Extended deadline: 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Real-time Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems (TREC4CPS)

CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENDED DEADLINE: Thursday 27th Sept 2018 (23:59 UTC-12) (firm)

1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Real-time Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems (TREC4CPS)

in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium

11 December 2018 | Nashville, TN

The increasing proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) is giving rise to an ever-increasing volume of data that is being generated by the IoT sensors that reside at the edge of the network. Of specific interest to us are IoT applications found in cyber-physical systems where the streamed information must be processed in real-time to make informed decisions for a wide range of societal and environmental applications. For instance, emergency response systems and smart transportation systems are prime examples of multi-domain smart and connected community applications residing at the edge of networks. The term Tactile Internet has also been used to refer to these systems. Conventionally, such systems have been implemented using centralized architectures. However, as the scale and penetration of these data driven applications in the communities are growing, the challenges of these architectures become apparent; for example, the lack of scalability, the existence of single points of failure, and saturated communication resources. Moreover, the sporadic and uncertain arrival patterns for the IoT data streams complicates real-time stream processing because resources must be provisioned on-demand to fuse multiple temporally-unsynchronized data streams. Second, the temporally sensitive nature of the data, the resource constraints on IoT devices, and the large volumes of generated information make it problematic to always move these information streams to a centralized cloud data center that may be multiple network hops away with fluctuating bandwidths and hence the incurred delays, which is detrimental to the cyber physical systems.

To address these issues, the community has been moving towards distributed edge computing solutions that promise to enable city-scale, extensible smart systems that make the best use of available information, network resources, and computing resources, including cloud computing resources. In edge-centric deployments, effective app and system management is critical due to the need to add/remove resources seamlessly, handle failures gracefully, and upgrade/reconfigure distributed applications. Addressing these challenges requires elastic and on-demand, distributed multi-resource provisioning and management. Existing resource management solutions, however, tend to focus on provisioning only one type of resource at a time but seldom consider the problem holistically.

Furthermore, the problem of the trustworthiness of analysis results is becoming an important consideration. Lack of effective assurance mechanisms have brought us to the current reality that includes susceptibility to data integrity attacks and information leakage attacks as shown by a large number of recent incidents even in centralized information flows. The problem is expected to be much worse for resource-constrained edge information flow structures. Effective strategies will have to study trade-offs between security, privacy, trust levels, resources, and performance. Additionally, we urgently require comprehensive exemplar applications and data cases that show how these problems are being studied by industry and the research community.

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Topics of Interest

The 1st International Workshop on Trustworthy and Real-time Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems (TREC4CPS), in conjunction with the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium,  aims to invite position papers from the community that describe ideas or work-in-progress efforts to address the plethora of challenges in this realm. To that end, we seek short papers (2 to 4 pages) along the following but non-exhaustive set of topics:

• Multi-tiered, novel resource management solutions involving edge/fog/cloud
• Effective use of virtualization across the resource spectrum
• Software-defined solutions and service chaining
• Verification and validation
• Trust and privacy issues
• Schedulability analysis
• Use of AI/ML techniques
• Middleware architectures
• Definition of challenge problems
• Discussion of open datasets and technologies
• Real-time processing of streamed and heterogeneous information

Paper Submission Information

Authors may submit their papers on Softconf (https://www.softconf.com/i/trec4cps/). Submissions must be single PDF files, no more than 4 pages, in two-column IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html). The material must be unpublished and not under submission elsewhere. By submitting a paper, the authors confirm that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will register for the workshop by the special registration deadline set in the notification of acceptance, and present the paper at the workshop in person. Accepted papers will be published online by the Institute for Software Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University.  

Important Dates

• September 20th, 2018 Thursday 27th Sept 2018 (23:59 UTC-12): Extended Paper Submission Deadline (firm)
• October 19th (Friday): Notification of Acceptance
• November 2nd (Friday): Camera Ready Deadline