CONASENSE 2025

Motivation and Rationale for the Workshop, and Technical Description

The Communication, Navigation, Sensing, and Services (CONASENSE) platform is a 6G interdisciplinary forum dedicated to facilitating research and discussion on emerging 6G digital services to support societal development.
The CONASENSE 6G platform organizes an annual workshop, with the 2025 edition will be co-located with IEEE WPMC 2025.
The workshop, “CONASENSE Workshop 2025: Cognitive, Energy-Efficient IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Orchestration,” explores research focusing on efficient and resilient resource management across IoT-Edge-Cloud infrastructures, addressing networking, computational, and data resources with an emphasis on AI-driven orchestration strategies designed for energy efficiency by default.
From a Telco-Cloud perspective, the workshop aims at bringing work that explores how Edge-Cloud principles, AI-driven network automation and an integrative approach to SDN and Kubernetes can enhance the efficiency and scalability of data communications, particularly in the Edge-Cloud continuum.

Key focus areas include:

• Federated, multi-tenant Edge-Cloud orchestration for network slicing and MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing).
• AI-enabled network automation in telco-cloud environments, including intent-based networking (IBN) and self-optimizing networks (SONs).
• Energy-efficient workload placement and service function chaining (SFC) across cloud-native infrastructures.
• Microservices-based network function deployment (e.g., Cloud-Native Network Functions – CNFs) and dynamic service migration across edge and core cloud platforms.

The workshop encourages contributions on real-world implementations, AI-driven optimizations, and open architectural designs that address the intersection of networking, computing, and cloud-native paradigms in data communications.

Call for Papers

15th CONASENSE Workshop co-located with IEEE WPMC 2025: Cognitive, Energy-Efficient IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Orchestration

The development of a sustainable 6G ecosystem requires a debate based on the articulation of different areas and experts in communications, sensing, humancentric services, and sustainability. A key technological driver in this vision is the virtualization and softwarization of network and compute resources, enabling large-scale adaptation while supporting a vast number of connected devices. This discussion extends beyond traditional data communications to encompass end-to-end resource management across the IoT-Edge-Cloud continuum.

In this context, computation and networking are increasingly intertwined, and AI plays a critical role in enabling network automation, optimization, and intelligent orchestration. To ensure the resilient and energy-efficient deployment of applications, research must address novel architectural, networking, and orchestration paradigms that go beyond conventional cloud and telecom infrastructures.

The CONASENSE Workshop 2025 focuses on efficient and resilient resource management across IoT-Edge-Cloud infrastructures, emphasizing AI-driven orchestration strategies designed for energy efficiency by default. From a Telco-Cloud perspective, the workshop invites contributions that explore how cloud-native architectures, AI-driven network automation, and the integration of SDN and Kubernetes can enhance the efficiency, scalability, and adaptability of next-generation networks, particularly in the Edge-Cloud continuum.

Submissions are invited in two formats. Regular research papers, limited to six pages (excluding references and appendices) in IEEE two-column 10pt format, must be original, unpublished, and not under review elsewhere. These papers will undergo a double-blind peer review, and accepted submissions will be presented at the workshop and included in the proceedings. Additionally, extended abstracts of up to two pages (excluding references) are welcome for early-stage research and position papers. These abstracts provide an opportunity for authors to showcase preliminary ideas and receive early feedback. Accepted abstracts will be presented as lightning talks or demos but will not be included in the conference proceedings.

The workshop shall provide a best paper award and a best talk award, based on audience voting during the workshop. Furthermore, derived from the workshop, the organizers shall edit an open access book with chapters based on the best presentations and focus on the technological advancements. The book will be part of the CONASENSE Open Access book series, edited by River publishers.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Microservice-based and service-oriented network architectures targeting low-latency applications, energy awareness by design.
• Open architectural designs for energy-efficient networking.
• Decentralised learning for autonomous network optimization.
• Network slicing and orchestration for multi-tenant environments.
• Collaborative AI for multi-domain network management.
• Integration of non-terrestrial networks (satellite, UAVs) in Edge-Cloud infrastructures.
• Open-source tools and frameworks for large-scale experimentation across IoT-Edge-Cloud.
• Use-case deployment for massive IoT-Edge-Cloud applications.
• ML models, including LLMs and mini LLMs, to improve overall networking performance metrics (e.g., latency, throughput, energy dissipation, use of green energy, security, etc.) across the Edge-Cloud continuum.
• Energy-aware QoS models.
• Network exposure architectures and mechanisms for federated multi-tenant environments.
• Energy efficiency aspects in edge-cloud continuum, e.g., telemetry, probing, exposure across multi-tenant, federated environments.
• AI/ML-based Joint orchestration of cross-layer data (network, compute, data resources).
• Dynamic SDN-based network overlays for Kubernetes federation (e.g., VXLAN, Geneve, SRv6).
• Automated service discovery and inter-cluster routing with SDN controllers.
• Reinforcement learning for intelligent path selection across federated clusters.
• Network-aware migration of microservices across Edge-Cloud environments (including far Edge).
• Federated resource scheduling optimized for network conditions using SDN telemetry.
• Data observability, network optimization, and closed-loop automation.
• Real-world use cases, experimentation, and evaluation of cross-layer orchestration strategies.

Workshop Organizers and Committees

• Workshop Chairs: Rute Sofia, sofia@fortiss.org, fortiss, Munich, Germany, sofia@fortiss.org, (CONASENSE Steering Committee) Ramjee Prasad, Ramjee Prasad prasad.ramjee@ctifglobalcapsule.org, CTIF Global Capsule, Denmark (CONASENSE Steering Committee) Vassilis Tsaoussidis, vassilis.tsaoussidis@gmail.com, ATHINA, Greece Xiaoming Fu, Xiaoming Fu, fu@cs.uni-goettingen.de, Göttingen University, Germany
• Publicity Chair: Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique, CTIF Global Capsule, Denmark, paulo@ctifglobalcapsule.org (CONASENSE Steering Committee)
• Demo Chair: Jorge Sá Silva, sasilva@deec.uc.pt, DEI, University of Coimbra.

Deadlines:

• Full paper submission: 30.06.2025
• Acceptance Notification: 13.07.2025
• Camera-ready submission: 01.09.2025
• Workshop date: to be defined