Call for Papers: IEEE Workshop on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2025)

The 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR 2025) will be held from May 20 to 22, 2025, in Suita, Osaka, Japan.

HPSR has been a foundational technology in high-speed data networks, supporting global communication infrastructure and evolving paradigms like network virtualization, cloud-edge computing, and the Internet of Things. In the current AI-centric era, HPSR is critical for data center networks, enabling scalable, low-latency, and fault-tolerant solutions.

Topics of Interest

Research work on the following topics, but not limited to, are welcome for consideration:

High-Performance Functionality and Architectures

• Address lookup algorithms, packet classification, scheduling, and dropping
• Applications of data science and analysis on high-performance networks
• Applications of GPU on network functions
• Data center and wide-area networks
• Efficient data structures for networking applications
• High-speed packet processors
• Multiprocessor networks
• Network management
• Network traffic analysis and measurements
• Power-aware switching, bridging, and routing protocols
• Routing and resource allocation
• Standardization activities of emerging switching and routing
• Switching architectures
• Switching, bridging, and routing protocols
• Traffic characterization and engineering

Optical Communication and Networks

• Disaster-resilient networks
• Fiber-wireless convergence
• Free space optics and optical LANs
• Hollow-core fiber communication
• Hybrid fiber-wireless networks
• Optical access networks
• Optical backhaul for wireless networks
• Optical data center networks
• Optical fiber communication and networks
• Optical network architectures
• Optical networks for cloud/fog
• Quantum optical communications
• Subsea communication and networks
• Techno-economics and network economics
• Visible light communication and networks

Network Technologies and Applications

• AI/ML for communications and networking
• Augmented and virtual reality
• Big data and analytics in smart city
• Blockchain for communications and networking
• Cyber-physical systems and networks
• Defence communications and networking
• Game theory with networks
• Network economics and pricing
• Network function virtualization
• Open networking
• Power-line communication
• Rural and remote connectivity
• Security, privacy, and trust
• Signal processing for communications
• Smart grid communication networks
• Software-defined networks
• Spectrum sharing models

Emerging Technologies

• 5G-advanced and 6G technologies
• Edge technologies
• Full-duplex communications
• Future technologies for IoT
• Green communications and networking
• Haptic and holographic technologies
• ICT enabling technologies for e-health systems
• Integrated sensing and communication
• Intelligent meta-surfaces
• Millimeter-wave communications
• Molecular communications
• Nano-networking
• Quantum communication and networks
• Satellite internet
• Semantic communications
• Testbed and prototype implementation
• UAV communications and networking
• Ultra-reliable and low-latency communications
• Wireless body area networks
• New paradigms in networking and communication systems

Submission Guidelines

• Initial Submission Due: 20 February 2025 (FIRM)

• Acceptance Notifications: 20 March 2025

• Camera Ready Due: 15 April 2025

• Author Registration Deadline: 15 April 2025

• Final Version Submission Due: 15 April 2025

• The page length limit for all initial submissions for review is SIX (6) printed pages (10-point font). Initial submissions longer than SIX (6) pages will be rejected without review.

• All final submissions of accepted papers must be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) printed pages (10-point font) including figures. No more than one (1) additional printed page (10-point font) may be included in final submissions, and the extra page (the 7th page) will incur an over length page charge of USD$100.

• Template of the manuscript can be found on the conference website.

• Submissions should be made through EDAS.

Workshops

• WS Proposal Submission Deadline: 25 November 2024
• WS Proposal Acceptance Notification: 13 December 2024
• Web Posting of Call for WS Papers: 20 January 2025
• WS Paper Submission Deadline: March 23, 2025 (FIRM)
• WS Paper Acceptance Notification: April 4, 2025 (Extended)
• WS Camera Ready: 15 April 2025
• WS Author Registration Deadline: 15 April 2025

Tutorials, Posters & Demos

Calls for tutorials, posters, and demos are also available. Please refer to the conference website for details.

Contact Information

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