The 27th IEEE International Symposium on a
World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks,
IEEE WOWMOM 2026
Call for Papers 2026: SUBMISSION OPEN

Next edition of IEEE WOWMOM 2026 will be in Bologna, Italy, in June
16-19, 2026.

Paper SUBMISSION is now OPEN.
Papers can be submitted via EDAS: https://edas.info/N34347
(https://edas.info/N34347)

Paper Registration Deadline: November 28, 2025
Paper Submission Deadline December 5, 2025


IMPORTANT NOTE
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WoWMoM 2026 will adopt a double-blind review process. Refer to the
details under Paper Submission for the requirements to double-blind
submissions.

SCOPE AND OVERVIEW
IEEE WoWMoM 2026 is soliciting original and previously unpublished
papers addressing research challenges and advances in the areas of
wireless, mobile, and multimedia networking as well as ubiquitous and
pervasive systems and applications. Wireless networking technologies are
continuously evolving and have become a critical part of modern life, be
it for communication services, media distribution, or sensing and
actuation services within the Internet of Things (IoT). Appropriate
resource management, application design, and architectural networking
paradigms are necessary to provide users with high quality experience in
multimedia communication and services. Edge computing, machine learning
and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques are becoming essential tools
to cope with the increasing diversity of connected devices and the
plethora of new data-intensive and latency-sensitive applications. At
the same time, the interoperability among IoT environments (including
wearable computing and sensors), the network edge, and the cloud are
evolving towards an IoT-edge-cloud continuum that is expected to support
a wide range of application domains and services in a seamless and
efficient manner. In this context, providing rich sets of measurements
for characterizing and understanding the behavior of such complex
systems is of paramount importance.

IEEE WoWMoM 2026 takes a broad view and seeks papers describing
innovative research contributions to the field of mobile and wireless
networking and applications. We solicit papers that present original
work, validated by experimentation, simulation or analysis. We also
welcome practical experiences and experimental efforts from both
industry and academia, duly documenting the lessons learned and open
datasets from testbeds, field trials, or real deployments.

SPECIFIC AREAS OF INTEREST
The main areas of interest for the conference scope are illustrated in
alphabetical order, but not limited to the following:
- 5G/ 6G networks for mobile and multimedia services
- AI-assisted management and data-driven networking in wireless, mobile,
and multimedia networks
- AI/ML-based Quality of Service prediction and Network Optimization
- Authentication, authorization, accounting for wireless, mobile, and
multimedia networks
- Behavior-aware human-centric multimedia networks
- Blockchain-based solutions for Wireless and Multimedia Networks
- Connected mobility and services for vehicles, drones, road users
- Content-centric architectures for wireless, mobile, CDN and multimedia
networks
- Context-awareness in wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Dependability and survivability issues for wireless, mobile, and
multimedia networks
- Digital twin/shadow for wireless, mobile, IoT and multimedia networks
and systems
- Energy efficiency for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Edge and Fog Computing for Multimedia and Real-Time Services and Networks
- Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) multimedia networks
- IoT-edge-cloud continuum for wireless, mobile, and multimedia
networking and services
- LLM for multimedia networks and applications
- Localization, tracking, and mobility management and services
- Machine Type Communication (MTC) technologies and services
- Mobile social networks
- Modeling, analysis, and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile,
and multimedia networks
- Network traffic characterization and measurements
- Participatory, mobile, crowd and urban sensing
- Resource management and QoS/QoE provisioning
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) enabled multimedia networks
- Seamless inter-networking and self-organization
- Security for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Self-healing and scalable networks
- Software-Defined Networking, Network Function Virtualization and
slicing for wireless and mobile networks
- System prototypes, measurements, real-world deployment, experiences
and open datasets
- Sustainable and Power-Efficient Multimedia Communication and Services
- Trust and privacy issues for wireless, mobile, and multimedia networks
- Quantum Wireless communication and computing and secure communication
protocols for 6G
- Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)
- Wearable Computing
- Wireless Communication for Autonomous Systems (e.g. drones for
surveillance)

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously
unpublished work not currently under review by another conference,
workshop, or journal.

DOUBLE BLIND REVIEW PROCESS
WoWMoM 2026 will adopt a double-blind review process.
Authors must make a good-faith effort to anonymize their submissions.
Specifically, the authors should not identify themselves in any content
within the paper either directly or indirectly (e.g., through
references). Where relevant, authors must refer to their previous work
in the third person write as if it was written by a third party.
However, authors should ensure that any anonymization of their work is
not destructive. For instance, omission of references to papers just
because they are the authors' previous work should be avoided, as this
could prevent reviewers from finding that related paper for the purpose
of the review. Submissions violating anonymization rules will not be
considered for review.

Although submission is double-blind, non-anonymous preprints (on arXiv
or other preprint servers) will not lead to the rejection of your paper.
Reviewers will be instructed not to actively look for such preprints
before completing a first read of your paper, but encountering them will
not constitute a conflict of interest.

Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all
submissions must be made electronically through EDAS. The EADS Link for
submission is the following: https://edas.info/N34347
(https://edas.info/N34347)

Authors can submit regular or work-in-progress papers (appropriate
category to be selected upon submission, is described in the following).

REGULAR PAPERS
Regular papers submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including
figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style
with font size 10 points or greater. See IEEE Manuscript Templates for
Conference Proceedings. For regular papers, up to max 2 additional pages
can be obtained with per-page extra charge. Regular papers must
extensively describe mature and scientifically sound results. The
presentation time in the sessions will be 20-25 minutes including
questions. Regular papers will be candidate to Best Paper Awards and
possibly invited to submit an extended version to a Elsevier PMC Journal
fast track issue.

WORK IN PROGRESS PAPERS
WIP (Work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for
late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for
researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent
innovative and provocative research ideas and obtain feedback from their
peers in a poster-style session. Work-in-progress papers submissions may
be up to 4 pages in length (including figures and references) and must
have the prefix "WIP:" in the paper's title. For WiP papers, up to max
one additional page can be obtained with per-page extra charge.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper Registration Deadline: November 28, 2025
Papers due: December 5, 2025
Acceptance notification: February 19, 2026
Camera-ready version due: April 18, 2026

ACCEPTED PAPERS
An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the
conference at the full (member or non-member) rate. The paper must be
presented by an author of that paper at the conference. Exceptions can
be granted if compelling reasons are sent to the TPC Co-Chairs with a
written request indicating an adequate substitute presenter before the
conference. Accepted papers (both regular and WIP) will be included in
the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2026 which will be published through the
IEEE Xplore digital library.

All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE
reserves the right not to publish any proceedings that do not meet these
standards. Furthermore, IEEE reserves the right to remove papers from
IEEE Xplore that are not presented at the conference, for unjustified
reasons.

BEST PAPER AWARD
All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award.
A committee will select three best paper candidates based on the reviews
received and also the quality of presentation. The winner will be
announced during the conference. For any additional information, please
contact the PC Co-chairs.

JOURNAL FAST TRACK
Papers with special merit will be considered for fast track publication
to Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier (Impact Factor 3.5,
Clarivate Analytics, 2025).

GENERAL Co-CHAIRS
Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy
Cristian Borcea, New Jersey Institute of Technology, NJ, USA

TPC Co-CHAIRS (if you have any question please contact us)
Luciano Bononi, University of Bologna, Italy (luciano.bononi@unibo.it)
Tommaso Melodia, Northeastern University in Boston, MA, USA
(t.melodia@northeastern.edu)

STEERING COMMITTEE
Marco Conti (Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National
Research Council, Italy)
Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)