- Session 1: Data-Centric Networking
- From SRM to NDN: Three Decades of Lessons in Data-Centric Networking
- Resilient In-Network Data Storage in NDN
- NDN-CloudSync: A Secure Storage Service Running on Multiple Clouds
NDN Community Meeting 2026 (NDNComm 2026)
Welcome to NDN Community Meeting 2026!
The 2026 Named Data Networking Community Meeting (NDNComm’26) will be hosted as an online meeting during May 18-19, 2026.
NDNComm is an annual event that brings together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, government, as well as individuals interested in the development of the Named Data Networking (NDN) technology, providing the community a forum to exchange the latest results on the development of NDN protocols, software, testbed, and applications, and to discuss/debate on future directions.
Conference Program
NDN Community Meeting Program
Two focused online days for sharing work-in-progress, finding connections across projects, and working through the open challenges in Named Data Networking.
- Dates
- May 18-19, 2026
- Format
- Online meeting
- Time Zone
- PDT (UTC-7)
- Sessions
- 6 live blocks
Each talk is allocated 20-25 minutes, including Q&A, unless specified otherwise. Speakers are expected to leave adequate time for questions and discussion.
Q&A and discussions are held via the shared Ownly workspace. An archive of the workspace is available in the NDNComm 2026 Ownly archive.
All times are PDT (UTC-7).
Monday, May 18, 2026
- Break
- Session 2: Security and Access Control
- Decentralized Access Control Library for NDN
- Enhancing NAC-ABE to Support Access Control for mHealth Applications and Beyond
- Message Layer Security in Ownly Group Encryption
- Break
- Session 3: Storage and Distributed Systems
- NDN Service Framework
- NDN for AI and AI for NDN: Challenges, Opportunities and Early Results
Tuesday, May 19, 2026
- NDNComm 2026 Panel: Networking AI Agents—Challenges and Solutions
Moderator: Beichuan Zhang
AI agents are rapidly emerging as autonomous network participants, yet the underlying infrastructure remains ad hoc and ill-suited for their needs. Agents must identify each other, discover capabilities, delegate tasks, and establish trust, raising fundamental protocol questions: Are agents just applications, or should they be treated as first-class network entities? What is the impact of agent communication patterns on transport and network layer functionality? What should agent identity look like? How should trust be established across domains? How do agents discover the right peers? And which of these functions belong in the network layer?
This panel asks whether today's Internet stack, including DNS/DNSSEC, WebPKI, and TLS, can scale to agent ecosystems, or whether their assumptions of human-driven sessions and centralized trust fundamentally break down. If so, can alternative approaches such as Named Data Networking (NDN), with data-centric security and decentralized trust, point toward a new architectural direction?
- Break
- Session 4: NDN in IoT Area
- Reclaiming Digital Autonomy: A Systematic Review of NDN Applications in IoT Systems
- TrustNG: Using Named Data Networking as a Zero-Trust Overlay for Cloud-Native 5G Core Networks
- MGuard: Development Updates
- Break
- Session 5: Scalable NDN Routing
- ICN+SCION Global Name-based Network Service
- From Map-and-Encap to BIER: Observations on Network Routing Scalability
- Architecting a Scalable Routing and Forwarding system for NDN
Important Dates
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May 15, 2026
Submission Deadline
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May 18-19, 2026
NDN Community Meeting 2026
Registration Deadlines:
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May 10, 2026
Registration for Remote Participation