CLEEN 2019

Scope and objectives:

This workshop explores novel concepts to allow for flexibly centralised radio access networks using cloud-processing based on open IT platforms, exploiting network virtualization and multi-access edge computing technologies that are recognized as key enablers for the definition of future 5G systems. The aim is to allow for a guaranteed high quality of experience for mobile access via efficient management of cloud resources and services, and to allow for a future network evolution focused on energy efficiency and cost-effectiveness. In fact, all future innovative network solutions will be conceived and deployed with a long term perspective of sustainability, both in terms of energy consumption of the mobile network, its related interoperability with terminals and the cost efficiency of the different deployment and management options. This requires new concepts for the design, operation, and optimization of radio access networks, backhaul networks, operation and management algorithms, and architectural elements, tightly integrating mobile networks and cloud-processing. The emerging paradigm of distributed cloud environment is also a key topic. This workshop will cover technologies across PHY, MAC, and network layers, technologies which extrapolate the cloud-paradigm to the radio access and backhaul network, and will analyse the network evolution from an energy efficiency perspective. It will study the requirements, constraints, and implications for mobile communication networks, and also potential relationship with the offered service, both from an academic and industrial point of view.

CLEEN 2019 organizes jointly with 5G Cloud Native Workshop a joint session to go through the latest results and innovations in cloud native technologies and energy efficiency in future mobile systems.

We solicit original submissions in the following areas:

• Centralized / decentralized PHY and MAC processing
• Flexible assignment of functionality in mobile networks
• Joint operation and optimization of radio access and backhaul networks for cloud-based mobile networks
• Integration of cloud-services into green heterogeneous wireless networks; Management of cloud-based/cloud-operated heterogeneous networks providing access to cloud-services
• Task offloading and distributed computing environments
• Energy efficiency vs. QoS vs cost-efficiency trade-offs
• Architectural evolution of mobile networks and cost effective deployment strategies for evolved heterogeneous wireless network
• Multi-access Edge Computing and related enablers (e.g. new interfaces, protocols, node-to-node communication, D2D communication, innovative cache support, …), including Multi access technologies
• Service and energy management aspects of cloud-based mobile networks
• Storage and computation capability of small cells
• Resource allocation techniques; interference analysis, avoidance, and mitigation for heterogeneous networks
• Testbeds and performance evaluation for cloud-based mobile communication networks
• Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence for cloud efficiency

Important Dates:

Paper Submission: 30/01/2019
Acceptance Notification: 15/02/2019
Camera-Ready: 1/03/2019
Workshop: 15/04/2019

Submission Guidelines:

Accepted papers should be presented for publication in IEEE Xplore. A full version of each paper has to be submitted through the EDAS system under the workshop track.

Guidelines for submission can be found here.

CLEEN2019 Organising Committee:

General Chairs
Dario Sabella (INTEL, Germany)
Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA LETI, France)

TPC co-chairs
Miquel Payaró (CTTC, Spain)
Sergio Barbarossa (Univ. La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)
Panagiotis Demestichas (University of Piraeus, Greece)

Publicity co-chairs
Valerio Palestini (TIM, Telecom Italia Group)
Zdenek Becvar (Technical University Prague, Czech Republic)

CLEEN2019 Steering Committee

Antonio De La Oliva, UC3M, Spain
Carlos J. Bernardo (UC3M)
Maurizio Mayer (AICT, Italy)
Chuan Heng Foh (University of Surrey, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, UK)
Antonio Manzalini (TIM, Telecom Italia group, Italy, IEEE SDN Chair)
Jinsong Wu (Universidad de Chile, IEEE ComSoc TCGCC, Chile)
Xavier Costa, NEC Eurolabs, Germany
Tao Chen, VTT, Finland

CLEEN2019 Technical Programme Committee:

Alain Mourad, Interdigital, UK
Antonio De Domenico, CEA-LETI, France
Antonio De La Oliva, UC3M, Spain
Carlos Donato, Antwerp University, Belgium
Fabio Giust, Athonet, Italy
Giovanni Stea, University of Pisa, Italy
Ginés García Avilés, UC3M, Spain
Josep Vidal, UPC, Spain
Konstantinos Samdanis, Huawei, Germany
Luca Cominardi, UC3M, Spain
Loreto Pescosolido, Italian National Research Council, Institute for Informatics and Telematics, Italy
Marco Di Girolamo, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Italy
Matthieu De Mari, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore
Miltiadis Filippou, Intel, Germany
Muhammad Imran, Univ. of Glasgow, UK
Nicola Di Pietro, CEA-LETI, France
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, EWI, TUDelft, The Netherlands
Romeo Giuliano, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy
Tapio Rautio, VTT, Finland
Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain
Vincenzo Sciancalepore, NEC Eurolabs, Germany
Zdenek Becvar, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Tentative programme of the CLEEN2019 workshop (+ co-located 5GCND workshop):

The workshop is planned to be a full-day event and has the following programme agenda: