The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2026 Conference (NETWORKING 2026) will be held in Lugano, Switzerland.

     

    This is the 25th edition of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) and IEEE ComSoc. High quality papers will be recommended for fast track publications in selected journals.

    The main objective of Networking 2026 is to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet from a design, deployment and operation standpoints. The technical sessions for Networking 2026 will be organized, with a focus on the following areas, among others:

    • Network Architectures, Applications and Services
    • Network Modeling, Analysis and Operation
    • Network Security and Privacy
    • Wireless Networking

    Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library as well as will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.

     

    Important dates

    • Conference Dates: May 24–27, 2026
    • Main Track Full Papers (submission): February 8, 2026
    • Main Track Full Papers (notification of acceptance): April 2, 2026
    • Workshop Proposals (submission): December 22, 2025
    • Workshop Proposals (notification of acceptance): January 14, 2026
    • Workshop Papers (submission): March 22, 2026
    • Workshop Papers (notification of acceptance): April 21, 2026
    • Demo/Poster Papers (submission): March 31, 2026
    • Demo/Poster Papers (notification of acceptance): April 24, 2026
    • PhD Forum Extended Abstracts (submission): April 12, 2026
    • PhD Forum Extended Abstracts (notification of acceptance): April 26, 2026
    • Camera-ready submission: April 30, 2026

    Deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth

     

    Technical Sponsors

    International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)  

     

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