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CALL FOR PAPERS
12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS)
January 7-11, 2020
Bangalore, India
https://www.comsnets.org

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The 12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) https://www.comsnets.org will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 7 - 11, 2020. 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.

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
• Visible Light Communications
• Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
• Cognitive radio and white-space networking
• Economics of networks
• Energy-efficient communications
• Cloud computing
• Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks
• Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior
• Mobility and location management
• Mobile Sensing
• Traffic analysis and engineering
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Caching & content delivery systems
• 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
• Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
• Vehicular communications
• Smart Grid communications and networking
• Machine Learning and AI in Networking
• Big Data Analytics in Networking, including IoT Analytics
• Cognition and Cognitive Computing in Networking

Conference Highlights:

The conference will comprise of several:

• Keynote/Invited/Banquet Talks
• Technical Paper and Poster Sessions
• Graduate Research Forum
• Panel Discussions
• Demos & Exhibits
• Mentoring Sessions
• Co-located Workshops
◦ MINDS
◦ LastMileS
◦ Intelligent Transportation Systems
◦ Cyber Security & Blockchain
◦ ACM IMOBILE AIMS
◦ Networked Healthcare


Important Deadlines:

Abstract submission 30th August, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE
Paper submission 6th September, 2019, 11:59pm AoE
Notification of Acceptance 31st October, 2019
Camera-ready Submission 15th November, 2019

Conference Venue:

The conference will be held in The Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India.

Paper Registration/Submission Guidelines: https://www.comsnets.org/submission_guidelines.html

For any queries please contact us at comsnets.conference@gmail.com


Organizing Committee:


General Co-Chairs:
Swades De, IIT Delhi, India -xx
Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany
Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India
Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA
JeongGil Ko, Ajou University, Korea

Poster Co-Chairs:
SaiDhiraj Amuru, WiSig Networks, India
Nabanita Das, ISI Kolkata, India

Workshop Co-Chairs:
Vijay Gabale, Huew, India
Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India

Demos and Exhibit Chair:
Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India

MINDS Workshop Co-Chairs:
Vijay Gabale, Huew, India
Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India

ITS Workshop Co-Chairs:
Bhargava Rama Chilukuri, IIT Madras, India
Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore, India

LastMileS Workshop Co-Chairs:
Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University, USA
Seshan Srirangarajan, IIT Delhi, India

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop Co- Chairs:
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA
Prashant Pillai, University of Wolverhampton, UK

NetHealth Workshop Chair:
Dr. Dayaprasad G Kulkarni, Syracuse University, USA
Abu Saquib Tauheed, Coeo Labs, India

COMSJOB Co-Chairs:
Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India
Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India

Publication Co-Chairs:
Bivas Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, India
Mainack Mondal, Cornell Tech, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs:
Joongheon Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea
Joe Novak, Raytheon, USA
Sushmita Ruj, ISI Kolkata, India

Travel Grants Chair:
S. V. R. Anand, IISc Bangalore, India

Web Chair:
Madhumita Mallick, IIT Kharagpur, India

Sponsorship Co-Chairs:
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA
Rajeev Shorey, TCS Innovation Labs

Awards and Honors Co-Chairs:
Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India
Jeffrey Tew, TCS, USA

Advisory Committee:
Tulika Pandey, MEITY, GoI, India
Prashant Pillai, , University of Wolverhampton, UK
Dah Ming Chiu, CUHK, China
Pamela Kumar, CCICI, India

Steering Committee Co-Chairs:
Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA
Rajeev Shorey, TCS Innovation Labs, India
G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India