ICIN 2025: Call for Papers

The 28th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN 2025) is soliciting original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. The conference will take place in Paris, France, from March 11-14, 2025.

Theme

"Towards full life cycle automation in the IoT-edge-cloud continuum"

Submission Guidelines

• Papers will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity, and interest to a wide audience.
• All submissions must be written in English and use the standard IEEE two-column conference template: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
• Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process.
• All submissions must be done electronically through EDAS: https://edas.info/N32464.
• Technical papers: Up to 8 pages (Full papers) and 5 pages (Short papers), including tables, figures, and references.
• At least one author is required to register at the full rate to present the accepted paper. Accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore.
• Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM).

Areas of Interest and Topics

• Intelligent network service management

  • Intelligent end-to-end service configuration
  • Intelligent and cooperative management models across heterogeneous network segments from IoT to Cloud and back
  • Intelligent, resilient and robust schemes in the IoT-edge-cloud continuum service management
  • Enablers for cross-network intelligence and services trustworthiness
  • Intelligent and flexible networks and services for high adaptability
  • Support of intelligent network service management by digital twins
  • Distributed intelligence in B5G/6G networks

• IoT-edge-cloud continuum and intelligent softwarized networks evolution and life cycle

  • Intelligent edge for vertical industries
  • Digital twins challenges for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum life cycle automation
  • Vehicular cloud services
  • Industrial networks and services for an intelligent automation
  • Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining
  • Communication protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
  • Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking
  • Security, trust and privacy

• Enablers and services for intelligent wireless and mobile networks

  • Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking
  • Scalability and multi-tenancy in beyond wireless, cellular and emerging networks
  • Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery
  • Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments

• Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols

  • Zero-touch network and service management and orchestration
  • Artificial intelligence for networks and networks for artificial intelligence
  • Orchestration of mobile and ephemeral resources, automated infrastructure discovery
  • Network data analytics, anomaly detection and feature extraction
  • Autonomic and cognitive networking
  • Automated data, control, and management planes
  • Intent-based network management
  • Self-driving networks
  • Network programmability
  • Automated QoS/QoE management
  • Orchestration of distributed cloud, edge and network resources
  • Security, societal, and legal aspects of network automation
  • Federated learning-based applications

• Technologies for innovation in clouds, edge, networks and IoT

  • SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding
  • Serverless computing and FaaS
  • Application-aware networking
  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and network services
  • Advanced multimedia and real-time communications
  • QoE/QoS Assurance
  • Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration
  • Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures
  • Measurement, monitoring and telemetry
  • Time-sensitive and deterministic networking
  • Open-source projects and open standards

Important Dates

• Paper Submission Due: November 17, 2024
• Notification of Acceptance: December 20, 2024
• Camera-Ready Papers due: January 13, 2025
• Conference Date: March 11 - 14, 2025

Other Submission Deadlines

• Demo Papers Deadline:
  • Paper Submission Due: January 19, 2025
  • Notification of Acceptance: January 24, 2025
  • Camera-Ready Papers due: January 31, 2025
• Workshops Papers Deadline:
  • Paper Submission Due: December 27, 2024
  • Notification of Acceptance: January 14, 2025
  • Camera-Ready Papers due: January 21, 2025