MobiArch 2023
Workshop on Mobility in the Evolving Internet Architecture to be held in conjunction with MobiCom 2023
Madrid, Spain, 6th Oct, 2023
Technical Program
9:00 - 9:10 : Welcome Notes, Best Paper Award announcement
9:10 - 10:10 : Keynote 1 :"Cost and energy-efficient RAN virtualization"
Andrés García-Saavedra |
Abstract: The unfolding era of open and virtualized Radio Access Networks (vRANs) ushers in a new realm of possibilities in the traditionally rigid RAN industry. However, the incumbent carrier-grade vRAN solutions, owing to their dependency on dedicated hardware accelerators for individual distributed units (DUs), pose challenges in terms of cost and energy efficiency. This presentation outlines recent research work by NEC Laboratories Europe, which proposes alternative strategies, pivoting towards shared utilization of heterogeneous processors among DUs, and novel pipeline architectures for 4G/5G DUs tailored for non-deterministic computing platforms. These advancements demonstrate substantial improvements in cost and energy efficiency, alongside ensuring remarkable network reliability even in adverse computing or dense network scenarios.
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Bio: Andrés received the B.Sc. (2009) in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Cantabria (UNICAN), M.Sc. (2010) and Ph.D. (2013) in Telematics Engineering from University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M). He worked as a Research Fellow at the Hamilton Institute at National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM) until the end of 2014, when he moved to Trinity College Dublin (TCD) until July 2015. He is currently working as a Principal Research Scientist at NEC Laboratories Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. His research interests lie in the application of fundamental mathematics to real-life computer communications systems, both wired and (especially) wireless; including resource allocation problems, energy efficiency, network coding, and design of network protocols and systems. He particularly enjoys building real prototypes and carrying out experimental performance evaluations of protocols and communication systems. |
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10:10 - 10:30 : Break
10:30 - 12:30 : Technical Session 1 : Advanced Networking Technologies
Session Chair: Luis Miguel Contreras Murillo
Alejandro Muñiz Da Costa and Luis M. Contreras Murillo "Integration of Network Slice Controller for Enhanced Intent-Based Networking in 5G/6G Networks"
Xinghai Wei, Jie Yuan, Xiaoyong Li, and Dongxiao Liu, "NDRA: An Efficient Multi-Objective Optimal Routing Algorithm Using Pareto Domination"
Mourad Lablack, Shuo Yu, Shuai Xu, and Yanming Shen, "Long-sequence model for traffic forecasting in suboptimal situation"
Tingli Xu, Ran Wang, Jie Hao"Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Multi-Objective Optimization for Mobile Charging Services in Internet of Electric Vehicles
12:30 - 2:00 : Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:00 : Keynote 2: "Edge Cloud Orchestration for Vehicular Communications"
Jordi Marias Parella |
Abstract: Vehicular Communications (V2X) rely mainly on ad hoc networks to spread mobility information and improve the surrounding awareness of all the road users involved. Despite they are proven to be a major improvement when it comes to mobility safety and efficiency; to develop their full potential they are required to have strong infrastructure support. This means the need for a road-side edge cloud solution capable of managing a Digital Twin capable of tracking and predicting the movements of all vehicles involved. This means handling huge amounts of time-sensitive geospatial data. Which is constraint to the requirements of low latency and fast response that a mobility environment demands. In this line, the usage of the CODECO framework and the Vehicular Digital Twin for Safe Urban Mobility CODECO project use case proposes a solution that fragments and orchestrates different V2X modules across cloud edge continuum.
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Bio: Telecom Engineer with an MSc in Advanced Telecommunications Technologies from the Barcelona School of Telecommunications Engineering (ETSETB) within the "Universitat Politèncnica de Catalunya" (UPC) and with an academic stay at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) of Chicago. The professional experience revolves around R+D of Networking Engineering (Telematics) at the I2CAT Foundation. Where most of the work relates to Vehicular Communications (V2X), Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC), ad-hoc networks, and future networking protocols. |
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3:00 - 4:00 : Pannel Section "The Edge-Cloud continuum, flexible orchestration challenges and drivers"
Moderator: Dr. Rute C. Sofia (Fortiss, Germany)
Invited Speakers: Richard Yang (Yale University, USA), Luis Contreras Murillho (Telefonica, Spain), Harald Müller (Siemens AG, Germany)
- 3:00-3:35 Round of presentations by panelists, challenges and drivers for the Edge-Cloud continuum
- 3:35-3:55 Questions by the audience, discussion including audience (moderator and speakers)
- 3:55-4:00 Summary of the discussion (moderator)
Funded by the European Commission under Horizon Europe, project CODECO - Cognitive Decentralised Edge Cloud Orchestration, grant number 101092696.
Abstract: Internet services are assisting to an increased decentralization driven by needs, such as process efficiency, privacy-preservation, and energy reduction, and also driven by technological advancements such as virtualization, seamless computing, and integration of AI from the far Edge to the Cloud. Multiple solutions are therefore emerging to assist in a more flexible and yet resilience realization of the Edge-Cloud continuum. One of such solutions is the CODECO framework, being developed in the Horizon Europe CODECO (Cognitive Decentralised Edge-Cloud Orchestration, funded by the European Union under grant number 01092696), with the purpose to bring data-network-compute awareness to Kubernetes, in the quality of the de facto orchestration system for containerized applications. Panel purpose: This panel, organized by the CODECO project, aims at discussing current challenges and drivers for the flexibilization of the Edge-Cloud continuum, by bringing together experts from academia and industry.
4:00 - 4:20 : Break
4:20 - 5:20 : Technical Session 2 : Mobile Technologies for Smart City
Session Chair: Dr. Tingting Yuan (University of Goettingen, Germany)
Gayathri Karthick, Glenford Mapp, and Jon Crowcroft, "Building an Intelligent Edge Environment to Provide Essential Services for Smart Cities"
Zhengze Li, Yanlong Huang, and Xiaoming Fu, "EVA: A Distributed Optimization Architecture for Efficient Video Analytics for Smart Cities"