CloudCom 2025: Call for Papers

CloudCom is a premier international conference on Cloud Computing, bringing together researchers, practitioners, engineers, and students from both academia and industry. It has a long tradition of emphasizing how to build cloud computing platforms with impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Cloud Computing Association.

The 16th edition of CloudCom will be held in Shenzhen, China, from November 14 to 16, 2025. It attracts world-class researchers to explore new challenges, present leading-edge innovations, and identify emerging technologies in cloud computing, edge computing, virtualization, security and privacy, big data, systems architecture, service-oriented architecture, and high-performance computing.

Submission Details

Original and unpublished work must be submitted through the online submission system at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2025

• Page Limit: Submissions should not exceed 8 pages, including tables, figures, and references.
• Format: Papers must be in IEEE CS format. Template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded from the IEEE site https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Submissions must be in PDF format only with savable text and embedded fonts.
• Review Process: The review process will be doubly blind. Submissions should not include any information that may identify the authors.
• Presentation Requirement: For each accepted submission, at least one of the co-authors must have a full conference registration and present the work in person.

Special Sections

CloudCom 2025 invites contributions for the following special sections:

• Semantic Communication
• Federated Learning
• Secure Distributed ML
• AIoT for Smart Cities
• Sustainable Blockchain

Conference Tracks

Original technical submissions of regular research papers, workshop proposals, and special session proposals on the following tracks are invited:

Track 1: Architecture, Storage, and Virtualization

• Cloud architecture, virtualization technologies, containers and microservices, cloud storage systems, scalability and performance, etc.

Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications

• Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), serverless computing, etc.

Track 3: Security, Privacy, and Trust

• Cloud security and privacy, data protection, identity and access management, security compliance, risk assessment, etc.

Track 4: IoT and Distributed Cloud

• Cloud-IoT integration, distributed cloud computing, IoT architecture and platforms, IoT data analytics, etc.

Track 5: Cloud and Edge Computing with Mobile Communications

• Edge computing architecture, fog computing, mobile cloud computing, cloud-edge collaboration, 5G and 6G networks, etc.

Track 6: AI for Cloud Computing

• AI for Cloud Infrastructure Management, AI-enhanced Cloud Services, AI for Cloud Security, AI for Data Management and Storage, Cloud-native AI Model Deployment

Track 7: Integrating Large Models and Distributed Cloud Computing in Next-Generation Networks

• Large model deployment in distributed clouds, Distributed cloud computing for large models, Generative AI for next-generation networks, Scalability and efficiency of large models in distributed cloud computing, System architectures for large model reasoning and training, Dynamic scalability model for cloud services

Track 8: Cloud/Edge Computing for E-Health

• Autonomous computing for E-Health, Biomedical and biosensor computing for E-Health, Real-time health monitoring and remote diagnosis, Data integration and privacy protection for E-Health, Intelligent medical equipment and robots, Personalized medical care and health management

Publications

Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE CloudCom 2025 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore and EI Compendex for indexing.

In addition, selected high-quality papers will be recommended for fast-track publication in the following journals after acceptable extensions:

• IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
• The Journal of Cloud Computing by Springer

Important Dates

• Workshop Proposal Deadline: June 1, 2025
• Special Session/Workshop Proposal Notification: July 1, 2025
• Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2025
• Paper Acceptance Notification: October 4, 2025
• Author Notification: October 4, 2025
• Camera-Ready & Author Registration Deadline: October 30, 2025
• Conference Dates: November 14-16, 2025

All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AOE).

Contact Us

• Email: cloudcom2025@163.com
• Location: Shenzhen, China