Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking.

All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline
Notification of Acceptance
Track WiP: WORK-IN-PROGRESS, MINI CONFERENCE

Track Chairs:

Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy 
Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa