Welcome to the 31st Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC). The first Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) was held in 1995 in response to the growing interaction between the fields of computers and communications. Since then, ISCC takes place annually, usually in the Mediterranean region, and in locations such as Egypt, Greece, France, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, Morocco, Italy, and Brazil. In 2026, the Symposium will take place in Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal (pending IEEE approval).

ISCC sessions will include presentations on new research results and tutorials. Papers describing original work are invited in any of the computer and communications areas mentioned in the Call for Papers. Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2026 conference proceedings, which will be subject to independent peer-review procedures for quality, and may be eligible for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® Digital Library. Merit, relevance, and originality will guide paper acceptance. Best Paper Awards and Best Student Paper Awards will be presented.

Call for papers

ISCC 2026, in its 31st edition, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computers and communications. ISCC 2026 will provide a high-quality international technical forum for experts from industry and academia to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research and emerging technologies in most state-of-the-art areas of computers and communications. The program will cover a number of symposia in addition to demos, posters, tutorials and workshop sessions.

You are invited to submit a full paper, a proposal for a panel/invited session or a tutorial, related, but not limited, to the following topics of interest:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following

FUTURE NETWORK ARCHITECTURES, SOFTWARIZATION AND AUTOMATION

• 5th Generation Networks (5G) and beyond
• Resource Allocation/orchestration
• Network Slicing
• Network automation and enablers
• Topology Management
• Core Network and Service-Based Architecture
• Network automation and network intelligence
• Network Stability, Control and Optimization
• Standardisation Activities by IEEE, 3GPP and ETSI
• Software Defined Networks and Network Function Virtualization
• Software-defined Smart Objects
• Software-Defined Data Centers
• Software-Defined Radio
• Overlay and Programmable Networks

SECURITY, PRIVACY AND TRUST TECHNOLOGIES

• Security and Privacy
• Privacy / Anonymity
• Attacks and Defenses
• Authentication, Authorization and Accounting
• Hardware Security
• Intrusion Detection
• Blockchain
• Security in Cloud and Distributed Systems
• Privacy-Preserving Computing
• Secure Data Processing and Storage
• Trusted Execution Environments (TEE)
• Access Control and Identity Management
• Secure Multi-Party Computation

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR COMMUNICATIONS

• Artificial Intelligent Technologies, Systems and Applications in Communications
• Machine and Deep Learning of Knowledge
• Bio-inspired Computing in Communications

WIRELESS, MOBILE AND SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS

• Open Networking
• Open RAN
• Wireless Networks
• Cognitive Radio Networking
• Wireless, Cellular, and Mobile Communications
• Modeling and Simulation
• Signal Processing for Communications
• Mobile and satellite networks convergence

INTERNET OF THINGS AND CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

• IoT and Sensors Networks
• LPWAN (LoRa, Sigfox, NB-IoT, LTE-M, Wi-SUN)
• 6TiSCH, 6LoWPAN, Roll
• Rest API, CoAP, CBOR, OSCORE
• Operating Systems for IoT
• Interoperability of IoT protocols and devices
• Simulation, emulation and testbed support
• Smart Spaces: design and applications
• Cyber-Physical Systems
• Telecare Medical Information System
• Tiny Machine Learning for microcontrollers and IoT-ready devices

VEHICULAR AND INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS

• Vehicular Networks
• Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS)
• IEEE 802.11p ITS-G5
• Millimeter Waves
• V2X, V2I, V2N, V2V, V2P, V2D, V2G
• Inter and intra-vehicle communication and protocols

NETWORK SERVICES, PROTOCOLS AND MANAGEMENT

• Services and Protocols
• Advances in Internet Protocols
• Green Networking
• Real-Time Communication Services
• Routing and Multicast
• Network Design, Optimization and Management
• Network Reliability, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience
• Fault-Tolerance and Error Recovery
• Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures
• Standards Evolution
• Digital Satellite Communications Service
• Localisation Protocols
• Communications Services and Management
• Crowdsourcing applications, Crowdsensing and Mobile CrowdSensing
• Social Networks

