Call for Papers
21st Asian Internet Engineering Conference (AINTEC) 2026 in-Cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM
December 1-3, 2026

National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
https://interlab.ait.ac.th/aintec2026

AINTEC, in-cooperation with ACM SIGCOMM, primarily aims to address issues pertinent to the Asia and Pacific region, bringing together the community of academics, industry researchers, and network operators. AINTEC strives to cover the vast diversity of socio-economic and networking conditions, while inviting high-quality and recent research results from the Internet research community.

As an incentive, a student or early-career author of the AINTEC Best Paper Award is eligible for the ACM SIGCOMM travel grant program to attend ACM SIGCOMM 2027.

To encourage authorship and participation from Southeast Asian and South Asian organizations, travel grants will be available for AINTEC 2026 and will be awarded based on demonstrated needs. Limited support for participants from other regions may be available. Travel grant information will be provided on the website after paper acceptance notifications.

AINTEC solicits submissions on the following topics:
Networking technologies for developing regions
Disaster networking, including experience with earthquakes and tsunamis
Internet measurement, analysis, and modelling
Experiences with large-scale operational systems and networks
Networking challenges, solutions, and experiences with LEO Satellite Networks
Network measurements, traffic trends, and application usages related to emerging social and technological issues
IoT, sensor networking, and applications
Wireless and mobile networks
Distributed systems, including edge and cloud computing
Next-generation 5G/6G mobile networks and applications
Location management and positioning
CDNs, content distribution, and caching
Mobile video, AR/VR, multimedia systems and applications
Cloud computing and services
Vehicular communications and applications
Network operations and management
Social networks
Network security and privacy
Future Internet architectures and technologies
AI for computing and networking
Networking for AI
Agentic AI Communication
Regulations and standards for Internet technologies
Quantum networking

Submissions must be original, unpublished work, and not have been submitted to another conference or journal for publication. Paper length cannot exceed 8 pages in the 10pts ACM SIGCOMM format (without references). Please do not mention the authors in the paper for blind review. Contact the PC chairs if you have questions about how to keep the paper anonymous. Submission site: https://cfp.wide.ad.jp/conferences/aintec2026/

Important Dates
Abstract registration: 31 July 2026
Full paper submission: 7 August 2026
Acceptance notification: 8 September 2026
Camera-ready due: 16 October 2026

The proceedings of AINTEC 2026 will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Article processing charges (APC) for AINTEC 2026 authors will be sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM on a financial needs basis.