FOG 2013 - First international workshop on cloud computing From the cOre to the edGe of the network (FOG)

Cloud computing is an excellent way to offload significant amounts of computation and data from both data centers and terminal devices, due to its flexibility, scalability and significant economic savings. However, not all applications may be offloaded to the cloud such as those that require real time latency and response, those geographically distributed and those that require mobility support. Smart cities, smart connected vehicles and transportation systems, smart grid, pervasive ICT infrastructures, and applications and services that fold under the umbrella of the Internet of Things offer a number of rich use cases. Most of these new developments include time-sensitive applications, which warrant a new approach to provide the flexibility and power of the cloud at a local level.
This one day workshop co-located with ICC 2013, Budapest (Hungary) targets the area of new localized and interconnected versions of the cloud that moves (part of) data storage and computation toward the edge of the network, close to the physical world.
The FOG workshop is looking at the fields of networks, computation and storage, guaranteeing a global standard of quality and system integrity. The workshop welcomes contributions on architecting and orchestrating highly distributed cloud deployments, workload splitting among edge-based and cloud-based components, hierarchical partitioning of computation and data, distributed algorithms for data and computation placement, security and privacy issues in such a multi-tenant environment, network-based computing and storage.
The FOG workshop aims at bringing together researchers from Academia and Industry, to identify and discuss technical challenges, exchange novel ideas, explore enabling technologies, and report latest research efforts that cover a variety of topics including, but not limited to:
Applications for the FOG Environment
Security, Privacy and System Integrity in the FOG Environment
Cloud-based Architectures for Distributed Data Integration
Network as a Computing and Storage Platform
Mobile Cloud Networking
FOG Computing Economics
Models for Performance-aware Optimizations
Modeling and Composition of Data Services
Scalability, Reliability and other Quality Assurance
Service Abstraction and Virtualization
Real-time Integration and Processing of Large-scale Sensor Data
Internet of Things, Architecture, Sensors and Actuator Technologies
Distributed Real-time Analytics
Data-flow Modeling and Management in FOG
Virtualization of Wireless Equipment
Unified User and Machine Mobility Management
Content and Service Distribution- Interoperability and Inter-cooperative Protocols