Title:
Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
Call For Papers
The ACM MobiCom conference seeks papers describing significant research contributions in the field of wireless networking and mobile computing. MobiCom solicits papers that address important research challenges and build practical working systems. Successful papers should propose novel ideas to address such problems through rigorous analysis, system design, prototyping, experimental evaluations and real-world measurement study of wireless networks, mobile systems, and applications.
MobiCom 2026 will emphasize novelty and creativity while at the same time taking a broader and more inclusive view of wireless and mobile systems research. On one hand, the more novel the concept, the harder it can be to fully develop or evaluate all its aspects. On the other hand, the more practical and developed the system, the more simple and sometimes known techniques must be leveraged. The review process will take both cases into account as intellectual merit and novelty can be found in techniques, system designs, implementations, and applications. The review process will also favor papers that describe how the authors will provide access to codebases, well-documented datasets, modeling and/or simulation tools to support the reproducibility of their systems/methods as well as papers that highlight and discuss not only the significance but also the limitations of the work.
MobiCom 2026 will not have separate categories of challenge, experience, and verification papers. However, we do encourage the submission of experience papers as full papers that provide detailed technical insight into real-world deployments of novel mobile/wireless technologies and systems. MobiCom 2026 will also incorporate early notifications for papers rejected in round 1 and rebuttals as described below in more detail.
What’s Changing at MobiCom
Starting from 2026, MobiCom will adopt a new approach to presentation of papers with only a selected subset of accepted papers allocated the typical (15min) presentation slot in the program. The rest of the accepted papers will be presented in thematically organized sessions with relatively shorter lightning talks followed by posters. This approach is in recognition of the growing number of submitted/accepted papers and the need to balance it with an engaging conference program that fosters interactions and captures the breadth of cutting-edge research from the MobiCom community. It should be noted that all accepted papers are deemed equal, regardless of their presentation slot length, and reflect that they meet the high bar for MobiCom papers in terms of contribution and quality. The PC will select the papers for the longer presentation slots, keeping in mind their potential for generating lively discussions as well as covering the diverse MobiCom research themes and topics.
Topics
We invite submissions on a wide range of wireless networking, mobile computing, mobile systems and mobile applications research, including but not limited to the following:
- Next generation wireless and mobile networks (including beyond 5G and 6G systems)
- Satellite networks and integrated satellite-terrestrial networks
- Vehicular, robotic and drone-based networking
- Millimeter-wave, terahertz and visible light communications
- Communication with reconfigurable and intelligent reflective surfaces, meta materials, and flexible surfaces
- Underwater networking and sensing
- Wireless communications for IoT, RFID and sensor devices, including backscatter communication
- Mobile, embedded and energy-harvesting systems
- Implantable and wearable computing
- Edge computing and applications
- Interplay of edge computing, wireless networking and AI
- Applications of machine learning (including on-device ML and federated/decentralized ML) to mobile and wireless systems
- Transfer learning and domain adaptation for mobile applications
- Generative AI, foundation models and large language models (LLMs) for mobile and wireless systems
- Mobile web, video, virtual reality, augmented reality and other applications
- Wireless localization and tracking
- Joint communication and sensing systems
- Novel applications of wireless signals
- Sensing with radio, light, sound, and acoustics
- Smart cities and smart spaces (e.g. smart factories, smart workspace, smart agriculture, urban mobility)
- Ubiquitous computing and mobile human-computer interaction
- Mobile health
- Security and privacy of mobile and wireless systems
- Energy efficient and low carbon footprint wireless networks and mobile/edge systems
- Applications of quantum computing, communication and sensing to mobile and wireless systems