Dear IEEE Egypt Section Members,

We invite you to submit your work to the IEEE Communications Society’s conference: IEEE MECOM 2025, which will take place in sunny Cairo, Egypt, from 4 to 6 November 2025.

Venue: The conference will be held at the historical Tahrir Campus of the American University in Cairo. The campus is located at the heart of the historical downtown Cairo, close to many hotels on the Nile River, as well as touristic and cultural attractions, including the Grand Pyramids of Giza, the Grand Egyptian Museum, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and Cairo Opera House.

Webpage: mecom2025.ieee-mecom.org

Submission link: https://edas.info/N33873

Important Dates

• Submissions Deadline: 28 July 2025 (firm)
• Acceptance Notification: 2 September 2025
• Camera-Ready Submission: 23 September 2025
• Conference Dates: 4 – 6 November 2025

 Significant discounts will be given to registrants from Egypt.

IEEE Middle East Conference on Communications and Networking (MECOM) will bring together visionaries in academia, research labs, and industry from all over the world to the Middle East, with a technical program that will address many of the outstanding challenges that exist in the areas of communications and networking. The conference will solicit research papers on a wide range of research topics, spanning both theoretical and systems research,h along with vertical technologies. The conference will run four distinct tracks:

Track 1: Wireless Communications

5G/6G Systems & Networks
Satellite & Space Communications
Antennas & Channel Modeling
Massive MIMO & Cell-Free Massive MIMO
Millimeter-Wave, Sub-Terahertz, & Terahertz Communications
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces & Holographic Surfaces
Optical Communications & Networks
Coding Theory & Techniques for Communications
Communication & Information Theory

Track 2: Secure and Scalable Network Architectures

Edge Computing & Fog Networks
SDN/CNF/NFV in novel architecture paradigms
Cloud Communications & Data-Center Networks
Next-Generation Multiple Access Schemes
Next-Generation Physical, Link, & Network Layers Techniques
Energy Efficient Communication & Computing
Security, Privacy, & Trust
Performance Evaluation, Simulation, Testbeds, & Prototypes
QoE/QoS Support & Cross-Layer Design

Track 3: IoT and Next Generation Networks

Internet of Things & smart cities
Tactile Internet
Network Digital Twins
Quantum Communications & Computing
Molecular & Nanoscale Communications
Underground & Underwater Communications
Vehicular & Flying Ad hoc Networks
Integrated Sensing & Communications (ISAC)
Smart Grids & Energy Networks

Track 4: AI in Communications

Trustworthy AI & Explainability in Communications
AI in Cloud & Edge Intelligence
AI-Driven Network Optimization & Automation
Big Data & Machine Learning for Communications
Semantic & Goal-Oriented Communications
Cognitive Radio & Dynamic Spectrum Access
AI-powered security & intrusion detection
AI for autonomous network management
Distributed & federated learning in communication

Organizing Committee

Honorary Chair

• Nelson Fonseca, State University of Campinas, Brazil

General Chair

• Hossam Hassanein, Queen’s University, Canada

TPC Chairs

• Ayman Radwan, Univ. de Lisboa, Portugal
• Sharief Oteafy, DePaul University, USA
• Sinem Coleri, Koc University, Turkiye

Executive Chair

• Amr El-Mougy, American Uni in Cairo, Egypt

Panels Chairs

• Abd Elhamid Taha, Al-Faisal University, KSA
• Ahmed Madian, Nile University, Egypt

Keynotes Chairs

• Mervat Abu Elkheir, German Uni in Cairo, Egypt
• Fabrizio Granelli, University of Trento, Italy

Tutorials Chairs

• Tamer Elbatt, American Uni in Cairo, Egypt
• Andrea Sciarrone, University of Genoa, Italy

Awards Chair

• Walaa Hamouda, Concordia University, Canada

Publications Chairs

• Cheng Li, Simon Fraser University, Canada
• Ahmed Refaey, Guelph University, Canada 

Patronage Chair

• Ahmed Hassan, ElSewedy Uni of Technology, Egypt 

Finance Chair

• Dina Mahmoud, American Uni in Cairo, Egypt

Local Arrangements Chairs

• Maggie Mashaly, German Uni in Cairo, Egypt
• Seif El Dawlatly, American Uni in Cairo, Egypt

Publicity Co-Chairs

• Shuai Han, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
• Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arizona State Uni, USA
• Minar Elaassar, German Uni in Cairo, Egypt

Steering Committee

• Merouane Debbah, Khalifa Uni., UAE (Chair)
• Mohamed-Slim Alouini, KAUST, KSA, (Vice Chair)
• Ali Ghrayeb, HBKU, Qatar
• Babak Khalaj, Sharif University, Iran
• Moustafa Youssef, American Uni in Cairo, Egypt
• Sanaa Sharafeddine, American Uni in Beirut, Lebanon
• Soumaya Cherkaoui, Polytech. Montreal, Canada