This page shows the MAIN 2026 program, including the program at a glance and the detailed program. All times in the program refer to Central European Summer Time (CEST, UTC+2). To check when an event takes place in your time zone, simply click on the corresponding time, service courtesy of worldtimebuddy.com.
Program Overview
The program includes keynote speeches, panel discussions, technical sessions, and networking opportunities.
Day 1 — Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Day 2 — Thursday, 2 July 2026
Day 3 — Friday, 3 July 2026
Detailed Technical Program
Day 1 — Wednesday, 1 July 2026
Keynote 1
From Digital Twins to Cognitive Twins: Closing the Metacognitive Loop for 6G and Beyond Wireless Systems, by Ian Akyildiz
Technical Session 1: Resource Allocation, Caching, and Scheduling
Strategic Demand and Congestion Pricing in Shared Computation Systems
Towards Multi-Model LLM Schedulers: Empirical Insights into Offloading and Preemption
Optimistic Online Caching with Switching Costs and Dynamic Batched Requests
Technical Session 2: Traffic Prediction and Anomaly Detection
Event-Driven Traffic Forecasting in FTTH Networks
Trace: An Unsupervised Temporal Approach for Invalid Ad Traffic Detection
Technical Session 3: Security and Privacy
Feasibility and Security of AAG-Type Key Exchange Protocols in 5G Networks
On the Effects of Online Black-Box Attacks Against Mobile Network Traffic Capacity Forecasters Under Temporal Constraints
Reducing Mobility Trace Identifiability via Stochastic Roaming in IEEE 802.11 Networks
Technical Session 4: IoT, Sensing, and Wireless Power
Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread: Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
Wake Sound Spotting in Internet of Things
Optimal Beam Partitioning and Scheduling for SWIPT Networks
Delay-Doppler Domain Feature Extraction for Explainable Wi-Fi Activity Recognition via SVM
Day 2 — Thursday, 2 July 2026
Keynote 2
From National Coverage to Global Platforms: Evolving the Mobile Network Architecture, by Andra Lutu
Technical Session 5: AI for Network Design, Modeling, and Management
NeuroFlexMLP: A Low Complexity MLP Architecture for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
A Playground for Benchmarking Agentic AI in Network Management
TANGRAM-AI: An Intelligent Assistant for Performance Modeling and Learning-Based Control
Technical Session 6: Vehicular Networks
Layer Specialization in LSTM Networks for Smart Road-User Interaction Systems in Vehicular Networks
Repeated Contention Scheduling: A Novel Resource Allocation Algorithm Toward 6G Vehicular Networks
Panel
Networking in the ’30s: what research topics will be hot?
Moderated by Marco Ajmone Marsan
Confirmed panelists: Ian Akyildiz, Edmundo de Souza e Silva, Vasos Vassiliou
PhD Workshop
Students’ presentations and posters
Day 3 — Friday, 3 July 2026
Keynote 3
Towards Agentic AI at the Edge: Challenges and Opportunities, by Shiqiang Wang
Technical Session 7: Wireless Networks, Positioning, and Networking
xApp-Driven Multi-Metric Handover in 5G Open RAN with COTS User Equipment
From 5G Single-Cell Signals to Pervasive Smartphone Positioning: A Real-World Study
Assessing the Technical Requisites for Carbon-Aware Routing: Routing Policy Support and RPKI Adoption
Technical Session 8: Security and Resilience
Hybrid Adaptive Fuzzy and Neuro-Fuzzy Based Intrusion Detection for Jamming Attacks in IoT Networks
Enabling Classical Detectable Byzantine Broadcast and Consensus Through Quantum Error Correction Circuits