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Conference Program Now Available Registration Deadline - 01 November 2026 Conference Program Now Available Registration Deadline - 01 November 2026  

Key Dates & Venue Information

 Registration Deadline

24 NOV

Welcome Session

November 2026

2:30–4:30 pm
Oxford Scholar Level 2, RMIT Building 81
25–27 NOV

Conference Sessions

November 2026

Arrive at 8:30 am each day
Rooms 19 and 20 Building 80, Level 4
IEEE ITNAC 2026 will support 13 student grants Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues of IEEE Networking Letters IEEE ITNAC 2026 will support 13 student grants Selected papers will be invited for submission to special issues of IEEE Networking Letters

Keynotes

Digital Manufacturing Advancing industrial productivity and resilience via digital twins, physical dependency-aware AI, and co-creation with the industry. 
Professor Dimitrios Georgakopoulos 

Swinburne University of Technology

Adversarial Time Series Threats Adversarial Time Series Threats in Cyber-Physical Sensor Networks. 
Professor Salil Kanhere 

University of New South Wales

AI and the Internet of Things When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things: Motivations, Challenges, and Applications. 
Distinguished Professor Wei Xiang 

La Trobe University

Professor Madhusanka Liyanage
Securing the Intelligent 6G Era From AI-Driven Threats to Autonomous Resilience. 
Professor Madhusanka Liyanage 

University College Dublin

Mark Krischer
Artifical Intelligence AI for Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi for AI. 
Mark Krischer 

Principal Wireless Architect, Cisco

Elaine Wong
The Evolution of In-Premise Networks in the Era of Immersive Services From Copper to Fiber-to-The Room. 
Professor Elaine Wong 

University of Melbourne, Australia 

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ITNAC Focus Topics

Over the years, IEEE ITNAC has established itself as a leading international conference in information technology, networking, and telecommunications, attracting high-quality contributions from researchers from around the world. Under the theme “Intelligent Networks and Applications for a Digitally Connected World,” ITNAC 2026 invites original research that addresses emerging challenges and advances the future of intelligent and connected digital systems. Research contributions are welcomed across a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:

Next-Generation Wireless Networks

  • 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks
  • 6G Communication Systems and Architectures
  • Green and Sustainable Wireless Communications
  • Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)
  • Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine Communications
  • Massive MIMO and Beamforming Technologies
  • Network Slicing and Virtualized Wireless Networks
  • Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
  • Satellite, UAV, and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
  • Terahertz and Millimeter-Wave Communications
  • Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)

Next-Generation Optical Networks

  • Energy-efficient and green optical networks
  • Large capacity optical transmission (WDM and OTDM)
  • OFDM and advanced modulation formats in photonics
  • Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, and 100Gb/s+ Ethernet
  • Optical Network on Chips (ONoCs)
  • Optical switching and routing
  • Optical-wireless access networks and Radio-over-Fibre (RoF)
  • Visible Light Communication (VLC) / Li-Fi
  • WDM Access Networks and WDM-PON
  • Wired/wireless and telecom/broadcast convergence (IPTV)

Resilient Network Security

  • AI and Machine Learning for Cyber Security
  • Autonomous and Self-Healing Network Security
  • Blockchain-Based Trust and Identity Management
  • Cyber Resilience for Critical Digital Infrastructure
  • Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics
  • Federated security and homomorphic encryption
  • IoT and Smart Device Security
  • Key distribution and management
  • Network security policy, theory, and administrative tools
  • Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
  • Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
  • Secure Cloud and Edge Computing
  • Security in 5G/6G and Next Generation Networks
  • Zero Trust Networks (ZTN)

Future networking and applications

  • Content Delivery Networking (CDN)
  • Datacentre networks and cloud computing
  • High-performance network virtualisation
  • Intelligent Networks
  • IoT and cyber-physical systems
  • Network digital twins
  • Network Service Orchestration (NSO)
  • Networking standards, policies, and regulations
  • Peer-to-peer networks and overlays
  • QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management
  • Quantum internet
  • Smart Cities and Smart Grids
  • Software Defined networking (SDN)
  • Sustainable networking
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