The technical sessions will be structured around, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- 5G/6G networks and beyond
- Anomaly and malware detection
- Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks
- Blockchain, ledger technologies, and their network-related applications
- Complex and dynamic networks
- Data center networking
- Data-driven network design
- Delay/disruption tolerant networks
- Device-to-device communications
- Digital Continuum
- Drone networking and unmanned technology-based services and applications
- Emerging value-added services and applications
- Evolution of IP network architectures and protocols
- Fog and edge computing
- Green networking
- Heterogeneous and integrated networks
- In-network computing
- Information Centric Networking
- Internet of Things (IoT), and crowdsensing/crowdsourcing
- Localization in indoor environments
- Long-range communications
- Machine learning (ML) and networking, artificial intelligence (AI)
- (Multi-tenant) network slicing
- mmWave, and THz communications
- Network architectures, applications, and services
- Network attack/intrusion detection and mitigation
- Network automation and management
- Network economics and Game Theory
- Network forensics
- Network function virtualization (NFV)
- Network modelling, analysis, and measurement
- Network performance and optimization
- Network security, authentication, measurement, trust and privacy
- Network testbeds
- Network traffic analysis
- Non-terrestrial networks
- Opportunistic networks
- Optical networking
- Overlay and P2P networks
- Participatory networks
- Performance measurements
- Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
- Protective and collaborative networking
- Public Safety Networks
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
- Resilient networks
- Quality of service (QoS), quality of experience (QoE)
- Quantum networking, quantum communications
- Resource management
- Self-organizing networks
- Social networking
- Socio-economic aspects of networks, pricing, and billing
- Software-defined networking (SDN)
- Traffic engineering
- Topology characterization
- Traffic monitoring and analysis
- Trustworthy and multi-metric routing
- User behavior modelling, user profiling and tracking
- Vehicular networks and communications
- Web technologies
- Wireless and mobile networks
- Wireless power transfer networks
- Wireless sensor networks
Special Session on SNS JU Research Projects
The Special Session on SNS JU Research Projects offers a great opportunity for publishing original research outputs by ongoing or recently concluded (European or International) research projects. This Special Session considers paper submissions on any topic, but not limited to, addressed by the ICT 2026 conference.
Submission Instructions
All submissions have to comply with IEEE’s guidelines. Initial submissions for review are limited to seven (7) pages. Camera-ready papers should not exceed six (6) pages for long papers, and four (4) pages for short papers, including figures without incurring additional page charges (maximum 1 additional page with over-length page charge). View information on IEEE style formats and available templates.
Accepted and presented papers will be published into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.
Only timely submissions through EDAS will be accepted for review. Submit your paper here!
Important Dates
Submission (main Track, long/short papers): April 1, 2026 (extended, firm)
Paper acceptance notification: April 21, 2026 (postponed)
Camera-Ready papers: April 30, 2026 (extended)