NCA 2025
5-7 November 2025
Lisbon, Portugal
https://www.nca-ieee.org/

# ABOUT 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

# 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, 2025.
Acceptance Notification: October 7th, 2025
Conference: November 5th-7th, 2025


# Student Grants
NCA offers some grants to enable students to attend the conference and/or the collocated workshops. The grants cover the cost of the registration and may also include a contribution towards accommodation and travel expenses. Grants will be issued as a refund after the event. Grants are only awarded to students who are authors of a paper accepted at the NCA conference, at an NCA workshop, or of a poster/demo.
Further information will be available on our website soon.


Manuscript submission instructions, publication policies, organization committees: check our website https://www.nca-ieee.org.