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The 20th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC)

Location: Leuven, Belgium
August 4-6, 2025
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-25/
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Future Networks and Communications (FNC) research effort will help achieve a major promise of emerging technologies such as ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting vital applications in our daily lives such as health, energy consumption, environment transport, entertainment or education. The scope of FNC is the development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures that support the convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired and wireless broadband network technologies as enablers of the future Internet. This includes but is not limited to ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high-speed end-to-end optical connectivity, supporting open services and innovative ambient applications. The scope also embraces novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures, considering users and societal needs for success.

Important Dates
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- Workshop Proposal Due: February 15, 2025
- Paper Submission Due: April 11, 2025 (FINAL)
- Acceptance Notification: May 6, 2025
- Final Manuscript Due: June 5, 2025

Publication
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All FNC 2025 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series online. Procedia Computer Science is hosted by Elsevier on www.Elsevier.com and on Elsevier content platform ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com) and will be freely available worldwide. All papers in Procedia will be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index (http://thomsonreuters.com/conference-proceedings-citation-index/). All papers in Procedia will also be indexed by Scopus (www.scopus.com) and Engineering Village (Ei) (www.engineeringvillage.com). This includes EI Compendex (www.ei.org/compendex). Moreover, all accepted papers will be indexed in DBLP (http://dblp.uni-trier.de/). The papers will contain linked references, XML versions and citable DOI numbers. You will be able to provide a hyperlink to all delegates and direct your conference website visitors to your proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for publication in the following special issues:

- International Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (IF: 7.104), by Springer (http://www.springer.com/engineering/journal/12652)
- International Journal of Computing and Informatics (IF: 0.455), (http://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/index)
- International Journal of Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, IASKS (https://iasks.org/juspn)
- International Journal of Computer Networks (IF: 5.6) (Pending), Elsevier (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks)

FNC 2025 will be held in conjunction with the 22th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/mobispc-25/).

FNC 2025 will be held in the city of Leuven. Leuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in Belgium. It is located about 25 kilometres (16 miles) east of Brussels. It is the 10th largest municipality in Belgium and the fourth in Flanders. Leuven is home to the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the largest and oldest university of the Low Countries and the oldest Catholic university still in existence. The related university hospital of UZ Leuven, is one of the largest hospitals of Europe. The city is also known for being the headquarters of Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's largest brewer and one of the five largest consumer-goods companies in the world.

The conference venue will be at Park Inn (by Radisson) Hotel (Leuven), which is located right in the heart of the Leuven city. The hotel is less than 2 mins walk from the Leuven train station. All you have to do is to get off the train (or the taxi or the bus) and take the elevator to the bridge connecting the hotel with the rest of the city. Leuven city is directly connected with the Brussels International airport with a 13 min connection via train, 45 mins via bus or a 20 min by taxi (or Uber).

COMMITTEES:
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General Chair
Ladislav Hluchy, Institute of Informatics, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia

Program Chairs
Jamal Bentahar, Concordia University, Canada
Haroon Malik, Marshall University, USA

Workshops Chair
Stephane Galland, UTBM, France

Local Chair

Muhammad Adnan, Hasselt University, Belgium


Publicity Chairs
Ali Benzerbadj, University of Ain Temouchent Belhadj Bouchaib, Algeria
Igor Tchappi, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Farhan Ullah, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Advisory Committee
Soumaya Cherkaoui, Sherbrooke University, Canada
Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College, UK
Roch Glitho, Concordia University, Canada
Zygmunt J. Haas, Cornell University, USA
Philippe Martins, Telecom Paris Tech, France
Peter Sloot, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
David Taniar, Monash University, Australia

Technical Program Committee
http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/fnc-25/#programCommittees