RT-Cloud 2024: International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems |
Website | https://www.ecrts.org/rt-cloud-2024/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtcloud2024 |
Submission deadline | May 16, 2024 |
Held in conjunction with | Euromicro Conference on Real-time Systems (ECRTS) 2024 |
Venue | Lille, France |
Workshop Date | July 9, 2024 |
While most cloud services operate on a best-effort basis and provide no timing guarantees, there is a growing interest in cloud technologies for industrial and critical applications. Edge computing is a recent paradigm that brings processing and storage resources closer to the user. As a result, it provides benefits such as low latency and high bandwidth while still providing the benefits of cloud computing, making it lucrative for low-latency, real-time / safety-critical applications. However, a higher degree of determinism is desired for cloud and edge technologies to be fully embraced by the real-time / safety-critical industry. This calls for new techniques and methodologies to design predictable and reliable cloud/edge technologies and applications.
The 3rd International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (RT-Cloud) aims to bring together industrial and academic researchers and become a forum for discussion on topics related to real-time cloud/edge/fog and virtualization techniques (including new ideas, open and upcoming challenges, use cases, initiatives, calls to action, and projects, regulations and standards, future research directions, etc.). This year, the workshop will have a focus on industrial cloud use cases. In addition to industrial and academic research and use case papers, the workshop also welcomes short and full papers that consider the following:
- New technologies, innovative approaches/ideas, including work-in-progress
- Open problems and upcoming challenges
- Regulations and standards
- Demos and tutorials, especially for open-source projects
- Call to actions
- Experimental reports on existing technologies, including negative ones
Original full and short papers on all aspects of real-time/safety-critical cloud/edge/fog and virtualization are welcome. Researchers are encouraged (but not limited) to, submit papers regarding the following:
Use cases and applications for RT-cloud
- Use of cloud computing principles to improve performance/safety/security in existing real-time systems/use cases
- Real-time cloud and edge applications
- Industrial use cases and requirements
- Experiments and experiences with RT-cloud
- Real-time / safety-critical applications as a cloud-based service
- Real-time extension to existing cloud-computing technologies
- Decomposition between the edge, fog, and cloud
Virtualization and cloud computing technologies/models for RT-cloud
- Deterministic hypervisors and cloud execution environments, including containers and WASM
- Real-time Saas, Paas, Iaas, and XaaS (anything as a service model)
- Execution and deployment models for RT-Cloud, including serverless computing
- Microservices Architectures for real-time system
- Modeling of network and cloud, execution stacks, and applications- Adaptive SLAs for RT-cloud
- Development Operations (DevOps) for RT-cloud
- Edge-cloud-IoT continuum and interaction/interfacing
Resource management (including monitoring and scheduling) and orchestration for RT-cloud
- Resource management, monitoring, and orchestration aspects for RT-cloud
- Predictable orchestration and cloud operation
- Tools and techniques for resource sharing and isolation
- End-to-end resource management and scheduling in edge-cloud continuum
- Co-scheduling of virtual network and compute resources
- QoS mechanisms and isolation guarantees
- Autonomous monitoring systems
Safety and Security for RT-cloud
- Assurance in RT-cloud, deterministic scaling, fail-over, migration, etc.
- Trusted RT-Cloud/edge environment
- Considering security and privacy together with safety
Important Dates
- (Final Extended) Submission deadline:
May 9May 16, 2024 (AoE) - Notification of Acceptance: June 6, 2024
- RT-Cloud Workshop: July 9, 2024
- ECRTS 2024: July 9-12, 2024
Venue
RT-Cloud 2024 will be held in conjunction with the Euromicro Conference on Real-time Systems (ECRTS) in Lille, France. The conference will be hosted at Polytech Lille, a member of the University of Lille.
Submission Instructions
Manuscripts must present original work. They must be written in English, using the IEEE format, and submitted through easychair. There are no strict rules about the number of pages, but the recommended length for full papers is 6 to 8 pages, and for short papers is 3-4 pages.
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtcloud2024
All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee members, and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available online on the workshop website. Papers will not be assigned a DOI to enable authors to submit a full/extended paper later on to a conference or a journal. For every accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register for the workshop and present the paper.
Workshop Organizers
Workshop Chairs
- Johan Eker (Lund University/Ericsson)
- Luca Abeni (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
- Gautam Gala (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau) – contact person for general questions regarding the workshop (gala@eit.uni-kl.de).
Publicity Chair
- Remo Andreoli (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna)
Technical Program Committee
- Gerhard Fohler (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau)
- Tommaso Cucinotta (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna)
- Schahram Dustdar (Technical University of Vienna)
- Paul Pop (Technical University of Denmark)
- Daniel Bristot de Oliveira (Red Hat)
- Dario Faggioli (Suse)