# CSCN — IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications & Networking

- **Submission deadline**: 2026-07-01
- **Notification date**: 2026-07-15
- **Conference date**: 2026-09-07
- **Location**: London, UK
- **Conference Partner Index**: 51.6/100 (ranked #1239, confidence 0.45, algorithm 1.1) — how this is computed: https://www.myhuiban.com/ranking
- **Trackers**: 2
- **Attendees**: 2
- **Canonical page**: https://www.myhuiban.com/conference/1873

## Past editions

| Year | Deadline | Conference date | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-06-15 | 2025-09-15 | Bologna, Italy |

## Call for papers

Standards play a key role in the success of the communications industry, as enablers of global systems inter-operability and economies of scale. The last years, industry has achieved critical progress on technology readiness, and operators around the world are starting the commercial rollout. This represents the culmination of years of concerted industry and academia efforts in scoping out and designing the next generation of mobile systems. Past editions of the IEEE CSCN conference have played their own part in these efforts. IEEE CSCN 2026 is divided into 6 Technical Tracks, a Special Session on Research projects and several Workshops/Special Sessions designed to cover the diverse space of technologies – not limited to cellular systems. New, original and previously unpublished papers are invited that address the emerging connectivity solutions and the standardization approaches and strategies that these may take, as well as the relevant business models and use-cases. New proposals of end-to-end network architectures and protocols enabling new business models and paving the way for a new breed of services targeting enterprise customers and vertical industries are also welcome. Moreover, papers that look at what lies ahead in terms of technical and business challenges for successful 5G deployments are also invited. Furthermore, papers that examine new research topics and technical challenges for 6G are also welcome. Technical Tracks Track 1 Emerging Wireless Communications towards 6G Moving towards 6G era, mobile services are expected to be support the following key services: mobile broadband reliable low latency communication (MBRLLC), massive ultra-reliable, low latency communications (MURLLC), human-centric services (HCS), and multi-purpose Communications, Computing, Control, Localization, and Sensing (3CLS) and energy services (MPS). To enable these services that have challenging requirements that current networks are not designed to support, new technologies will be required, in particular on the Radio Access Network (RAN) side. This track aims to discuss the new technologies beyond 5G Radio and Wireless Communications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Physical layer and MAC layer design for enabling beyond-5G wireless networks. Next-Generation Wi-Fi systems (IEEE 802.11be/bn). Future IoT networks. Communication systems in Infrared, Visible and Ultraviolet Light bands. High-frequency access, backhaul, and self-backhauling. Communications systems in THz bands. Radio-based positioning, localization, and sensing. Integrated Sensing and Communications. Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces. Out-of-band channel estimation. Green and energy efficient wireless networks. Full-duplex communications. Solutions for battery-conserving, interference-mitigating device design. Massive and FD-MIMO communications. Hybrid and coordinated beamforming. New control signaling for heterogeneous networks. Operation and coexistence in unlicensed and shared spectrum bands. Resource management and control in Radio Access Networks. Topology, deployment, and optimization of wireless networks. Dynamic scheduling, power control, interference management, and QoS management. Wireless technology for high speed users Next-generation satellite communications systems. Machine Learning techniques in the Radio Access Network. Emerging candidate technologies and business use-cases for 6G. Results from simulation, prototyping, and experiments in Radio Access Networks. Track 2 IoT, URLLC and Automotive Internet of Things (IoT) has led to adding a new dimension of the Internet and is driven by the integration of communication systems and consumer electronic appliances located around us. Thereby, these systems can provide ubiquitous communication & computing with the purpose of defining a new generation of services. IoT is a key enabler for the realization of new Smart-* realm (Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Smart Factories, Smart Agriculture, Smart Mobility, etc.) as pervasive interactions with/between smart things lead to an effective integration of information into the digital world. These smart (mobile) things – which are instrumented with sensing, actuation, and interaction capabilities – have the means to exchange information and influence the real (physical) world entities and other actors of a smart -* eco-system in real time, forming a smart pervasive computing environment, which is also called ambient compute or intelligence. The objective is to reach a global access to the services, information and intelligence through this so-called Internet of Things through the efficient support for global communications. IoT and 5G are highly related as 5G aims to natively support enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB), massive machine type communication (mMTC) and ultra-reliable low latency communication (URLLC) services over the same infrastructure. Beyond 5G and 6G communication networks are expected to further accelerate this trend. WLANs also begin to provide time-sensitive communications, with the novel IEEE 802.11 amendments. Specifically, the IEEE 802.11be working group has developed mechanisms to provide a deterministic PHY and MAC access. This brings opportunities for many vertical sectors such as automobile, industry automation, media, and health, to expand and renew their business models. In that context new areas of applications and new challenges appear with the integration of IoT and URLLC in the Vehicle to anything (V2X) environment. Many organizations like e.g. IEEE, ETSI, 3GPP or OneM2M are developing standards for V2X on different protocol layers, where V2X could be seen as a special application of automated IoT communication, e.g. for time critical transmission of warning messages between vehicles. This track is looking to original papers from both academia and industry on the recent advances in theory, application and implementation of the Internet of Things. URLLC and V2X concepts, technologies and applications. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: IoT architecture design options and system optimizations. IoT security and privacy of IoT devices and services. System optimization to support ultra-low complexity devices. Radio access optimizations for ultra-low power devices. Experience and lessons learnt from IoT large-scale pilots. IoT standards platforms interworking and gap analysis. IoT interoperability methodologies. Massive IoT deployments. Software Defined Networks (SDN) and IoT. Industrial Internet of Things. Factory of Things. Mission-Critical (MC) IoT. Tactile Internet. Edge computing, fog computing and IoT. IPv6-based IoT networks. IoT protocols such as IPv6, 6LoWPAN, RPL, 6TiSCH, WoT. Novel air interface design and networking architecture for Beyond 5G or 6G IoT. Artificial intelligence and machine learning for IoT. Sensing and localization V2X standards and architectures. Private LTE / 5G / 6G IoT networks. Track 3: Softwarization, Slicing, Automation and Network Management It is nowadays a fact that 5G networks rely on network softwarization techniques, with Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Service-Based Architecture (SBA) as three of the main pillars. Infrastructures for future 6G networks will further build on top of those pillars, toward an even more intelligent and user-oriented network architecture. Relying on these technologies provides indeed unparalleled flexibility to deploy and manage advanced networks that can support the diverse and extreme requirements of 5G/6G vertical services and use cases, and in particular implement the concept of network slicing. However, they also bring new challenges in many domains such as performance, reliability, security and multi-tenancy. Furthermore, the highly dynamic nature of 5G/6G networks and network slices require advanced service and network management and orchestration approaches, leveraging automation techniques and artificial intelligence to simplify network operations and ultimately achieve a zero-touch management paradigm. This track is looking to discuss standard-related topics on network softwarization, slicing, and automation, as well as network management. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Architectures and protocols for network automation and zero-touch management. Intelligent-, intent-based and cognitive networking and network management. Programmable architectures and systems for 5G/6G services and verticals. Programmable data plane and in-network computing solutions for 5G/6G networks. Analysis and considerations for common VNFs across fixed and mobile networks. 5G service-based architecture evolution toward 6G. Network functions placement in distributed clouds. 5G/6G functional decomposition and deployment. Secure operations in future virtualized networks. Resource management and sharing for network slicing. Scalability and reliability in 5G/6G networks and network slicing. Dedicated and shared network functions in network slices. Cross-slice management for end-to-end QoS. Progress on network slicing standardization (e.g. 3GPP, GSMA, etc.). Evaluation of network softwarization and fundamental trade-offs. Test-bed experience in softwarization and network slicing. SDN and programmable network architectures and interfaces. SDN and programmable network languages and data models. Progress and future challenges in standardization (e.g. ETSI NFV, IETF/IRTF, etc.). Orchestration and management in programmable and virtualized networks. Multi-domain and multi-tenancy considerations in programmable and virtualized networks. Open Source efforts in relation to programmable and virtualized networks (e.g., ONAP, OPNFV, OpenStack, Open Source MANO). QoS/QoE aspects related to programmable and virtualized network services. Track 4 Access Network, Edge Computing and Transport for 5G and beyond The emerging 5G services, directly linked with verti

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