-Modeling and Comparison of Different Management Approaches on the Intersections Network -- Examining the performance of a distributed system through the application of queuing theory -- Selecting the Performance Metrics to Control the CPU Oversubscription Ratio in a Cloud Server -- Transient behavior of the photonic switch with duplication of switching elements in the all optical network with heterogeneous traffic -- FPGA Implementation of a Decoder with Low Density Parity Checks Based on the Minimum Sum Algorithm for 5G Networks -- Constructive Approach to Multi Position Passive Acoustic Localization in Information Measurement Systems -- Application of queueing theory to investigation of Proxy load balancer performance characteristics -- Broadband wireless networks based on tethered high altitude unmanned platforms.

The proceedings constitute papers presented in the 26th International Conference, DCCN 2023, held in Moscow, Russia, during September 25–29, 2023. The 8 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They cover variety of topics including networks architecture, network protocols, distributed computer systems, distributed communication systems, simulation, stochastic processes, queueing and reliability theory, Internet and web applications and services, wireless networks, Internet of things, performance analysis, and high-altitude communication platforms. .