We have now concluded the review process, and notifications are on their way to the authors. We received a record 32 high-quality papers this year, which made the review process very difficult.
I would like to thank the 62 Technical Programme Committee members for providing 107 high-quality reviews of the workshop papers, and to congratulate the authors of the accepted papers.
Workshop Co-Chairs:
Nima Afraz
University College Dublin
Dublin, Ireland
Mohammad Shojafar
University of Surrey
Surrey, United Kingdom
Hamed Ahmadi
University of York
York, United Kingdom
TPC members:
Leonardo Bonati, Ngoc-Dung Dao, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Oscar Adamuz-Hinojosa, PhD, Apurba Adhikary, Khurshid Alam, Jose A. Ayala Romero, Dario Bega, Vasile Bota, Salvatore D’Oro, Yang Deng, Sina Ebrahimi, Erika Fonseca, Ramon Fontes, Fabrizio Granelli, Joshua Groen, Tai Ho, Cheng-Feng Hung, Adrian Kliks, Haiyuan Li, Peizheng Li, Adriana Lipovac, Fatemeh Lotfi, Andrea Marotta, Motoharu Matsuura, Bruno Missi Xavier, Shahram Mollahasani, Sourav Mondal, PhD, Sofia Montebugnoli, Claudio Paoloni, Alberto Perotti, Pasika Ranaweera, Steve Azarsh Ratti, Olivier Renaudin, Antรณnio Rodrigues, Andrea Sabbioni, Joao Santos, Mario Tanda, Panagiotis Trakadas, Dejan Vukobratovic, Abdul Wadud, Qingtian WANG, Kun Yang, Dr.Akram Aburas, Ali Ahmed, Dr. Aloizio Da Silva – Ph.D, MBA, PMP, MSc, Falko Dressler, Marcin Dryjanski, Vรญctor P. Gil Jimรฉnez, Seung Eun H., Rafael Kaliski, Ph.D., SMIEEE, Augusto Venรขncio Neto, Van-Linh Nguyen, Homayoun Nikookar, Rawlings Ntassah, @Roberto Pacheco, Milica Pejanovic-Djurisic, Corrado Puligheddu, Lanfranco Zanzi, Engin Zeydan
Congradulations to the authors with accepted papers: Joss Armstrong, Dr. Enda Fallon, Sheila Fallon, Jiahui Li, Lian Tong, Yongjun Yan, Madhura Adeppady, Fahim Bashar, Dr. Aloizio Da Silva – Ph.D, MBA, PMP, MSc, Scott Midkiff, Varun S., Asheesh Tripathi Sofian Ben Khalifa, Zahra Pooranian, Rahim Taheri, Abdul Wadud, Paul Almasan, Stefanos Bakirtzis, Andra Lutu, Josรฉ Suรกrez-Varela Maciรก, Bingxuan Li, Lina Yao, Zhaoming Lu, Luhan Wang, Miguel Camelo Botero, Joris Finck, Xhulio Limani, Bart Lowyck, Johann M. Marquez-Barja, Nina Slamnik – Krijeลกtorac, Ertugrul Basar, Ali Gรถrรงin, Ibrahim Hokelek, Sefa Kayraklฤฑk, Ali Sahin, Halim Yanikomeroglu, Dr. Bharat Agarwal (Ph.D.), Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Rajnish Bardoloi, Nikumani Choudhury, Sundararaman Ganapathiraman, Ashmik Harinkhede, Anakhi Hazarika, Jyotirmoy Ray, Paresh Saxena, Ahmed Abdelreheem, Aisling O’ Driscoll, Cormac Sreenan, Muhammad Usman, PhD, Chan-Byoung Chae, Robert Heath, Jaebum Park, Sudip Biswas, Srikanta Dash, Shahid Mumtaz, Keshav Singh, suresh kumar Amalapuram, Somya Jain, Yaswanth Kumar, Shiva Ram Murthy, Abdulla Ovais, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Michael Suguna Kumar
Extended deadline January 31st.
Call for Papers open for:
The 2nd International Workshop on Open Radio Access Networks
Architectural disaggregation, standardized open interfaces, and ecosystem-led innovation for the future of mobile networks. Held with IEEE ICC 2026.
May 24, 2026 โข Glasgow, Scotland
Website: https://lnkd.in/gxkPbZ8n
EDAS Submission Link: https://lnkd.in/exjftBUb
The 2nd International Workshop on Open Radio Access Networks will take place on 24 May 2026 in Glasgow, Scotland, co-located with IEEE ICC 2026. Building on the first edition at WCNC 2025, the workshop examines the ongoing evolution of Open RAN through architectural disaggregation, standardized interfaces, and an ecosystem-driven innovation model.
This edition welcomes contributions on a wide range of research areas, including RIC architectures, xApp and rApp interoperability, conflict detection and mitigation, explainable and safe AI for RAN control, digital twin frameworks, open-source testbeds and simulators, O-Cloud virtualization, energy-efficient scheduling, security and supply-chain assurance, spectrum sharing, and policy and economic dimensions of Open RAN adoption.
The workshop is chaired by Nima Afraz (University College Dublin), Mohammad Shojafar (University of Surrey), and Hamed Ahmadi (University of York).
Paper submissions are due 18 January 2026, with notifications on 8 March and camera-ready versions on 15 March. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the IEEE ICC 2026 Proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore.
Further details, including the full Call for Papers and submission guidelines, are available on the workshop website.
