NCA 2025 - Call for Papers

5-7 November 2025

Lisbon, Portugal

https://www.nca-ieee.org/

About the NCA

The IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Application is a successful series of conferences that serves as a large international forum for presenting and sharing recent research results and technological developments in the fields of Network and Distributed Computing. NCA, which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, reaches out to both researchers and practitioners, and to both academia and industry. The conference features keynotes and technical presentations.

Topics of interest

The International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA) is seeking articles concerning fundamental research and practical experience reports. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Theory of Network Computing
• Autonomic Network Computing
• Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• High Speed Networks/Protocols and Middleware
• Routing Mechanisms
• Overlay Networks/Peer-to-Peer Systems
• System Area Networks (SAN)/Clusters
• Performance Modeling/Quality of Services (QoS) Issues
• Web Caching and Switching
• Dependable Wide, Local, and System Area Networks
• Network Security
• Intrusion-Tolerant Networked Systems
• Scalable and Dependable Servers and Data Centers
• Middleware for Dependable Network Computing
• Self* (Configuring, Healing, Optimizing, Protecting, Organizing, Aware)
• Platforms for Network Computing
• Network Protocols: Verification and Validation
• Autonomic Network Computing for Achieving Self* Properties and Applications Availability
• Seamless and Virtual Capabilities for Implementing Self* Properties
• Software Defined Networking (SDN): Principles and Implementation
• Designing Highly-Available and Secure SDN
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV): Design and Optimization
• Network Cloud Computing
• Machine Learning Techniques for Networks and Cloud Resources Management
• Big Data in Clouds for IoT
• Future Internet and Communicating Objects
• Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANET)
• New services and applications for network sensor systems
• Fog/Edge Computing (including Compute Continuum).
• Energy-Efficient Computation and Communication
• Applications to Real and/or Complex Problems, Practical Experiences and Prototypes
• Algorithms, Framework, and Programming Environments for Distributed Systems
• Blockchain
• Byzantine Fault Tolerance
• Web and Mobile Security
• Social Networks
• Systems, Architecture, and Network for Cyber-Physical Systems
• Distributed Quantum Computing and Quantum Network Protocol
• Federated Learning

Student Grants

IEEE NCA 2025 offers some grants to enable students to attend the conference and/or the collocated workshops. The grants cover the cost of the registration. Grants will consist of a coupon code which can be used for a no-costs registration.

Grants are only awarded to students who are authors of a paper accepted at the IEEE NCA 2025 conference. However, please take into account that applications must be submitted *before* the author notification date.

Important dates

• Deadline for applications: October 6, 2025 (AoE)
• Notification of selected student grants: October 9, 2025 (AoE)

You can submit your application through Easychair. Note: in "Title" and "Keywords", you should fill in the title and keywords of the paper submitted to NCA.

The following information is requested:

• Applicant name, email, and affiliation (including country).
• Your submitted conference paper.
• A PDF letter with a motivation statement, with a short explanation of the expected benefits from attending the conference and/or workshop and why the grant should be awarded. The statement should describe ongoing research and recent papers published by the applicant. It should be no longer than one page.
• A letter of recommendation from the advisor.

Best Paper Awards

The NCA2025 Program Committee will select Best Paper and Best Student Paper. The first author of the Best Student Paper must be a BSc/MSc/PhD student.

Important Dates

Manuscript Due: August 15th 30th, 2025 September 5th, 2025 AoE (FIRM).

Acceptance Notification: October 7th, 2025

Manuscript Submission

Submission Process

Paper submissions are handled via EasyChair.
Please ensure your paper is submitted before the deadline.

Link to submissions website

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 7 October 2025.
Accepted authors must guarantee their paper will be presented at the conference.

Manuscript page limit

Regular Papers: 8 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.

Short Papers: 4 pages, including all figures, tables, and references.

Purchasing extra pages

Regular Papers: Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased at €100 (EUR) per extra page.

Short Papers: Up to 1 extra page may be purchased at €100 (EUR).

Authors can decide to submit full papers longer than 8 pages (up to 10 pages) before the reviewing process. This is an indication of their will to purchase extra pages during the registration process. Therefore, longer papers accepted as full papers cannot be shrunk when preparing camera ready versions. This is to respect the work made by reviewers and other authors which decided to stay in the limits. Authors who submitted papers as full papers which were accepted to the conference as short papers, will need to reduce their size to 4 pages (or 5 pages by purchasing 1 extra page) in the camera ready version.

Accepted papers and Publication Policies

Every regular paper accepted must have attached to it at least one registration at the full rate. Thus, for a manuscript for which all authors are students, one student author will be required to register at the full registration rate. For manuscripts where at least one author is already registered at the full rate, this fulfills the obligation.

No-show papers are defined as papers submitted by authors who subsequently did not present the paper at the technical meeting. This year, all presentations will be given in person at the conference venue. No-show papers that were not withdrawn and were published in the Proceedings must be identified as "No-Show" in the files submitted to the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) for further publication. No-shows will not be available on IEEE Xplore or other public access IEEE forums. IEEE CPS will maintain an archive of no-shows.

The IEEE CPS strongly discourages changes and, in particular, withdrawals of papers once submitted and included in the program.

If under any circumstances it becomes necessary for the author to withdraw or change a paper, IEEE CPS policy dictates that the request to do this must come directly from the author and not from any third party. IEEE CPS policy also states that in this case, the author will be held liable for all costs that are incurred. It would then be up to the author to get reimbursed for the expense from any third party if he/she feels it is justified. The IEEE CPS cannot act as a policing entity on behalf of the author in this regard.

AUTHORS’ KIT AND TEMPLATES

The author kit is provided on this page *.

• LaTeX Template
• Bibliography Style

Tips: Be sure to use the template's conference mode. See template documentation for details. Accordingly, check that the bibliography is properly formatted according to IEEE specifications. It is possible, but discouraged, to use other systems for the preparation of papers, e.g. MS-Word. Author kits for these systems can be found on this page.