Program





Tuesday, Dec 14     
  8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Bayshore Foyer)
  9:00-9:10 Welcome Remarks (Cascade)
  9:10-10:10 Keynote Speech 1 (Cascade): Edge, what is, and what could be?
Session chair: Ming Zhao
Speaker:  Kaniz Mahdi 
(VP Distributed Edge @ VMware)
  10:10-10:30 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  10:30-12:30 Session I - Resource-limited (Cascade)
Session chair: Fred Douglis

1. EDDL: A Distributed Deep Learning System for Resource-limited Edge Computing Environment. 
Pengzhan Hao, Yifan Zhang (SUNY Binghamton)

2. Sparse Bitmap Compression for Memory-Efficient Training on the Edge. 
Abdelrahman Hosny, Marina Neseem, Sherief Reda (Brown University)

3. MIRAGE: Machine Learning-based Modeling of Identical Replicas of the Jetson AGX Embedded Platform. 
Hazem A. Abdelhafez, Hassan Halawa, Mohamed Osama Ahmed, Karthik Pattabiraman, Matei Ripeanu (University of British Columbia)

4. Real-Time Edge Classification: Optimal Offloading under Token Bucket Constraints. 
Ayan Chakrabarti, Roch Guerin, Chenyang Lu, Jiangnan Liu (Washington University in St.louis)

  12:30-14:00 Lunch (Sierra)
  14:00-15:30 Session II - Edge Learning (Cascade)
Session chair: Eyal de Lara

1. SecureFL: Privacy Preserving Federated Learning with SGX and TrustZone. 
Eugene Kuznetsov, Yitao Chen, Ming Zhao (Arizona State University)

2. LotteryFL: Empower Edge Intelligence with Personalized and Communication-Efficient Federated Learning. 
Ang Li, Jingwei Sun, Binghui Wang, Lin Duan (Duke University), Sicheng Li (Alibaba DAMO Academy), Yiran Chen, Hai "Helen" Li (Duke University)

3. Flame: A Self-Adaptive Auto-Labeling System for Heterogeneous Mobile Processors. 
Jie Liu, Jiawen Liu, Zhen Xie (University of California, Merced), Xia Ning (The Ohio State University), Dong Li (University of California, Merced)

  15:30-16:00 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  16:00-17:30 Session III - Security and Privacy (Cascade)
Session chair: Haoxin Wang

1. Aerogel: Lightweight Access Control Framework forWebAssembly-Based Bare-Metal IoT Devices. 
Renju Liu (UCLA), Luis Garcia (University of Southern California), Mani Srivastava (UCLA)

2. CAPLets: Resource Aware, Capability-Based Access Control for IoT. 
Fatih Bakir, Chandra Krintz, Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara)

3. Real-World Graph Convolution Networks (RW-GCNs) for Action Recognition in Smart Video Surveillance. 
Justin Sanchez, Christopher Neff, Hamed Tabkhi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

  17:30-18:30 Panel 1 (Cascade)Edge Computing Software: Where are we today?
Moderator: Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
Panelists:
Niranjan Maka (SmartHub.ai),
Tina Tsou (Enterprise Architect, Arm; TSC Chair, Akraino),
Jim Xu (Zenlayer)
Tianyang Ma (Principal Applied Scientist, Amazon Lab126)
Wei Liu (Director of Deep Learning Software, NVIDIA)
  18:30-20:00 Poster/Demo Reception (Sierra)
Wednesday, Dec 15     
  8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Bayshore Foyer)
  9:00-10:00 Keynote Speech 2 (Cascade): Scientific AI at the Edge and the Digital Continuum.
Session chair: Weisong Shi
Speaker:  Pete Beckman 
(Co-Director, Northwestern Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering and Argonne Distinguished Fellow)
  10:00-10:30 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  10:30-12:30 Session IV - Analytics (Cascade)
Session chair: Ming Zhao

1. AQuA: Analytical Quality Assessment for Optimizing Video Analytics Systems. 
Sibendu Paul (Purdue University), Utsav Drolia (NEC labs), Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Srimat Chakradhar (NEC labs)

2. Towards Performance Clarity of Edge Video Analytics. 
Zhujun Xiao, Zhengxu Xia, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago)

3. Microservice-based Edge Device Architecture for Video Analytics. 
Boyan Kostadinov, Si Young Jang, Dongman Lee (KAIST)

4. Spider: A Multi-Hop Millimeter-Wave Network for Live Video Analytics. 
Zhuqi Li (Princeton University), Yuanchao Shu, Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Longfei Shangguan (Microsoft), Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University), Paramvir Bahl (Microsoft)

