Conference Information
ICC 2026: International Conference on Communications
https://icc2026.ieee-icc.org/
Submission Date:
2025-09-29
Notification Date:
2026-01-12
Conference Date:
2026-05-24
Location:
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Years:
25
CCF: c   CORE: b   QUALIS: a2   Viewed: 403310   Tracked: 496   Attend: 107

Call For Papers
The 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) will be held in the Scottish Event Campus and the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow, Scotland from 24 – 28 May 2026. Themed “Connected World for Sustainable Future,”  this flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including 12 symposia and various tutorials and workshops. IEEE ICC 2026 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry and government leaders, business and industry panels, and technological exhibits. 

PLEASE NOTE: Only original papers that have not been published or submitted for publication elsewhere will be considered. Prospective authors are invited to submit technical papers of their previously unpublished work.

All papers for technical symposia (including Selected Areas in Communications) should be submitted via EDAS.

Authors of selected papers of symposia and SACs will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for fast-track review and possible publication in the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA  

Original technical papers are sought in the following areas:

COGNITIVE RADIO AND AI-ENABLED NETWORKS (CFP | EDAS)

    Lina Bariah, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
    Zheng Chang, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY (CFP | EDAS)

    Danda Rawat, Howard University, USA
    Huawei Huang, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
    Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China
    Anna Valeria Guglielmi, University of Padova, Italy

COMMUNICATION QOS, RELIABILITY AND MODELING (CFP | EDAS)

    Berk Canberk, Edinburgh Napier University, UK 
    Hajar El Hassani, University CY Cergy Paris, France
    Masaki Bandai, Sophia University, Japan 

COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE AND MULTIMEDIA (CFP | EDAS)

    Hyunbum Kim, Incheon National University, South Korea
    Takuya Fujihashi, Osaka University, Japan 

COMMUNICATION THEORY (CFP | EDAS)

    Fulvio Babich, University of Trieste, Italy
    Wenchi Cheng, Xidian University, China
    Yixuan Zou, Queen Mary University of London, UK

GREEN COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS (CFP | EDAS)

    Walter Cerroni, University of Bologna, Italy
    Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

IOT AND SENSOR NETWORKS (CFP | EDAS)

    Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France
    Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada
    Bagaa Miloud, UQTR University, Qatar
    Xiaoqi Qin, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

MOBILE AND WIRELESS NETWORKS (CFP | EDAS)

    Ayman Radwan, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
    Lynda Mokdad, University of Paris XII, France
    Ruoyu Su, Nanjing University of Post and Telecommunications, China
    Bouziane Brik, University of Shajah, United Arab Emirates

NEXT-GENERATION NETWORKING AND INTERNET (CFP | EDAS)

    Baoxian Zhang, The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Halima Elbiaze, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada
    Raffaele Bruno, National Research Council, Italy

OPTICAL NETWORKS & SYSTEMS (CFP | EDAS)

    Iman Tavakkolnia, Cambridge University, UK
    Chedlia Ben Naila, Nagoya University, Japan

SIGNAL PROCESSING FOR COMMUNICATIONS (CFP | EDAS)

    Mingzhe Chen, University of Miami, USA
    Qingqing Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Vahid Jamali, TU Darmstat, Germany

WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS (CFP | EDAS)

    Fan Liu, Southeast University, China
    Anna Guerra, National Research Council, Italy
    Nam Tran, University College Dublin, Ireland
    Xianghao Yu, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Last updated by Dou Sun in 2025-06-29
Acceptance Ratio
YearSubmittedAcceptedAccepted(%)
20192590101039%
2018243397340%
20173074117238.1%
2016246996038.9%
20153342128338.4%
2014260899038%
2013242294839.1%
20122819104337%
20112838109338.5%
20102618103539.5%
20093000104634.9%
20083135110235.2%
20072740107039.1%
2006251798239%
2005200069234.6%
2004294686429.3%
2003187970437.5%
2002156865541.8%
2001114562854.8%
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