Call For Participation
The Ninth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 4-8, 2017. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology.
The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in progress.
Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement the technical program.
The conference will recognize one or more papers, demos, posters, and Graduate Student forum presentations with awards, including cash prizes.
Technical Program Topics
The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following:
- 5G and wireless broadband networks
- Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum
- Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
- Cognitive radio and white-space networking
- Economics of networks and systems
- Energy-efficient communications & networking
- Cloud computing
- Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks
- Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior
- Mobility and location management
- Traffic analysis and engineering
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Information/Content centric networks (ICN)
- Network management and operations
- Network security and privacy
- Trusted computing
- Network science
- Online social networks
- Overlay communications, content distribution
- Wireless adhoc and sensor networks
- Mobile sensing
- Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
- Vehicular communications
- Smart Grid communications and networking
Conference Highlights
The conference will comprise of several -
- Keynote/Plenary/Banquet Talks
- Technical Paper and Poster Sessions
- Co-located Workshops
- Mentor-Mentee Meetup
- Graduate Research forum
- Panel Discussions
- Demos & Exhibits
The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held on January 5-7 2016.
The workshops will be held on the first and last days of the conference i.e January 4 and January 8.
For any queries please contact us at [email protected]
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
BANQUET SPEAKER
![Harrick Vin](assets/images/speakers/harrick_vin.jpg)
Harrick Vin
Tata ConsultancyServices
INVITED SPEAKERS »
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Bhaskar Krishnamachari
USC, USA
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Romit Roy Choudhury
UIUC, USA
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Vyas Sekar
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Arpan Pal
TCS Innovation Labs, India
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Prasun Sinha
Ohio State University, USA
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Ravi Kokku
IBM Research, USA
![Image](assets/images/speakers/invited/vij_ragh.jpg)
Vijay Raghunathan
Purdue University, USA
![Image](assets/images/speakers/invited/suman_banerjee.jpg)
Suman Banerjee
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
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Rajesh Sundaresan
IISc Bangalore, India
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Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Research, USA
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Pan Hui
HKUST, Hong Kong
Panel Discussions »
Panel 3 - Smart cities: Delusions of grandeur
Date - 7 Jan 2017, 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM | Venue: SIGMA Hall
![Amit Saha](assets/images/speakers/panel/amit_saha.jpg)
Amit Saha
CISCO, India
![Ranveer Chandra](assets/images/speakers/invited/r_chandra.jpg)
Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Research, USA
![Tulika Pandey](assets/images/committee/tulika_pandey.jpg)
Tulika Pandey
DEITY, GoI, India
![B N Jain](assets/images/speakers/panel/bn_jain.jpg)
Bijendra N
Jain
IIT Delhi, India
![Narendra Ahuja](assets/images/speakers/panel/narendra_ahuja.jpg)
Narendra Ahuja
ITRA, India &
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
WACI Workshop »
Keynote Speakers
![Jeffrey Tew](assets/images/speakers/workshops/jeffrey_tew.jpg)
Jeffrey Tew
TCS Innovation Labs, USA
![Archan Misra](assets/images/speakers/workshops/archan_misra.jpg)
Archan Misra
SMU, Singapore
Invited Speakers
![Rushi Bhatt](assets/images/speakers/workshops/rushi_bhatt.jpg)
Rushi Bhatt
LinkedIn, India
![Shivkumar Kalyanaraman](assets/images/speakers/workshops/shivkumar_kalyanaraman.jpg)
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
IBM Research, India
![Zainul Charbiwala](assets/images/speakers/workshops/zainul_charbiwala.png)
Zainul Charbiwala
Tricog Health, India
![Giridhar Mandyam](assets/images/speakers/workshops/giridhar_mandyam.jpg)
Giridhar Mandyam
Qualcomm, USA
Social Networking Workshop »
Invited Speakers
![Matteo Marsili](assets/images/speakers/workshops/matteo_marsili.png)
Matteo Marsili
ICTP, Italy
![L V Subramaniam](assets/images/speakers/workshops/aditya_telang.png)
Aditya Telang
IBM Research, New Delhi
![Matteo Marsili](assets/images/speakers/workshops/balaraman_ravichandran.png)
Balaraman Ravindran
IIT, Madras
ITS Workshop »
Plenary Speakers
![Pravin Varaiya](assets/images/speakers/workshops/pravin_varaiya.png)
Pravin Varaiya
University of California, Berkeley, USA
![Tomer Toledo](assets/images/speakers/workshops/tomer_toledo.png)
Tomer Toledo
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel