This is the 26th of the International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), which was started under the name of Joint Workshop on Computer Communications in 1986. At that time, it was a technical meeting for researchers and engineers on the Internet technologies in East Asian countries, where several technical issues were discussed, especially “how to connect each other.” In 1993, the meeting was reorganized as an international conference known as ICOIN. Recent past editions were held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2011), Busan, Korea (2010), Chiang Mai, Thailand (2009), Busan, Korea (2008), Estoril, Portugal (2007), and Sendai, Japan (2006).

The ICOIN 2012 conference looks for significant contributions to the computer communications and wireless networks, in the theoretical and practical aspects. Original papers are invited on wired/wireless network architecture, design, protocol, service, analysis, implementation, measurement and simulation.