CfP: MOBILITY 2026 || April 19 - 23, 2026 - Lisbon, Portugal

INVITATION:

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Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to:

- MOBILITY 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users

MOBILITY 2026 is scheduled to be April 19 - 23, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal under the DataSys 2026 umbrella.

The submission deadline is January 7, 2026.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

All events will be held in a hybrid mode: on site, online, prerecorded videos, voiced presentation slides, pdf slides.

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============== MOBILITY 2026 | Call for Papers ===============

CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS


MOBILITY 2026, The Sixteenth International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users

General page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/MOBILITY26.html

Submission page: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/SubmitMOBILITY26.html


Event schedule: April 19 - 23, 2026


Contributions:

- regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]

- short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]

- ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]

- posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org]

- demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org]


Submission deadline: January 7, 2026


Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: https://www.iariajournals.org

Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: https://www.proceedings.com/9769.html

Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: https://www.thinkmind.org


The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.

All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions.
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: https://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html


MOBILITY 2026 Topics (for topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Call for Papers: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/CfPMOBILITY26.html

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MOBILITY 2026 Tracks (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)

Trends on mobility

Technologies for 5G networks; Green 5G through HetNets; Mobile relay in LTE-Advanced networks; Effective spectrum sensing; Cooperative spectrum sensing; 5G and mmWave; Cognitive femtocell networks; ID/locator split in the future Internet; Mobility an named data networking (NDN); Smart sensing networks; Wearable/body wireless networks; Wireless small cell networks; Mobility and Industry 4.0 IoT; Mobile Big Data; Mobile content; Mobile Web of Things; HCI in mobile applications; Mobile Web and information systems; Adaptive approaches for mobile computing; Mobile software systems; Context- and Location-aware services; Mobile Cloud services; Mobile social media; Mobile services and energy-aware applications; Mobility data and high utility; Data management in the mobile Web; Hierarchical mobility management

Indoor & Outdoor Communication

Indoor and outdoor localization; Indoor and outdoor navigation; Road networks applications; Tracking; Walking directions; Mapping; Reference points; Sensing & Lighting; mmWave interference; Autonomous vehicles; Pedestrian localization; Industrial environments; Aerial vehicles; Non-RSS range-based systems; Time of Flight; Range modeling; Velocity estimation; Calibration & Auto-calibration; Uncertainty; Error mitigation; Observability

Mobile architectures, mechanisms, protocols

Mobility and wireless; Mobility enabling protocols; Mobile software; Service composition in mobile environments; Knowledge and service discovery in mobile environments; On-demand mobility; User presence in mobile environments; Replication in mobile environments; Middleware for mobile environments; Internet and mobility; Software architecture for mobile applications

Mobile networking and management

Fundamentals of mobile networks; Mobile-Fixed interworking; Heterogenous networks; Beyond IMT-A; Mobile network virtualization; Femtocells and relays; Mobile cells; Mobile network sharing and network access; Self-management of mobile networks; Mobility management; Access control in mobile environments; Advanced roaming concepts; Mobile network edge-based service delivery platforms; Mobile content delivery networks; Mobile peer-to-peer systems; Mobile VPNs; Quality of experience in mobile networks

Mobile devices and services

Smart mobile devices; Embedded mobile; Sensors and mobiles; Mobile media, mobile content; Mobile applications (mobile learning, mobile healthcare, etc.); Mobile games; Mobile business; Mobile Web applications; Apps versus Web; Novel software concepts for mobile services; Mobile- and micro payment; mCommerce

Mobile prosumers and interfaces

User interaction and mobility; Mobile communities; Mobile Web interfaces and interaction techniques; Implementations and experimental mobile systems; Mobile Web; Mobile search and advertising

Mobile Internet of Things

Future mobile Internet; Internet of Things; Machine to Machine, People, Business (M2x); Online; Smart Homes; Smart Cities

Vehicular mobile technology

Architectures and platforms; Vehicular ad hoc networks; Vehicular routing metrics and supporting protocols; Mobility management and topology control; Standardization of vehicular networks; User aspects; Business enablers

Challenges in mobile environments

Security and privacy environments; Protection and safety of distributed mobile data; Context-aware mobility and privacy; Mobile emergency communication and public safety; Location-based services; Micro-payments; Accuracy and preciseness in localizing mobile entities


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MOBILITY 2026 Committee: https://www.iaria.org/conferences2026/ComMOBILITY26.html


IARIA Ambassadors

Steve Chan, Decision Engineering Analysis Laboratory, USA
Dirceu Cavendish, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Monika Maria Moehring, Study Centre for Blind and Disabled Students, Technische Hochschule Mittelhessen, Gie en Germany
Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Lasse Berntzen, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway
Les Sztandera, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Andreas Rausch, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany
Timothy Phan, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Manuela Vieira, CTS/ISEL/IPL, Portugal
Luigi Lavazza, Universit dell'Insubria - Varese, Italy