Paper Submission Deadline
1 August 2026
Acceptance Notification
1 October 2026
Conference Dates
25–27 November 2026
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
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 Connected Digital 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
- Massive MIMO and Beamforming Technologies
- Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine-to-Machine Communications
- Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communications (URLLC)
- Network Slicing and Virtualized Wireless Networks
- Green and Sustainable Wireless Communications
- Terahertz and Millimeter-Wave Communications
- Satellite, UAV, and Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN)
- Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
- Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC)
Next-Generation Optical Networks
- Optical switching and routing
- Optical Network on Chips (ONoCs)
- OFDM and advanced modulation formats in photonics
- Large capacity optical transmission (WDM and OTDM)
- Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, and 100Gb/s+ Ethernet
- WDM Access Networks and WDM-PON
- Optical-wireless access networks and Radio-over-Fibre (RoF)
- Wired/wireless and telecom/broadcast convergence (IPTV)
- Visible Light Communication (VLC) / Li-Fi
- Energy-efficient and green optical networks
Resilient Network Security
- Quantum Key Distribution (QKD)
- Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- AI and Machine Learning for Cyber Security
- Autonomous and Self-Healing Network Security
- Secure Cloud and Edge Computing
- Key distribution and management
- Zero Trust Networks (ZTN)
- IoT and Smart Device Security
- Cyber Threat Intelligence and Digital Forensics
- Blockchain-Based Trust and Identity Management
- Federated security and homomorphic encryption
- Network security policy, theory, and administrative tools
- Security in 5G/6G and Next Generation Networks
- Cyber Resilience for Critical Digital Infrastructure
Future Internet Architectures
- High-performance network virtualisation
- Software Defined networking (SDN)
- Content Delivery Networking (CDN)
- Intelligent Networks
- QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management
- Network digital twins
- Peer-to-peer networks and overlays
- Datacentre networks and cloud computing
- IoT and cyber-physical systems
- Smart Cities and Smart Grids
- Sustainable networking
- Networking standards, policies, and regulations
- Quantum internet
- Network Service Orchestration (NSO)