Keynote speech - Prof. Dr. Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou
Intelligent & Secure Resource Orchestration for Next Generation Integrated Communications and Computing Systems
To efficiently deal with the stringent requirements of emerging diverse applications, such as time-, bandwidth-, and connectivity-critical, or combinations thereof, the underlying Communications and Computing (CC) systems are expected to be characterized by flexibility, adaptability, and heterogeneity. In this talk, we offer and discuss the appropriate science and technology to conceptualize, model, and design for the realistic deep interdependencies among behaviors, interactions, and decisions, within the era of resource management in the engineered integrated communications and computing systems, and natural world. In particular, we aim to lay the foundations of a novel economic-driven holistic resource orchestration framework for next generation multi-tier integrated communication and computing systems, capitalizing on the principles of context-awareness and learning-based modeling. In this setting, an important and yet unresolved challenge is how and under what conditions, the involved actors can jointly conclude to an operation point where they all enjoy satisfactory performance. In this talk, we will address this fundamental challenge based on three pillars. Firstly, labor economics-based principles will be investigated to capture the relationships among the actors involved in such interdependent systems, while properly driving their behavior and actions to mutual beneficial operation points. Secondly, context-aware decision-making models will be presented, by adopting a human-centric approach, encompassing the principles of satisfaction instead of blind maximization, while benefiting from learning-based methodologies to cope with partial information availability scenarios. Thirdly, the innovative treatment of those two theoretic foundations, will drive the introduction of unified, integrated, modularized end-to-end resource orchestration models in integrated communication and computing systems. Numerical results under a diverse set of scenarios are presented to demonstrate that the introduced paradigm, does not only address the resource orchestration problem in multi-tier settings, but it provides a holistic approach of treating several realistic considerations, including the complete and incomplete information availability, discrete and continuous actors’ strategy spaces, as well as the resource stochasticity, fragility, and the impact thereof.
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Keynote speech - Prof. Dr. Mohamed Faten Zhani
FlexNGIA – The Edge-Cloud continuum for Future Tactile Internet
From virtual reality and teleportation, to telepresence, augmented reality, holograms, and remotely controlled robotics, these future network applications promise an unprecedented development for society, economics and culture. Unfortunately, today’s Internet falls short when it comes to providing the stringent performance requirements imposed by such applications. This is due to several fundamental limitations in the design of the current network architecture and communication protocols. As a result, there is a pressing need to rethink the network architecture and protocols, and efficiently harness recent technologies in terms control and data plane, in-network computing, cloud computing, virtualization and softwarization to devise the next-generation tactile Internet. In this talk, we start by analyzing the characteristics and requirements of future networking applications and highlight today’s Internet limitations. We then draw a rough sketch of FlexNGIA (www.FlexNGIA.net), a Flexible Next-Generation Internet Architecture that leverages in-network computing, network softwarization and virtualization to satisfy the requirements of future Internet applications and services. We also discuss through some use-cases how FlexNGIA could ensure the service level guarantees required by some of the future network applications.
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