Comsnets 2013 - Technical Program

Session T1: Energy, Routers, and Data Centers
Sigma Hall A
January 8 (11:00 am - 12:50 pm)
Chair: Antonio Fernández Anta (Institute IMDEA networks, Spain)

Invited Talk by Kave Salamatian
Internet Science: A Manifesto
Kave Salamatian (University of Savoy, France)
(11:00 am - 11:30 am)

On Mitigating Wind Energy Variability with Storage
Vijay Arya, Partha Dutta, and Shivkumar Kalyanaraman (IBM Research India, India)

Multi-Queued Network Processors for Packets with Heterogeneous Processing Requirements
Kirill Kogan and Alejandro Lopez-Ortiz (University of Waterloo, Canada), Sergey I. Nikolenko (Steklov Mathematical Institute, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia), and Alexander V. Sirotkin (St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics of the RAS, St. Petersburg Academic University, Russia)

TCP improvements for Data Center Networks
Tanmoy Das and Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)

Living on the Edge: Monitoring Network Flows at the Edge in Cloud Data Centers
Vijay Mann and Anilkumar Vishnoi (IBM Research, India) and Sarvesh Bidkar (Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)

Session T2: Cognitive Networking
Sigma Hall B
January 8 (11:00 am - 12:50 pm)
Chair: A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)

Invited Talk by Narasimha Reddy
CATS: Characterizing Automation of Twitter Spammers
Amit A. Amleshwaram, Narasimha Reddy, Sandeep Yadav, Guofei Gu, Chao Yang (Texas A&M University, USA)
(11:00 am - 11:30 am )

Residual White Space Distribution Based Opportunistic Multichannel Access Protocol for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks
Manuj Sharma (IIT Bombay, DRDO, India) and Anirudha Sahoo (IIT Bombay, India)

A Comparative Study of Scheduling Schemes for Cognitive Radio Networks: A Quality of Service Perspective
V. Mehar Swarup, Vinay J. Ribeiro, and Amol Gupta (IIT Delhi, India)

RODMAC : A RObust and Distributed MAC Protocol for Efficient Use of White Spaces
Eshan Nanda, Udit Joshi, Vinay Ribeiro, and Huzur Saran (IIT Delhi, India)

Joint Power and Channel Allocation for Outage Probability Minimization in Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks
Tamaghna Acharya and Swagata Mondal (Dept. of Electronics &Telecommunication Engg., BESU Shibpur, Howrah, India) and Santi Prasad Maity (Dept. of Information Technology, BESU Shibpur, Howrah, India)

Session T3: Cellular Networks
Sigma Hall
January 8 (1:50 pm - 3:00 pm)
Chair: Narasimha Reddy (Texas A&M University, USA)

Invited Talk by A. Chockalingam
SC-FDMA for Multiuser Communication on the Downlink
Harsha S. Eshwaraiah and A. Chockalingam (Indian Institute of Science, India)
(1:50 pm - 2:20 pm)

A General Scheduling Strategy based on an Estimate of the Rate Region
Naveen S and Venkatesh Ramaiyan (IIT Madras, India)

CellSlice: Cellular Wireless Resource Slicing for Active RAN Sharing
Ravi Kokku (IBM Research India, India) and Rajesh Mahindra, Honghai Zhang, and Sampath Rangarajan (NEC Labs America, USA)