The 2026 IEEE International Symposium on Measurement in Networking and Communications (MNC 2026) will provide a rich forum for researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, government and standardization bodies in the areas of measurement, networking, communications, wireless systems, sensor networks, and IoT, and to foster discussion on the reciprocal role of measurements for networking and communications and networking and communications for measurements. Promoted by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society and the TC-37, the Symposium is keen to disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge on specialist and ‘hot’ topics related to the themes of interest through dedicated Special Sessions.

We welcome the submission of proposals for such Special Sessions for MNC 2026.

SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSAL TIMELINES AND PROCESS
Proposal submission date: February 2, 2026

GUIDELINES FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSERS

The Special Sessions should provide the Symposium attendees with an insight focused on particular research areas within the Symposium topics and subjects of interest. All the papers submitted to the Special Session will be peer-reviewed and those which are accepted and presented will be published in IEEE Xplore®. Accepted special sessions will be arranged and scheduled depending on submission numbers. Organizers are expected to operate within their professional networks to promote their session
and MNC 2026.

The Special Session organizers are encouraged to solicit an invited presentation to open the Special Session and attract the audience interest, though this is optional. In this case, a slot will be reserved for the invited expert for discussing an emerging topic of the Special Session domain. The organizers provide the name of the presenter together with an email confirming his/her acceptance and an abstract. No full paper is requested, nor will the abstract be published in IEEE Xplore®.

Note: An invited presentation can be allocated a double time slot; however, this must be first discussed with the Special Session Co-Chairs and/or the Technical Program Co-Chairs.

Note: No financial assistance is available from the Symposium to support the participation of the presenter of an invited presentation. The Special Session Organizer and all presenters in the session are required to register and pay for the Symposium.

SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSAL CONTENTS
Special session proposals should be a maximum of 2000 characters and must address the items listed below:

Special Session Details:

  • Title of the Special Session
  • Significance of the topic
  • Special Session organizer’s name, affiliation,
    photo and a short CV

Invited Presentation Details (optional):

  • Title
  • Authors and their affiliation
  • Abstract

REVIEWERS
Please provide details of reviewers who may be able to help review papers for the proposed Special Session. A suitable list of willing reviewers (name, affiliation, e-mail) will be required and should be provided by the Special Session organizer before the start of the review process.