[Qirg] IEEE Network Series 5 on Quantum Communications and Networking (DDL: July 15)

[Ruidong Li <[e-mail]>]

Dear QIRG members,

Thanks for the continuous support toIEEENetworkSI andSeries1, 2, 3 and 4 
onQuantumCommunications and Networking (QCN)!

We would like to continue to invite you to submit papers to 
theIEEENetworkSeries5 on QCN. The topics in thisseriesis very closely 
related to the QIRG. It will be also appreciated if you can disseminate 
this CFP to your friends, colleagues, various mailing lists, 
conferences/workshops, and social media.

https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/quantum-communications-and-networking-series-5 
<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/quantum-communications-and-networking-series-5>

*Series5 Manuscript Submission Deadline:   15 July 2026*
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
•Quantumcommunication and networking applications
•Quantuminternet architectures, protocols, and design principles
•Intelligentquantumcommunication networks
•Entanglement generation, scheduling, and distribution
•Quantuminformation theory and communication protocol
•Quantummemory and repeater design
•Quantumrouting metrics and new routing algorithms
•Congestion control and resource allocation forquantumnetworks
•Quantumdata plane andquantumcontrol plane design
•Security, privacy, and trust in the context ofquantumnetworks
•Quantumnetworkmanagement
•Simulators, testbeds, prototypes, implementations, and field experiments
•Verification of the existing knowledge in realquantumnetworks
•Performance evaluation and modeling
•Migration from classical networks toquantumnetworks

*Previous Issues for thisseries:*
1.IEEENetworkspecial issue onQuantumCommunications and Networking 
(Special Issue - September 2022)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9963993&punumber=65 
<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=9963993&punumber=65>
2.IEEENetworkspecial issue onQuantumCommunications and Networking 
(Series1 - January 2024)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=10506038&punumber=65 
<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=10506038&punumber=65>
3.IEEENetworkspecial issue onQuantumCommunications and Networking 
(Series2 - September 2024)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=10680059&punumber=65 
<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=10680059&punumber=65>
4.IEEENetworkspecial issue onQuantumCommunications and Networking 
(Series3 - May 2025)
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11002609/ 
<https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11002609/>

If you have any question on submission, please feel free to contact us. 
Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,
Ruidong Li

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https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/quantum-communications-and-networking-series-5 
<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/cfp/quantum-communications-and-networking-series-5>
*Series5 Manuscript Submission Deadline:   15 July 2026*

Quantumcommunication researchers have achieved significant progress 
during the recent decades andquantumnetworking has shown promise in 
terms of improving the overall functional benefits of the Internet and 
enabling applications with no counterpart in the classical world. It is 
a breakthrough technology towards the unimaginable future. In 
aquantumnetwork, the source and destination may be connected 
byquantumrepeaters/routers for facilitating qubit transmissions. 
Thequantumnetworkof the future is envisaged to pervade the entire globe, 
relying on terrestrial components, satellites, airplanes, ships and 
other vehicles. It isanticipatedthatit will support nearly unconditional 
security,super-computing power, largenetworkcapacity – even at high 
velocity - and privacy.

In the current era,quantumnetworks are similar to the early stage of the 
classical Internet in the 1970s. However, they exhibit fundamentally 
different features, obeying the uncertainty principle, the 
non-orthogonal indistinguishable theorem, thequantumnon-cloning theorem, 
entanglement and superposition. These constraining features make the 
design ofquantumnetworks a challenging task.To make the promise 
ofquantumnetworking a reality, the entire protocol stack spanning from 
the physical-layer enabling techniques to the application layer requires 
a dedicated collaborative effort from a large fraction of the 
engineering and physics community.

Thisseriesfocuses on recent advances inquantumcommunications and 
networking, and we seek original contributions inquantumnetworking 
architectures, concepts, protocols, and technologies in support 
oflong-distance qubit transmissions and novelnetworkapplications. Topics 
of interest include, but are not limited to:

  * Quantumcommunication and networking applications
  * Quantuminternet architectures, protocols, and design principles
  * Intelligentquantumcommunication networks
  * Entanglement generation, scheduling, and distribution
  * Quantuminformation theory and communication protocol
  * Quantummemory and repeater design
  * Quantumrouting metrics and new routing algorithms
  * Congestion control and resource allocation forquantumnetworks
  * Quantumdata plane andquantumcontrol plane design
  * Security, privacy, and trust in the context ofquantumnetworks
  * Quantumnetworkmanagement
  * Simulators, testbeds, prototypes, implementations, and field experiments
  * Verification of the existing knowledge in realquantumnetworks
  * Performance evaluation and modeling
  * Migration from classical networks toquantumnetworks

*Submission Guidelines:*

Manuscripts should conform to the standard format as indicated in the 
‘Information for Authors’ section of the Paper Submission Guidelines 
<https://www.comsoc.org/publications/magazines/ieee-network/paper-submission-guidelines>.

All manuscripts to be considered for publication must be submitted by 
the deadline through Manuscript Central 
<http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/network-ieee>. Select ‘Series/QCN’ from 
the drop-down menu of topic titles.

*Important Dates**:*

*Series 5 Manuscript Submission Start: *15 April 2026*
Manuscript Submission Deadline: *15 July 2026*
Initial Decision Notification: *30 October 2026*
Revised Manuscript Due: *30 November 2026*
Final Decision Notification: *15 January 2027*
Final Manuscript Due: *30 January 2027*
Publication Date: *April 2027


•*Guest Editors**:*

Ruidong Li, Kanazawa University, Japan (Lead Guest Editor)

Prineha Narang, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Melchior Aelmans, IonQ,Sweden

Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland

Guilu Long, Tsinghua University, China