The IEEE International Symposium on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting 2026, the 21st in the series, will be held in July 8-10, 2026, João Pessoa, Brazil. The symposium is the premier forum for the presentation and exchange of technical advances in the rapidly converging areas of multimedia broadcasting, telecommunications, consumer electronics, and networking technologies.
Submission of extended abstract/full paper: January 10 January 31, 2026
Notification of acceptance: February 22 February 28, 2026
Submission of camera-ready papers: March 31 April 14, 2026
The symposium seeks unpublished technical papers on topics, including but not limited to:
1. Multimedia Transmission
- Channel modelling & Simulation
- Channel coding, modulation, multiplexing
- Advanced signal processing for transmission
- MISO and MIMO processing
- Channel estimation and equalization
- Antenna technologies
- Propagation and coverage
- Terrestrial and satellite delivery
- Mobile TV and advanced HD Radio
- Field Trials and test results
- Next generation of broadcasting standards
- UAV communication and route planning
- AI-Based communications
- Technologies beyond 5G
2. Multimedia Networking
- Multimedia for connect cars and IoT
- Multimedia datacasting
- Multimedia security
- Quality evaluation and dataset
- Audience measurement & behaviour study
- Quality of experience
- Future broadcasting services
- Convergence of broadcast and broadband
- Distributed or edge/fog-based multimedia services
- Cloud-based multimedia services
- 6G NTN system and networks
3. Multimedia Signal Processing
- Multimedia coding: image, video, audio
- Error resilience and concealment
- 3D, virtual reality, multi-view video
- AI-based multimedia coding
- Scalable video coding & content adaptation
- Retrieval and indexing
- Synthetic imaging and rendering
- Objective video & audio quality assessment
4. Multimedia Service and Quality
- IPTV and streaming
- Internet TV and OTT
- FeMBMS, 5G NR MBS, MooD & SC-PTM
- VoD, interactivity, datacasting
- Multimedia NFV & SDN
- Traffic and performance monitoring
- Networking and QoS
- Broadcast applications to smart cities
- AI for multimedia networking intelligence
- Broadcast core network
- XR/VR/AR-based communications
- RIS-assisted communications
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (3 pages) or full papers (6 pages) for review. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format, using the IEEE conference: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates
Please submit your paper to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bmsb2026