Wireless on-demand network systems and services have become pivotal in shaping our future networked world. Starting as a niche application over Wi-Fi, they can now be found in mainstream technologies like Bluetooth LE, LTE Direct and Wireless LANs, and have become the cornerstone of upcoming networking paradigms including mesh and sensor networks, cloud networks, vehicular networks, disruption tolerant and opportunistic networks, and in-body networks.

The challenges of this exciting research field are numerous. Examples include how to make smart use of these novel technologies when multiple technologies or a mix of permanent services and on-demand networking opportunities are available to a network node, how to provide robust services in highly dynamic environments, how to efficiently employ and operate heavily resource-constrained devices, and how to develop robust and lightweight algorithms for self-organization and adaptation.

IFIP WONS, now at its 22nd edition, has established itself as a high quality forum to address these and related challenges. WONS continues to provide a global platform for rich interactions between experts in their fields, discussing innovative contributions in a stimulating environment.

This announcement solicits original contributions of high-quality research providing novel insights on all aspects of wireless on-demand networks and systems; from protocol and network design, modeling, performance evaluation, profitability models, energy efficiency, QoS models and mechanisms, practical implementations, service level aspects, application use-cases, to the integration of multiple wireless network technologies.

Topics of interest comprise, but are not limited to:

• Cognitive radio networks
• Cross-layer design
• Energy-efficient protocols and power management
• Heterogeneous wireless networks
• Implementations and testbeds
• Integration and co-existence of heterogeneous technologies
• Intra-body and biomedical on-demand systems
• Green wireless networks
• Localization and mobility management
• MAC and advanced PHY technologies
• Middleware aspects
• Mobile peer-to-peer systems
• Mobile computing and services
• Modeling and optimization
• Network management
• New architectures for on-demand wireless systems
• Novel applications and services
• Opportunistic, delay-tolerant, and dissemination-based protocols
• Performance evaluation through simulations and experiments
• Pervasive and ubiquitous computing
• Security, privacy, and trust
• Social and economic aspects

Selected papers from WONS are invited to extend their work for publication in a dedicated Special Issue of Elsevier's Computer Communications journal. Recent editions:

• Selected Papers from WONS 2026 (ongoing — submissions open)
• Selected Papers from WONS 2025 (already published articles available)