  12:30-14:00 Lunch (Sierra)
  14:00-15:30 Session V - Platforms and Infrastructure (Cascade)


Session chair: Duong Nguyen

1. A Data-driven Optimal Control decision-making System for Multiple Autonomous Vehicles. 
Liuwang Kang, Haiying Shen (University of Virginia)

2. FENXI: Deep-learning Traffic Analytics at the edge. 
Massimo Gallo, Alessandro Finamore, Gwendal Simon, Dario Rossi (Huawei)

3. The Benefit of the Doubt: Uncertainty Aware Sensing for Edge Computing Platforms. 
Lorena Qendro, Jagmohan Chauhan (University of Cambridge), Alberto Gil C. P. Ramos (Samsung AI Center Cambridge), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

  15:30-16:00 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  16:00-17:30 Session VI - Middleware (Cascade)


Session chair: Haris Volos

1. ePulsar: Control Plane for Publish-Subscribe Systemson Geo-Distributed Edge Infrastructure. 
Harshit Gupta, Tyler C Landle, Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology)

2. OneOS: Middleware for Running Edge Computing Applications as Distributed POSIX Pipelines. 
Kumseok Jung (University of British Columbia), Julien Gascon-Samson (ÉTS Montréal), Karthik Pattabiraman (University of British Columbia)

3. Will They or Won’t They?: Toward Effective Prediction of Watch Behavior for Time-Shifted Edge-Caching of Netflix Series Videos. 
Shruti Lall, Raghupathy Sivakumar (Georgia Institute of Technology)

  17:30-19:00 Banquet and Awards (Sierra)
Thursday, Dec 16     
  8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Bayshore Foyer)
  9:00-10:00 Keynote Speech 3 (Cascade): Converging Cloud & Telecommunications Infrastructures: Opportunities & Challenges
Session chair: Haris Volos
Speaker: Victor Bahl 
(Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators)
  10:00-10:30 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  10:30-12:00 Session VII - Performance I (Cascade)
Session chair: Yuhong Liu

1. DeepRT: A Soft Real Time Scheduler for Computer Vision Applications on the Edge. 
Zhe Yang, Klara Nahrstedt, Hongpeng Guo, Qian Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

2. Characterizing and Accelerating End-to-End EdgeAI Inference Systems for Object Detection Applications. 
Yujie Hui (Ohio State University), Jeffrey Lien (NovuMind Inc), Xiaoyi Lu (University of California, Merced)

3. AggNet: Cost-Aware Aggregation Networks for Geo-distributed Streaming Analytics. 
Dhruv Kumar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Sohaib Ahmad (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

  12:00-13:30 Lunch (Sierra)
  13:30-14:30 Panel 2 (Cascade)Critical Infrastructure and Disruptive Technologies for Edge Computing on the Next Generation Networks
Moderator: Yiran Chen (Professor, Duke University)
Panelists:
Roger Berg (Director, Automotive Edge Computing Consortium (AECC), and Vice President, DENSO International America Inc.),
Adil Kidwai (Head of Product Management, EdgeQ Inc.),
Manoj Roge (HPC/Data Center Segment Lead, Synopsys Inc.)
Gopal Hegde (Sr. VP, Engineering and Operations, Sima.ai)
Mike Fitton (Vice President and GM, Network Business Division, Intel)
  14:30-15:30 Session VIII - Performance II (Cascade)


Session chair: Zheng Dong

1. The Performance Argument for Blockchain-based Edge DNS Caching. 
James Choncholas, Ketan Bhardwaj, Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Tech)

2. Exploring System Performance of Continual Learning for Mobile and Embedded Sensing Applications. 
Young D. Kwon (University of Cambridge), Jagmohan Chauhan (University of Southampton), Abhishek Kumar (University of Helsinki), Pan (Ben) Hui (HKUST), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge)

  15:30-16:00 Cofffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  16:00-17:00 PhD Forum (Cascade)
Session chairs: Sidi Lu, Kaiqi Zhao

EdgeComm, Dec. 17     
  8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Bayshore Foyer)
  9:00-10:00 Session I: Supporting the Edge with 5G and Beyond (Siskiyou)


1.  Learning based edge computing in air-to-air communication network. 
Zhe Wang (University of Louisville), Hongxiang Li (University of Louisville), Eric. J. Knoblock (NASA), Rafael D. Apaza (NASA)

2.  Towards Open and Cross Domain Edge Emulation - The AdvantEDGE Platform. 
Robert Gazda (InterDigital), Michel Roy (InterDigital), Jim Blakley (Carnegie Mellon University), Aly Sakr (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Rolf Schuster (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

