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CALL FOR PAPERS – IEEE COLCOM 2026

19th IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and Computing

September 2-4, 2026
Bucaramanga, Colombia

https://2026.ieee-colcom.org/
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Paper submission deadline: 13 June 2026
Notification of acceptance: 1 August 2026
Camera-ready papers: 15 August 2026
Authors registration deadline: 2 September 2026

The 19th edition of the IEEE Colombian Conference on Communications and
Computing - COLCOM, will be held in Bucaramanga, Colombia during September 2-4
2026. It is sponsored by IEEE Colombia Section, IEEE ComSoc Colombia Chapter,
IEEE Computer Colombia Chapter and IEEE VTS Colombia Chapter,
and supported by the IEEE Colombia APS/EMC/MTT Joint Chapter.

COLCOM aims at showing the advances of the academic, scientific and industrial
developments of the different areas of telecommunications and computing.
COLCOM is the most important conference anually held in Colombia, and attracts
submissions and attendants from the whole country and its neighbor countries.

The conference covers the scope of all ComSoc, Computer, VTS, APS, EMC and MTT
Technical Committees and has a broad technical program that includes renowned
keynote speakers and comprehensive tutorials presenting the state-of-the-art in
communications and computing.

Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE COLCOM 2026
Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other
Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Wireless Communications and Networking
* 5G/6G and beyond cellular systems
* MIMO, multi-user MIMO, massive MIMO
* Advanced modulation, coding, antenna systems, space-time processing
* Cross-layer design, resource allocation, interference management
* Wireless Body-area Networks, femtocells, traffic offloading
* Congestion/flow control, spectrum management

Smart Environments
* IOT/IIoT architectures, LPWAN, edge/fog/cloud integration
* Future Internet experimentation for IIoT
* M2M and cellular IoT protocols
* SDN/NFV for IIoT
* Personal Area Networks, sensing/actuation technologies
* Smart homes, healthcare, education, agriculture, environment
* Smart cities for special needs
* QoS/QoE in smart-city services
* Industry 4.0, wireless industrial networks

Cybersecurity
* Security and safety systems
* Privacy, anonymity, authorization, access control
* Cryptography and secure communications
* Vulnerability analysis, intrusion detection/prevention
* Cloud and distributed application security
* Mobile and wireless network security
* OS/App security, secure boot, firmware trust, forensics

Applied Electromagnetics for Wireless and Communication Systems
* Antenna design and integration for wireless, IoT and 5G/6G communication
systems
* Propagation, channel modeling and measurements in indoor, urban, and complex
environments
* Electromagnetic compatibility, interference and coexistence in wireless and
communication systems
* Measurement techniques, test setups, and electromagnetic environment
characterization
* Computational electromagnetics and AI/ML methods applied to antennas,
propagation and EMC
* Electromagnetic resilience and security of communication systems, including
aerospace transportation and critical platforms

AI, Generative AI, Big Data & Machine Learning for Networking
* AI/GA/ML for 5G/B5G/6G, slicing, RAN optimization
* AI/ML for SDN/NFV, programmable data planes
* Neural networks, deep learning for resource management
* LLMs for smart cities, traffic analytics, fault diagnosis
* Big data architectures for cloud, IoT, CPS, smart grids
* Data-driven networking and automation
* Federated learning for virtualized and distributed networks
* Predictive and real-time analytics
* ML over-the-air training
* Operational intelligence

Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research or experiences.
Papers under review elsewhere must not be submitted to the
conference. Maximum 6 pages are allowed for each paper, including all
illustrations and references.

Paper MUST be written either in English or Spanish, but at least the abstract
MUST be written in English. Paper must be unpublished and not being considered
in other conferences or journals. Full papers must be formatted as the standard
IEEE double-column conference template and submitted in PDF via Microsoft CMT
submission system (https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/COLCOM2026).

Manuscript templates are available at:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Technical Program Co-Chairs
Juliana Freitag Borin (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil)
Juan Felipe Botero Vega (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)

General Co-Chairs
Diana Briceño Rodríguez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)
Sergio Armando Gutiérrez (Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia)

Steering Committee
Jose David Cely (Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas)
Andrés Navarro Cadavid (Universidad ICESI)
Carlos Lozano (Universidad de los Andes)

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