OPTICAL NETWORKS AND SMART INFRASTRUCTURE APPLICATIONS

• Optical Networks
• Optical Network Protocols and Architectures
• Energy-efficient/green Optical Communications and Networks
• Visible Light Communications (Indoor, Outdoor and Localization)
• Optical Wireless Communication Applications for Future Networks-Application domain / Framework / Architecture
• Smart Grid
• Smart City
• Industry 4.0
• Smart Building

EMERGING AND DISRUPTIVE COMMUNICATION PARADIGMS

• Emerging topics in communications
• Molecular, Biological and Multi-Scale Communications
• Quantum Communications & Computing
• Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

CLOUD, EDGE AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

• Cloud and Edge Computing
• Cloud Computing (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Mobile Cloud and Mobile Cloud Networking
• Fog Computing
• Distributed Systems Architecture and Management
• Serverless and Function-as-a-Service (FaaS)
• Cloud-Native Computing and Microservices
• Containerization and Orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Multi-cloud and Hybrid Cloud Systems
• Resource Management and Scheduling in Cloud Systems
• Cloud Performance, Scalability and Reliability
• Energy-efficient and Sustainable Cloud Computing

COMPUTING SYSTEMS, DATA AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

• Software Engineering
• Peer-to-Peer Computing
• Computing applications
• Big Data, Data Mining and Database Applications

DATA SCIENCE, DATA ENGINEERING AND DISTRIBUTED INTELLIGENCE

• Data Science and Data Engineering
• Distributed Knowledge and Processing
• Big Data Analytics and Processing Frameworks
• Stream and Real-Time Data Processing
• Distributed Machine Learning and Federated Learning
• Knowledge Graphs and Semantic Data Processing
• Data Integration, Data Quality and Data Governance
• Scalable Databases and Distributed Storage Systems
• Data Mining and Pattern Discovery

DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL COMPUTING SYSTEMS

• Parallel and Distributed Algorithms
• High-Performance Computing (HPC)
• GPU, TPU and Accelerator-based Computing
• Large-scale Parallel Data Processing
• Load Balancing and Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
• Consistency Models and Distributed Transactions

EDGE INTELLIGENCE AND DECENTRALIZED COMPUTING

• Edge Intelligence and Edge AI
• Decentralized and Peer-to-Peer Computing
• Collaborative and Cooperative Computing at the Edge
• Task Offloading and Computation Placement
• Resource-Constrained and Embedded Computing
• Autonomous and Self-managing Computing Systems

SYSTEMS, VIRTUALIZATION AND OPERATING PLATFORMS

• Operating Systems Design and Implementation
• Virtualization Technologies and Hypervisors
• Lightweight Virtualization and Containers
• Runtime Systems and Resource Isolation
• System Monitoring, Debugging and Profiling

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS AND ENGINEERING FOR DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING

• Distributed Software Architectures
• Middleware and Service-Oriented Computing
• Software Engineering for Cloud and Edge Systems
• DevOps, MLOps and Continuous Deployment
• Testing, Verification and Validation of Distributed Systems

EMERGING COMPUTING PARADIGMS

• Serverless and Event-Driven Computing
• Quantum Computing Systems and Architectures
• Neuromorphic and Brain-inspired Computing
• Approximate and Probabilistic Computing
• Green and Sustainable Computing

Paper Submission

Papers must be submitted electronically through the conference’s management system, at https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=34771.

Submission Guidelines

Review manuscripts should describe original work and should be no more than 7 pages in the IEEE double column proceedings format, including tables, figures and references. In order to download manuscript templates for IEEE conference proceedings use the following link: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html.

Paper Publication

Accepted papers will be included in the ISCC 2026 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion to IEEEXplore. The IEEE ISCC Proceedings have been indexed in the past by ISI, dblp and Scopus. This makes the IEEE ISCC Workshops publication venues with very high visibility and impact in both Computer and Communications areas.