Distributed systems have gained a more prominent role in the everyday life of many people. Additionally, the scale of these systems has also been increasing over the past decade, and systems that interconnect users at a planetary scale are now common place. Users expect these systems to be robust, highly available, safe, and efficient. This leads to the emergence of significative challenges for the scientific community to find solutions that provide all these characteristics. The goal of the workshop is to bring researchers and practitioners from the large-scale distributed systems community to discuss the current state of the art, emerging challenges and trends, as well as novel solutions, implementation and deployment of large scale, and in particular of planetary-scale, distributed systems and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Novel storage organizations for large scale systems (e.g., NoSQL databases, in-memory databases, geo-replicated systems).
- Consistency, reliability, and fault models for large scale distributed systems.
- Data recovery: online and disaster recovery.
- System assumptions for dependability and performance.
- Scaling-out and elasticity with large number of nodes.
- Fully decentralized versus central control architectures.
- Robust and efficient protocols for unstructured overlay networks (epidemic-based dissemination, aggregation, slicing).
- Peer-to-Peer systems, protocols, and applications.
- Large-scale infrastructure technologies (locking, group membership services).
- Cloud computing.
- Grid computing.
- Security for planetary-scale distributed systems.
- Fog, mist, and edge computing.
Submission Guidelines
We solicit proposals in two possible formats: 1) Short Papers (6 pages, IEEE double-column format) with original contributions, experience reports, or work in progress containing initial validations; or 2) contributed talks that should be summarised in the form of extended abstracts (2 pages, IEEE double-column format) reporting positions and visions for the future, identifying new challenges or research venues, or early reports of on-going work. The organization welcomes contributions from both academia and industry. Industry submission (or submissions with co-authors from industry) should be labelled as so for notifying reviewers.
All papers should be written in English and submitted as a single PDF file through the EasyChair system, using 8.5x11-inch paper, double-column, 10pt font. Limits reported above include all content, images, and references. Authors should use the IEEE two-column format for conference proceedings when preparing their submissions. The first page should provide the name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s), and the type of submission (Short Paper or Extended Abstract). At least one of the authors of every accepted paper must register and present the paper at the workshop.
All submissions will be reviewed by members of the workshop program committee, which will select the best submissions for presentation at the workshop. Regular papers will appear at the workshop proceedings published in conjunction with the proceedings of SRDS. Extended abstracts will not be published in the proceedings.