The 46th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (IEEE ICDCS 2026) is the premier international forum for researchers and practitioners to present, discuss and exchange cutting-edge ideas as well as the latest findings on topics related to all aspects of distributed computing systems. The conference will be held in South Korea.

We invite you to submit original contributions to IEEE ICDCS 2026. Papers can be submitted to one of the twelve technical tracks listed below.

Papers must be original and unpublished and must not be submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. All paper submissions should follow the IEEE Conference template, downloadable by selecting "Conferences" in the IEEE Template Selector.

The submission must not include author information and must not include citations or discussion of related work that would make the authorship apparent (e.g., "in our previous work [1], …"). While authors can upload their paper to preprint repositories such as arXiv.org before reviewing is complete, we generally discourage this since it places anonymity at risk. If authors decide to upload their paper to a preprint site, the title and abstract must differ from the ICDCS submission version.

To encourage reproducibility, we encourage authors, whenever possible, to include in their paper a link to an anonymised GitHub repository with all source code, scripts, and data needed for the reproduction of their results.

For each accepted paper, at least one author is required to pay a full author registration and attend the conference in-person to present their work on-site. Any no-show papers will be reported to the publisher and removed from the conference proceedings. For authors with multiple accepted papers, a separate author registration is required for each paper.

Note that authors should adhere to the ethical and professional standards of IEEE. Please refer to the IEEE Code of Ethics and IEEE Policy on AI-Generated Text.