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 2025, with the theme AI-enabled Fluid Connectivity continues the best tradition of scientific conferences of being completely not for profit. The eighth edition of the conference, sponsored by IEEE ComSoc, will take place on 17-20 June 2025 in Piraeus, Greece.

We solicit technical papers describing original, completed, and unpublished work not currently under review by any other journal/magazine/conference in the area of communications and networks.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

Channel modeling
Signal processing for communications
Performance analysis and information theory
Hardware-constrained communication systems
Molecular, biological, and nanoscale communications
Underwater communications
Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces and smart environments
Multi-scale communication systems
Communication systems for resource-constrained devices
High-frequency (mm-wave, terahertz, optical) communications
Quantum communications
Green communication systems and networks
Energy harvesting and energy sharing
Cellular and cell-free networks
Next-generation networking and internet
Aerial, mobile, and wireless networks
AI and machine learning for communications and networking
Semantic and goal-oriented communications
Internet of Things communications and networking
Integrated sensing and communications
Satellite and space communications
Wireless optical computing and communications
Localization, tracking, and context-aware wireless communications
Data driven network design and optimization
Cloud/edge computing, networking, and data
Computing continuum and communications
Cross-layer modeling, design, and optimization
Software defined networking and network softwarization
Methodologies for network softwarization (DevOps, NetOps, Verification)
Open Radio Access Networks (O-RAN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Time-sensitive networks
Network slicing and slice management
Network orchestration
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
Experimentation facilities and testbeds
Industrial communications