Empowering Sustainability, Efficiency, and DevOps Across the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum

Speaker: Adel N. Toosi

Affiliation: Monash University

Time: Friday 22/09/2023 from 11:00 to 12:00

Venue: To be announced

Zoom ID: 862 4616 1841 Password: 622968

Abstract: The growing demand for real-time data processing, privacy preservation, and simplified application development and deployment across cloud, edge, and the edge-to-cloud continuum has brought sustainability and efficiency to the forefront of our focus. This emphasis is particularly crucial in domains like the Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR), Video Analytics, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Edge Intelligence. In this seminar, my objective is to explore how cloud and edge computing, as well as the edge-to-cloud continuum, can become more environmentally friendly through the development of optimized algorithms and software to enhance energy efficiency in these systems. Additionally, I will delve into our advancements in serverless edge computing architecture, streamlining application deployment, and scalability to reduce operational costs and enhance overall efficiency. Throughout the discussion, I will highlight projects developed within the DisNet lab at Monash University, which significantly reduce the operational costs and greenhouse gas emissions of power-hungry cloud data centres and edge nodes. These achievements are made possible through innovative resource scheduling and management algorithms, with a particular focus on our work towards serverless edge computing. One of the showcased projects includes a prototype of power-efficient edge nodes integrated with a renewable energy system.

Biography: Dr. Adel N. Toosi is a Senior Lecturer and the Director of the DisNet Lab at the Department of Software Systems and Cybersecurity, Monash University, Australia. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 2015 and has a portfolio of over 70 peer-reviewed publications in esteemed venues such as IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. His publications have received over 4,500 citations, contributing to a current h-index of 30. Beyond his citations and publications, Dr. Toosi has significantly advanced the foundations of cloud computing and played a vital role in creating tools and technologies, such as CloudSim, InterCloud, SipaaS, Clouds-Pi, Con-Pi, WattEdge, and AutoScaleSim. Throughout his career, he has been honoured with numerous prestigious awards, including the AusPDC'21 Best Paper Award and Best Paper Candidate in ICSOC'21, as well as the recipient of the Australian Research Council Discovery project in 2022 and Linkage 2022. Dr. Toosi also served on the editorial board of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) and has been a guest editor for several Special Issues including Serverless Computing for Next-generation Application Development SI in FGCS. Furthermore, he has organized several workshops in his field, including Starless in PerCom 2022 and 2023. His research interests include Distributed Systems, Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Software-defined Networking, Serverless Computing, and Sustainable IT. For more information, please visit his homepage: https://adelnadjarantoosi.info/.