26-28 November 2025, Christchurch, New Zealand
IEEE 2025 35th INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS AND APPLICATIONS CONFERENCE
Call for Papers
ITNAC 2025 is indexed by Ei COMPENDEX and Google Scholar.

With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenges to design new networking protocols, techniques, and applications are never ending. ITNAC has been a leading forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services, and applications. ITNAC 2025 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and standardization bodies that covers distributed, mobile, cognitive and cloud computing, modelling and simulation, computer and data communications, local and metropolitan networks, optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are welcome on all advanced research topics, particularly (but not limited to) the following:

Mobile & Wireless Networks

Modelling and Simulation

Wireless access and routing protocols

Cross-layer design optimization

Green, energy efficient and sustainable networking

Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking

Network-based mobile positioning and tracking

Cognitive and cooperative networking

Mobile social and ambient networks

Delay tolerant networks

Mobile and wireless broadband access networks

4G/5G/6G networks

Wireless sensor networks

Vehicular Ad-hoc networks

Cognitive networks

Mission critical communications

Internet Technologies and Applications

Network modeling and simulation

Software defined networking

Smart Cities and Smart Grids

Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control

Content delivery networking

Datacenter networks and Cloud Computing

Sustainable networking

Peer-to-peer networks and overlays

Novel network-enabled applications and services

Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts

IPv6 and future network addressing

High performance network virtualization

Networking standards and regulations

QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management

IoT and Cyber physical systems

Network Management, Privacy and Security

Next generation network regulation

Broadband network management

Intrusion detection and prevention

Key distribution and management

Large-scale attacks and defense

Security and privacy in wireless networks

Network security policy, theory and tools

Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code

Trusted computing and management

Security and privacy

Network resiliency and network security

Cyber-security and cyber-crime

Optical Networking and Applications

Modelling and Simulation

Optical switching and routing

Optical Network on Chips

Visible light communication

Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet

WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON

Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV

Optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber

Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM

OFDM and advanced modulation in photonics

Energy efficient optical networks

Selected papers will be invited for submission to the Journal of Telecommunications and the Digital Economy (Scopus indexed). For paper submission guidelines, please refer to the Conference website.

Important Dates:


Paper submission: 15 August 2025 Notification of acceptance: 1 October 2025

Organizing Committee:





Publication Chair

General Co-Chairs

Publicity Chairs



Haibo Zhang, New Zealand

Himanshu Agrawal, Australia

Ke He, New Zealand



Local Organising Committee Chair

Mengmeng Ge, New Zealand

Kashinath Basu, UK



Etienne Borde, New Zealand

Technical Program Committee Chair

Shuo Li, Australia

Nazmus Nafi, Australia



Industry Liaison

Junaid Haseeb, NZ