Call for Papers

Important Dates

Paper registration: 30/01/2025The

Paper submission 30/01/2025The

Communication of results: March 13, 2025

Camera-ready due: April1, 2025


The Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC) is an annual event organized by the  Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and the  Computer Networks Laboratory (LARC). Over more than four decades, SBRC has established itself as the most important Brazilian scientific symposium on computer networks and distributed systems and one of the most competitive in Information and Communication Technologies. The significance of SBRC can be observed through the number of paper submissions and attendees in its various editions. Additionally, SBRC is classified in the top stratum of Qualis CAPES - Computer Science for scientific conferences.

The 43rd edition of SBRC will be held on May 19-23, 2025, in the beautiful city of Natal, Brazil. The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) organizes SBRC 2025. The symposium traditionally consists of technical sessions, workshops, panels and discussions, workshops, tool demonstrations, a Master's and PhD Thesis Contest, a Hackathon, and keynotes by nationally and internationally renowned invitees. In 2025, as in recent years, SBRC will also include an Interaction with Industry and Innovation Track with a specific Call for Papers.

Topics of Interest

Authors are invited to submit full papers containing scientific or technological research results. At least three experts will evaluate each paper. The non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes:

  • Distributed algorithms
  • Network quantitative analysis and modeling
  • Distributed and networked applications
  • Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies
  • Smart cities
  • Intensive data computing (Big Data), data mining and analysis
  • Mobile computing
  • Service-oriented, cloud, fog, and edge computing
  • Social computing
  • Ubiquitous, pervasive, and context-aware computing
  • Visible light communications
  • Urban computing
  • Performance, scalability, and reliability
  • Anomaly and attack detection and prevention
  • Digital Twins
  • Network engineering and traffic control
  • Protocol specification, validation, and verification
  • Identity, address, and location management
  • Network management, operation, design, and analysis
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in computer networks and distributed systems
  • Artificial Intelligence at the edge and fog (edge AI, edge intelligence)
  • Artificial Intelligence in programmable data planes
  • Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
  • Future Internet
  • Tactile Internet
  • Network measurement and monitoring
  • Middleware
  • Cross-layer optimization
  • Experimental network platforms
  • Data plane programmability
  • Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE)
  • Autonomic and self-organizing networks
  • Cellular networks (5G, 6G) and their applications
  • Information-centric networks
  • Data center networking
  • Cognitive radio networks
  • Sensor networks
  • Software-defined networks
  • Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks and systems
  • Mobile networks
  • Optical networks
  • Quantum networks
  • Infrastructured wireless networks
  • Social networks (online, mobile, and pervasive)
  • Delay/disruption-tolerant networks
  • Manned and unmanned vehicular networks
  • Green networking
  • Routing, switching, and addressing
  • Network security and distributed systems security
  • Adaptive distributed systems
  • Multimedia distributed systems
  • Real-time distributed systems
  • Web services
  • Network simulation and emulation
  • Distributed systems (autonomic, multimedia, real-time)
  • Network softwarization
  • Smart grids
  • Fault tolerance and resilience
  • Network function virtualization
  • Network virtualization


Submission Instructions

Papers submitted to the SBRC must constitute original work that has not been published elsewhere or is currently under review. Submissions will be exclusively electronic through the SBC JEMS3 system. Papers can be written in Portuguese or English and submitted only in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Each paper is limited to 14 pages, including abstract, figures, diagrams, and references. Papers should be formatted according to the SBC's Article Publication Template. It is also important to note that submitted papers must adhere to the SBC's Code of Conduct for Authors in Publications, approved by the SBC Council in February 2024.

The accepted papers will be published in the SBC-OpenLib (SOL), which grants open and free access to the scientific community. Publication of accepted papers requires at least one author's registration for SBRC 2025, as well as the oral presentation of the paper during the symposium.


OPEN SCIENCE PRINCIPLES

SBRC stimulates authors to adopt Open Science principles and practices. Therefore, authors are encouraged to disclose data setsdata sets, source code, tools, and other artifacts used in their research to promote transparency, reproducibility, and replicability of their work, for example, by including links to repositories or replication packages. Authors are also suggested to include an unnumbered section entitled "Availability of Artifacts" after the conclusion section, in which they can inform where research artifacts are available and how to access them. If it is not possible to make such artifacts available due to, for example, confidentiality or privacy issues, authors are suggested to include a statement about this impossibility. It is essential to highlight that sharing research artifacts is desirable, but it is not mandatory to submit papers or a criterion for acceptance of submitted papers.


