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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link="#467886" vlink="#96607D" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0C2632'>Call for Work-in-Progress Paper – CCNC 2026</span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0C2632'>Track Chairs</span></b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black'>:</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Mirko Franco, University of Padua, Italy (email:</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:mifranco@math.unipd.it" title="mailto:mifranco@math.unipd.it"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F363A'>mifranco@math.unipd.it</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>)</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Pietro Manzoni, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain (email:</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:pmanzoni@disca.upv.es" title="mailto:pmanzoni@disca.upv.es"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F363A'>pmanzoni@disca.upv.es</span></a></span><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>)</span><span lang=IT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Andrea Michienzi, University of Pisa, Italy (email:</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="mailto:andrea.michienzi@di.unipi.it" title="mailto:andrea.michienzi@di.unipi.it"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F363A'>andrea.michienzi@di.unipi.it</span></a></span><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>)</span><span lang=IT style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0C2632'>IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference<br>9–12 January 2026 <br>Las Vegas, NV, USA</span></b><span style='color:black'><br><br><a href="https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers" title="https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers"><span style='color:#1F363A'>https://ccnc2026.ieee-ccnc.org/call-work-progress-papers</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0C2632'>IMPORTANT DATES</span></b><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><span style='color:#0C2632'>Conference Dates: 9 January - 12 January 2026<br>Technical Papers due: August 31, 2025<br>Acceptance Notification: September 30, 2025</span><span style='color:black'><br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#0C2632'>Submit at</span></b><span style='color:black'>:</span><span class=apple-converted-space><span style='color:black'> </span></span><span style='color:black'><a href="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961" title="https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961"><span style='color:#1F363A'>https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=33771&track=130961</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;text-align:start;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'><br></span><b><span style='color:#0C2632'>SCOPE and MOTIVATION </span></b><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>Prospective authors are invited to submit Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers related to all areas of consumer communications and networking that summarize speculative breakthroughs, industry-featured projects, open problems, new application challenges, visionary ideas, and preliminary studies or recent achievements that are not quite ready for a regular full-length paper. WiP papers are welcomed in all areas of consumer communications and networking.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>All Work-in-Progress papers should be submitted via EDAS, and please make sure to follow the Submission Guidelines. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of four pages (10-point font) including figures. Accepted WiP papers will be published in the IEEE CCNC 2026 Conference Proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore® as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='text-align:justify;font-variant-caps: normal;orphans: auto;widows: auto;-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);word-spacing:0px'><span style='color:black'>Any questions should be submitted to the WiP Co-chairs.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>