The Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is a highly selective venue for the presentation of measurement-based research in data communications. As we are in the era of data-driven research, IMC 2025 will focus on advancing the state of the art in the collection, usage, analysis, and sharing of network measurements for the research community. Despite the efforts in stimulating reproducibility of research as well as sharing of data, little progress has been made in our community to make research data open. Therefore, our attention when assessing contributions will be particularly on the willingness of the authors to share their data and make their work reproducible.

To encourage data sharing and reproducibility, authors will be required to make a declaration on artifact availability (full, partial, or no availability) for the submitted work. Since legitimate reasons (such as proprietary and privacy reasons) may prevent authors from sharing artifacts, papers will be assessed based on whether the contributions warrant acceptance despite the lack of artifact availability. In the case of no availability of artifacts, the authors are expected to explain why this is the case in a specific section. Artifact submission is not required at the paper submission time. All papers accepted to the program will be shepherded to ensure that the artifacts promised have been made available.

IMC takes a broad view of contributions that are considered in scope for improving the practice of network measurement, including, but not limited to:

collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about network structure and network performance (e.g., traffic, topology, routing, energy utilization, performance)
collection and analysis of data that yield new insights about application and end-user behavior (e.g., economics, privacy, security, application interaction with protocols)
measurement-based modeling (e.g., workloads, scaling behavior, assessment of performance bottlenecks, causality)
methods and tools to monitor and visualize network-based phenomena
systems and algorithms that build on measurement-based findings
theoretical analysis and modeling of networked-systems and measurement techniques
novel methods for data collection, analysis, and storage (e.g., anonymization, querying, sharing)
reappraisal of previous empirical network measurements and measurement-based conclusions
descriptions of challenges and future directions the measurement community should pursue

Networks of interest include:

Internet transit networks
edge networks, including home networks, broadband access networks (e.g., cable, fiber), and cellular networks
data center networks and cloud computing infrastructure
peer-to-peer, overlay, and content distribution networks
software-defined networks
online social networks
online services, platforms, and content providers
experimental networks, prototype networks, and future internetworks

Replicability Track:

IMC 2025 will continue the Replicability Track for submissions that aim to reproduce or replicate results that have been previously published at IMC. Priority will be given to replicability studies, although reproducibility studies are also in scope. For the definitions, please see ACM’s site.

Submissions to this track are two-phase. Prospective authors are invited to submit an Expression of Interest (EoI) via the submission system in the form of an abstract which must explain:

Which paper the authors aim to replicate
Whether the paper will be replicated or reproduced
What the IMC community stands to learn from the replication or reproduction
Chosen approach, and why it will lead to new insights

A small committee will evaluate the EoIs and their potential to be of interest to the IMC community. The authors of strong abstracts will receive an invitation to a full submission.

The EoI serves to avoid misunderstandings and disappointment for authors as we acknowledge that replicating or reproducing a paper is a very significant effort to which potential authors would commit much time.

Full submissions will then be assessed by the TPC and must conform to the same criteria and rules as full submissions on the main track (see below).

All papers accepted as part of the reproducibility track will be included in the conference proceedings with the title indicating the track. The accepted papers will also have an opportunity to be presented during the poster session and an invited subset will have an opportunity to be presented as in-person talks.

See the Important Dates section for the EoI deadline. Full submissions have the same deadlines (abstract registration and full submission) as the IMC Spring deadline. There won’t be a replicability track submission deadline in the Fall (November 2024).