IEEE ComSoc Call for Papers

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IEEE Communications Magazine (CommMag)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Fluid Antennas: The Next Wave of MIMO Evolution for 6G and Beyond 31 May 2026 Tuo Wu, Jie Tang, Sumei Sun, Octavia A. Dobre
Quantum-Enabled AI for Future Communications 31 May 2026 Ishtiaq Ahmad, Hina Tabassum, Wan Choi, Symeon Chatzinotas
Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications 15 May 2026 Shi Jin, Shuangfeng Han, Ahmed Alkhateeb, Michail Matthaiou

IEEE Network (NetMag)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
AI-native Smart Radio Environments for 6G: Evolving from Conventional Architectures to Self-Governing Designs 30 September 2026 Kai Yu, Qihao Peng (Co-Lead Guest Editor),, Hassnaa Moustafa, Octavia A. Dobre, Abbas Jamalipour, Maged Elkashlan, Kezhi Wang, Melike Erol-Kantarci
High-Reliability and Low-Latency Communications for 6G Network: ISAC-Enabled Architectures, Networking, and Services 31 August 2026 Markku Juntti, Yi Fang, Jiguang He, Yonghui Li, Merouane Debbah, Xianbin Wang, Iqbal Hussain
Accelerating Large Multimodal Models Learning and Inference on Resource-Constrained Networks 31 July 2026 Shaohua Wan, Zonghua Gu, Zehui Xiong, Kezhi Wang, Mohammad Mozaffari, Merouane Debbah
Quantum-AI Synergies Empowering IoT Network Resilience 31 July 2026 Songwei Zhang, Yusheng Ji, Seng W. Loke, Yi-Han Chiang, Xu Yuan, Zhiming Zhao, Xiang Sun, Ning Chen
Connected and Collaborative IoT – Edge – Cloud Continuum for 6G Networks 31 May 2026 Baldomero Coll-Perales, Estela Carmona-Cejudo, Sebastian Robitzsch, Qiang (John) Ye, Cunhua Pan
Semantic Communications for 6G Mobile Network and Service 30 May 2026 Sunil Prajapat, Mohammad S. Obaidat,, Saru Kumari,, Chien-Ming Chen,, Zhiquan Liu, Houbing Herbert Song, Yueh-Hsun Lin

IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
AI-Empowered Underwater Wireless Optical Communications for Science Exploration and Defense Applications 01 November 2026 Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Sergi Abadal, Joonas Kokkoniemi, Symeon Chatzinotas, Corbett Rowell
In-Orbit Computing: Striding into the Era of Space-Centric Intelligence 01 November 2026 Jia Ye, Petar Popovski, Harald Haas, Yunfei Chen, Gaofeng Pan, Dominic A. Schupke
Agentic AI-Enabled Networking for Heterogeneous Unmanned Systems in Low-Altitude Environments 01 September 2026 Yongkang Gong, Tuo Wu, Wanting Yang, Houbing Herbert Song, Li-Tse Hsieh
Wireless Endogenous Security for AI-Native Next-Generation Wireless Networks 01 September 2026 Liang Jin, Chao Wang, Li Sun, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Kai-Kit Wong, Kyeong Jin Kim, Sinem Coleri
End-Edge-Cloud Computing Power Network for Large and Small AI Models 01 August 2026 Chen Yang, Yan Zhang, Hassnaa Moustafa, Min Wu, Ran Pang
Wireless Information Forensics and Security in the 6G Era: Foundations, Intelligence, and Emerging Applications 01 August 2026 Jialing He, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Sinem Coleri, Tao Xiang
Agentified Embodied AI for Mobile Edge General Intelligence 01 June 2026 Octavia A. Dobre, Yonghui Li, Marco Di Renzo, Xiao Lu, Dusit Niyato
Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Covert Transmission 01 June 2026 Nan Zhao, Arumugam Nallanathan, Xingqin Lin, Chengwen Xing, Henk Wymeersch

IEEE Internet of Things Magazine

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
The Internet of Embodied Things: Grounding Large AI Models in the Physical World 31 July 2026 Xingwang Li, Congzheng Han, Arumugam Nallanathan, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Ming Zeng, Guanyi Liu
Collaborative-Embodied AI for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Networks 31 May 2026 Bintao Hu, Haotong Cao, Jianbo Du, Xiaoli Chu, Shahid Mumtaz, F. Richard Yu, Mohsen Guizani
IoT Embodied AI: Intelligent Sensing, Communication, and Control 31 May 2026 Geng Sun, Hoang Dinh, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Xiao Lu, Zemin Sun, Kathiravetpillai (Siva) Sivanesan

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Digital Twins for Wireless Networks: Enabling Application-Aware and Closed-Loop Optimization 15 May 2026 Yuchen Liu, Tommaso Melodia, Xingqin Lin, Mingzhe Chen, Berk Canberk, Sara Garcia Sanchez

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Tutorials and Surveys on AI and Quantum-enabled Learning for Future Wireless Networks 01 September 2026 Trung Q. Duong
AI-Driven Low-Altitude Intelligent Networks: From Modeling to Real-World Deployment 01 August 2026 Qiuming Zhu, Mahbub Hassan, Marion Berbineau, Carlos A. Gutierrez, Qihui Wu
Knowledge-driven Autonomous Agent Systems: Mission-centric Coordination 15 June 2026 Yijing Liu, Gang Feng, Longyu Zhou, Dinh Thai Hoang, Wei Cai, Carlo Fischione, Ozan K. Tonguz
Theoretical Intelligent Blockchain Networks 15 June 2026 Chuan Zhang, Gang Sun, Sujit Biswas, Yunguo Guan, Tianqing Zhu, Willy Susilo
Federated Machine Learning and Unlearning for Privacy-Preserving Networked Intelligence 01 June 2026 Ali Kashif Bashir, Tingting Wang, Muhammad Ali Imran, Yijing Lin, Hadis Karimipur

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Paper Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Integrated Sensing, Memory, Communication, and Computation for Large-Scale AI Based IoT Systems  15 May 2026 Xu Zhou, Jemal Abawajy, Tongfeng Weng, Gang Liu, Xiaoyang Lu
AI at the Edge for Vehicular and Low-Altitude IoT Networks  31 May 2026 Hongzhi Guo, Tomaso de Cola, Yuanqiu Luo, Shikhar Verma
Large Model-Driven Intelligent Computing Optimization in the Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)  15 June 2026 Chuang Li, Kim Fung Tsang, Adachi Fumiyuki
IoT Empowered AI4Science: Data Acquisition, System Modeling, and Knowledge Discovery  30 June 2026 Rafał Scherer, Hailin Feng, Yuhuan Lu, Xinxing Wang
Multimodal Integrated Sensing and Communication for IoT Networking in 6G and Beyond  15 August 2026 Luping Xiang, Jiajia Liu, Kun Yang, Christos Masouros, Amiya Nayak, Lei Zhong
Smart Radio Environments for the Internet of Everything 31 August 2026 Qihao Peng, Hong Ren, Kezhi Wang, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Ekram Hossain