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The 51st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN)

October 7-9, 2026 — Coimbra, Portugal

Welcome to Coimbra

IEEE LCN News 

The IEEE LCN conference is the premier conference on theoretical and practical aspects of computer networking. LCN is highly interactive, enabling an effective interchange of results and ideas among researchers, users, and product developers. Major developments from high-speed networks to the global Internet to specialized sensor networks have been reported at past LCNs. Please join us for LCN 2026, our 51st annual meeting, in Coimbra, Portugal!

Important Dates

Paper Registration: April 13 May 4, 2026 (AoE) NEW

Paper Submission: April 20 May 4, 2026 (AoE) NEW

Paper Acceptance Notification: June 29, 2026 (AoE)

Final Paper Due: July 27, 2026 (AoE)

 

Announcements

September 30, 2026: The Welcome Reception on Tuesday, October 6, will be held in the Music Room at Hotel Quinta das Lagrimas starting at 16h00. The registration desk is available on the 6th, from 15h00 to 17h00.

September 8, 2026: The 2026 IEEE 51st Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN) proceedings are currently available at IEEE Xplore®.

August 27, 2026: Hotel information has been updated on the Attendee Conference Hotel & Transportation page.

August 19, 2026: The Technical Program has been posted.

July 28, 2026: Instructions for presenters have been posted.

July 18, 2026: The initial list of Accepted Regular and Short Papers has been posted.

July 15, 2026: Student Participation Grant information has been posted.

July 13, 2026: We are pleased to announce the continuation of our N2 Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards.

July 11, 2026: We are pleased to announce LCN51 Keynote Speaker Dr. Geraldine Fitzpatrick.

July 8, 2026: Final author instructions for paper submission have been posted.

June 29, 2026: Conference registration information has been posted.

June 24, 2026: We are pleased to announce LCN51 Keynote Speaker Dr. Diego Perino.

May 28, 2026: The Call for Demonstrations has been posted.

May 14, 2026: LCN 2026 Technical Program Committee Guidelines and Instructions have been posted.

February 28, 2026: Information related to Special Tracks has been posted.

February 4, 2026: The LCN 2026 Call for Papers has been released.

February 4, 2026: We are seeking members for the Technical Program Committee (TPC). If you are interested in joining the TPC, or know of a good TPC candidate, please complete the LCN 2026 TPC nomination form.

January 28, 2026: Please view the video invitation to LCN 2026 on the LCN YouTube channel.

January 9, 2026: The LCN 2026 Web site is live! Welcome to the 51st LCN! See you in Coimbra!!

 

Patrons

The LCN 2026 Committee would like to thank the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Computer Communications (TCCC) for their continuing support of LCN.

Student participation grants are made possible by the financial contribution from the IEEE Computer Society TCCC.

                   

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