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