FNC 2025: Call for Papers

The 20th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications will be held in Leuven, Belgium, August 4-6, 2025.

FNC is designed for practitioners, researchers, scientists and administrators in the development arenas.

Scope of FNC

FNC research will help achieve ubiquitous access to broadband, supporting applications such as health, energy consumption, environment, transport, entertainment, and education. The scope includes:

• Development of energy-efficient future network infrastructures
• Convergence and interoperability of heterogeneous mobile, wired, and wireless broadband network technologies
• Ubiquitous fast broadband access and ultra-high-speed end-to-end optical connectivity
• Open services and innovative ambient applications
• Novel and evolutionary approaches to tackle network architectures

Topics of Interest

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• 4G Mobile Technology, Including Open Mobile Initiatives
• 4G Wireless Networks and Systems
• Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• Adaptation Techniques for Next Generation Networks and Services
• Ambient and Pervasive Networking
• Augmented Reality
• Broadcast Technology
• Collaborative Communication Technology
• Communication Data Grids
• Communication Interfaces
• Communication Modelling
• Communication Network Security
• Communication Security, Trust, Protocols and Applications
• Communication Software
• Communication Technology for eLearning, eGovernment, eBusiness
• Crowd Sourcing and Human Computation
• End-to-End Quality of Service
• Energy Conservation Technologies
• Fixed-Mobile Convergence
• Forthcoming Optical Communication Systems
• Future Cloud for Communication
• Future Games and Games Designing
• Future Generation Communication Networks
• Future Internet and Networking Architectures
• Future Mobile Communications
• Future Warehousing
• Grid, Crowd Sourcing and Cloud Computing
• High-Speed Data Applications on Mobile Networks
• Home Automation and Monitoring Applications
• HSPA, HSPA+, LTE, LTE Advance
• Human-Computer Communication
• Innovative Platforms and Applications for Assisted Living
• Intelligence for Future Communication Systems
• Intelligent Internet Communication
• Intelligent Systems for E-communication
• LTE Deployment Experiences
• Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Applications
• Mission Critical Architectures
• Mission Critical Mobile Technologies
• Mobile Applications User Interface and Design
• Mobile Commerce
• Mobile Entertainment
• Mobile GIS Applications
• Mobile Health Care and Medical Applications
• Mobile Learning
• Mobile Mixed Reality
• Mobile Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Applications
• Mobile Search Engines
• Mobile Social Networking
• Mobile TV and Multicast Applications
• Mobile TV and Multimedia Phones
• Mobile Vehicular Technologies
• Mobile Web Technology
• Next Generation Access Technologies
• Next Generation Hypermedia Systems
• Next Generation Mobile Gaming
• Next Generation Service Architectures
• Next Generation SIP-based VoIP and Video Over IP Applications
• Next Generation Software and Technologies for E-communication
• Next Generation VoLTE, PoC applications
• OMA 4G/IMS
• Pervasive Computing
• Proximity/Sensors/NFC Based Mobile Services
• Real-time Multimedia Applications
• Resource Allocation and Management Strategies
• Satellite and Space Communications
• Secure Mobile Banking Applications
• Social Technology Devises, Tools and Applications
• Web 2.0 Applications
• WiMax, WiMax 2
• Wireless Modelling

Important Dates

• Workshop Proposal: February 28, 2025
• Submission Deadline: April 11, 2025
• Author Notification: May 6, 2025
• Final Manuscript Due: June 3, 2025

Publication

All FNC 2025 accepted papers will be published by Elsevier Science in the open-access Procedia Computer Science series on-line.

• Indexed by Scopus
• Indexed by Thomson Reuters' Conference Proceeding Citation Index
• Indexed by Engineering Village (Ei) including EI Compendex
• Indexed in DBLP