Academic Call for Papers

Last updated: 03 November 2026, 16:32, China Standard Time

IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Memory Poisoning Across Networked Learning-Enabled Agents: Threats, Detection, and Defense 15 March 2027 Boubiche Djallel Eddine, Gwanggil Jeon, Abdellah Chehri, David Camacho
The Upper Mid-Band (FR3) for 6G: Technologies, Systems, and Deployment 15 March 2027 Yuanbin Chen, Peize Zhang, Sofie Pollin, Markku Juntti, Sundeep Rangan,
Agent Gateways: Enabling Secure, Scalable, and Autonomous Interoperability in Agentic AI Environment 15 February 2027 Honggang Zhang, Mehdi Bennis,, C. Faouzi Bader, Louis Powell
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Real-World Deployment 15 February 2027 Sushmita Ruj,, Daniel Slamanig,, Michael Hutter,, Shuichi Katsumata,, Ashish Kundu,
Internet of Agents for Communications and Networking: Architectures, Protocols, and Orchestration 01 February 2027 Ronghui Zhang, Yongkang Gong, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Arumugam Nallanathan
Edge and In-Network Computing for Underwater Communication 01 January 2027 Shahid Mumtaz,, Sravani Kurma, Hong Tao, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf
Security and Privacy of Multimodal Embodied IoT 15 December 2026 Amit Kumar Singh, Stefano Berretti, Pin-Han Ho, Wang Chuan

IEEE Network (NetMag)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Distributed Intelligence and Collaborative Inference for Foundation Models over Wireless Edge 31 December 2026 Zheng Chang, Ning Zhang, Ruoguang Li, Valerio Frascolla, Hsiao-Hwa Chen
Towards Intellicise Agent Communication Networks: Autonomous Integration and Evolution of Humans and Networks 30 November 2026 Rui Meng, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Lei Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Rahim Tafazolli,, Ping Zhang,, Rahim Tafazolli, Ping Zhang

IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Atomic-to-Network: Quantum Radio Front-Ends for 6G Wireless Communications and Sensing 01 March 2027 Yuanbin Chen, Tian Hong Loh, Peize Zhang, Darmindra Arumugam, Dominic O’Brien, Jinhong Yuan
3D Metasurface-Assisted Wireless Communications: From Model-Based Designs to AI-Driven Approaches 01 January 2027 Hong Niu, Sumei Sun, Fumiyuki Adachi, Xia Lei, Michalis Matthaiou
AI-Empowered Underwater Wireless Optical Communications for Science Exploration and Defense Applications 01 December 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 15 November 2026 Jia Ye, Petar Popovski, Harald Haas, Yunfei Chen, Gaofeng Pan, Dominic A. Schupke

IEEE Internet of Things Magazine

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Decentralized Identity and Digital Trust for Scalable IoT Systems in the 6G Era 15 February 2027 Gyanendra Kumar, Francesco Benedetto, Weiwei Jiang, Farhana Javed, Muhammad Adil, F. Richard Yu
Intelligent Pattern Recognition in IoT: From Sensing to Edge–Cloud Collaborative Intelligence 15 February 2027 Carlos Manuel Travieso Gonzalez, Gwanggil Jeon, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vijayan Asari, Shi Jiao

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Next-Generation Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems 31 March 2027 Zhengnan Li, Mandar Chitre, James C. Preisig, Andrew C. Singer, Milica Stojanovic, Paul van Walree, Michele Zorzi

