Call for Papers

Scope and overview

IEEE WoWMoM 2027 solicits original and previously unpublished papers addressing emerging research challenges, novel solutions and technological advances in wireless and mobile networking, the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and ubiquitous and pervasive systems and applications.

Wireless, mobile and intelligent networked systems are rapidly transforming the way people, devices and services interact. Advances in wireless communications, mobile computing, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and machine learning are enabling a new generation of data-driven applications across domains such as smart cities, healthcare, transportation, industrial automation, agriculture and immersive digital experiences. The increasing scale, heterogeneity and intelligence of connected systems require novel approaches to networking, resource management, distributed intelligence, security, privacy and application design. At the same time, the convergence of IoT devices, edge platforms, cloud infrastructures and AI-driven services is creating an interconnected IoT-edge-cloud continuum capable of supporting sophisticated, latency-sensitive and data-intensive applications. Understanding, modelling, measuring and optimising the behaviour of these complex systems remains a fundamental research challenge and a key enabler for future innovations.

IEEE WoWMoM 2027 takes a broad and interdisciplinary view of the design, analysis, implementation and evaluation of wireless, mobile, IoT and AI/ML-enabled systems and applications. We seek original and previously unpublished research contributions that advance the state of the art through theoretical analysis, experimentation, simulation, data-driven methodologies or real-world deployments. We welcome contributions from both academia and industry, including novel architectures, protocols, algorithms, machine learning techniques, systems, applications, datasets, measurement studies, testbeds, field trials and operational experiences. Papers reporting lessons learned from practical deployments, reproducible research artefacts and open datasets are particularly encouraged.

Specific areas of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

5G, 6G and beyond wireless networks and services
AI-assisted, AI-native and data-driven wireless, mobile and IoT systems
AI/ML for networking, communications, resource management and optimisation
Artificial intelligence at the edge and on resource-constrained devices
Autonomous and self-managing networks
Behaviour-aware, human-centric and user-centric systems and applications
Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for wireless, mobile and IoT systems
Dependability, reliability, resilience and survivability of networked systems
Edge AI, edge computing, fog computing and distributed intelligence
Emerging applications in smart cities, healthcare, transportation, agriculture, industry and immersive environments
Energy-efficient and sustainable wireless, mobile and IoT systems
Federated, distributed and privacy-preserving machine learning for networking systems
Intelligent wireless communications and AI-native network architectures
Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT, digital twins and cyber-physical systems
IoT-edge-cloud continuum and distributed computing infrastructures
Localisation, positioning, tracking, navigation and mobility management
Machine learning systems, foundation models, generative AI and LLMs for networked and distributed environments
Machine-type communications (MTC), massive IoT and device-to-device communications
Measurement, monitoring, observability and network analytics
Mobile and pervasive computing systems
Mobile social networks and human-centred services
Modelling, analysis and performance evaluation of wireless, mobile, IoT and AI-driven systems
Network function virtualisation (NFV) and network slicing
Network traffic characterisation, measurements and telemetry
Participatory sensing, mobile sensing, crowd sensing and urban sensing
Quantum communications, quantum networking and secure communication protocols
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) and programmable wireless environments
Resource management, orchestration and QoS/QoE provisioning
Security, privacy and trust in wireless, mobile, IoT and AI-enabled systems
Sustainable, green and power-efficient communications and computing
System prototypes, real-world deployments, operational experiences, testbeds and open datasets
Ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC)
Vehicular networks and connected mobility
Wearable computing and personal sensing systems

Important dates

Paper submission and publication

Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, previously unpublished work that is not currently under review by another conference, workshop or journal. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process, and all submissions must be made electronically.

Submission site:

Review process

Authors may submit either a regular paper or a work-in-progress paper. The appropriate category is selected at submission, and the two are described below.

Regular papers

Regular papers may be up to pages in length, including figures and references, formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with a font size of points or greater. See the IEEE manuscript templates for conference proceedings. Up to further pages may be purchased at a per-page charge, after acceptance and only where the reviewers ask for more detail.

Regular papers must extensively describe mature and scientifically sound results. They are candidates for the Best Paper Award, and may be invited to submit an extended version to the journal fast track.

Work-in-progress papers

WIP (work-in-progress) papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving researchers and practitioners an opportunity to present and demonstrate recent innovative and provocative research ideas, and to obtain feedback from their peers in a poster-style session.

Work-in-progress submissions may be up to pages in length, including figures and references, and must carry the prefix in the paper's title. Up to further page may be purchased at a per-page charge, after acceptance and only where the reviewers ask for more detail.

Accepted papers

An author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full member or non-member rate.

Accepted papers, both regular and work-in-progress, will be included in the proceedings of IEEE WoWMoM 2027 and published through the IEEE Xplore digital library. All conference proceedings must meet IEEE's quality standards, and IEEE reserves the right not to publish proceedings that do not meet them, and to remove from IEEE Xplore any paper that is not presented at the conference for unjustified reasons.

Best Paper Award

All accepted regular papers will be considered for the Best Paper Award. A committee will select three candidates on the basis of the reviews received and the quality of the presentation, and the winner will be announced during the conference. For any further information, please contact the Technical Programme Co-Chairs.

Journal fast track

Extended versions of selected high-quality papers will be invited for possible fast-track publication in .