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Call For Papers

The Fifth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks: COMSNETS 2013
Bangalore, India
7-10 January 2013
http://www.comsnets.org/

COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in networking, communications systems, and telecommunications services. The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists, 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 of papers accepted from the open call, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster sessions 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, thus complementing the technical program.

COMSNETS 2013 solicits paper submissions describing original research work and practical experiences on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

Application of information theory to networks
Broadband and cellular networks
Cloud computing
Cognitive radio and white-space networking
Cooperative communication
Cross-layer optimization of wireless systems
Economics of networks and systems
Energy-efficient communication and networking
Enterprise, datacenter, and storage-area networks
Internet architecture and protocols
Internet science and emergent behavior
Mobility and location management

Network coding
Network management and operations
Network security and privacy
Networked applications
Online social networks
Optical networks
Overlay communications and content distribution
Sensor and ad-hoc networks and cyber-physical systems
Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
Traffic analysis and engineering
Vehicular communications
Video distribution
Wireless communication theory, systems, and networks

Important Dates

Abstract and Paper Submission:	~~21 September 2012~~
Author notification:	~~8 November 2012~~
Camera-ready submission:	~~2 December 2012~~ 11 December 2012 (EXTENDED)
Conference Dates:	7-10 January 2013

Technical Program Co-Chairs

Prashant Shenoy	University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Sergey Gorinsky	Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
Srikrishna Bhashyam	IIT Madras, India