SDMEC 2025

International Symposium on Software Defined Networks and Mobile Edge Computing

In conjunction with

The 12th International Conference on Software Defined Systems

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Symposium Topics

Core Technologies

  • Software Defined Network (SDN) Architectures and Design
  • Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) Architectures and Design
  • SDMEC Integration
  • SDMEC Orchestration
  • SDMEC Based Control plane design
  • SDMEC Based Data plane design
  • SDMEC Performance Management

Applications & Support Systems

  • SDMEC support for Cloud based DataCenter
  • SDMEC support for 5G Networks
  • SDMEC support for Internet of Things (IoT)
  • SDMEC support for Big Data Computing
  • SDMEC support for large scale storage system
  • Hardware system design for SDMEC
  • SDMEC Security management

Network & Computing Paradigms

  • Radio Access Network virtualization at the Edge
  • SDMEC in access networks
  • Edge and Fog Computing
  • Cloud Computing
  • Case studies

Organising Committee

General Co-chairs

Mohammad Shojafar
Ryerson University, Canada
Gregorio Martinez Perez
University of Murcia, Spain

Technical Program Co-chairs

Zahra Pooranian
University of Padua, Italy
Zilong Ye
California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Mehdi Sookhak
Arizona State University, USA

Steering Committee

Luís Veiga
Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Ahmed E. Kamal
Iowa State University, USA
Cristina Cervelló-Pastor
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Zilong Ye
California State University, Los Angeles, USA
Gregorio Martinez Perez
University of Murcia, Spain

Publication and Publicity Co-chairs

Guillaume Ruty
Cisco Systems, Telecom ParisTech
Sandra Sendra
Universidad de Granada, Spain
Sanju Tiwari
Teerthankar Mahaveer University, India
Neeraj Kumar
Thapar University, India

Technical Programme Committee

Jingyuan Fan
SUNY Buffalo, USA
Doan Hoang
University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Huu-Nghi Nguyen
École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France
Tejas Subramanya
FBK CREATE-NET, Italy
Abeer Alanazi
Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz University, KSA
Manuel Mazzara
Innopolis University, Russia
Vivek Kumar
National Univ. of Science and Technology-MiSiS, Russia
Gladys Diaz
Paris 13 University, France
Wael Hosny Fouad Aly
American University of the Middle East, Kuwait
Zhanqi Xu
Xidian University, China
Jian Kong
The University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Yu Xiong
Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Yongli Zhao
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Lingxia Liao
The University of British Columbia, Canada
Raouf Boutaba
University of Waterloo, Canada
Gang Sun
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Abdulaziz Ghaleb
QU, Qatar
Kohei Shiomoto
NTT, Japan
Suleyman Eken
Kocaeli University, Turkey
Andy Rindos
IBM Research, USA
Jianwu Wang
University of California, San Diego, USA
Ahmed Bouridane
University of Northumbria, UK
Mohamed Abdel-Maguid
University Campus Suffolk, UK
Emmanuel Bertin
Orange Labs - France Telecom, France

Important Dates

15 Oct 2025
Submission Date
03 Nov 2025
Notification Date
10 Nov 2025
Registration and Camera Ready Submission

Submission Instructions and Publication

Submission Guidelines

We invite you to submit original contributions to SDMEC 2025 via the official submission system through the Easy Chair Platform. Submissions can include technical and experimental, theoretical, conceptual, or survey papers.

Paper Requirements

  • Format: IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format using 10-point font
  • Length: Regular papers must not exceed 6 pages (including figures, tables, and references)
  • File Format: All papers must be submitted in PDF format
  • Keywords: Include up to 7 keywords
  • Contact Information: Complete postal and email address, phone and fax numbers of corresponding author

Review Process

  • All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers
  • Reviews based on relevance, originality, importance, and clarity
  • Papers must present original unpublished research
  • Must not be under review for any other conference or journal

Publication

  • Accepted papers will appear in the 12th International Conference on Software Defined Systems Proceedings
  • Proceedings will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion
  • Indexing in EI (Compendex), Scopus, and DBLP
  • Extended versions of selected papers may be invited for a Special Issues on relevant journals

Note: Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. High-quality papers that cannot be accepted as regular papers may be accepted as short papers.

Registration and camera ready submission

for your paper to be included in the symposium and conference program, You must complete the registration and the camera ready paper submission

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