The 6th EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks (EAI AICON 2026) focuses on artificial intelligence methods and systems that directly advance communication technologies, network infrastructures, and connected autonomous systems. It brings together researchers, engineers, and practitioners working at the intersection of AI, communications, and networking.

The central themes are AI-enabled design, optimization, operation, and protection of wireless, mobile, satellite, optical, Internet of Things, software-defined, and cloud-edge networks, including 5G and 6G systems. Contributions should identify a concrete communications or networking problem and demonstrate technical relevance through theory, algorithms, experiments, prototypes, or system evaluation.

Enabling research in machine learning, foundation and generative models, agentic AI, federated learning, edge AI, AI hardware, and autonomous machine intelligence is included when it is applied to communications, networks, distributed sensing, or connected autonomous systems. Generic AI studies and standalone applications in healthcare, agriculture, finance, education, and other domains are outside the proceedings scope unless their principal contribution concerns the design, operation, evaluation, or security of a communication or networked system. Special-session papers are governed by the same requirement; an application context alone does not establish scope relevance.

Trustworthy deployment is a cross-cutting focus, covering security, privacy, robustness, explainability, safety, governance, and human factors in AI-enabled communication and networked systems.

We welcome researchers and practitioners from technical fields, social sciences, and economics to participate in our interdisciplinary discussions. Papers describing theoretical advances, novel algorithms, advanced prototypes, systems, tools, and applications are encouraged.