BalkanCom is a premier technical conference in communications and networking in the Balkan region. The goal of BalkanCom is to bring together researchers from academia, research labs and industry from all over the world to the geographical and historical region of the Balkans. BalkanCom 2024, with the theme AI-enabled Fluid Connectivity continues the best tradition of scientific conferences of being completely not for profit. The seventh edition of the conference will take place on 3-6 June 2024 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

We solicit technical papers describing original, completed, and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Communication and information theory
    6G and AI native networks
    Next-generation networking and Internet
    Aerial, mobile and wireless networks
    IoT and sensor networks
    Green Communication Systems & Networks
    AI and machine learning for communications and networking
    Molecular, biological and multi-scale communications
    Data driven network design and optimization
    Quantum communications
    Signal processing for communications
    Mm-wave and Terahertz communications
    Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and smart environments
    Integrated sensing and communications
    Satellite and space communications
    Wireless optical computing and communications
    Cloud/edge computing, networking, and data
    Computing continuum and communications
    Cross-layer modeling, design, and optimization
    Software defined networking and network softwarization
    Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
    Programmability for Time-Sensitive Networks
    Network slicing and slice management
    Network orchestration
    Methodologies for network softwarization (DevOps, NetOps, Verification)
    Localization, tracking, and context-aware wireless communication
    Communications for smart infrastructures
    Resilient communications for critical infrastructures
    Public safety communications
    Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management
    Security and Blockchain technology for communications
    Communication in social networks
    Connected car, intelligent transportation, smart grids
    Communications for e-Health, smart agriculture, etc.
    Communications for the metaverse
    Open research and experimentation facilities and testbeds