15th CONASENSE Workshop: Cognitive, Energy-Efficient IoT-Edge-Cloud Resource Orchestration
Co-located with IEEE WPMC 2025
The development of a sustainable 6G ecosystem requires debate and contribution across communications, sensing, human-centric services, and sustainability. Virtualization and softwarization of network and compute resources enable large-scale adaptability for vast device populations—extending beyond data communications to end-to-end resource management across the IoT-Edge-Cloud continuum.
Computation and networking are increasingly intertwined. AI is pivotal for automation, optimization, and intelligent orchestration. To ensure resilient and energy-efficient applications, research must advance architectural, networking, and orchestration paradigms beyond conventional cloud and telecom stacks.
CONASENSE Workshop 2025 spotlights efficient, resilient resource management across IoT-Edge-Cloud—emphasizing AI-driven orchestration with energy efficiency by default. From a Telco-Cloud viewpoint, we invite work on cloud-native architectures, AI-driven network automation, and SDN + Kubernetes integration to improve efficiency, scalability, and adaptability across the Edge-Cloud continuum.
Best Talk Award (audience vote) supported by Horizon Europe CODECO. Selected talks will be invited as chapters for an open-access book in the CONASENSE Open Access series (River Publishers).
Agenda
Format: Hybrid, hosted by fortiss and in Sofia, Bulgaria — co-located with IEEE WPMC 2025
When: 10 Nov 2025, 11:00–16:00 EET / 10:00–15:00 CET
| Time (EET) | Time (CET) | Session |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30–09:00 | 07:30–08:00 | WPMC 2025 Registration |
| 09:00–09:15 | 08:00–08:15 | WPMC Official Opening |
| 09:15–10:45 | 08:15–09:45 | WPMC Keynotes |
| 10:45–11:00 | 09:45–10:00 | Break |
| 11:00–11:10 | 10:00–10:10 | Welcome & Opening — Rute C. Sofia, P. Rufino, R. Prasad |
| 11:10–11:30 | 10:10–10:30 |
Technical Session — Chair: Rute C. Sofia Designing for 6G Adoption: A Market-Driven Framework for Trustworthy, Personalized, and Inclusive Next-Gen UX — Paulo Rufino, Roberto Fonseca, Dimitra Mitka, Ramjee Prasad, Per Valter |
| 11:30–13:00 | 10:30–12:00 |
Special Session — Invited Talks — Chair: Paulo Rufino Monitoring Solution for Lightweight Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi Cluster — Milen Hrabarov Todorov (TU Sofia) Enhancement of Mobile Systems by Non-Terrestrial Network Harmonization Evaluated in a B5G Testbed — F. Kojima (NICT, JP), R. Nakano (NICT), T. Ikenaga (Kyutech) |
| 13:00–14:00 | 12:00–13:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00–15:00 | 13:00–14:00 |
Invited Talks — Projects & Demos — Chair: Javier Serrano CyberNEMO — Javier Serrano CODECO P1: Smart Monitoring of Public Infrastructure — Yanlong Huang, Parisa Memarshrofi, Xiaoming Fu (Uni Göttingen) CODECO P5: Decentralised Wireless AGV Control for Flexible Factories — Y. Ma, R. C. Sofia (fortiss) CODECO P6: Automated Crownstone Deployment for Smart Buildings — Andries Stam |
| 15:00–15:45 | 14:00–14:45 |
Panel: The CONASENSE Working Groups Vision — Chair: Paulo Rufino Focus on 2025 highlights and priorities for 2026. |
| 15:45–16:00 | 14:45–15:00 | Closure & Best Talk Award (audience vote; supported by CODECO) — Rute C. Sofia & Pedro Monteiro (INOVA, CODECO) |
Topics of interest (include, but not limited to)
- Microservice & service-oriented architectures for low-latency, energy-aware design
- Open architectural designs for energy-efficient networking
- Decentralised learning for autonomous network optimization
- Network slicing & orchestration for multi-tenant environments
- Collaborative AI for multi-domain management
- Non-terrestrial networks (satellite/UAV) in Edge-Cloud
- Open-source tools for large-scale IoT-Edge-Cloud experimentation
- Massive IoT-Edge-Cloud use-case deployment
- ML/LLMs (incl. small LLMs) for latency/throughput/energy/security
- Energy-aware QoS models
- Network exposure for federated multi-tenant environments
- Telemetry, probing, exposure across edge-cloud federation
- AI/ML-based joint orchestration of network/compute/data
- SDN overlays for K8s federation (VXLAN, Geneve, SRv6)
- Automated service discovery & inter-cluster routing with SDN
- Reinforcement learning for path selection across clusters
- Network-aware microservice migration (incl. far edge)
- Federated resource scheduling with SDN telemetry
- Data observability, network optimization, closed-loop automation
- Real-world experimentation and evaluations of cross-layer orchestration
Committees
Workshop Chairs
- Rute C. Sofia — fortiss, Munich, Germany — sofia@fortiss.org (CONASENSE Steering Committee)
- Ramjee Prasad — CTIF Global Capsule, Denmark (CONASENSE Steering Committee)
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis — ATHINA, Greece
- Xiaoming Fu — University of Göttingen, Germany
Publicity Chair
Paulo Sergio Rufino Henrique — CTIF Global Capsule, Denmark — paulo@ctifglobalcapsule.org (CONASENSE Steering Committee)
Demo Chair
Jorge Sá Silva — University of Coimbra — sasilva@deec.uc.pt
Technical Programme Committee
TPC Chair: Javier Serrano — Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Ana Maria de Almeida — ISCTE-IUL & ISTAR-IUL / CISUC, Portugal
- Anastasios Zafeiropoulos — NTUA, Greece
- Antoni Ivanov — TU Sofia, Bulgaria
- Antonio Marcos Alberti — University of Leeds, UK
- Augusto Casaca — INESC-ID & INOV, Portugal
- Augusto J. Venancio Neto — UFRN, Brazil
- Borja Nogales — UC3M, Spain
- Christian Esteve Rothenberg — UNICAMP, Brazil
- David Jimenez — UPM, Spain
- Denis Lima Rosario — UFPA, Brazil
- Dianne Medeiros — UFF, Brazil
- Eduardo Cerqueira — UFPA & UCLA, Brazil/USA
- Giacomo Bernini — Nextworks, Italy
- Homayoun Nikookar — Netherlands Defence Academy, NL
- Laura Maria Feeney — Uppsala University, Sweden
- Lefteris Mamatas — University of Macedonia, Greece
- Marica Amadeo — University of Messina, Italy
- Marios Anagnostopoulos — Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
- Milica Penajovic-Djusiric — University of Montenegro & Research Centre for ICT, Montenegro
- Nicola Laurenti — University of Padova & CNIT, Italy
- Oriol Sallent — UPC, Spain
- Paulo Mendes — Airbus, Germany
- Pedro Sebastião — ISCTE-IUL, Portugal
- Periklis Chatzimisios — IHU, Greece & University of New Mexico, USA
- Rizkallah Touma — i2CAT, Spain
- Samyuktha Sena Indrasena — fortiss, Germany
- Selma Azaiez — CEA, France
- Stephan Sigg — Aalto University, Finland
- Timothy Wood — George Washington University, USA
- Tina Samizadeh — fortiss, Germany
- Valerio Frascolla — Intel Deutschland GmbH, Germany
- Vasilis Theodorou — Intracom Telecom, Greece
- Vassilis Tsaoussidis — ATHINA & Democritus University, Greece
- Veena Anand — ABV-IIITM, India
- Werner Mohr — Consultant, Germany