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
In-Orbit Internet of Things for Autonomous Satellite Systems and Applications 15 June 2027 Jia Ye, Han Yu, Jinpeng Song, Benedetta Picano, Peng Hu, Erdal Panayirci
Energy Self-Sustainable Internet of Everything for 6G 31 May 2027 Yizhe Zhao, Ioannis Krikidis, Cheng Li, Shui Yu, Chathura Sarathchandra
Kind Computing for the Internet of Things: Intelligent Sensing, Reasoning, and Human-Centered Systems 15 May 2027 Aamir Akbar, Hadis Karimipour, Mian Ahmad Jan, Kuo-Hui Yeh, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
From Sensing to Collaborative Action: The Evolution of the Intelligent Internet of Things 30 April 2027 Syed Hassan Shah, Muhammet Deveci, Mu-Yen Chen
Living Internet of Things: A Paradigm for Lifelong Learning, Continuous Intelligence, and Autonomous Evolution 15 April 2027 Hsin-Hung Cho, Gwanggil Jeon, Edith C. H. Ngai, Amrit Mukherjee, Guangjie Han, Abdellah Chehri
Industrial Internet of Things Communication Networks (IIoT-CNets): Architectures, Protocols, and Intelligence for Next-Generation Industrial Systems 31 March 2027 Kapal Dev, Renwei (Richard) Li, Luca Foschini, Cedric Westphal, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Federated Unlearning and Model Governance for Trustworthy IoT: Selective Forgetting, Provenance, and Auditability at the Edge 15 March 2027 Francesco Piccialli, David Camacho, Sadi Alawadi, Rehmat Ullah, Kenli Li, Xiaohua Tony Hu
Distributed Communication-Aware Agentic Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Things 28 February 2027 Ishtiaq Ahmad, Lemei Peng, Liang Yang, Houbing Herbert Song
Ambient Intelligence for AI-Native IoT: Invisible, Context-Aware, and Autonomous Experiences 15 February 2027 M. Shamim Hossain, Sunil Prajapat, Muna Al-Hawawreh, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Min Chen, Hamid Gharavi
Embodied Active Sensing and Environment-Aware IoT Systems in 6G 31 January 2027 Pin-Han Ho, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Mohsen Guizani, Wei Duan
Causal AI and Counterfactual Optimization for Autonomous IoT Systems 15 January 2027 Ali Kashif Bashir, Gyanendra Kumar, Weiwei Jiang, F. Richard Yu
Fluid Antenna Systems for Autonomous IoT: Agentic AI, Edge Intelligence, and Foundation Models 31 December 2026 Tuo Wu, Kangda Zhi, Jie Tang, Maged Elkashlan, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Jinhong Yuan, Sumei Sun
AI Agent Enabled Small-Large Model Collaboration for Internet of Things 15 December 2026 Yijing Lin, Keke Gai, Mona Jaber, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Ping Wang
Graph Representation on Learning for Internet of Things 30 November 2026 Yang Lu, Zhiguo Ding, Arumugam Nallanathan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Octavia A. Dobre
AI-Driven Network Forensics for Edge-Intelligent Internet of Things 15 November 2026 Jialing He, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Marco Di Renzo, Sinem Coleri, Tao Xiang

Academic Call for Papers · Updated 03 November 2026, 16:32, China Standard Time

IEEE Communications Magazine (ComMag)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Security and Privacy of Multimodal Embodied IoT 15 December 2026 Amit Kumar Singh, Stefano Berretti, Pin-Han Ho, Wang Chuan
Edge and In-Network Computing for Underwater Communication 01 January 2027 Shahid Mumtaz,, Sravani Kurma, Hong Tao, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf
Internet of Agents for Communications and Networking: Architectures, Protocols, and Orchestration 01 February 2027 Ronghui Zhang, Yongkang Gong, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Arumugam Nallanathan
Agent Gateways: Enabling Secure, Scalable, and Autonomous Interoperability in Agentic AI Environment 15 February 2027 Honggang Zhang, Mehdi Bennis,, C. Faouzi Bader, Louis Powell
Post-Quantum Cryptography for Real-World Deployment 15 February 2027 Sushmita Ruj,, Daniel Slamanig,, Michael Hutter,, Shuichi Katsumata,, Ashish Kundu,
Memory Poisoning Across Networked Learning-Enabled Agents: Threats, Detection, and Defense 15 March 2027 Boubiche Djallel Eddine, Gwanggil Jeon, Abdellah Chehri, David Camacho
The Upper Mid-Band (FR3) for 6G: Technologies, Systems, and Deployment 15 March 2027 Yuanbin Chen, Peize Zhang, Sofie Pollin, Markku Juntti, Sundeep Rangan,

IEEE Network (NetMag)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Towards Intellicise Agent Communication Networks: Autonomous Integration and Evolution of Humans and Networks 30 November 2026 Rui Meng, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Lei Zhang, Wanshi Chen, Rahim Tafazolli,, Ping Zhang,, Rahim Tafazolli, Ping Zhang
Distributed Intelligence and Collaborative Inference for Foundation Models over Wireless Edge 31 December 2026 Zheng Chang, Ning Zhang, Ruoguang Li, Valerio Frascolla, Hsiao-Hwa Chen

IEEE Wireless Communications (WCM)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
In-Orbit Computing: Striding into the Era of Space-Centric Intelligence 15 November 2026 Jia Ye, Petar Popovski, Harald Haas, Yunfei Chen, Gaofeng Pan, Dominic A. Schupke
AI-Empowered Underwater Wireless Optical Communications for Science Exploration and Defense Applications 01 December 2026 Theodoros A. Tsiftsis, Alexandros-Apostolos A. Boulogeorgos, Sergi Abadal, Joonas Kokkoniemi, Symeon Chatzinotas, Corbett Rowell
3D Metasurface-Assisted Wireless Communications: From Model-Based Designs to AI-Driven Approaches 01 January 2027 Hong Niu, Sumei Sun, Fumiyuki Adachi, Xia Lei, Michalis Matthaiou
Atomic-to-Network: Quantum Radio Front-Ends for 6G Wireless Communications and Sensing 01 March 2027 Yuanbin Chen, Tian Hong Loh, Peize Zhang, Darmindra Arumugam, Dominic O’Brien, Jinhong Yuan

