ECOFEC 2019 - First International IEEE Workshop on the Economics of Fog, Edge and Cloud Computing

Pricing is a core mechanism for content providers, telecommunication operators, and cloud operators. Traditionally, it has been used to induce changes in user behavior in order to alleviate congestion, and it constitutes a core component for providers?revenue generation. With the rise of edge and fog computing, a novel, exciting playground of communication and computing services has emerged, characterized by new ties between application and content providers, infrastructure owners and emerging Fog/Edge providers. This ecosystem raises new research questions and challenges regarding its pricing and economics. For instance, the pervasive computational capabilities of networked edge devices add new computing resources that may (partially) replace cloud services, but the injection of enormous amounts of data due to pervasive sensing and computing at the edge will require redesigning traditional pricing and billing schemes to manage decentralized and/or multi-tenant configurations. Data elaboration and storage may also migrate continuously in cloud or to the edge, impacting the design of new data plans and billing architectures. Finally, modern application architectures, based on containerized microservices, make it possible for content providers to place application modules strategically over remote clouds or onto the edge in order to optimally leverage the infrastructure抯 capability.
ECOFEC aims to bring together researchers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry in order to build a body of knowledge on the economic innovation encompassed by the emerging integrated ecosystem of Fog/Edge and Cloud computing. We solicit papers from areas including, but not limited to:
- Data plans for Fog/Edge Networks
- Edge/Cloud Microservice placement
- Billing Architectures and Mechanisms
- Economic, Computing and Communication Trade Offs
- Pricing mechanisms for data/storage and computing
- Demand-response techniques for Fog/Edge computing
- Auctions and Mechanism Design
- Incentive schemes for Green Edge Computing
- Analysis of Fog/Edge Economic Ecosystems
- Network neutrality and Regulation issues
- Distributed Payment Systems
- Economic and Pricing Models for NFV and Network Slicing
- Joint Pricing and Scheduling Mechanisms for computing systems
- Single and Multi-tenant pricing schemes
- Pricing Models for Mobile Data Offloading
- Secure transactions for Fog and Edge computing
- Economic or performance tradeoffs for edge/fog
- AI-based applications and services
- Blockchain and smart contracts for edge/fog computing
- Machine learning and data-driven optimization for edge/fog computing
Chairs and Committes:
General Chair:
Jianwei Huang (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
TPC Co-Chairs:
Francesco De Pellegrini (University of Avignon, France)
Carlee Joe-Wong (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Xu Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Publicity Chair:
Fabio Martignon (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Web Chair:
Dario Facchinetti, University of Bergamo (Italy)
Technical Program Committee:
Rachid El Azouzi (University of Avignon, France) 牋
Lorenzo Maggi (Nokia Bell Labs Paris, France)
Xiaohu Wu (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
George Iosifidis (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Ke Xu (Tsinghua University, China)
Lin Gao (Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China)
Haoran Yu (Northwestern University, USA)
Gyorgy Dan (KTH, Sweden)
Bruno Tuffin (INRIA, France)
Thrasyvoulos Spyropoulos (EURECOM, France)
Georgios Paschos (Huawei Labs, Paris)
Edith Elkind (Oxford University)
Anastasios Giovanidis (CNRS, France)
George Kesidis (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Michele Rossi (University of Padova, Italy)
Soumya Sen (University of Minnesota, USA)
Yang Yang (ShanghaiTech University, China)
Daniele Miorandi (U-Hopper, Italy)
Randall Berry (Northwestern University, USA)
Jiangchuan Liu (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
John Musacchio (University of California Santa Cruz, USA)
Lin Chen (Paris-Sud University, France)
Jocelyne Elias (Huawei France Research Center, Paris, France)
Zhe Huang (AT&T Research, USA)
Steering Program Committee:
Eitan Altman (INRIA, France)
Tamer Basar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Mung Chiang (Purdue University, USA)
Jianwei Huang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)
Leandros Tassiulas (Yale University, USA)