Scope:

SmartEdge aims at bringing together experts from several research communities spanning pervasive and mobile computing, wireless networks, embedded systems, Internet of Things, big data, and data analytics to discuss data needs and interests, challenges to be addressed, tools to be developed, and new research problems on edge wireless infrastructure, edge mobile systems, rich set data accessed or generated by edge devices and the Internet of Things.

Topics of Interest:

All accepted papers will be included in the PERCOM 2017 Proceedings, will be available on IEEE Xplore, and will be professionally indexed by the IEEE Computer Society's Conference Publishing Service. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Edge systems, applications and services
Interactions between the edge and the cloud
Architecture of edge systems
Wireless communications and networking architecture for edge systems
Resource indexing, monitoring, and metering
Device-to-Device communication and cooperation
Fault-tolerance, availability and replication for the edge
Collective context awareness
Edge-based data management and data analytics
Edge-based quality of service and experience
Load balancing and resource management for the edge
Edge authentication, authorization, and billing
Security and privacy for edge systems
Internet-of-Things, fog computing, cloud-let computing and related ideas
Energy efficiency and spectral efficiency enhancements for the edge
Programming models and toolkits for edge systems
Software defined networking (SDN) for the edge
Co-existence of wireless technologies in the edge
Crowd sourcing and crowd sensing for edge systems
Buffering, queuing, and caching in the edge
Edge-based cyber-physical solutions
Smart devices and wearable technologies
Self-driving and connected vehicles, V2V/V2X
Human factors for edge computing
Machine learning techniques for smart mobile and edge systems
Mobile augmented reality systems on the edge

Submission Guidelines:
Authors are invited to submit original unpublished work, not currently under review by other conferences, workshops or journals. Full papers should be restricted to 6 camera-ready pages (in 10pt font, double column, US letter size, 8.5 x 11 inches, IEEE format), including text, figures and references. Authors must follow the formatting guidelines here and here. Papers must be submitted electronically eadas through this link

Important dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: November 25, 2016
Paper Acceptance Notification: December 23, 2016
Camera-ready Paper Submissions: January 13, 2017