2025 WFCS – 21st IEEE International Conference on Factory Communication Systems
15 November, 2024
WFCS 2025 will take place on 10-13 June 2025 in Rostock, Germany.
The 21st edition of the WFCS conference aims to focus on all forms of communication solutions to support automation within factories and other contexts, with special consideration given to recent developments, new trends and research insights and future perspectives. As the single IEEE conference exclusively dedicated to communication for automation, WFCS is the elected forum for researchers, developers, and practitioners to review and discuss the latest advances in the field.
Topics of Interest
- Wired and Wireless Industrial Communication Systems and Technologies
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing Architectures and Applications in Industrial Automation
- Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Communication in Industry 4.0
- Security and Safety of Industrial Communication Systems
- Fault tolerance for reliability and availability of Industrial Communication Systems
- Communication Protocols, Standards, and emerging technologies for Real-Time and Networked Embedded Systems (5G/6G, WiFi7/WiFi8, TSN, IEC 61850, IEC 62439, etc.)
- Communication in Cyber-Physical Systems and Distributed Control Systems
- Communication Challenges in Collaborative Robotics and Automation
- Sustainability in Smart Factories
- Control and management of industrial communication systems, traffic scheduling and application-network integration
- Case Studies, Industry Practices and Lesson Learned in Factory Communication
- Recent advances in communications in research domains with similar requirements/ characteristics (smart cities/transportation/living/grids/health/agriculture, etc.)
Important dates
- Special Session proposals: 6 December 2024
- Regular and Special Session papers submission: 1 February 2025
- Work-in-Progress and Demo papers submission: 16 March 2025