22nd International Conference on Network and Service Management
Alcalá de Henares (Madrid), Spain // 26 - 30 October, 2026
Evolving Network and Service Management: From Automation to Agentic Intelligence

Rectorado

Universidad de Alcalá
Campus Externo

Universidad de Alcalá
Paraninfo Universitario Colegio de San Ildefonso

Universidad de Alcalá
Escuela Politécnica Superior

Universidad de Alcalá
Facultad de derecho

Universidad de Alcalá

Welcome to CNSM 2026

The 22nd International conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM) is inviting authors to submit original contributions to network and service management research. CNSM is a selective single-track conference that covers all aspects of network and service management, pervasive systems, enterprises, and cloud computing environments. In particular, CNSM 2026 will focus on Evolving Network and Service Management: From Automation to Agentic Intelligence.

Papers accepted and presented at CNSM 2026 will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore, subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements. Authors of selected papers accepted for publication in the CNSM 2026 proceedings will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management journal (TNSM) and the International Journal of Network Management (IJNM).

CNSM 2026 Awards

Best Demo Award

Demonstrating Image-Based DDoS Attack Detection using HollywooDDoS
Timon Krack, David Hahnemann and Samuel Kopmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany); Martina Zitterbart (KIT, Germany)

Best Poster Award

Quick QUIC Check: Conformal Early-Exit Classification of QUIC Traffic
Farzam Rezaei and Jorge E. López de Vergara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain); Luis de Pedro (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain); Ivan Gonzalez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)

Best Student Paper Award

Tenant-First MEC Orchestration with Serverless Abstractions and Container Checkpoint/Restore
Pedro Coutinho (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); Pedro Escaleira (University of Aveiro & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal); David Rocha (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); João Almeida (Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal & Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal); Diogo Gomes (Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal & Telecomunicações, Portugal); Rui L Aguiar (University of Aveiro, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal)

IFIP-supported Best Paper Award

SARA: SLA-Aware Resource Allocation for Efficient RAN Slicing
Setareh Alagheh Band, Noura Limam and Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada)

Best Reviewer Award

Tomas Cejka (CESNET)
Mario Di Mauro (University of Salerno)
Souvik Ghosh (Meta)

New Experimental Track: The Agentic AI Researcher 🤖

Are we ready to leave humans out of the research loop? CNSM 2026 introduces a groundbreaking experimental track for papers entirely generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) and autonomous AI agents.

Read the full Call for AI Papers and submit your work here

TPC Co-Chairs
Molka Gharbaoui, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
Mohamed Faten Zhani, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia

General Co-Chairs
Elisa Rojas, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
Jaime Galán-Jiménez, University of Extremadura, Spain