Recent breakthroughs in sensor networking, edge computing, and artificial intelligence are reshaping the way smart-city services are conceived, deployed, and maintained. Modern applications integrate heterogeneous sensors, high-capacity communication networks, distributed processing resources, and advanced data analytics techniques. Moreover, the field is rapidly transitioning from cloud-centric models to distributed, network-centric architectures, in which sensing devices and edge resources collaborate in real-time to meet stringent requirements for latency, privacy, resilience, and sustainability.
This workshop provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to present and discuss networked and distributed technologies that will drive the next generation of smart-city services. The term smart city is interpreted broadly to include - without limitation – the following:
smart transportation and mobility services,
intelligent services for smart cities,
intent-based networking for smart cities,
digital-twin platforms,
smart homes, smart offices, smart campus, and assistive living technologies,
smart grids and energy management,
large-scale environmental and infrastructure monitoring,
data-driven governance and public-safety systems,
security and privacy for smart cities,
ubiquitous healthcare, and
disaster-response and urban resilience solutions.
The submitted manuscripts will undergo peer review in accordance with the ACM Peer Review Policy, as outlined at https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/peer-review. The accepted papers will be published in a companion volume along with the main conference proceedings, as stated below. At least one author of an accepted paper must register and present their paper at the workshop in person.
New Open Access Publishing Model for ACM
ICDCN 2026 workshop proceedings will be published as a companion volume along with the main conference proceedings. However, please note that ACM has moved to a new open-access publishing model for all conference proceedings to be published via ACM ICPS. The authors have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) to ACM (which is beyond the regular conference registration fee) if the corresponding author’s organization is not a member of the ACM Open program. Please check the details through this link: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance. Several institutes worldwide are already members of the ACM Open program. The authors can use the following link to check if their organization is a member under the ACM Open program: https://libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants. For any clarifications, contact icps-info@acm.org.
Important Date
Deadline for Workshop Papers: September 15, 2025 October 6, 2025(Extended)
Decision on Acceptance/Rejection of the Workshop Papers: October 25, 2025
Camera-Ready Papers: November 15, 2025 (hard deadline)
Organizers
Jaehoon Paul Jeong
Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea.
e-mail: pauljeong@skku.edu
Ren Ohmura
Associate Professor, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan.
e-mail: ren@tut.jp
Technical Programming Committee
Yoanes Bandung (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)
Yunchul Choi (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic of Korea)
Antonio Javier Gallego (University of Alicante, Spain)
Han-You Jeong (Pusan National University, Republic of Korea)
Jung-Soo Park (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Republic of Korea)
Yasue Kishino (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Anup Kumar Paul (East West University, Bangladesh)
Peng Liu (China Mobile, China)
Miguel Angel Lozano (University of Alicante, Spain)
Alberto Ferrero-López (University of Alicante, Spain)
Junya Nakamura(Toyohashi University of Technology)
Moe Matsuki (Fujitsu Ltd., Japan)
Tae Oh (Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), USA)
Yiwen (Chris) Shen (Ajou University, Republic of Korea)
Takuya Yoshihiro (Wakayama University, Japan)
Contact
iwndsc2026 _at_ ml.sys.wakayama-u.ac.jp (replace _at_ with @)