General Submission
Call for Papers

BalkanCom is a premier technical conference in communications and networking in the Balkan region. The goal of BalkanCom is to bring together researchers in academia, research labs and industry from all over the world to the historical region of the Balkans. BalkanCom 2026 with the theme, Networks Meet Intelligence: The Future is Now, continues the best tradition of scientific conferences of being completely not for profit. The ninth edition of the conference will take place on 16-19 June 2026 in Ulcinj, Montenegro.

We solicit technical papers describing original, completed, and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference.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
• Channel modeling
• Signal processing for communications
• Semantic and goal-oriented communications
• Cross-layer modeling, design, and optimization
• AI and machine learning for communications and networking
• 6G and Beyond Communications
• Software defined networking and network softwarization
• Cloud/edge computing and networking
• Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and smart environments
• High-frequency (mm-wave, terahertz, optical) communications
• Integrated sensing and communications, localization and tracking
• Green communication systems and networks
• Cellular and cell-free networks
• Extra-large MIMO and antenna arrays
• Aerial, mobile, and wireless networks
• Satellite and space communications
• Quantum communications
• Underwater communications
• Molecular, biological, and nanoscale communications
• Wireless information and power transfer
• Security and Blockchain technology
• Next-generation networking and Internet
• Internet of Things
• Connected vehicles, intelligent transportation, smart grids
• Resilient communications for critical infrastructures