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Dear colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the updated dates and submission deadline for RNDM 2026, the 16th International Workshop on Resilient Networks Design and Modelling, to be held in Lancaster, United Kingdom, on 25–27 November 2026.

The new paper submission deadline is 11 September 2026.

RNDM is a well-established single-track annual workshop bringing together researchers from academia and industry to present high-quality results in the area of resilient and dependable network design and modelling.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• AI/ML techniques for resilience of networked systems

• Business aspects of resilience

• Cost evaluation of network resilience

• Disaster-resilience of communication networks

• Data plane resilience methods

• End-to-end network resilience

• Energy efficiency in survivable networks

• Fault and disruption tolerance evaluation

• Fault management, control, and monitoring

• Green networks resilience

• Methods for measurement, evaluation, or validation of resilience

• Metrics for network resilience

• Modeling different types of failures

• Modeling malicious behavior or attacks on networks

• Models and algorithms of survivable networks design and modeling

• Multilayer network resilience

• Network dependability

• Network redundancy optimization

• Network resilience vs. economy-related issues

• New and emerging threats in cloud computing and content-oriented networks

• Optical network survivability

• Optimization issues in resilient network design

• QoS and QoE in resilient communications

• Performance evaluation of resilient networks

• Resilient cloud computing architectures/solutions

• Resilient content-oriented network architectures and solutions

• Resilience and coherence between heterogeneous components of 5G+ and 6G infrastructures

• Resilience of 5G+ and 6G networked systems

• Resilience of energy distribution networks

• Resilience of data centers

• Resilience of emerging communication technologies

• Resilience of Industrial Control Systems

• Resilience of interdependent networks

• Resilience of multi-domain communications

• Resilience of non-terrestrial networks

• Resilience of Operational Technology (OT)

• Resilience of Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

• Resilience of vehicle-to-vehicle communications

• Resilience of wireless networks

• Resilience of wireless-wired communications

• Security-related issues in resilient network design

• Simulation/emulation techniques for network resilience

• Standardization of network resilience

• Survivability of Content Delivery Networks

• Theory of network resilience

• Wireless access networks survivability

Important dates:

• Paper submission: 11 September 2026

• Acceptance notification: 20 October 2026

• Camera-ready: 3 November 2026

• Workshop dates: 25–27 November 2026

Submission details:

• Papers should be at most 7 pages

• IEEE double-column conference format

• Submission link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=35095&track=136655

Workshop website:
http://www.rndm.pl/2026/

Please feel free to share this CFP with interested colleagues and students.

Best regards,

On behalf of the RNDM 2026 Organising Committee