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 2026 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. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to the following topics:
Edge-Cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms
Edge-Cloud networking and communication
Edge-Cloud computing architectures, frameworks and platforms
Network virtualization for Edge-to-cloud systems
Industrial Fog and Mobile Edge Computing Applications
Mobile Cloud Computing Systems and Applications
Security and Privacy in Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform
Federated learning and distributed machine learning in the fog and on the edge
Middleware and runtime systems for Fog/Edge/Cloud infrastructures
Fog, Edge and Mobile Edge Computing in unmanned aerial vehicle communications
Fog, Edge and Mobile Edge Computing in mission-critical systems
Energy-efficient Fog/Edge/Cloud computing
Mobility, connectivity, heterogeneity support for Fog/Edge/Cloud services
5G and Fog/Edge computing