10 student grants available - IEEE ITNAC 2026 - 36th INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE

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25-27 November 2026, Melbourne, Australia
IEEE 2026 36th INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS 
CONFERENCE

Key Highlights:
• IEEE ITNAC 2026 will support 10 students grants.
• Selected papers will be invited for submission to high quality journal 
special issues
• Featuring keynotes & tutorials by world-renowned researchers and 
industry leaders
• Best paper awards

Important Dates:
Paper submission: 15th August 2026 (EXTENDED)
Notification of acceptance: 1st October 2026
Conference date: 25th to 27th November

Call for Papers
With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenges 
to design new networking protocols, techniques, and applications are 
never ending. ITNAC has been a leading forum for researchers and 
engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced 
telecommunication network technologies, services, and applications. 
ITNAC 2026 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and 
state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and 
standardization bodies that covers distributed, mobile, cognitive and 
cloud computing, modelling and simulation, computer and data 
communications, local and metropolitan networks, optical, wired and 
wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are 
welcome on all advanced research topics, particularly (but not limited 
to) the following:

Mobile & Wireless Networks
• Modelling and Simulation
• Wireless access and routing protocols
• Cross-layer design optimization
• Green, energy efficient and sustainable networking
• Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking
• Network-based mobile positioning and tracking
• Cognitive and cooperative networking
• Mobile social and ambient networks
• Delay tolerant networks
• Mobile and wireless broadband access networks
• 4G/5G/6G networks
• Wireless sensor networks
• Vehicular Ad-hoc networks
• Cognitive networks
• Mission critical communications
• Quantum computing & communication systems

Internet Technologies and Applications
• Network modeling and simulation
• Software defined networking
• Smart Cities and Smart Grids
• Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control
• Content delivery networking
• Datacenter networks and Cloud Computing
• Sustainable networking
• Peer-to-peer networks and overlays
• Novel network-enabled applications and services
• Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts
• IPv6 and future network addressing
• High performance network virtualization
• Networking standards and regulations
• QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management
• IoT and Cyber physical systems
• Quantum internet

Network Management, Privacy and Security
• Next generation network regulation
• Broadband network management
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Key distribution and management
• Large-scale attacks and defense
• Security and privacy in wireless networks
• Network security policy, theory and tools
• Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code
• Trusted computing and management
• Security and privacy
• Network resiliency and network security
• Cyber-security and cyber-crime

Optical Networking and Applications
• Modelling and Simulation
• Optical switching and routing
• Optical Network on Chips
• Visible light communication
• Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet
• WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON
• Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV
• Optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber
• Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM
• OFDM and advanced modulation in photonics
• Energy efficient optical networks

Organizing Committee: General Chair: Himanshu Agrawal, Curtin 
University, AU Technical Program Co-Chairs Shuo Li, RMIT University, 
Australia Asif Ahmed Sardar, Curtin University, AU Local Organizing 
Committee Chair Estrid He, RMIT University, AU

Publicity Chairs Kashinath Basu, Oxford Brookes University, UK Nazmus 
Nafi, Victoria, Australia Madhusanka Liyange, University College Dublin 
Neminath Hubbali, IIT Indore Keshav Sood, Deakin University, AU Nguyen 
Dinh Duc Nha, VinUniversity, VN

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