, imposing a high degree of uncertainty in many respects (e.g., in terms of number and diversity of the service offerings, the system load of services suddenly jumping to temporary overload, demand for cloud resources, etc.). This raises the urgent need for online control methods with self-learning capabilities that quickly adapt to – or even anticipate to – changing circumstances. The workshop addresses fundamental scientific challenges for autonomous, quality-based control in such complex service environments driven and enabled by advanced virtualization and cloud concepts. Particular focus will be on: (i) methods and algorithms for quality-driven autonomous control of advanced cloud infrastructures and services, (ii) concepts and methods for QoS/QoE monitoring and prediction (as a crucial element for quality-driven autonomous control), and (iii) pricing and competition in the future cloud ecosystem.

See also: European COST Action ACROSS “Autonomous Control of Advanced Cloud Infrastructures and Services”  (http://www.cost-across.nl/).

 

Structure

09:00–09:15 Welcome/Opening, Hans van den Berg (TNO, University of Twente, The Netherlands)
09:15–10:00 Paths into the Cloud: A Mobile Networks Perspective, Michael Jarschel (Nokia, Germany)
10:00–10:30 Dynamic QoS Control for Cloud Services Orchestration, Rob van der Mei (CWI / VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:30 Non-Cooperative Computation Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing, Valeria Cardellini (University of Roma “Tor Vergata”, Italy)
11:30–12:00 Interoperable Data Management Approaches for Cloud and Mobile Computing, Attila Kertesz (University of Szeged, Hungary)
12:00–12:30 Towards a Fluid Cloud: an Extension of the Cloud into the Local Network, Steven Latré (University of Antwerp, Belgium)

  

 

Afternoon Session (14:00 – 17:30): CLEEN2015

This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, to allow for a high quality of experience for mobile access to cloud-processing resources and services, and to allow a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of mobile network (and related interoperability with terminals) and cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layer, it covers technologies which translate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and analyse all the network evolutions from the energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both, from an academic and industrial point of view.

See also: CLEEN2015 website  (www.ict-ijoin.eu/cleen2015).

 

Tentative Agenda:

14:00–14:10 Welcome  by workshop chair
14:10–14:50 Invited talk (iJOIN project): “Fronthaul and Backhaul Requirements of Flexible Centralization in Cloud Radio Access Networks”, Jens Bartelt (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
14:50–15:30 Invited talk (TROPIC project): “Edge-cloud architecture and solutions for mobile computing offloading”, Josep Vidal (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
16:00–16:30 Invited talk (CROWD project): “Energy efficiency in very dense wireless networks through opportunistic radio resource utilization”, Vincenzo Mancuso (IMDEA Network, Spain)

 

 

Final Joint Panel   (CLEEN2015 + ACROSS)

16:30–17:30
 
Moderator:

Emilio Calvanese (CEA Leti, France)

Panelists:   

Jens Bartelt (iJOIN project, Technical Uniiversity of Dresden, Germany)
Josep Vidal (TROPIC project, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Vincenzo Mancuso (CROWD project, IMDEA, Spain)
Hans van den Berg (ACROSS project, University of Twente, The Netherlands)