The 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) will be held in the warm and wonderful city of Cape Town, South Africa, from 8 to 12 December 2024. Themed “Connecting the Intelligent World through Africa,” this flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society will feature a comprehensive technical program including 13 symposia and a variety of tutorials and workshops. IEEE GLOBECOM 2024 will also include an attractive Industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry and government leaders, business and industry panels, and vendor exhibits.

TECHNICAL SYMPOSIA

Original technical papers are sought in the following areas:
Cognitive Radio and AI-Enabled Networks

    Walaa Hamouda (Concordia University, Canada) (Chair) 
    Yuan Ma (Shenzhen University, China) 

Communication and Information Systems Security

    Bin Xiao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong) (Chair) 
    Cheng Huang (University of Waterloo, Canada) 
    Nadjib AITSAADI (UVSQ Paris-Saclay University, France) 

Communication QoS, Reliability and Modeling

    Masaki Bandai (Sophia University, Japan) (Chair) 
    Huaqing Wu (University of Calgary, Canada) 
    Ahmed Refaey Hussein (University of Guelph, Canada) 

Communications Software and Multimedia

    Khalil Ibrahimi (University Ibn Tofail, Morocco) (Chair) 
    Carol Fung (Concordia University, Canada) 

Communication Theory 

    Syed A. Jafar (University of California Irvine, USA)  (Chair) 
    Neelesh Mehta (Indian Institute of Science, India)  
    Nan Cheng (XiDian University, China) 

Green Communications Systems and Networks

    Sabita Maharjan (University of Oslo, Norway)  (Chair) 
    Yuan Wu (University of Macau, Macau, China) 

Optical Networks & Systems 

    Anny Zheng (Google LLC, USA) (Chair) 
    Xiaoliang Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China) 

Signal Processing for Communications 

    Zhijin Qin (Tsinghua University, China) (SPCC)  (Chair) 
    Himal A Suraweera (University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka)  

Wireless Communications

    Yuan Shen (Tsinghua University, China)  (Chair) 
    Daniel Benevides da Costa (Technology Innovation Institute, United Arab Emirates) 
    Qiang Ye (Dalhousie University, Canada) 
    Yang Wang (University of Science and Technology of China)  
    Ahmed Eltawil (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

Selected Areas in Communications
SAC - Machine Learning for Communications 

    Ning Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)  (Chair) 
    Youssef Iraqi (Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco) 

SAC - Big Data 

    Jiawen Kang (Guangdong University of Technology, China)  

SAC - Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces 

    Qingqing Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China) 

SAC - Full Duplex Communications 

    Lingyang Song (Peking University, China)  

SAC - Aerial Communications 

    Jihwan Patrick Choi (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)  

SAC - Satellite and Space Communications 

    Feng Lyu (Central South University, China)  (Chair)
    Peng Hu (National Research Council Canada, Canada) 

SAC - Cloud Computing and Networking 

    Sangheon Pack (Korea University, Korea)  

SAC - e-Health 

    M. Shamim Hossain (King Saud University, Saudi Arabia) 

SAC - Backhaul / Fronthaul Communications 

    Jie Gao (Carleton University, Canada) 

SAC - Quantum Communications 

    Apostolos Xenakis (University of Thessaly, Greece) (Chair)
    Diego R. Lopez (Telefonica, Spain) 

SAC - Molecular, Biological, and Multi-scale Communications 

    Prabhat Sharma (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, India) 

SAC - Smart Grid Communications 

    Muhammad Ismail (Tennessee Tech University, USA) 

SAC - Social Networks 

    Anna Maria Vegni (Roma Tre University, Italy)  

SAC - THz Communications

    Josep Jornet (Northeastern University, USA)

SAC - Integrated Sensing and Communication 

    Taneli Riihonen (Tampere University, Finland)  (Chair) 
    Liping Qian (Zhejiang Univ. of Technology, China)