RE-NET 2026
ACM CoNEXT-2026 First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and Responsible Internet
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The First International Workshop on a Resilient, Renewable, and Responsible Internet (RE-NET 2026), co-located with the 22nd International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT 2026), brings together researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of society and networking technologies. The workshop's goal is to promote an Internet that is re-invented in the sense that novel networking developments are guided by societal needs.
The workshop seeks high-quality contributions addressing theoretical research, method and algorithm development, system design, experimental evaluations, operational experiences, and socio-technical studies on the interplay of Internet technologies and society.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Formalization of societal goals and their transformation to network services
- Transparency, explainability, and accountability in network management and services
- Contracts and governance mechanisms that relate societal goals to technology provisioning
- Trust establishment and assurance in networking
- Privacy preservation of personal data in a global network infrastructure
- Sustainable networking, including the use of renewable energy sources
- Trade-offs between energy-efficient networking and (agentic) AI
- Responsible Internet of Agents
- AI-facilitated responsible networking
- Explainable AI in network management
- Reliability, safety, and resilience of networks and services
- SDN and programmable networking for responsibility goals
- Responsible XaaS (everything as a service, e.g., CaaS, FaaS, etc.) models and solutions
- Sovereignty, safety, and liability in networked critical infrastructures
- Application use cases and studies exposing shortcomings of current Internet technologies
- Studies on inclusion/exclusion and citizen trust in Internet-based services
- Analyses of Internet vulnerabilities and the consequences of Internet outages
- Studies on the impact of Internet-based services on societal structures
Important Dates
- Paper submission deadline: July 14th, 2026
- Paper acceptance notification: August 14th, 2026
- Camera-ready deadline: September 14th, 2026
Submission Instructions
Workshop papers will be published in the same set of proceedings as the conference's short papers, and will be available on the ACM Digital Library. The papers should be formatted similar to CoNEXT short papers. Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, not previously published work and work that is not currently under review. Manuscripts must have a maximum length of 6 pages, including references. A single-blind peer-review process will be adopted. Each submitted paper will receive at least three reviews from the Technical Program Committee.
Submission site: The submission will be managed at https://re-net2026.hotcrp.com
Organizers
- Paola Grosso, University of Amsterdam
- Karin Anna Hummel, Johannes Kepler University Linz
Technical Program Committee
- Tihana Galinac Grbac, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula
- Jean-Marc Pierson, Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier
- Michela Meo, Politecnico di Torino
- Öznur Özkasap, Koç University
- Sergey Gorinsky, IMDEA Networks Institute
- Nikolaos Fotiou, Internet Identity Security and Privacy Solutions Greece
- George Polyzos, Athens University of Economics and Business
- Henning Schulzrinne, Trustees of Columbia University
- Pavol Helebrandt, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava
- Gabriel Scalosub, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Helen Eenmaa, University of Tartu
- Ralph Holz, University of Münster
- Sándor Laki, Eötvös Loránd University
- Enio Kaljic, University of Sarajevo
Credits
RE-NET logo image created by Heriansyah Najemi, JKU Linz.
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