Message from the ICFEC 2019 Chairs

Abstract

It gives us great pleasure in welcoming you to the proceedings of the 3 IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), and to the conference itself for those who are joining us at Larnaca, Cyprus! The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is incorporating “things” from the physical world into the Internet environment to enhance the monitoring and intelligent control of physical, digital and social systems. Traditionally, data from such systems have been analyzed centrally by applications hosted on public and private clouds, and the responses communicated back to the things. However, such cloud data centers are being supplemented with micro data centers, also called Fogs, located at the edge of the network and closer to a user (or thing) than the cloud. Further, Edge devices such as smart phones and IoT gateways are available even closer to the user or data source. These offer alternative computing resources to the cloud, on which to deploy and orchestrate applications. The Fog and Edge computing paradigm can improve the agility of service deployments, offer opportunistic and cheap computing, and leverage the diversity in network latency and bandwidth across resources. But this requires research and development into Fog and Edge fabrics and middleware for resource management; novel application platforms and programming models to ease composition; the means to handle security, privacy and trust of such heterogeneous resources; and adapting to emerging domains like autonomous vehicles and deep learning using such infrastructure. ICFEC 2019 sought original research contributions to address these challenges, covering both theory and practice over system software and applications. We received 23 papers in two rounds, an early submission and a regular submission – a new model we trialled this year. Articles from both rounds were rigorously reviewed by our Technical Program Committee with 21 members, in a timely and efficient manner. Papers received an average of 3.7 reviews each. Based on these detailed reviews, we have accepted 6 full papers – an acceptance rate of 26%, and a further 5 as short papers, to be presented at the conference and which are included in these proceedings. We also shepherded some papers this year to ensure a high quality of the final manuscripts. The accepted papers span Fog and Edge computing topics on stream processing, resource discovery, scheduling, machine learning, smart metering and security, and offer a glimpse of the stateof-the-art in this emerging research domain. We thank all the authors who submitted their research work for consideration to ICFEC 2019. Without their support, a high-quality conference program and proceedings would not be possible. We are also grateful for the service of our Technical Program Committee members, who worked hard across two rounds of submissions to offer valuable feedback to all the authors to enhance the quality of their submission. We also thank the presenters and attendees for making this conference possible. We also appreciate the support received from the organizers of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2019 conference, with whom we are co-located. Once again, we welcome you to ICFEC 2019, the 3 IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, to be held on May 16, 2019 at the beautiful city of Larnaca, Cyprus. We look forward to the scientific talks and productive discussions to advance the research in this community. We also hope you enjoy the scenic beaches and the culture that Larnaca has to offer!