COMSNETS 2024

16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 3 - 7
Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bengaluru, India

Initiative by COMSNETS Association


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COMSNETS 2024 Awards

Best Paper Award

On Exploiting Edge Resources for Micro-service based SaaSs
Pranay Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India) and Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)


Best Poster - Winner

vBeats: A Framework for Converting Gestures into Bass Strokes from Indian Tabla using Smartphones
Ayudh Saxena (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Soumyajit Chatterjee (Nokia Bell Labs, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)


Best Poster - First Runner Up

Velocity Estimation Algorithm for Mobile Communication Systems with Frequency Offset
N Mukund Sriram (LEKHA WIRELESS SYSTEMS, India); Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)


Best Poster - Second Runner Up

On Exploration of SDR-based Wireless RF Power Transfer: Reception Angle Perspectives
Emani N S S Anjana and Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)


Best Demo Award

Demonstrating Canvas-based Processing of Multiple Camera Streams at the Edge
Ila Gokarn and Hemanth Sabbella (Singapore Management University, Singapore); Yigong Hu (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Tarek Abdelzaher (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, USA); Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore)


Best Demo - First Runner Up

Watcher of the warehouse: Edge-based low power Inventory management using nano drones
Navin Kumar and Sudarshan Bandyopadhyay (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Preetham Reddy and Shrutkirthi S. Godkhindi (Indian Institute of Science, India); T Venkata Prabhakar (IISc, India)


Best Demo - Second Runner Up

Filtering-RRT for Autonomous Indoor Navigation
Akshat Vikram Singh and Yash Agrawal (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India); Rahul Gupta (IIIT Delhi, India); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), India)


Best Graduate Forum Innovation Award

Design and Optimizations Toward Cost Aware Green Future Networks
Ashutosh Balakrishnan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Swades De (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Li-Chun Wang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan)


Best Graduate Forum Smart Future Impact Award

Blockchain Democracy: A Case for Constituency-Centric E-Voting on Private Ethereum Networks
Shraddha Vasant Prasad (National Institute of Technology, India)


Best Graduate Forum Honorable Mention Award

Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning Models for Phishing Webpage Detection
Aditya Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India); Vivek Balachandran (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Dinil Mon Divakaran (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore); Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Dharwad, India) has received honorable mention.


Cyber Security and Privacy

Empowering SMPC: Bridging the Gap Between Scalability, Memory Efficiency and Privacy in Neural Network Inference
Ramya Burra (Indian Institute of Science, India); Anshoo Tandon (IUDX Program Unit, SID, IISc, India); Srishti Mittal (IUDX Program Unit SID IISc, India)


Connected Vehicles And Autonomous Driving

STRIVE: A Co-Simulation-Based Testing Platform Enhanced with Runtime Monitors
Praanav Paatil, André Matos Pedro, Daryna Datsenko, Mário Cardoso and Ana Sousa (Vortex Colab, Portugal)


Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems

EFrom Detection to Dissection: Unraveling Bot Characteristics in the VKontakte Social Network
Maxim Kolomeec; Andrey Chechulin


Workshop on Quantum Communication and Computing

Laser-integrated Entirely On-chip Turnkey Quantum Photonic Sources
Raktim Haldar (Institute of Photonics Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Hatam Mahmudlu (Leibniz University Hannover Germany, Germany); Robert Johanning and Anahita Khodadad Kashi (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany); Albert Van Rees (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Jörn Epping (LioniX International BV, The Netherlands); Klaus-J. Boller (University of Twente, The Netherlands); Michael Kues (Leibniz University Hannover, Germany)


Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems

A Framework to Characterize and Estimate Vehicle Class-agnostic Traffic States and Class-wise Speeds
RAbiramiKrishna Ashok, Bhargava Chilukuri


Workshop on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Runner up)

Constrained Quadratic Model Formulations for MDCVRPTW: Quantum Vs Classical
Panduranga Rao V Marella, Soumitri Kadambi


India Internet Governance Workshop

TEFAR: An Efficient Transparent Finer-grained Encryption of Internet Access Artifacts
Maruthi S. Inukonda (IIT Hyderabad, India & Freelancing Opensource Solutions Architect, India); Krishna Prashanth Thummanapelly and Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); Sparsh Mittal (IIT Roorkee, India)