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CALL FOR PAPERS

ICIN 2026

29th Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks
“Disruptive Intelligent Technologies for Next-Generation Clouds and Networks”

March 30 - April 02, 2026, Athens, Greece
https://www.icin-conference.org

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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
• Paper Submission Deadline: October 31, 2025
• Notification of Acceptance: December 20, 2025
• Camera-Ready Papers due: January 8, 2026


*** Authors of selected papers accepted for publication at ICIN 2026 will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper to IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM). ***


ICIN 2026 solicits original, unpublished work not currently under review by other conferences or journals.
Digital transformation enhances both economic development and the quality of life for citizens. This evolution is based on the deployment of a network, computing and service infrastructure that is highly sophisticated in terms of its size, the diversity of its components and the range of specialized uses it allows. Such an infrastructure is made of a large set of heterogeneous hardware/software components resulting in a system of systems whose availability, reliability, performance, interoperability and energy efficiency are becoming major challenges. Disruptive intelligent technologies are key enablers for this evolution, driving automation, enabling early detection of faults and cyberattacks, and optimizing resource usage to meet stringent service performance and resource requirements.
A special focus will be set on the conference theme “Disruptive Intelligent Technologies for Next-Generation Clouds and Networks”.

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
• Digital twin challenges for the IoT-edge-cloud continuum and life cycle automation
• Vehicular cloud services
• Industrial networks and services for an 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

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 network 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



*** Submission Guidelines ***

Papers submitted to ICIN 2026 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/N34189
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 Chairs ***
Lefteris Mamatas (University of Macedonia, Greece)
Giovanni Schembra (University of Catania, Italy)

*** General Chairs ***
Christos Douligeris (University of Piraeus, Greece)
Molka Gharbaoui (Scuola Sant’Anna Pisa, Italy)

For more details please visit: https://www.icin-conference.org