The 2026 Internet Measurement Conference (IMC) is a three-and-a-half day event focusing on Internet measurement and analysis. The conference is sponsored by ACM SIGCOMM. IMC 2026 is the 26th in a series of highly successful Internet Measurement Workshops and Conferences.
The ACM IMC 2026 conference will be held from November 03-06, 2026 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Announcements
This is the second edition of IMC with two deadlines per year (November 20th, 2025 and April 29th, 2026) and an optional one-shot-revision process across deadlines. The key goal of these novelties is (i) to further enhance the quality and timeliness of the papers we publish; (ii) provide more flexibility in submission timing, with guaranteed timeliness of reviews; (iii) allowing exciting but not-yet-ready papers to receive a one-shot-revision decision in lieu of rejection (allowed only for one round); and allow researchers to spread out their submissions across the year and submit high quality work. As these novelties will affect decisions and submissions please see the Call for Papers. Also note that papers rejected at IMC 2025 cannot be submitted to the November 20th, 2025 deadline.
- 2026-09-28: The Call for Paper Submissions is up. Register your paper by November 13, 2026.
Important Dates
Cycle 1 Deadline
| Paper registration (with abstract) | November 13, 2025 |
| Paper submission | November 20, 2025 |
| Early reject notification | February 3, 2026 |
| Notification | March 17, 2026 |
| Shepherd approval and final camera ready submission | April 14, 2026 |
| Official publication date | October 15, 2026 |
| Conference | November 2026 |
Cycle 2 Deadline
| Expression of Interest (papers for the Replicability Track) | December 16, 2025 |
| Notification for the Replicability Track Expression of Interest | January 27, 2026 |
| Paper registration (with abstract, including invited papers to Replicability Track) | April 22, 2026 |
| Paper submission (including invited papers to Replicability Track) | April 29, 2026 |
| Paper submission (one-shot review papers from Cycle 1 deadline) | June 4, 2026 |
| Early reject notification | June 25, 2026 |
| Notification | August 4, 2026 |
| Shepherd approval and final camera ready submission | September 1, 2026 |
| Official publication date | October 15, 2026 |
| Conference | November 2026 |
Paper Submission
For Cycle 1 submission (deadline November 20, 2025), please submit your paper at https://imc2026-cycle1.hotcrp.com/.
For Cycle 2 submission (deadline April 29, 2026), please submit your paper at https://imc2026-cycle2.hotcrp.com/.
Please submit your Expression of Interest for the Replicability Track (deadline December 16, 2025) at https://imc2026-repro.hotcrp.com/.
Anti-Harassment policy
ACM IMC 2026 strongly endorses the ACM Anti-Harassment policy.
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