Call for Workshop Papers:
6th International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems, Infrastructures, Communications and AppLications (MUSICAL’26 Fall)
AIMS & TOPICS OF INTEREST:
The MUSICAL’26 Fall Workshop will serve as an interdisciplinary forum for the latest research on Mobile & Ubiquitous Systems for Immersive, Connected, and Applications. The scope spans the full spectrum of information and communication technology advances shaping next-generation mobile ubiquity, including but not limited to:
- ultra-reliable low-latency communications in 5G-Advanced and 6G,
- integrated sensing-communication networks and IoT fabric,
- edge/cloud continuum, federated learning, and on-device intelligence,
- spatial-computing platforms (AR/VR/MR) and cyber-physical digital twins,
- human-centric AI for behavioral insight, wellbeing, and accessibility,
- privacy-preserving data analytics, security, and trustworthy autonomy, and
- sustainable mobile computing and green networking.
We explicitly encourage submissions from graduate students, doctoral candidates, and other early-career researchers. Mobile and ubiquitous computing are evolving at an unprecedented pace, and breakthrough ideas often emerge from fresh perspectives unencumbered by legacy assumptions. By highlighting early-stage work, from visionary concepts to preliminary prototypes, the workshop aims to accelerate community feedback, collaboration, and mentoring.
Important Dates
- Paper Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: August 10, 2026
- Camera-Ready Deadline: August 30, 2026
Submission Instructions and Proceedings
Accepted and presented Workshop Track papers will be published alongside the main conference proceedings as a sub-section/chapter. Paper formats should, therefore, correspond to the templates of the publisher of the main conference.
- All papers must be submitted in English.
- Regular papers should be up to 12-20 pages in length.
- Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.
EAI MobiQuitous proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Inspec, SCImago and Zentralblatt MATH.
Author’s kit – Instructions and Templates
Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.
Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:
Please make sure that your paper adheres to the format as specified in the instructions and templates.
When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:
- a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
- an archive in .ZIP file, containing LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.
Workshop Organizers
Takuya Fujihashi
The University of Osaka, Japan
Takuya Fujihashi received the B.E. and M.S. degrees from Shizuoka University, Japan, in 2012 and 2013, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, The University of Osaka, Japan, in 2016, where he was an Assistant Professor from April 2019 to April 2026 and has been an Associate Professor since May 2026. He was a Research Fellow (PD) with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science in 2016. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Research Fellow (DC1) with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. From 2014 to 2015, he was an Intern with Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs. He has been serving as the Area Chair of IEEE ICME 2026, Symposium Chair of IEEE ICC 2026, Session Organizer of ACIIDS 2019, as well as a Guest Editor of IEEE OJCS and an Associate Editor for IEICE Transactions on Communications. He also served as a TPC member for IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, ACM NOSSDAV, and ACM MMSys Demos & Industry, and as secretary of domestic conferences. He received the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCE 2022 and was selected as a Best Paper Candidate at IEEE ICME 2012.
Makoto Kobayashi
Hiroshima City University, Japan
Makoto Kobayashi left the B.E. program in the School of Engineering, Osaka University, currently known as The University of Osaka, Japan, in 2014 to advance directly to the M.E. program. He received the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Osaka University in 2016 and 2019, respectively. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Research Fellow (DC2) of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. He was an Assistant Professor with Hiroshima City University, Japan, from 2019 to 2024, and a Lecturer from 2024 to 2026. He has been an Associate Professor since 2026. His research interests include wireless networks and wireless communications. In particular, he has significant interest in MAC protocols supporting diversified requirements and services, wireless sensing, radio propagation analysis, and non-terrestrial networks. He has been serving as the Secretary of IEEE Hiroshima Section since 2025 and as a member of the Editorial Committee of IPSJ Journal/JIP since 2023. He is also serving as a Managing Editor of the IPSJ Journal Special Issue on “New Social Systems and Advanced Transportation Systems Innovated with Super Intelligence” and as a Secretary of the IEICE Technical Committee on Sensor Networks and Mobile Intelligence (SeMI). He also served as the Technical Program Committee Chair of the IEEE INFOCOM 2026 Workshop on Resilient and Intelligent Non-Terrestrial Networks (RI-NTNs) and as a Technical Program Committee member for IEEE ICC and IEEE GLOBECOM symposiums and workshops. He received the IEEE Japan Council Certificate of Appreciation in 2026, the IEEE Kansai Section Student Paper Award in 2019, and several best paper awards, including the IEICE ICETC 2024 Best Paper Award and the ICMU 2023 Best Paper Award. He was also a recipient of multiple awards from the DICOMO Symposium and IEICE. He is a member of IEEE, IPSJ, and IEICE.
Takeru Fukushima
NTT Inc., Japan
Takeru Fukushima received a B.E. and M.E. from the University of Osaka, Japan, in 2018 and 2020. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, the University of Osaka. He is working with Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT, Inc. His research interests include 5G/6G, optimization methods for base stations, relay stations, and reflectors in unlicensed wireless access networks, and resource optimization for blockchain-based wireless access sharing. He is a member of IEEE and IEICE.