3.  Edge Intelligence for Beyond-5G through Federated Learning. 
Shashank Jere (Virginia Tech), Yang Yi (Virginia Tech)

  10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  10:30-11:30 Session II: Distributed Learning and Computing at the Edge (Siskiyou)


1.  SquaFL: Sketch-Quantization Inspired Communication Efficient Federated Learning. 
Pavana Prakash (University of Houston), Jiahao Ding (University of Houston), Minglei Shu (Shandong Academy of Sciences, China), Junyi Wang (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China), Wenjun Xu (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Miao Pan (University of Houston)

2.  Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-agent Reinforcement Networking for Federated Edge Computing. 
Pinyarash Pinyoanuntapong (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Tagore Pothuneedi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Ravikumar Balakrishnan (Intel), Minwoo Lee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Chen Chen (University of Central Florida), Pu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

3.  Collaborative Cloud-Edge-Local Computation Offloading for Multi-Component Applications. 
Anousheh Gholami (University of Maryland, College Park), John S. Baras (University of Maryland, College Park)

  11:30-12:30 Session III: Autonomous Vehicles at the Edge (Siskiyou)


1.  Federated Learning with Infrastructure Resource Limitations in Vehicular Object Detection. 
Yiyue Chen (The University of Texas at Austin), Chianing Wang (Toyota Motor North America), BaekGyu Kim (Toyota Motor North America)

2.  Edge-Assisted Cooperative Perception in Autonomous Driving: A Reflection on Communication Design.  
Ruozhou Yu (North Carolina State University), Dejun Yang (Colorado School of Mines), Hao Zhang (Colorado School of Mines)

3.  Spectrum-Aware Mobile Edge Computing for UAVs Using Reinforcement Learning.  
Babak Badnava (University of Kansas), Taejoon Kim (University of Kansas), Morteza Hashemi (University of Kansas)

  12:30-14:00 Lunch (Sierra)
  14:00-15:00 Keynote Speech 4 (Cascade): Quantum communication and networks for edge computing
  15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  15:30-16:30 Session IV: Edge-Driven Applications (Siskiyou)


1.  You can enjoy augmented reality while running around: An edge-based mobile AR system. 
Haoxin Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Jiang Xie (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)

2.  Edge-based Fever Screening System Over Private 5G.  
Murugan Sankaradas (NEC Laboratories America), Kunal Rao (NEC Laboratories America), Ravi K. Rajendran (NEC Laboratories America), Amit Redkar (NEC Laboratories America), Srimat Chakradhar (NEC Laboratories America)

3.  iBranchy: An Accelerated edge inference platform for IoT Devices.  
Santosh K. Nukavarapu (Virginia Common Wealth University), Mohammad Ayyat (Virginia Common Wealth University), Tamer Nadeem (Virginia Common Wealth University)

TEC, Dec. 17     
  8:00-9:00 Breakfast (Bayshore Foyer)
 9:00-10:00 Session I: Security and Safety Aspects of Edge Applications (Cascade)


1.  Security and safety threat modeling in edge computing. 
Denzler (TU Vienna), Hollerer (TU Vienna), Fruehwirth (Austrian Center for Digital Production), Kastner (TU Vienna)

2.  Scheduling Real-Time Applications on Edge Computing Platforms with Remote Attestation for Security. 
Reusch (TU Denmark), Pop (TU Denmark)

3.  Industrial Edge-based Cyber-Physical Systems - application needs and concerns for realization. 
Toerngren (KTH Stockholm), Thompson (Thinkk), Herzog (SAAB), Inam (Ercisson), Gross (KTH Stockholm), Dán (KTH Stockholm)

  10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  10:30-11:30 Session II: Maxchine Learning for Edge Computing Systems (Cascade)


1.  Data-Driven End-to-End Delay Violation Probability Prediction with Extreme Value Mixture Models. 
Mostafavi (KTH Stockholm), Dán (KTH Stockholm), Gross (KTH Stockholm)

2.  A Decomposed Deep Training Solution for Fog Computing Platforms. 
Qian (TU Denmark), Barzegaran (TU Denmark)

3.  Decentralized task offloading decision making in an adversarial environment. 
B. Cho, Y. Xiao (Aalto University)

  12:30-14:00 Lunch (Sierra)
  14:00-15:00 Keynote Speech 4 (Cascade): Quantum communication and networks for edge computing
EdgeSP, Dec. 17     
  14:00-15:00 Keynote Speech 4 (Cascade): Quantum communication and networks for edge computing
  15:00-15:30 Coffee Break (Bayshore Foyer)
  15:30-16:30 Session I (Cascade)


