OSDI '25 Call for Papers

Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

The 19th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '25) will be co-located with the 2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC '25) and take place on July 7–9, 2025, in Boston, MA, USA, at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.

OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software. The symposium emphasizes innovative research and quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation. OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including operating systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, cloud computing, mobile systems, secure and reliable systems, systems aspects of big data, embedded systems, virtualization, networking as it relates to operating systems, and management and troubleshooting of complex systems. We also welcome work that explores the interface to related areas such as computer architecture, networking, programming languages, analytics, and databases. We encourage contributions with highly original ideas, new approaches, and groundbreaking results.

Important Dates

• Abstract registrations due: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 5:59 pm EST (10:59 pm UTC)
• Complete paper submissions due: Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 5:59 pm EST (10:59 pm UTC)
• Author Response Period: Reviews available: Thursday, March 6, 2025; Author responses due: Monday, March 10, 2025
• Notification to authors: Tuesday, March 25, 2025
• Final papers due: Thursday, June 5, 2025

Submission Guidelines

Submission Evaluation and Scope

Submissions will be judged on novelty, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process. OSDI '25 will have a deliberate focus on selecting papers that offer significant contributions to computer systems research and align with community interests. Reviewers will evaluate submissions based on topic relevance to computer systems and their potential to impact future research and practices. Submissions must demonstrate relevance and offer unique insights to capture the interest of a substantial portion of OSDI attendees.

Confidentiality and Simultaneous Submission

• Papers will be treated as confidential prior to publication. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered.
• Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud and is prohibited. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy.
• Submitting a paper that had been previously submitted to and not accepted by another conference is permitted as long as authors have substantially addressed the previous reviewers' comments. Information regarding the previous submission and revisions must be provided.
• Prior or concurrent workshop publication does not preclude publishing a related paper in OSDI. Authors must provide a copy of the workshop paper and explain new material.
• Prior or concurrent publication in non-peer-reviewed contexts (e.g., arXiv.org, technical reports) is permitted, but submissions must use an anonymized project or system name.

Paper Formatting and Length

• Length: Maximum 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables. Additional pages are allowed for references only.
• Typeface: 10-point type on 12-point leading.
• Layout: Two-column format.
• Margins: Text block 7" wide x 9" deep.
• Accepted Papers: Allowed 14 pages in proceedings, plus references.
• Requirements: Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review. Figures and tables should be legible in black and white. Short papers may not receive full consideration.

Supplementary Material

Authors may upload supplementary material in separate files. PC members are not required to read supplementary material; the paper must stand alone without it.

Identity Blinding

The paper review process is double-blind. Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their submissions, refraining from identifying themselves or their institutions either explicitly or by implication (e.g., through references or acknowledgments). Submissions violating these rules will be rejected without review. Contact the program co-chairs well in advance for anonymization assistance.

Abstract Registration

Abstract registration is an essential part of the paper-reviewing process. Abstracts must provide sufficient information to understand the topic and contribution. Insufficient abstracts will be rejected, precluding paper submission.

Conflicts

Authors must provide information about conflicts with PC members (institution, advisor, collaboration, personal) when registering abstracts. Extraneous conflicts are not permitted. Chairs will review conflicts and may reject abstracts or papers based on conflict information.

Submission System

All papers must be submitted via the submission system.

Author Response Period

Authors will have an opportunity to respond to reviews prior to the program committee meeting. Responses should be limited to correcting factual errors or directly addressing reviewer questions. New experiments or promises of future work are not allowed. Responses are optional, up to 2000 words.

Revise and Resubmit

OSDI '25 will continue the option to revise and resubmit for some of the rejected papers.

Other Calls

• Call for Artifacts
• Call for Posters

Contact Information

• General Submission Questions:
  • Program Co-Chairs: osdi25chairs@usenix.org
  • USENIX Office: submissionspolicy@usenix.org
• Registration: conference@usenix.org
• Student Grants: students@usenix.org

Symposium Organizers

• Program Co-Chairs:
  • Lidong Zhou, Microsoft
  • Yuanyuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego

Sponsorship

Details on sponsorship opportunities are available on the Sponsors page. USENIX is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that relies on sponsor support.