IEEE Internet of Things Magazine

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Decentralized Identity and Digital Trust for Scalable IoT Systems in the 6G Era 15 February 2027 Gyanendra Kumar, Francesco Benedetto, Weiwei Jiang, Farhana Javed, Muhammad Adil, F. Richard Yu
Intelligent Pattern Recognition in IoT: From Sensing to Edge–Cloud Collaborative Intelligence 15 February 2027 Carlos Manuel Travieso Gonzalez, Gwanggil Jeon, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Vijayan Asari, Shi Jiao

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Next-Generation Underwater Acoustic Communication Systems 31 March 2027 Zhengnan Li, Mandar Chitre, James C. Preisig, Andrew C. Singer, Milica Stojanovic, Paul van Walree, Michele Zorzi

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking (TGCN)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

IEEE Internet of Things Journal

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
AI-Driven Network Forensics for Edge-Intelligent Internet of Things 15 November 2026 Jialing He, Akhilesh S. Thyagaturu, Marco Di Renzo, Sinem Coleri, Tao Xiang
Graph Representation on Learning for Internet of Things 30 November 2026 Yang Lu, Zhiguo Ding, Arumugam Nallanathan, Derrick Wing Kwan Ng, Octavia A. Dobre
AI Agent Enabled Small-Large Model Collaboration for Internet of Things 15 December 2026 Yijing Lin, Keke Gai, Mona Jaber, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Ping Wang
Fluid Antenna Systems for Autonomous IoT: Agentic AI, Edge Intelligence, and Foundation Models 31 December 2026 Tuo Wu, Kangda Zhi, Jie Tang, Maged Elkashlan, Naofal Al-Dhahir, Jinhong Yuan, Sumei Sun
Causal AI and Counterfactual Optimization for Autonomous IoT Systems 15 January 2027 Ali Kashif Bashir, Gyanendra Kumar, Weiwei Jiang, F. Richard Yu
Embodied Active Sensing and Environment-Aware IoT Systems in 6G 31 January 2027 Pin-Han Ho, Shuping Dang, Miaowen Wen, Mohsen Guizani, Wei Duan
Ambient Intelligence for AI-Native IoT: Invisible, Context-Aware, and Autonomous Experiences 15 February 2027 M. Shamim Hossain, Sunil Prajapat, Muna Al-Hawawreh, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Min Chen, Hamid Gharavi
Distributed Communication-Aware Agentic Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Things 28 February 2027 Ishtiaq Ahmad, Lemei Peng, Liang Yang, Houbing Herbert Song
Federated Unlearning and Model Governance for Trustworthy IoT: Selective Forgetting, Provenance, and Auditability at the Edge 15 March 2027 Francesco Piccialli, David Camacho, Sadi Alawadi, Rehmat Ullah, Kenli Li, Xiaohua Tony Hu
Industrial Internet of Things Communication Networks (IIoT-CNets): Architectures, Protocols, and Intelligence for Next-Generation Industrial Systems 31 March 2027 Kapal Dev, Renwei (Richard) Li, Luca Foschini, Cedric Westphal, Marc-Oliver Pahl
Living Internet of Things: A Paradigm for Lifelong Learning, Continuous Intelligence, and Autonomous Evolution 15 April 2027 Hsin-Hung Cho, Gwanggil Jeon, Edith C. H. Ngai, Amrit Mukherjee, Guangjie Han, Abdellah Chehri
From Sensing to Collaborative Action: The Evolution of the Intelligent Internet of Things 30 April 2027 Syed Hassan Shah, Muhammet Deveci, Mu-Yen Chen
Kind Computing for the Internet of Things: Intelligent Sensing, Reasoning, and Human-Centered Systems 15 May 2027 Aamir Akbar, Hadis Karimipour, Mian Ahmad Jan, Kuo-Hui Yeh, Sheeba Backia Mary Baskaran
Energy Self-Sustainable Internet of Everything for 6G 31 May 2027 Yizhe Zhao, Ioannis Krikidis, Cheng Li, Shui Yu, Chathura Sarathchandra
In-Orbit Internet of Things for Autonomous Satellite Systems and Applications 15 June 2027 Jia Ye, Han Yu, Jinpeng Song, Benedetta Picano, Peng Hu, Erdal Panayirci

IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Special Issue on When Affective Computing Meets Multimodal Large And Reasoning Language Models 30 December 2026 Zheng Lian, Rui Liu, Xiaojiang Peng, Jufeng Yang, Guoying Zhao, Bjorn Schuller, Carlos Busso, Jianhua Tao
Special Issue on AEGIS: Affective Experience-centered GenAI for Social Good 30 January 2027 Luwei Xiao, Qika Lin, Kai He, Erik Cambria, Björn Schuller

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Special Issue on Safety, Alignment, and Responsibility of Large Language Models 31 December 2026 Shuo Shang, Bin Yang, Christian S. Jensen, Panos Kalnis
Special Issue on Trust, Privacy, and Security in Intelligent and Agentic Systems 15 January 2027 Hongxin Hu, Elena Ferrari, Heiko Ludwig

IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Special Issue on Software Aging and Rejuvenation in Emerging Computing Systems 15 January 2027 Raffaele Romagnoli, Michael Grottke, Jianwen Xiang
Special Section on Toward Dependable Emerging Computing: Advances in Defect and Fault Tolerance 15 February 2027 Shanshan Liu, Petr Fišer

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Special Issue on Edge Intelligence and In-Network Computing for Connected Autonomous Underwater Vehicles 15 December 2026 Shahid Mumtaz, Chi Lin, Costas Pelekanakis, Lutz Lampe

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP)

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors

npj Wireless Technology

Topic Submission Deadline Guest Editors
Wi-Fi 8 and Beyond: Exploring the Future of Wireless Connectivity 15 November 2026 Francesca Meneghello, Francesc Wilhelmi, Cheng Chen, Katarzyna Kosek-Szott, Mukulika Maity
Beyond the Plane Waves: Advances in Near-Field Wireless Communication and Sensing 26 November 2026 Abdulkadir Celik, Ahmed Elzanaty, Anna Guerra, Emil Bjornson, Onur Dizdar, Yuanwei Liu, Ahmed Eltawil
AI-native Network Digital Twin for 6G Metaverse 17 December 2026 De Mi, Ziwei Wan, Zhen Gao, Dusit Niyato, Yue Wang, Sami Muhaidat
AI-Driven Internet of Vehicles 07 January 2027 Lei Lei, Yi Ma, Weihua Zhuang, Ahmed Refaey Hussein, Jie Mei, Hou Lu
Lightweight Edge AI for Industrial IoT (Light eAI-IIoT) 29 January 2027 Megumi Kaneko, Olivier Berder, Robin Gerzaguet, Julien Weber, MEng, Kenichi Kawamura
Artificial Intelligence-Native Radio Access Networks 31 January 2027 Howard H. Yang, Chenxi Liu, Xingqin Lin, Jemin Lee, Tony Q.S. Quek
6G Networks with Embedded Wireless Power & Energy Harvesting 31 January 2027 Jia Ye, Harald Haas, Ekram Hossain, Tamer El Batt, Cuiwei He, Jiangang Lu, M.S.
Sustainable and Intelligent Connectivity for Low-Altitude Wireless Networks 31 January 2027 Weijie Yuan, Jiacheng Wang, Dusit Niyato, Abbas Jamalipour, Maria Sabrina Greco, Braham Himed
WireLESS Networking: crystal-free, battery-less and ultra-low power wireless communication 31 January 2027 Danny Hughes, Sam Michiels, Yang Yang, Thomas Watteyne
Underwater Wireless Communication and Networking: Towards Scalable, Resilient, and Green Solutions 28 February 2027 Shahid Mumtaz, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Burak Kantarci, Jiajie Xu, Sravani Kurma
Spatial Intelligence for Wireless Ecosystems: From Perception to Decision Making 26 March 2027 Hongyang Du, Jiayi Zhang, Dong In Kim, Sumei Sun, Shiwen Mao
Multimodal Generative Intelligence for 6G Immersive Communications 17 May 2027 Xing Wei, Yue Wang, De Mi, Zhiyong Chen, Tony Quek, Sami Muhaidat, Rahim Tafazolli, Mingzhe Chen, Jun Zhang
Non-Terrestrial Networks in the 6G Era 2026 03 June 2027 Jihwan Choi, Riccardo De Gaudenzi, Min Lin, Hirley Alves, Peng Hu, Andreas Knopp
Optical Wireless Communications for Terrestrial, Space and Maritime Cross-Domain Connectivity 09 July 2027 Paul Anthony Haigh, Sujan Rajbhandari, Wasiu Popoola, Anh T. Pham, Maite Brandt-Pearce, Ziyuan Shi