Welcome from General Chairs

Falko Dressler	Ruidong Li

Welcome to the Annual International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025), February 17-20, 2025, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

On behalf of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2025) Executive Committee, we are pleased to welcome you to ICNC 2025-Honolulu. It has been a real honor and privilege to serve as the General Chair of this conference.

Continuing the successful trend since ICNC 2018-2020 and 2024, ICNC 2025 has brought together a tremendous and rich diversity of authors and speakers from academia, government, and industry around the globe to share ideas and new perspectives on a wide range of computing, communications, and networking research. The popularity of ICNC as a major forum for computing, communications, and networking research is now well established.

This year's conference program consists of technical sessions that include contributed papers, invited papers, and workshops. ICNC 2025 features five keynote lectures by world leaders. Everyday, the conference program starts with the keynote lecture. The five keynote lectures are

• "Secrets of Video Quality", by Alan Bovik (NAE/NAI member, IEEE Life Fellow), Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair Professor, University of Texas at Austin, USA.
• "Contemporary Visual Computing for 6G Semantic Communications: Challenges and Opportunities", by Changwen Chen (IEEE/SPIE Fellow, MAE), Chair Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China.
• "Challenges and future trends in electrification of transportation", by Kaushik Rajashekara (NAE member, IEEE/NAI/SAE Fellow), Distinguished Professor of Engineering, University of Houston, USA.
• "Creating Value through Space Integrated Networks towards 6G", by Masayuki Ariyoshi (IEICE Fellow), Professor, Tohoku University, Japan.
• "Multi-AP Coordination Approaches over Emerging WLANs: Future Directions and Open Challenges", by Nei Kato (IEEE/IEICE Fellow), Professor, Tohoku University, Japan.

The conference also features six plenary lectures by world distinguished researchers. They are

• "Hybrid Quantum-Classic Computing for Future Network Optimization and Machine Learning", by Zhu Han (IEEE/ACM/AAAS Fellow), John and Rebecca Moores Professor, University of Houston, USA.
• "Integrated Sensing and Communications: Tradeoffs and Designs", by H. Vincent Poor (NAS/NAE, IEEE/AAAS Fellow), Michael Henry Strater University Professor, Princeton University, USA.
• "Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces: Communication, Computing and Sensing in the Wave Domain", by Marco Di Renzo (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Paris-Saclay University, France.
• "Building a Secure 6G: Lessons from 5G Vulnerabilities and Future Directions", by Matthew Valenti (IEEE Fellow), Professor, West Virginia University, USA.
• "On Optimal Offloading of DNNs from IoTs to Cloud", by Jie Wu (IEEE/AAAS Fellow, MAE), Laura H. Carnell Professor, Temple University, USA.
• "Collaborative Edge Computing in Low-Altitude Vehicular Networks", by Liuqing Yang (IEEE/AAIA Fellow), Chair Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-Guangzhou, China.

ICNC 2025 also features four Distinguished Lectures and thirty-two Invited Talks. We are pleased to have the following Distinguished Lecturers:

• "Towards Edge-Native Foundation Models: A Paradigm Shift in AI Construction, Deployment and Governance at the Edge", by Song Guo (IEEE/CAE Fellow), Chair Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong.
• "Recent Results on the Road to Assured Aviation Communications", by David W. Matolak (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
• "Development of Data Mining and Machine Learning Methodologies to Advance Knowledge of Drivers' Behaviors and physiological responses in Naturalistic Driving", by Yi Lu Murphey (IEEE Fellow), Paul K Trojan Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA.
• "A Neural Network Model for Autonomous Vehicles Safety Check Using Camera-only and Camera-LiDAR Images", by Honggang Wang (IEEE Fellow), Founding Chair and Professor, Yeshiva University, USA.

It's also our great honor to have the following Distinguished Invited Speakers (alphabetical order):

• Fumiyuki Adachi (IEEE/LEICE Life Fellow), Professor, Tohoku University, Japan.
• Ender Ayanoglu (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA.
• Azzedine Boukerche (IEEE/CAE/EIC/AAAS/AAIA Fellow), Distinguished University Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada.
• Danijela Cabric (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
• Min Chen, Professor, University of Washington Bothell (UW Bothell), USA.
• Yu Cheng (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA.
• Xinwen Fu, Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA.
• Anders Høst-Madsen (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA.
• Chin-Tser Huang, Professor, University of South Carolina, USA.
• Ping Ji, Professor, City University of New York, USA.
• Sung-Ju Lee (IEEE Fellow), School of Computing at KAIST, Korea.
• Victor Leung (IEEE/RSC/EIC/CAE Fellow), Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Zhu Li, Professor, University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA.
• Jianquan Liu, Director & Senior Principal Researcher, NEC Corporation, Japan.
• Thomas Magedanz, Professor, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
• Shiwen Mao (IEEE Fellow), Professor and Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar, Auburn University, USA.
• Jelena Misic (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Ryerson University, Canada
• Panos Nasiopoulos (IEEE/CAE Fellow), TELUS Mobility Research Chair Professor, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• Eiji Oki (IEEE/IEICE Fellow), Professor, Kyoto University, Japan
• Björn Ottersten (IEEE/EURASIP/AAIA Fellow), Professor, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Ci Song (IEEE Fellow), Professor, Tsinghua University, China
• Guan-Ming Su, Director of Research - Dolby Laboraties, USA
• Dirk Slock (IEEE/EURASIP Fellow), Professor, EURECOM, France
• Emilio Calvanese Strinati (CEA Fellow), Professor, CEA-LETI, MINATEC, France
• Lee Swindlehurst (IEEE Fellow), Nicolaos G. and Sue Curtis Alexopoulos Presidential Chair, Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, USA
• Manos M. Tentzeris (IEEE Fellow), Ken Byers Professor, Georgia Tech, USA
• Haohong Wang, General Manager, TCL Research America, USA
• Jie Wang, Professor, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
• Naoaki Yamanaka (IEEE/IEICE Fellow), Professor, Keio University, Japan
• Qiang Ye, Dalhousie University, Canada
• Andrea Zanella, Professor, University of Padova, Italy
• Michele Zorzi (IEEE Fellow), Professor, University of Padova, Italy

ICNC 2025 would not be possible without the hard work of many volunteers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank the executive committee members

• TPC Chairs: XianbinWang, Western University, Canada
• TPC Co-Chairs: Hongyi Wu, University of Arizona, USA; Xu Yuan, University of Delaware, USA; George K. Karagiannidis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Executive Chairs: Jian Ren, Michigan State University
• Invited Talk Chairs: Maro Di Renzo, Paris-Saclay University, France; Hai Lin, Osaka Metropolitan University
• Tutorial Chairs: Fang Fang, Western University, Canada; Daniel da Costa, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
• Workshop Chairs: Dusit Niyato, Nanyang Technological Univ., Singapore; Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami, USA
• Publicity Chairs: Rose Qingyang Hu, Utah State University, USA
• Conference Operation Chair: Senad Busovaca, California State University, USA; EK Park, North Carolina Central University, USA
• Local/Event Arrangement Chair: Michelle Park, TIA, USA
• Registration Chairs: Jianfei Shao, Maxim, USA Zehan Wang, Twitter, UK
• Conference Operation Chairs: Senad Busovaca, CSU, USA EK Park, KSU, USA

Symposium Chairs:

• AI and Machine Learning for Communications and Networking (AMCN): Xuyu Wang, Florida International University, USA; Junqing Zhang, University of Liverpool, UK; Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Communications and Information Security (CIS): Boyang Wang, University of Cincinnati, USA; Brian Jalaian, University of West Florida, USA; Kai Zhou, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Edge Computing, Cloud Computing and Big Data (ECB): Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of North Texas, USA; Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia
• Mobile and Wireless Networking (MWN): Dejun Yang, Colorado School of Mines, USA; Zhi Sun, Tsinghua University, China
• Multimedia Computing and Communications (MCC): Zehui Xiong, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore; Jianbing Ni, Queens' University, Canada; Jiawen Kang, Guangdong University of Technology, China
• Next Generation Networks and Internet Applications (NGNI): Jacek Kibilda, Virginia Tech, USA; Sheng Zhou, Tsinghua University, China; Divanilson Rodrigo Campelo, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
• Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluations (NAPE): Tamer M. Nadeem, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA; Rui Ning, Old Dominion University, USA
• Optical and Grid Networking (OGN): Evrim Guler, Bartin University, Turkey; Danyang Zheng, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
• Signal Processing for Communications (SPC): Stefano Tomasin, University of Padova, Italy; He Fang, Fujian Normal University, China; Nan Yang, Australia National University, Australia
• Social Computing and Data Mining (SCDM): Guangmo (Amo) Tong, University of Delaware, USA; Joong-Lyul Lee, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, USA; Jianxiong Guo, Beijing Normal University, China
• Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (WASN): Ahmed Refaey, University of Guelph, Canada; Tianqi Yu, Soochow University, Taiwan; Sami Souihi, University of Paris-Est Créteil, France

· Wireless Communications (WC): Qingqing Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Ertugrul Basar, Koc University, Turkey; Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, The University of New South Wales, Australia

It was our great honor and pleasure to accept the responsibilities and challenges of Conference General Co-chairs. We hope that the conference will provide a stimulating, informative, enjoyable and fulfilling experience to all who attend it.

General Chair:
Falko Dressler, TU Berlin, Germany

Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan