The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Networking 2026 Conference (IFIP NETWORKING 2026) will be held in Lugano, Switzerland, between 24-27 May 2026.

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

The main objective of IFIP NETWORKING 2026 is to bring together members of the networking community, from both academia and industry, to discuss recent advances in the broad and quickly-evolving fields of computer and communication networks, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision for future Internet technology, operation, and use.

The technical sessions will be structured around, but are not limited to, the following areas (in alphabetical order):

5G/6G networks and beyond
Anomaly and malware detection
Applications of privacy-preserving computation in networks
Blockchain, ledger technologies, and their network-related applications
Cooperative perception networking
Data center networking
Data-driven network design
Delay/disruption tolerant networks and opportunistic networking
Device-to-device / machine-to-machine communications
Deterministic Networks
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 / Named-data 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
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)
Time Sensitive Networks
Traffic engineering
Topology characterization
Traffic monitoring and analysis
Trustworthy and multi-metric routing
User behavior modelling, user profiling and tracking
UAV networks and extended connectivity
Vehicular networks and communications
Web technologies
Wireless and mobile networks
Wireless power transfer networks
Wireless sensor networks