1.  Adaptive Security Risk Mitigation in Edge Computing: Randomized Defense Meets Prospect Theory. 
Talal Halabi (University of Winnipeg)

2.  TrustZone Enhanced Plausibly Deniable Encryption System for Mobile Devices.  
Jinghui Liao (Wayne State University), Bo Chen (Michigan Technological University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)

3.  How BlockChain Can Help Enhance the Security and Privacy in Edge Computing?.  
Jinyue Song, Tianbo Gu, Prasant Mohapatra (University of California, Davis)

  16:30-17:30 Session II (Cascade)


1.  CANGuard: Practical Intrusion Detection for In-Vehicle Network via Unsupervised Learning. 
Wu Zhou (DiDi Labs, California, USA), Hao Fu (Facebook), Shray Kapoor (DiDi Labs, California, USA)

2.  MailLeak: Obfuscation-Robust Character Extraction Using Transfer Learning.  
Wei Wang (University of Maryland Baltimore County) , Zeyu Ning (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Hugues Iradukunda (University of Maryland Baltimore County), Qingquan Zhang (University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Ting Zhu (University of Maryland Baltimore County), and Ping Yi (Shanghai Jiaotong University)

Poster/Demo Session, Dec. 14
  1 Enabling Flexible Edge-assisted XR. 
Jin Heo, Ketan Bhardwaj, Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Tech)
  2 Accelerator-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler for DNN Tasks on Edge Computing Environment. 
Jungae Park, Unho Choi (Kookmin University), Seungwoo Kum, Jaewon Moon (Korea Electronics Technology Institute), Kyungyong Lee (Kookmin University)
  3 Demo: Traffic Safety System - Edge AI Computing. 
Albert Chun Chen Liu, Oscar Ming Kin Law, Jeffrey Y.C. Chen, Andy Jia En Hsieh, Cheng Hung Hsieh, Jeremiah Liao (Kneron)
  4 Demo: OneOS - Middleware for Running Edge Computing Applications as Distributed POSIX Pipelines. 
Kumseok Jung (University of British Columbia), Julien Gascon-Samson (ÉTS Montréal), Karthik Pattabiraman (University of British Columbia)
  5 AQuA: Analytical Quality Assessment for Optimizing Video Analytics Systems. 
Sibendu Paul (Purdue University), Utsav Drolia (NEC labs), Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University), Srimat Chakradhar (NEC labs)
  6 Sim-to-Real Transfer in Multi-agent Reinforcement Networking for Federated Edge Computing. 
Pinyarash Pinyoanuntapong (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Tagore Pothuneedi (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Ravikumar Balakrishnan (Intel), Minwoo Lee (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Chen Chen (University of Central Florida), Pu Wang (University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
  7 Sparse Bitmap Compression for Memory-Efficient Training on the Edge. 
Abdelrahman Hosny, Marina Neseem, Sherief Reda (Brown University)
  8 DeepRT: A Soft Real Time Scheduler for Computer Vision Applications on the Edge. 
Zhe Yang, Klara Nahrstedt, Hongpeng Guo, Qian Zhou (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  9 Towards Performance Clarity of Edge Video Analytics. 
Zhujun Xiao, Zhengxu Xia, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao, Junchen Jiang (University of Chicago)
  10 ePulsar: Control Plane for Publish-Subscribe Systemson Geo-Distributed Edge Infrastructure. 
Harshit Gupta, Tyler C Landle, Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  11 Demo: Towards Open and Cross Domain Edge Emulation - The AdvantEDGE Platform. 
Robert Gazda (InterDigital), Michel Roy (InterDigital), Jim Blakley (Carnegie Mellon University), Aly Sakr (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts), Rolf Schuster (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts)
  12 AggNet: Cost-Aware Aggregation Networks for Geo-distributed Streaming Analytics. 
Dhruv Kumar (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Sohaib Ahmad (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Abhishek Chandra (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Ramesh K. Sitaraman (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
  13 TrustZone Enhanced Plausibly Deniable Encryption System for Mobile Devices. 
Jinghui Liao (Wayne State University), Bo Chen (Michigan Technological University), Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
  14 Understanding Time Variations in DNN Inference for Autonomous Driving. 
Liangkai Liu (Wayne State University), Yanzhi Wang (Northeastern University), and Weisong Shi (Wayne State University)
  15 Fledge: Edge-based Federated Learning Framework for Mobile Healthcare. 
Pritish Mishra, Alexandre da Silva Veith, Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto)
  16 SecureFL: Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning with SGX and TrustZone. 
Eugene Kuznetsov, Yitao Chen, Ming Zhao (Arizona State University)