Important Dates
Paper submission 01/04/2025
Communication of results: 04/17/2025
Camera-ready due: 04/22/2025
Presentation
The Workshop on Network and Service Management and Operation is an event promoted by the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC) and aims to provide a space for the presentation of relevant research and activities in the area of network and service management and operation. In this way, the event contributes to integrating the Brazilian community of researchers and professionals working in this area. In addition, the WGRS aims to promote a forum for the presentation and discussion of solutions used by providers and users of network management systems. The 30th edition of the WGRS will be held during the 43rd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2025), which will be held between May 19 and 23, 2025, in Natal-RN.
Topics of Interest
Authors are invited to submit full papers containing relevant results of their scientific or technological research. All submitted papers will be judged based on their quality and relevance by a review panel of three or more experts. Only original papers that have not been published elsewhere will be considered. The list of topics of interest for the WGRS 2025 is presented below and is non-exhaustive:
- Network provisioning and capacity planning
- Management architectures
- Self-management and self-configuration
- Accounting and ticketing
- Performance, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
- Autonomous Network and Service Management
- Blockchain-based management blockchain
- Policy-based management
- Web Services Based Management and peer-to-peer
- Big Data Management Big Data
- Cloud and Fog Computing Management
- Information Technology Infrastructure Management
- Internet of Things Infrastructure/Platform Management
- Internet of Things Management and Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communication
- Mobility management
- Management of Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) and Flying ad hoc networks (FANETs)
- Management of 4G, 5G and 6G cellular networks
- Converged Network Management
- Integrated heterogeneous network management
- Management of mobile, wireless and sensor networks (MANETs)
- Optical network management
- Programmable Network Management
- Security management
- Service and application management
- Distributed management
- Future Internet
- Methodologies for network management and operation
- Management Information Modeling
- Monitoring and methods based on network metrology
- Management platforms
- Software-defined networks
- Social networks (online, mobile, and pervasive)
- Overlay networks and virtual topologies
- Security, privacy and isolation
- Event and fault handling
- Network function virtualization
- Information visualization
Instructions for Authors
Articles to be submitted to WGRS 2025 must be written in Portuguese or English, with a maximum of 14 pages, including summary, abstractfigures, attachments, references, etc. All articles must be formatted according to the SBC's Article Publication Template. It is also important to emphasize that the articles to be submitted must follow the SBC's Code of Conduct for Authors in Publications, approved by the SBC Council in February 2024. Submission of articles will be exclusively electronic, through the system JEMS3.
Papers submitted to WGRS 2025 will be evaluated by the workshop’s Program Committee and the best papers will be selected for presentation and publication in the event’s proceedings. The evaluation committee, composed of members of the Program Committee, will announce the best papers during the event and the authors will receive a certificate, including the best paper and two honorable mentions. In addition, the authors of the best paper will be invited to submit an extended version to the journal. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM).
All accepted and reviewed articles will be published in SBC's digital library, the SBC OpenLibrary (SOL), at WGRS series.. The publication of accepted articles requires the registration of at least one author in SBRC 2025, as well as the oral presentation of the article during the event.
Organized by
Leandro Almeida (IFPB)
Joahannes Costa (UNIFESP)
Artifacts Committee
- Diego Kreutz (UNIPAMPA)
- Jéferson Campos Nobre (UFRGS)
- João Gondim (UnB)
- Jorge Pires Correia (UFPR)
- Kayuã Oleques Paim (UNIPAMPA/UFRGS)
- Leandro Bertholdo (UFRGS)
- Ramon Fontes (UFRN)
- Roben Castagna Lunardi (IFRS)
- Rodrigo Brandão Mansilha (UNIPAMPA)
- Silvio Ereno Quincozes (UNIPAMPA)
- Tiago Heinrich (UFPR)
Program Committee
- Alberto Schaeffer Filho (UFRGS)
- Aldri Luiz dos Santos (UFMG)
- André Figueira Riker (UFPA)
- Anelise Munaretto (UTFPR)
- Antonio Marcos Alberti (Inatel)
- Antônio Tadeu Azevedo Gomes (LNCC)
- Augusto Venâncio Neto (UFRN)
- Bruno Schulze (LNCC)
- Bruno Kimura (UNIFESP)
- Carlos Westphall (UFSC)
- Célio Vinicius Neves de Albuquerque (UFF)
- Cristiano Bonato Both (UNISINOS)
- Daniel Fernandes Macedo (UFMG)
- Daniel Ludovico Guidoni (UFSJ)
- Danielo Gonçalves Gomes (UFC)
- Denis Rosário (UFPA)
- Eder John Scheid (UFRGS)
- Edmundo Madeira (UNICAMP)
- Eduardo Cerqueira (UFPA)
- Fátima Duarte-Figueiredo (PUC Minas)
- Fernando Matos (UFPB)
- Flávio Gerardo Coelho Rocha (UFG)
- Geraldo P. Rocha Filho (UnB)
- Heitor Ramos (UFMG)
- Helder May Nunes da Silva Oliveira (UFPA)
- Horácio Oliveira (UFAM)
- João Henrique Gonçalves Medeiros Corrêa (UFC)
- Joaquim Celestino Júnior (UECE)
- Joel Rodrigues (Inatel)
- José Augusto Suruagy Monteiro (UFPE)
- José Marcos Nogueira (UFMG)
- Jéferson Campos Nobre (UFRGS)
- Juliano Araujo Wickboldt (UFRGS)
- Jussara Almeida (UFMG)
- Leandro Villas (UNICAMP)
- Lisandro Zambenedetti Granville (UFRGS)
- Lourenço Alves Pereira Júnior (ITA)
- Luciano Paschoal Gaspary (UFRGS)
- Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (UNICAMP)
- Luis Henrique Costa (UFRJ)
- Luiz Henrique Andrade Correia (UFLA)
- Marcelo Rubinstein (UERJ)
- Mauro Fonseca (PUCPR)
- Michele Nogueira (UFPR)
- Muriel Figueredo Franco (UFRGS)
- Paulo André da Silva Gonçalves (UFPE)
- Paulo Ditarso Maciel Jr (IFPB)
- Rafael Lopes (UECE)
- Ricardo José Pfitscher (UFSC)
- Rodolfo Ipolito Meneguette (USP)
- Roger Immich (UFRN)
- Ronaldo Ferreira (UFMS)
- Ruan Delgado Gomes (IFPB)
- Thiago Silva (UTFPR)
- Vinicius da Cunha M. Borges (UFG)
- Vinícius F. S. Mota (UFES)
