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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICIN 2027
30th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks

“Intelligent network service control and management across the compute continuum”

March 15 - 18, 2027 – Pisa, Italy

https://www.icin-conference.org

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IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: October 30, 2026
Paper Acceptance Notification: December 13, 2026
Camera-Ready Papers: December 27, 2026

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About ICIN

This year, ICIN celebrates its 30th anniversary, marking its evolution into a renowned conference that brings together leading experts in Internet and telecommunications from industry, academia, and government worldwide. The focus of this year’s edition is “Innovation in the Intelligent, Secure, and Sustainable Cloud–Internet–Network Continuum.”

ICIN aims to bring together leading researchers, industry practitioners, and policymakers to explore the next generation of innovations across clouds, the Internet, and networked systems. The event will focus on the convergence of cloud, edge, and communication infrastructures into a unified, intelligent continuum supporting future 6G ecosystems.

The conference will address emerging paradigms in AI-driven network automation, intent-based and zero-touch management, and distributed intelligence across the device–edge–cloud continuum. Particular emphasis will be placed on trustworthy and secure infrastructures, including zero-trust architectures, privacy-enhancing technologies, post-quantum security, and decentralized trust mechanisms.

Key topics include but are not limited to intelligent cloud–edge orchestration, 6G and beyond networking, network softwarization (SDN/NFV), data-driven and autonomous networks, quantum and secure communications, and sustainable and energy-efficient infrastructures. The conference will also highlight experimental platforms, large-scale testbeds, and real-world deployments, fostering collaboration between academia, industry, and standardization bodies.
By addressing both foundational research and applied innovation, the conference seeks to define the technological and architectural building blocks for a resilient, intelligent, and trusted Internet ecosystem, capable of supporting future digital services and societal needs.

Areas of interest and topics include, but are not limited to:
Intelligent network service management
Intelligent end-to-end service configuration
Intelligent and cooperative management models across heterogeneous network segments from IoT to Cloud and back
Intelligent, resilient and robust schemes in the IoT-edge-cloud continuum service management
Enablers for cross-network intelligence and services trustworthiness
Intelligent and flexible networks and services for high adaptability
Digital twin for network service management
Distributed intelligence in B5G/6G networks
IoT-edge-cloud continuum
Intelligent edge for vertical industries
Network Digital Twin challenges for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum and life cycle automation
Industrial networks and services for intelligent automation
Functional decomposition and orchestration, service chaining
Communication protocols for ultra-low latency and ultra-high reliability
Fog, edge and multi-access computing and networking
Security, trust and privacy for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum
Enablers and services for intelligent wireless and mobile networks
Network and service architecture, protocols, application-network layer interworking
Scalability and multi-tenancy in beyond wireless, cellular and emerging networks
Green networking and efficient resource usage and service delivery
Security, trust and privacy management in large systems and smart environments
Leading the Shift to AI-Native RAN (AI-RAN)
Deeper Disaggregation & Microservices (move towards Service-Based RAN and Service-Based Architecture (SBA))
Towards Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)
Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols
Zero-touch network and service management and orchestration
Artificial Intelligence for networks and networks for Artificial Intelligence
Orchestration of mobile and ephemeral resources, automated infrastructure discovery
Network data analytics, anomaly detection and feature extraction
Autonomic and cognitive networking
Automated data, control, and management planes
Intent-based network management
Self-driving networks
Network programmability
Automated QoS/QoE management
Orchestration of distributed cloud, edge and network resources
Security, societal, and legal aspects of network automation
Federated learning-based applications
Federated Networks
Technologies for innovation in clouds, edge, networks and IoT
SDN, NFV, service function chaining, function placement and network embedding
Serverless computing and FaaS
Application-aware networking
Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies in networking and networking services
Advanced multimedia and real-time communications
QoE/QoS Assurance
Lightweight virtualization technologies, software and hardware acceleration
Energy-efficient software-defined infrastructures
Measurement, monitoring and telemetry
Time-sensitive and deterministic networking
Open-source projects, testbeds and open standards
Paper Submission Guidelines
ICIN 2027 solicits original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals. Papers submitted to ICIN 2027 will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template, available for download from the IEEE website: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS at: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35367
Technical papers can be up to 8 pages (Full papers) and 5 pages (Short papers), including tables, figures and references.
At least one author is required to register, at the full rate, to present accepted papers at the conference and for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

TPC Co-Chairs
Stefano Giordano (Università di Pisa / CNIT, Italy)
Antonio Skarmeta (Universidad de Murcia, Spain)

General Co-Chairs
Molka Gharbaoui (Scuola Santanna Pisa, Italy)
Andrea Kassler (Karlstad University, Sweeden)


We are looking forward to your submissions!