SEquences and Their Applications (SETA) 2026

September 19-23, 2026, Wuhan, China

Call for Papers

Sequences play important roles in numerous critical domains, encompassing areas such as spread spectrum communication systems, global positioning systems, ranging systems, circuit testing, software testing, channel estimation, cryptographic schemes, and beyond.

SEquences and Their Applications (SETA) is an internationally leading conference, aiming to foster fruitful interactions among sequences, signals, and waveforms designers, mathematicians, coding theorists, cryptographic researchers, and communications practitioners from all over the world. This esteemed conference has been hosted in a variety of international locales: SETA-1998 (Singapore), SETA-2001 (Bergen Norway), SETA-2004 (Seoul, South Korea), SETA-2006 (Beijing China), SETA-2008 (Lexington USA), SETA-2010 (Paris France), SETA-2012 (Waterloo Canada), SETA-2014 (Melbourne, Australia), SETA-2016 (Chengdu, China), SETA-2018 (HongKong China), SETA-2020 online (Bergen Norway), SETA-2024 (Colchester, UK).

Important Dates

Deadline for submission: 23:59 (UTC-11), May 25th, 2026
Open for registration: June 1st, 2026
Acceptance notification: June 30th, 2026
Final submission: July 30th, 2026
Submission of full Papers: December 10th, 2026

Submission of Full Papers

All speakers at SETA-2026 are invited to submit a full version to a special issue at the Springer journal Cryptography and Communications
Submission: August 1th - December 10th, 2026
Submission Guideline: when you submit your work to CCDS, you should choose "Collection: Sequences and Their Applications 2026".

Conference Theme

The topics of the 13th international conference on SEquences and Their Applications (SETA-2026) include but are not limited to:

Sequences in District Structure

Sequences over finite fields/rings
Shift register sequences
Boolean functions and their cryptographic criteria
Zero/Low-correlation sequences
Low PAPR sequences
Complementary sequences
Combinatorial aspects of sequences
Number-theoretic aspects of sequences
Multidimensional sequences and arrays, Costas array

Sequences for Cryptography and Coding

Stream ciphers
Complexity measures of sequences
Randomness properties of sequences
Design and decoding of error-correction codes
Quantum coding theory

Sequences and Waveforms Design for Communication and Radar

Frequency Hopping Sequences
Spectrum Spreading Sequences
Non-orthogonal Multiple Access, e.g., code-domain NOMA
Cognitive radio/radar
Channel estimation
Synchronization
Signal Detection Theory
Signal Processing
MIMO communication/ radar

Next-generation Sequences Design