2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
(SERVICES 2026)

13-18 July 2026, Sydney, Australia

Part of the 2026 IEEE World Congress on SERVICES
July 13-18
Sydney, Australia

IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDGE COMPUTING & COMMUNICATIONS EDGE 2026 - Conference Program

13:00 – 14:10

EDG-CON-S1

Edge Computing Platforms and Trustworthy Systems

Room: 216

Session Chair: Stephan Recker, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts

Welcome from the Chairs

EDG_REG_8: Practical Modeling for Split DNN Inference on Near-Edge Accelerators

Hao Liu; Mohammed Fouda; Ahmed Eltawil; Suhaib A. Fahmy

EDG_REG_12: EdgeFaaS: A Function-based Framework for Edge Computing

Neha Vadnere; Yu-Ting Wang; Yitao Chen; Sreehari Sadesh; Ming Zhao

EDG_REG_47: NeSy-Edge: Neuro-Symbolic Trustworthy Self-Healing in the Computing Continuum

Peihan Ye; Alfreds Lapkovskis; Alaa Saleh; Qiyang Zhang; Praveen Kumar Donta

 

14:10 – 15:20

EDG-CON-S2

Edge Applications, Vision AI and Resource Management

Room: 216

Session Chair: Ming Zhao, Arizona State University

EDG_REG_19: EVLM: Intent-Driven Edge Vision-Language Model for UAV-Based Power Line Inspection

Reza Farahani; Zoha Azimi; Ilir Murturi; Arda Goknil; Sagar Sen; Christian Timmerer; Schahram Dustdar

EDG_REG_42: Fair Battery Degradation-Aware Edge Admission for Mobile Systems

Akshar Chavan; Syeda Tanjila Atik; Marco Brocanelli

EDG_REG_52: SENTRY: Statistical Reliability Analysis of Vision Transformers Under Soft Errors

Pramit Kumar Bhaduri; Mahdi Taheri; Samira Nazari; Maksim Jenihhin; Christian Herglotz; Michael Hübner

 

15:50 – 17:00

EDG-CON-S3

Edge Learning and Federated Applications

Room: 216

Session Chair: Shaleeza Sohail, The University of Newcastle

EDG_REG_41: HASA: Subnet Allocation for Compute-Constrained Model-Heterogeneous Federated Learning

Amir Hossein Shahdadian; Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem; Mahdi Taheri; Samira Nazari; Christian Herglotz

EDG_REG_22: From GPU Servers to Raspberry Pi: Benchmarking Open-Source Speech-to-Text for Edge Deployment

Uyen Thy Duong; Pakeeza Akram

EDG_SHT_15: KaaS-Edge: Resource-Aware Knowledge Distillation Service for Heterogeneous Wireless Edge Networks Shengzhi Huang

EDG_SHT_17: A Causal-Driven Hierarchical Federated Learning Framework for Resilient Load Forecasting in Distributed Microgrids

Md. Julkar Nayeen Mahi; Ranesh Naha; Alistair Barros

13:00 – 14:10

EDG-CON-S4

Emerging Edge Applications and Infrastructure

Room: 216

Session Chair: Ibrahim Khalil, RMIT University

EDG_SHT_5: UAVchain: Blockchain Technology Applications for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Naresh Kshetri; Mir Mehedi Rahman; Bishwo Prakash Pokharel; Nafiz Eashrak; Bishnu Bhusal; Md Bahauddin Badhon

EDG_SHT_32: Adaptive Differential Privacy for Federated Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks Using Meta-Learning Control

Elham Aldhamari; Shaleeza Sohail; Nur Izura Udzir; Nasimul Noman; Kamran Shaukat

EDG_SHT_58: Latency-Aware Range Queries over Network Coordinates using Hilbert Curve Indexing

Urwah Muslim; Harsha Nanayakkara; Stephan Recker

EDG_WIP_29: Building Smallsats from Consumer Electronics for Federated Earth Observation

Peter Baumann; Antonio Garcia; Dimitar Misev; Bang Pham Huu; Tim Gust; Heike Hoenig

EDG_SHT_6: Joint Task Offloading Method Based on MEC in Internet of Vehicles

Yilong Sun; Lu Liang; Yamei Cai; Yueqing Dong; Siming Zhao

 

14:10 – 15:20 

EDG-CON-S5

Federated Learning and Edge Intelligence (Remote)

Room: 216

Session Chair: Naresh Kshetri, Rochester Institute of Technology

EDG_REG_34: RAD-SFL: Resource-Aware Dynamic Split Federated Learning for Heterogeneous Edge Environments with Non-IID Data

Aditya Kalapaaking; Veronika Stephanie; Eric Samikwa; Ibrahim Khalil; Torsten Braun

EDG_REG_43: OrchNAS: Orchestrated Neural Architecture Search Service for Personalised Federated Edge Intelligence

Keya Patel; Sajib Mistry; Sheik Fattah; Aneesh Krishna

EDG_REG_62: Trustworthy Federated Learning for Edge-Enabled Spatial Crowdsourcing with Malicious Source Identification

Md Mujibur Rahman; Quazi Mamun; Michael Bewong; Md Zahidul Islam

 

15:50 – 17:00

EDG-CON-S6

Edge AI, Inference and Intelligent Systems (Remote)

Room: 216

Session Chair: Hai Dong, RMIT University

EDG_REG_28: Profiling Neural Network Partitioning Strategies for Inference across the Computing Continuum

Nikolaos Papadakis; Kostas Magoutis; Georgios Bouloukakis

EDG_REG_33: Lang2Graph: Towards Leveraging Human Language for Indoor Topology Inference Using LLMs

Yaqoob Ansari; Moamin Ibrahim; Eduardo Feo Flushing; Khaled Harras

EDG_REG_36: FlowRAG: A Two-Stage Retrieval-Augmented Intrusion Detection System for Adaptive UAV Network Security

Sripath Mishra; Shradha Awasthi; Bharat Bhargava; Zizheng Liu; Shafkat Islam

13:00 – 14:10

EDG-CON-S7

Edge Platforms and Resilient Infrastructure (Remote)

Room: 216

Session Chair: Zhizhong Liu, Yantai University

EDG_REG_10: Benchmarking Edge TSDBs for Multi-Tenant Network Workloads under Container Budgets: Tail Latency, Jitter, and Failure Frontiers

Fuming Fu

EDG_REG_38: IRON: Causal Checkpointing and Recovery for Intermittent Edge Systems

Renan Silva; Gibeon Junior

EDG_WIP_2: Slicing or Spoofing? Detecting and Containing Resource Hijacking in B5G Network Slicing with Suspicious Traffic

Sameer Ali; Helena Rifà-Pous

EDG_WIP_20: Real-Time Low-Rate DDoS Detection on Resource-Constrained IoT Devices

Chen Xu; Matthew Kuo; Farzana Zahid

EDG_WIP_63: MUFFLe: Efficient Model Update Compression via Generalized Deduplication for Federated Learning

Xiaobo Zhao; Daniel E. Lucani