The 44th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Networks and Distributed Systems (SBRC 2026) was held in Praia do Forte, Bahia, from
May 25 to 29, 2026. In addition to the great success of our workshop, we are also celebrating several achievements by our team:
. The paper “Agent VAMOS! Semantic Context-Aware Vehicle Route Planning with LLM Agents” by Carnot Braun, Daniel Ludovico Guidoni, Eduardo Coelho Cerqueira, Joahannes Bruno Dias da Costa, Leandro Villas, and Allan Mariano de Souza received an Honorable Mention in the Main Track of SBRC 2026.
. The doctoral thesis titled “Overload Management Techniques
and Resource Allocation for Machine-Type Mass Communication in 3GPP Access Networks” by Tiago Pedroso (UNICAMP), and supervised by Prof. Nelson Fonseca (UNICAMP, and general coordinator of ICoNIoT), received an Honorable Mention in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD) at SBRC 2026.
. The master’s thesis titled “Collision Detection and
Prioritization in Intelligent mMTC Random Access in Cellular
IoT Networks”, authored by Giancarlo Maldonado Cardenas and supervised by professors Nelson L.S. da Fonseca and Carlos A. Astudillo, was awarded
an honorable mention in the Thesis and Dissertation Contest (CTD) at SBRC 2026.
. The paper “Safe Control and Collision Avoidance in Dense Drone Traffic
via Reinforcement Learning,” by Henrique J. Felisardo dos
Santos, Israel da Silva Barros, Luiz Fernando Bittencourt, Carlos
Kamienski, and Fabíola M. C. de Oliveira, received an honorable mention at the Urban Computing Workshop (CoUrb).
. The paper “Self-Supervised Learning for Early Preamble Collision
Detection in Cellular IoT Networks”, authored by Daniela M.
Casas-Velasco, Diogo Maciel Cunha, Marco Aurelio Guerra Pedroso,
Giancarlo Maldonado Cardenas, Carlos Alberto Astudillo Trujillo, and Nelson Fonseca, received an honorable mention at the 1st Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Computer Networks (WIARC) at SBRC 2026.
. The paper “A Performance Comparison of Authentication and Authorization Patterns for Microservices Applications,” by Rafael Freitas Cardoso (UFRGS) and Jeferson Campos Nobre (UFRGS), received an honorable mention at the WGRS – 31st Workshop on Network and Service Management and Operation at SBRC 2026.