Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects, such as smart cities or the Internet of Things, are getting involved in human life. Therefore, cloud computing cannot meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support.

To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving closer to the users from the core (cloud data centres) to the network's edge. FMEC's dependability is based on providing user-centric service. Fog and Mobile Edge Computing aims to run heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices.

Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and Mobile Edge Computing: administrative policies and security concerns (i.e., secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc).

FMEC 2024 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2024 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to the following topics:

    AI in Autonomous Urbanism
    Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications and applications
    Fog and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems
    Intelligent Transportation Systems
    Edge-cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms
    Edge-cloud networking and communication
    Quality of Service (QoS) improvement techniques
    Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems
    FMEC and IoT Data Communication Protocols
    Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications
    Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications
    FMEC in Environmental Sustainability
    Trustworthy AI for Edge and Fog Computing
    Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
    Decentralized Data Management and Streaming Systems in FMEC
    Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform
    Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge
    5G and fog/edge computing
    Middleware and runtime systems for fog/edge infrastructures
    Energy-efficient fog/edge computing
    Edge/fog-to-cloud APIs and protocols
    Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for edge/fog services
    Load balancing/scheduling in fog/edge computing
    Crowdsourcing and establishing trust on data sources
    Decision support systems for Edge-cloud computing
    AI-based or data-driven orchestration of workflows in Edge computing
    Automatic reasoning, scheduling and deployment of workflows and services in Edge computing
    Distributed management of Edge computing
    Mechanisms and data structures for the governance of Edge computing
    Interfaces, orchestration and optimization of the Networking-Computing continuum
    In-network computing for the edge-cloud continuum
    Novel programming models for Edge computing
    Dynamic Edge/Fog environments
    Automatic deployment and continuous dynamic composition of Edge services
    Semantic annotation of Edge/Fog services