This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International
Conference on Networked Systems NETYS 2017 held in Marrakech Morocco in May 2017. The 28
full and 6 short papers presented together with 3 keynotes were carefully reviewed and selected
from 81 submissions. They are organized around the following topics: networking distributed
algorithms atomicity security and privacy software engineering concurrency and
specifications policies agreement and consensus clustering based techniques verification
communication.