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 2023, with the theme Towards 6G at the Crossroads of Civilizations: Connected Intelligence and Sensing continues the best tradition of scientific conferences of being completely not for profit. The sixth edition of the conference, technically co-sponsored by the IEEE ComSoc Turkey Chapter, will take place on 5-8 June 2023 in İstanbul, Türkiye.

We solicit technical papers describing original, completed, and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference.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
    Communication and information theory
    5G and beyond 5G/6G networks
    Next-generation networking and Internet
    Mobile and wireless networks
    IoT and sensor networks
    Artificial intelligence-enabled networks
    Machine learning for communications and networking
    Signal processing for communications
    Millimeter wave and Terahertz communications
    Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and smart environments
    Full-duplex techniques
    Integrated sensing and communications
    Satellite and space communications
    Mobile edge computing and edge AI
    Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting communications
    Cloud computing, networking and storage
    Cross-layer modeling, design, and optimization
    Software defined networking
    Digital broadcasting and multimedia
    Communication and information system security
    Smart grid communications and power line communications
    Blockchain technology for communications
    Social networks
    Connected car, automotive, intelligent transportation
    Big Data
    e-Health
    Molecular, biological and multi-scale communications
    Quantum communications