The 10th International Conference on Future Networks and Distributed Systems (ICFNDS) serves as a premier international forum for researchers, academics, industry professionals, and practitioners to present and discuss the latest innovations, trends, challenges, and solutions in the fields of future networks and distributed systems. As digital infrastructures continue to evolve rapidly, the conference highlights the growing importance of intelligent, scalable, secure, and resilient networked systems that support emerging applications across industry, government, healthcare, smart cities, transportation, and beyond.

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome.

• Full Research Papers: Detailed reports of original research, typically longer in length.
• Short Papers: Concise reports on preliminary, ongoing, or original research findings.
• Posters: Visual/interactive presentations covering research findings on display boards.
• Panel Sessions: Papers detailing public discussions, panel discussions, or expert debates.
• Orations/Keynotes: Transcriptions of speeches or oral presentations.

List of Topics

1. Future Networks

• Artificial Intelligence-enabled communications
• Machine / deep Learning for communication networks
• Future Internet
• Future generation communication networks
• Future warehousing
• Multi-Cores, virtualization
• Clusters and grid computing
• Web-services and SOA
• 6G, 5G, LTE, LTE-Advanced, WLAN, WPAN
• Small cell networks
• Cognitive radio network
• QoE, QoS, SLA, and GoS
• Heterogeneous networks
• Wireless, VLC and LED communication
• CCN/CDN/ICN/Delay-tolerant networks
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
• Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)
• Future network platforms, software and services
• Network theory and network science
• Intelligent Internet communication
• Mobile computing
• Peer-to-peer, optical and Interconnection networks
• Network routing and communication algorithms
• Security, reliability and fault-tolerance
• Network security

2. Cloud, Distributed and Parallel systems

• Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) and blockchains
• Parallel and distributed architectures
• Theory of parallel and distributed computing
• Parallel algorithms and their implementation
• Resource allocation and management
• Task mapping and job scheduling
• Distributed data and knowledge-based systems
• Database applications and data mining
• Web technologies
• Performance evaluation and measurements
• Wireless networks and Protocols
• Optimization
• Language, compliers and operating systems
• Reusability and scheduling
• Formal methods and programming languages
• Modelling and simulation
• Crowdsourcing and cloud computing
• Big data networks and data center architecture

3. Internet of Things (IoT)

• Data collection, deep learning, reality mining, and prediction methods
• Real-time decision-making and information extraction
• Methods for seamless human-to-object and object-to-object interactions
• Advanced manufacturing and logistics with IoT
• Evaluation of challenges of real-world deployments of Industrial Internet and GS1
• Information architecture design on field device, edge device and servers in cloud
• Transitioning functional and processing allocation across system entities
• Advanced data capturing and networking technology
• Object identification and access
• Interoperability of IoT systems
• Service and device discovery
• Synchronization of distributed directory systems.
• Semantic data description frameworks
• Data sharing and acceptance of IoT Systems
• Data security, authentication and authorization
• Privacy protection, data sharing technologies, tampering protection and detection
• Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
• Smart cities and services
• Case studies in the deployment of IoT applications/services in the area of accessibility
• Wearable technology for independent living
• Pervasive platforms and applications for assisted living

4. General Track

Future networks and distributed systems papers that do not fit the above tracks can be submitted to the general conference track. Subjects of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Cybersecurity and darknet
• Artificial intelligence
• Smart infrastructure
• Vehicular Networks
• Digital Twins

Publication

ICFNDS-2026 proceedings will be published in ACM ICPS. ACM ICPS are published in the Open Access ACM Digital Library and indexed in Scopus, DBLP, and Thomson Reuters.

Venue

The conference will be held at Yaşar University in İzmir, Turkey.