Call For Papers
It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 9th edition of the Conference on Cloud and Internet of Things 2026 (CIoT’26), which will be held from November 2–4, 2026, in Athens, Greece, as a fully in-person conference.
CIoT 2026 provides an international forum for researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to present and discuss advances in cloud computing, IoT systems, and intelligent infrastructures.
The conference aims to address challenges across the entire IoT–Cloud stack, from sensors and edge devices to cloud platforms and end-user services, including emerging topics such as Edge AI, TinyML, trustworthy AI, and 6G-enabled IoT architectures.
Authors are welcome to submit original papers (not published before and/or not simultaneously submitted to another one) with topics that include but are not limited to:
Topics of Interest
The conference welcomes submissions on topics including, but not limited to:
- Cloud, Edge, and Fog Computing for IoT
- Cloud Service Models for IoT (IaaS, PaaS, FaaS, CaaS, SaaS)
- Cloud-native architectures for IoT systems
- Cloud resource monitoring, orchestration, and observability
- Security, privacy, and trust in Cloud and IoT systems
- Edge AI and AI-driven IoT systems
- TinyML and resource-efficient machine learning for IoT devices
- Mobile Edge Computing and Multi-access Edge Computing
- 6G-ready IoT networking and network slicing
- Wireless sensor networks and distributed sensing systems
- Low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN): LoRaWAN, NB-IoT, Wi-Fi HaLow, etc.
- Energy-efficient and sustainable IoT systems
- Cloud networking and software-defined networking for IoT
- Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and service orchestration for IoT
- Architectures and protocols for IoT and cloud integration
- Distributed platforms and middleware for IoT
- IoT system management and autonomous operations
- Open and interoperable IoT platforms
- Real-time and mission-critical IoT systems
- Next-generation infrastructure for IoT and cyber-physical systems
- IoT data platforms, analytics, and stream processing
- Wearable and embedded IoT devices
- Digital twins and cyber-physical system modeling
- IoT applications and services
- Smart homes, smart cities, and smart environments
- Industry 4.0 and Industrial IoT (IIoT)
- IoT for enterprise systems and business processes
- Robotics, autonomous systems, and IoT integration
- Testbeds and experimental platforms for IoT and cloud systems
- IoT standards, interoperability, and ecosystems
- Trustworthy AI and responsible AI for IoT systems
- Distributed intelligence and collaborative AI for IoT networks
- Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies for IoT
- IoT security and resilience
- Industrial IoT and critical infrastructure protection
- IoT forensics, auditing, and compliance
- Machine learning and deep learning for IoT data processing
- Cyber-physical cloud systems and digital infrastructures
- Autonomous cloud control and AI-driven infrastructure management
CIoT 2026 particularly encourages submissions on emerging topics such as Edge AI, TinyML, digital twins, trustworthy AI for IoT, autonomous IoT systems, and 6G-enabled IoT architectures.
Industrial Papers
CIoT 2026 will also host an Industrial Track, bringing together researchers and practitioners to highlight real-world applications and deployments of cloud and IoT technologies.
Submissions should describe:
- The problem addressed
- The technical approach
- The current system or deployment
- Evaluation results or lessons learned
- Future developments
Industrial track submissions consist of 2-page extended abstracts.