This is the 25th edition of the series, sponsored by the IFIP Technical Committee on Communication Systems (TC6) and IEEE ComSoc. High quality papers will be recommended for fast track publication in a Special Issue on Elsevier’s Computer Communications.

The main objective of Networking 2026 is to bring together academic and industrial experts of the networking community to discuss the most recent advances in networking, to highlight key issues, identify trends, and develop a vision of the future Internet from a design, deployment and operation standpoints. Particular emphasis will be placed on the conference theme: “AI-Driven Autonomous Networking”. We are looking for contribution, among the others, on the following areas:

• Network Architectures, Applications and Services
• Network Modeling, Analysis and Operation
• Network Security and Privacy
• Wireless Networking

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IFIP Digital Library as well as will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore’s scope and quality requirements.