Organization

General Chairs

Everton Cavalcante, UFRN

Roger Immich, UFRN

Main Track/Program Committee Chairs

Atslands Rocha, UFC

Flavia Delicato, UFF

Interaction with Industry and Innovation Track Chairs

Michelle Wangham, UNIVALI/RNP

Paulo Pires, UFF/Dell Technologies

Workshops Chairs

Carlos Ferraz, UFPE

Douglas Macedo, UFSC

Keynotes Chair

Lourenço Pereira Junior, ITA

Ronaldo Ferreira, UFMS

Short Courses Chairs

Alex Borges Vieira, UFJF

Jussara Almeida, UFMG

Panels Chair

Fábio Kon, USP

Women in Computer Networks and Distributed Systems - MUSAS Chair

Rosasna Andrade, UFC

Tools Showcase Chair

Diego Kreutz, UNIPAMPA

Jó Ueyama, USP

Master’s and PhD Thesis Contest - CTD Chairs

Denis Rosário, UFPA

Luciano Gaspary, UFRGS

Hackathon Chairs

Antonio Tadeu Gomes, LNCC

Weverton Cordeiro, UFRGS

Program Committee

Ademar Takeo Akabane (PUC-Campinas)

Alberto Egon Schaeffer-Filho (UFRGS)

Aldri Luiz dos Santos (UFMG)

Alex Borges Vieira (UFJF)

Alexandre Heideker (Università di Bologna, Itália)

Alfredo Goldman (USP)

Allan Edgard Silva Freitas (IFBA)

Allan Mariano de Souza (UNICAMP)

Ana Paula Couto da Silva (UFMG)

André C. B. Soares (UFPI)

André Costa Drummond (UnB)

André Gomes (Rowan University, EUA)

André Riker (UFPA)

Andrey Brito (UFCG)

Anelise Munaretto (UTFPR)

Antonio A. de A. Rocha (UFF)

Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Loureiro (UFMG)

Antônio Jorge Gomes Abelém (UFPA)

Antonio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes (LNCC)

Arlindo Flavio da Conceição (USP)

Augusto José Venancio Neto (UFRN)

Bruno Pereira Santos (UFBA)

Carlos A. G. Ferraz (UFPE)

Carlos Kamienski (UFABC)

Carlos Alberto Vieira Campos (UNIRIO)

Carlos Mauricio S. Figueiredo (UEA)

Carlos Raniery Paula dos Santos (UFSM)

Cecilia Cesar (ITA)

Celio Albuquerque (UFF)

Christian Esteve Rothenberg (UNICAMP)

Claudio Miceli de Farias (UFRJ)

Cristiano Bonato Both (Unisinos)

Cristina K. Dominicini (IFES)

Daniel Fernandes Macedo (UFMG)

Daniel Ludovico Guidoni (UFOP)

Daniel Macêdo Batista (USP)

Daniel Sadoc Menasche (UFRJ)

Dave Cavalcanti (Intel)

Debora C. Muchaluat-Saade (UFF)

Denis Rosário (UFPA)

Dianne Scherly Varela de Medeiros (UFF)

Diego Passos (ISEL, Portugal)

Diogo Menezes Ferrazani Mattos (UFF)

Divanilson R. Campelo (UFPE)

Djamel Fawzi Hadj Sadok (UFPE)

Dorgival Guedes (UFMG)

Edelberto Franco Silva (UFJF)

Edmundo de Souza e Silva (UFRJ)

Edmundo Madeira (UNICAMP)

Edson Tavares de Camargo (UTFPR)

Eduardo Alchieri (UnB)

Eduardo Coelho Cerqueira (UFPA)

Elias P. Duarte Jr. (UFPR)

Evandro Luiz Cardoso Macedo (UERJ)

Everton Cavalcante (UFRN)

Fabio Kon (USP)

Fábio Luciano Verdi (UFSCar)

Fábio Jorge Almeida Morais (UFCG)

Fabricio B. Carvalho (UFMT)

Fatima de Lima Procópio Duarte-Figueiredo (PUC Minas)

Fernanda Sumika H. Souza (UFOP)

Flavia Delicato (UFF)

Flavio de Oliveira Silva (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)

Francisco Brasileiro (UFCG)

Francisco Airton Silva (UFPI)

Geraldo Pereira (UESB)

Giovanni Venâncio (UFPR)

Glauber Dias Gonçalves (UFPI)

Gustavo B. Figueiredo (UFBA)

Gustavo Sousa Pavani (UFABC)

Heitor S. Ramos (UFMG)

