09:00 - 10:00 Keynote

Mobile Cloud Computing: The Beginning of the End? Abstract

Dr. Baochun Li (Bell Canada Endowed Chair in Computer Engineering, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto) Bio

10:00 – 10:30 Networking Break

10:30 – 12:00 Mobile Could Computing Applications

Session Chair: Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan)

Bringing Mobile Online Games to Clouds
Sergey Gorlatch (University of Munster, Germany); Dominik Meilaender (Uni Muenster, Germany); Frank Glinka (University of Muenster, Germany); Wei Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China); Xiaofei Liao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P.R. China)


Bringing the Cloud to the Edge
Hyunseok Chang (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA); Adiseshu Hari (Bell Laboratories, USA); Sarit Mukherjee (Bell Labs USA, USA); T. V. Lakshman (Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA)


Heuristic Offloading of Concurrent Tasks for Computation-Intensive Applications in Mobile Cloud Computing
Mike Jia (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, United Kingdom); Jiannong Cao (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ, Hong Kong); Lei Yang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong)


Crowdsourcing on Mobile Cloud: Cost Minimization of Joint Data Acquisition and Processing
Huan Ke (The University of Aizu, Japan); Peng Li (The University of Aizu, Japan); Song Guo (The University of Aizu, Japan)


12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Resource Management

Session Chair: F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada)

Wireless Resources Virtualization in LTE Systems
Mohamad Kalil (Western University, Canada); Abdallah Shami (The University of Western Ontario, Canada); Yinghua Ye (Nokia Simens Networks, USA)


Cloud Radio Access Networks (C-RAN) in Mobile Cloud Computing Systems
Yegui Cai (Carleton University, Canada); F. Richard Yu (Carleton University, Canada); Shengrong Bu (Carleton University, Canada)


Online Multi-Resource Scheduling for Minimum Task Completion Time in Cloud Servers
MohammadJavad NoroozOliaee (Oregon State University, USA); Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (QU, USA); Mahdi Ben Ghorbel (Qatar University, Qatar)


A Lightweight Access Control Mechanism for Mobile Cloud Computing
Xuanxia Yao (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Xiaoguang Han (University of Science and Technology Beijing, P.R. China); Xiaojiang Du (Temple University, USA)

15:00 – 15:30 Networking Break

15:30 – 17:00 Energy Efficiency

Session Chair: Haleh Khojasteh (Ryerson University, Canada)

An Energy Optimizing Scheduler for Mobile Cloud Computing Environments
Manjinder Nir (Carleton University, Canada); Ashraf Matrawy (Carleton University, Canada); Marc St-Hilaire (Carleton University, Canada)


Characterizing energy consumption of IaaS clouds in non-saturated operation
Haleh Khojasteh (Ryerson University, Canada); Jelena Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada); Vojislav B. Mišić (Ryerson University, Canada)


Energy Compensated Cloud Assistance in Mobile Cloud Computing
Jaya Prakash Champati (University of Toronto, Canada); Ben Liang (University of Toronto, Canada)


Energy-Efficient Cloud Resource Management
Mehiar Dabbagh (Oregon State University, USA); Bechir Hamdaoui (Oregon State University, USA); Mohsen Guizani (QU, USA); Ammar Rayes (Cisco / San Jose State University, USA)