4th IEEE International Workshop on the Internet of Time-Critical Things

Piazza Maggiore, Bologna

IoTime 2026 is a workshop held in conjunction with the 27th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2026): held in Bologna, Italy.

  • Submission deadline: March 22, 2026 April 5, 2026
  • Acceptance Notification: April 12, 2026 April 26, 2026
  • Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline: April 26, 2026 May 3, 2026
  • Conference days: June 16-19, 2026, Bologna, Italy
  • Workshop day: June 16, 2026

CALL FOR TECHNICAL PAPERS

Time is an essential constraint for most components of an IoT system, such as sensors, actuators, and applications. The IoTime workshop focuses on applications, architectures, and solutions for IoT-based systems where time plays a crucial role. Precise time and timeliness in task execution are fundamental requirements for emerging IoT applications, including Industry 4.0, mobile and collaborative robots, autonomous systems, and immersive and interactive human-cyber experiences.

Original, unpublished contributions are welcomed in time-critical applications for the Internet of Things. Time is a crucial and sensitive matter in most IoT-based systems and applications. Smart factories, mobile and collaborative robots, autonomous systems, and virtual/mixed reality are examples of the next wave of applications that rely on accurate time and bounded (low) latency computing and communications. The IoTime Workshop looks for cutting-edge approaches in the whole IoT vertical - from sensors to applications - in which time plays a significant factor.

TOPICS

  • Wireless time-sensitive networking to achieve secure, reliable, low-latency wireless communications.
  • Wireless time-sensitive networking for AR/VR use cases.
  • Real test-beds, proofs-of-concept, pilot site descriptions, and industry experience where time plays a crucial role.
  • Time synchronization and coordination in multi-robot systems.
  • Digital Twins to support time-critical networking in Industrial IoT.
  • Time-sensitive networking, ultra-low latency, high-reliability communications.
  • Time-Critical IoT Applications.
  • Machine learning solutions and approaches for time-critical IoT-based systems.
  • Orchestration and placement of computing and networking resources in the IoT Computer Continuum (Edge/Cloud).
  • Edge AI solutions, models, and applications for IoT applications to optimize or enable applications in which time plays a crucial role.
  • Performance evaluation of time-critical IoT systems.
  • Reference architectures for Time-Critical Things.
  • Management and monitoring for time-critical applications in IoT.
  • Efficient computing approaches for time-critical systems to decrease latency and computer resource usage.
  • Caching policies, strategies, and architectures at the network edge for time-critical IoT systems.

Submission Instructions