Helder Oliveira (USP)

Helio Waldman (Unicamp)

Hermes Senger (UFSCar)

Horacio Fernandes de Oliveira (UFAM)

Horácio Oliveira (UFAM)

Humberto Torres Marques-Neto (PUC Minas)

Ian Vilar Bastos (UERJ)

Igor Monteiro Moraes (UFF)

Igor Leão dos Santos Montes (CEFET/RJ)

Italo Cunha (UFMG)

Jeferson Campos Nobre (UFRGS)

Jó Ueyama (USP)

Joahannes Bruno Dias da Costa (USP)

João Henrique Corrêa (UFC)

João Henrique Kleinschmidt (UFABC)

Joao Paulo Brito Gonçalves (IFES)

Jonatas Adilson Marques (University of Chicago, EUA)

José Ferreira de Rezende (UFRJ)

José Neuman De Souza (UFC)

José Augusto Suruagy Monteiro (UFPE)

Jose-Marcos Nogueira (UFMG)

Juliana de Santi (UTFPR)

Juliano Araujo Wickboldt (UFRGS)

Jussara Almeida (UFMG)

Keiko Fonseca (UTFPR)

Kelvin Dias (UFPE)

Leandro Villas (UNICAMP)

Léia Sousa de Sousa (UnB)

Leobino Nascimento Sampaio (UFBA)

Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)

Lourenco Alves Pereira Jr (ITA)

Luciana Arantes (Sorbonne Université, França)

Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS)

Luis Carlos Erpen De Bona (UFPR)

Luis Henrique Maciel Kosmalski Costa (UFRJ)

Luiz A. Rodrigues (Unioeste)

Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (UNICAMP)

Luiz Filipe Menezes Vieira (UFMG)

Marcelo Antonio Marotta (UnB)

Magnos Martinello (UFES)

Marcelo Caggiani Luizelli (UNIPAMPA)

Marcelo Gonçalves Rubinstein (UERJ)

Marco A.S. Netto (Microsoft)

Marco Di Felice (Università di Bologna, Itália)

Marcos Augusto Menezes Vieira (UFMG)

Marcos F. Caetano (UnB)

Markus Endler (PUC-Rio)

Mauro Fonseca (UTFPR)

Maycon Peixoto (UFBA)

Michael Anthony Stanton (RNP)

Michele Nogueira Lima (UFMG)

Michelle Silva Wangham (Univali)

Miguel Elias Mitre Campista (UFRJ)

Muriel Figueredo Franco (UFRGS)

Nabor Mendonça (Unifor)

Nelson Fonseca (UNICAMP)

Paulo Coelho (UFU)

Paulo F. Pires (UFRJ)

Paulo R. F. Cunha (UFPE)

Paulo Antonio Leal Rego (UFC)

Pedro Henrique Gomes (Ericsson)

Pedro Henrique Cruz Caminha (UFRJ)

Priscila Solis (UnB)

Rafael Esteves (IFRS)

Rafael Lopes Gomes (UECE)

Rafael Pasquini (UFU)

Rafael R. Obelheiro (UDESC)

Raimundo Jose de Araujo Macedo (UFBA)

Rebeca Mota (UFF)

Ricardo Parizotto (UFRGS)

Ricardo Jose Pfitscher (UFSC)

Roberto Rodrigues-Filho (UFSC)

Robson De Grande (Brocku University, Canadá)

Rodolfo Coutinho (Concordia University, Canadá)

Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette (USP)

Rodolfo S Villaca (UFES)

Rodrigo Campos Bortoletto (IFSP)

Rodrigo de Souza Couto (UFRJ)

Rodrigo I. Tinini (UFABC)

Rodrigo Neves Calheiros (Western Sydney University, Austrália)

Roger Immich (UFRN)

Ronaldo Alves Ferreira (UFMS)

Rossana Maria de Castro Andrade (UFC)

Samuel Moreira Araújo (UFSJ)

Sidney Cunha de Lucena (UNIRIO)

Silvana Rossetto (UFRJ)

Stenio Fernandes (Bank of Canada, Canadá)

Thais Vasconcelos Batista (UFRN)

Thiago Emmanuel Pereira (UFCG)

Thiago Henrique Silva (UTFPR)

Tiago Coelho Ferreto (PUC-RS)

Vinicius F. S. Mota (UFES)

Vinícius Fülber Garcia (UFPR)

Weverton Luis da Costa Cordeiro (UFRGS)

William Giozza (UnB)

Support

Brazilian Computing Society (SBRC)

Computer Networks Laboratory (LARC)