ICNP, the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, is the premier conference covering all aspects of network protocol research, including design, analysis, specification, verification, implementation, and performance.

ICNP 2026 will host multiple one-day or half-day workshops in conjunction with the main conference, to be held in Tempe, Arizona (USA) between October 5 through October 8, 2026. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topic related to the main ICNP conference. ICNP workshops should focus on emerging research areas as well as boosting interactions among participants and community building.

A workshop proposal for ICNP 2026 should contain at least the following information:

• Name and acronym of the workshop.
• Motivation and rationale for the workshop. (please include the research challenges that the workshop will address and why the workshop is relevant to the ICNP community).
• Names, affiliations and short bio of main organizers, and a tentative composition of the organizing and program committees (as complete as possible).
• Workshop format, i.e., expected number of presented papers, slot lengths, information about invited talks, panels, demonstrations, etc.
• Expected number of participants and expected number of submissions.
• Prior history of this workshop, if any, including number of submissions, number of accepted papers, and attendee count of previous instances.
• Draft call-for-papers, including introduction and topics of the workshop.
• Brief description of the dissemination plan (publicity, online presence, etc.).

At least one organizer of each accepted workshop must be physically present during the event. Workshops are scheduled to take place on Monday October 5, 2026.

The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to set up and manage the workshop online presence (e.g., website, social media) and to disseminate the call for papers.

Operational guidelines for workshops

Please note that the paper submission deadline of workshops should be around the beginning of June and the camera-ready processing of conference paper due on August 25th must be met by all workshops as well. Also, the break times need to be the same across all parallel workshops.

The workshop paper lengths are limited to six pages in IEEE Computer Society format. All the accepted papers need to be presented at the workshop. They will be included in the workshop proceedings as well as IEEE Xplore.

How to submit your workshop proposal

Please submit your workshop proposal in a single PDF file by sending it to the Workshop chairs by email at carla.chiasserini@polito.it and annamaria.vegni@uniroma3.it, with the subject “ICNP 2026 Workshop Proposal: xxxx” (where xxxx is the acronym of your proposed workshop) by April 12, 2026 AoE.