ITNAC 2025: Call for Papers

The 35th IEEE International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC 2025) will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand, from November 26-28, 2025.

ITNAC 2025 is a leading forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services, and applications. The conference seeks to capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry, and standardization bodies.

Topics of Interest

Contributions are welcome on all advanced research topics, particularly (but not limited to) the following:

Wireline networks

• Optical Communications & Networking
• Cloud & Data Center Networks
• Software-Defined Infrastructure (Networks, Storage, and Compute)
• Core Network Architectures and Protocols
• Network Resilience
• Anomaly Detection
• Reliability Performance Analysis
• Carrier Networks
• Metro, Local & Access Networks
• Submarine Networks
• High-performance Routing
• Heterogeneous Networks
• Network Architectures for Smart Grid
• Hybrid Wireline-Wireless Networks
• xDSL networks

Mobile & Wireless Networks

• 5G and 6G
• Wireless access and routing protocols
• Cross-layer design optimisation
• Green, low power, energy efficient and sustainable networking
• Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking
• Network-based mobile positioning and tracking systems
• Cognitive and cooperative principles for networking
• Inter-working, integration, and convergence issues
• Mobile social and ambient networks
• Mobile and fixed wireless broadband access networks
• QoS provisioning and resource management
• Terminal and network mobility
• Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control
• Techno-economic analysis and business models for emerging networks
• Novel network-enabled applications and services
• Networking standards and regulations
• Security and privacy issues

Internet Technologies and Applications

• Emerging Technologies: Virtualization technology and programmability of FI elements, Service-oriented architectures and service composition, Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts, IPv6 and its derivatives, Economic Traffic Management, Massive MIMO, Mesh networks, ad-hoc networks, sensor networks, femtocells, Self-configuring and self-optimizing cellular networks, Dynamic Spectrum Access and Cognitive Radio, Airborne Communications, Ultra-reliable and Low-Latency Communications, Hybrid Satellite-Terrestrial Communications, Nano and Molecular Communications and Networks, Vehicular Networks
• Emerging Applications: Content-centric networks, Social networks, Multilevel and location-aware mobile services, Cloud computing, Software as a service, Grid computing, Peer-to-peer networks and overlays, Multimedia support e.g. vehicle-2-X communications, Internet governance
• Emerging Issues: Artificial Intelligence, Next Generation Internet Architecture, Energy efficiency and energy awareness, Network application awareness, Network management systems and control plane, Coarse-grained QoS solutions for scalable Future Internet services, Quality of Experience, Support of mobility of devices, users, sessions, networks, and services, Security and privacy mechanism, Flexibility to realize new innovations

Network Management, Privacy and Security

• Next generation network regulation
• Broadband network management
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Key distribution and management
• Large-scale attacks and defense
• Security and privacy in wireless networks
• Network security policy, theory and tools
• Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code
• Trusted computing and management
• Security and privacy
• Network resiliency and network security
• Cyber-security and cyber-crime

Optical Networking and Applications

• Modelling and Simulation
• Optical switching and routing
• Optical Network on Chips
• Visible light communication
• Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet
• WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON
• Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV
• Optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber
• Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM
• OFDM and advanced modulation in photonics
• Energy efficient optical networks

Other Topics

• Modelling and Simulation
• Cyber-Networks, Data Mining and Cyber-Security
• Distributed, Cognitive and Cloud Computing
• Network Applications & Convergence
• Local and Metropolitan Networks
• Community and corporate Wi-Fi
• Data Communications
• Networks and Management
• Software Defined Networking
• Emerging Technologies
• Mobility and Vehicular Networks
• Mobile Cellular and Wireless Networks
• Optical Communications
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Power Efficiency and Sustainability

Important Dates

• Paper submission: 1 September 2025
• Acceptance notification: 1 October 2025
• Final paper deadline: 15 October 2025
• Early bird deadline: 20 October 2025
• Registration deadline: 1 November 2025
• Conference Dates: 26-28 November 2025

Submission Information

• Submissions are made via EDAS.
• Authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished research results.
• Selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (Scopus indexed).
• For paper submission guidelines, please refer to the Conference website: Call for Papers.

Awards

ITNAC 2025 papers will be eligible for conference and session best paper awards.

Student Grants

ITNAC 2025 is pleased to announce there will be student registration grants - apply in EDAS.

Contact

• Email: info@email.com
• Phone: 00 (123) 456 78 90