Broadnets 2025: Call for Papers

The 16th International Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems (Broadnets) will be held in Sunyani, Ghana, from August 14-16, 2025.

Scope and Topics

The conference focuses on cutting-edge research and technological advancements in next-generation communication networks, artificial intelligence-driven security mechanisms, and intelligent systems. It aims to provide a platform for researchers, industry professionals, and policymakers to explore innovative solutions in 5G/6G networks, IoT-enabled smart systems, speech and signal processing, cybersecurity, and edge computing.

We seek novel, innovative, and exciting work in areas including but not limited to:

• 5G/6G and Use Cases of 5G/6G Systems
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN)-Enabled Systems
• Internet of Things (IoT)-Enabled Smart Systems
• Cloud-to-Things Systems
• Edge Cooperative Computing and Fog Computing
• Vehicular Networks
• Smart City and Smart Grid Applications
• Digital Twin Technology
• Speech and Signal Processing for secure communications, speech enhancement, audio analytics, and intelligent voice-based applications
• Distributed Systems Security
• Trust and Access Control
• Data Privacy and Integrity

Important Dates

• Full Paper Submission deadline: April 15th, 2025
• Notification deadline: May 10th, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: June 14th, 2025

Late Track

• Full Paper Submission deadline: 23th May 2025
• Notification deadline: 1st August 2024
• Camera-ready deadline: 20th August 2024

Submission Guidelines

• All papers must be submitted in English.
• Previously published work cannot be submitted, nor can it be concurrently submitted to any other conference or journal. These papers will be rejected without review.
• Papers must follow the Springer formatting guidelines (available in the Author’s Kit section).
• Authors must read and agree to the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.
• All figures, illustrations, tables, and images should have descriptive text accompanying them. Please refer to the document: HOW TO WRITE GOOD ALT TEXT

Paper Submission

• Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system.
• Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length.
• Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length.

Submit your paper!

Author’s Kit – Instructions and Templates

Papers must be formatted using the Springer LNICST Authors’ Kit.

Instructions and templates are available from Springer’s LNICST homepage:

• LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates (zip)
• Microsoft Word Proceedings Templates (zip)

When uploading the camera-ready copy of your paper, please be sure to upload both:

• a PDF copy of your paper formatted according to the above templates, and
• an archive file (e.g. zip, tar.gz) containing the both a PDF copy of your paper and LaTeX or Word source material prepared according to the above guidelines.

Publication

All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library.

Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Inspec, and Zentralblatt MATH.

Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to:

• Springer Wireless Networks (WINET) Journal [IF: 2.1 (2023)]

All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of:

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Mobile Communications and Applications

Authors have the opportunity to publish their articles in the EAI Endorsed Transactions journal selected by the conference (Scopus, Ei-indexed, ESCI-WoS, Compendex) by paying an additional $150, discounted from the standard $250 rate for conference authors.

• EAI Endorsed Transactions on Scalable Information Systems (ESCI-WoS, Compendex)

The article’s publication is subject to the following requirements:

• It must be an extended version of the conference paper with a different title and abstract. In general, 30% of new content must be added.
• The article will be processed once the conference proceedings have been published.
• The article will be processed using the fast-track option.

Once the conference proceedings are published, the corresponding author should contact us at publications@eai.eu with the details of their article to begin processing.

Additional publication opportunities:

• EAI Transactions series (Open Access)
• EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus)