COMSNETS 2024

16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

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

Initiative by COMSNETS Association


In-Cooperation With
Technical Co-Sponsors
IEEE ComSoc
IEEE
Conference Partner
Meity


Technical Program

(All times are mentioned in IST time zone.)
Presentation Duration
  • Invited talk: 30 mins including Q&A
  • Regular papers: 20 mins including Q&A

Thursday, 4 January 2024 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-1: Mobility and IoT

(Invited Talk) Efficient and Sustainable NLP
Aruna Balasubramanian (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
l - Detect: Life Detection under Debris in Disaster Zones
Lakshmi Poola (Indian Institute of Science, India), Luis Henrik John (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands), Shrutkirthi S. Godkhindi (Indian Institute of Science, India), Preetham Reddy (Indian Institute of Science, India), Deeksha P Rao (Indian Institute of Science, India), T Venkata Prabhakar (Indian Institute of Science, India), R Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Probe-based Study of Traffic Variability for the Design of Traffic Light Planss
Ori Rottenstreich (Google, Israel), Eliav Buchnik (Google, Israel), Shai Ferster (Google, Israel), Tom Kalvari (Google, Israel), Dan Karliner (Google, Israel), Omer Litov (Google, Israel), Nitzan Tur (Google, Israel), Danny Veikherman (Google, Israel), Avishai Zagoury (Google, Israel), Jack Haddad (Google, Israel), Dotan Emanuel (Google, Israel), Avinatan Hassidim (Google, Israel)
Analysis of a Multifarious User: Semantic-Aided Error Reduction
Nargis Fayaz (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India), Ranjan K. Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Thursday, 4 January 2024 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T2-1: Data Center

Towards High-Performance Data Loading in Cloud-Native Deep Learning Systems
Zhuangwei Kang (Vanderbilt University, USA), Ziran Min (Vanderbilt University, USA), Yogesh Barve (Vanderbilt University, USA), Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA), Shuang Zhou (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Performance Analysis of Disruptive Instances in Cloud Environment
Pranab Nandy (National Institute of Technology Karnataka & Ministry of Human Resource Development India, India), Rounak Saha (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India), Anurag Satpathy (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA), Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India), Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)
BBR vs. BBRv2: A Performance Evaluation
Rebecca Drucker (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), Gauri Baraskar (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), Aruna Balasubramanian (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), Anshul Gandhi (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
[Invited] Trends and Challenges in Multi-cloud Networking and Observability
Praveen Jayachandran (IBM Research, India)

Thursday, 4 January 2024 | 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

T2-2: Wireless

(Invited Talk) Integrated Sensing and Communications Joint Design of Communications and Radar-type Sensing
Markku Junti (University of Oulu, Finland)
LFTA: Legacy Friendly Traffic Allocation Strategy for Multi-Link Operation in WiFi7
Jagrati Kulshrestha (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India), Nadeem Akhtar (Tarana Wireless, India), Preyas Hathi (Arista Networks, India), Mukulika Maity (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India)
Machine Learning (ML)-assisted Beam Management in millimeter (mm)Wave Distributed Multiple Input Multiple Output (D-MIMO) systems
Karthik Rm (Ericsson Research, India), Dhiraj Hegde (Ericsson Research, India), Muris Sarajlic (Ericsson Research, Sweden), Abhishek Sarkar (Ericsson Research, India)
Enhancing Cooperative Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio Systems: Mitigating Byzantine Attacks with a Weighted Algorithm
Ankit Chouhan (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Ashok Parmar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Kamal Manharlal Captain (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Jignesh Patel (Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara-ICD, India), Pawan Maurya (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India)

Thursday, 4 January 2024 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

T2-3: Blockchain

(Invited Talk) Proofs of Storage and Application
Sushmita Ruj (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Distributed learning in trust-mistrust networks
P Raghavendra Rao (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India), Pooja Vyavahare (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
Survivable Payment Channel Networks
Yekaterina Podiatchev (Technion, Israel), Ariel Orda (Technion, Israel), Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)
An Empirical Study of Cross-chain Arbitrage in Decentralized Exchanges
Ori Mazor (Technion, Israel), Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)

Friday, 5 January 2024 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T1-2: Mobility and IoT

(Invited Talk) A Novel 5G Digital Twin Approach for Traffic Prediction and Elastic Network Slice Management
Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Optimizing Cooperative Perception Message Dissemination in Vehicular Networks through Selective Transmission
Rishav Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India), Shashwat Kumar (Rakuten Mobile Inc., Japan), Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
Adaptive Methods for Tensor Data Compression
Chandrashekhar S Byadgi (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India), Praveen Naik S (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India), Kartik Anand (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India), Ramesh Babu Venkat Dabbiru (Samsung India Software Operations, India), Sanket Potdar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Sensing Best-connected Future Path for Mobile Telerobot: A Radio-source Location Agnostic Approach
Madhurima Ganguly (TCS Research, India), Suraj Kumar Mahato (TCS Research, India), Ashis Sau (TCS Research, India), Abhijan Bhattacharyya (TCS Research, India)

Friday, 5 January 2024 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T2-3: Data Center

On Exploiting Edge Resources for Micro-service based SaaSs
Pranay Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Roadside Traffic Monitoring using Video Processing on the Edge
Saumya Jaipuria (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Ansuman Banerjee (Indian Statistical Institute, India), Arani Bhattacharya (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India)
MEC-EnergySaver: Unleashing Efficiency through D2D and Data Compression
Anindita Ghosh (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India), Poulomi Mukherjee (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India), Tanmay De (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
(Invited Talk) Quality of Experience in Video Streaming: Status Quo, Pitfalls, and Guidelines
Sergey Gorinsky (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain)

Friday, 5 January 2024 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

T2-4: Green

(Invited Talk) Model-assisted Optimal Control for Ductless-Split Cooling Systems in Building Environments
Vinayak Naik (BITS Goa, India)
Competitive Pricing in Participation-Dependent Social-Learning Markets
Rama Krishna Muni (Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, India), Naveen Kolar Purushothama (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
A Decision Framework for Carbon-aware Storage Service Selection in Multi-Cloud Environment
Shubhro Roy (TCS Research, India), Pankaj Kumar Sahu (TCS Research, India), Mangesh Gharote (TCS Research, India)

Saturday, 6 January 2024 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

T1-4: Mobility & IoT

(Invited Talk) Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks based on Intelligent Security Event Correlation
Igor Kotenko (SPC RAS, Russia)
Occupancy Prediction at Transit Stops using ANN
Jatin Bhandari (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Rupam Fedujwar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Amit Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Greedy Algorithms for Heterogeneous Drone Delivery Packing in the Cloud-assisted Intelligent Transportation System
Satyajit Mohapatra (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, India), Sanjeet Kumar Nayak (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Kancheepuram, India)
ITD: Indian Traffic Dataset for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Amit Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Anurag Thombre (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Kabir Kedia (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India), Indrajit Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
Multi-model GPS-free Location Estimator for Restricted Enterprise Networks
Sumitro Bhaumik (TCS Research, India), Hemant Kumar Rath (TCS Research, India), Muralidharan Menon (TCS Research, India)

Saturday, 6 January 2024 | 9:30 AM – 11:30 AM

T2-5: Architecture

Cluster Based Concurrent Data Collection with Fault Tolerance for Shared IoT Applications
Rakesh Matam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India), Arvind Kumar (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India), Srinibas Swain (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India), Mithun Mukherjee (Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, China)
Local Closeness Gravity Model to Identify the Vital Nodes in Complex Networks
Suman Nandi (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India), Animesh Dutta (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India)
Social Optimal Freshness in Multi-Source, Multi-Channel Systems via MDP
Shiksha Singhal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Veeraruna Kavitha (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India), Vidya Shankar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Towards Peer-to-Peer Split Learning
Jayant Vyas (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India & Accenture Labs Bengaluru, India), Ritesh Dhananjay Nikose (Accenture Labs Bengaluru, India), Pallavi Ramicetty (Accenture Labs Bengaluru, India), Shravan Mohan (Accenture Labs Bengaluru, India), Milind Savagaonkar (Accenture Labs Bengaluru, India), Anutosh Maitra (Accenture Services Pvt. Ltd., India), Shubhashis Sengupta (Accenture Technology Labs, India)
(Invited Talk) Control Plane Observability Through Data Plane Performance
Gomathi Ramachandran (AWS, USA)

Saturday, 6 January 2024 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T1-5: Wireless

(Invited Talk) Fronthaul Compression for Massive MIMO Systems
Radhakrishna Ganti (IIT Madras, India)
Experience: Redesigning Radio Test Specifications via Field Performance Correlations
Sujoy Roychowdhury (Ericsson, India), Narayana Sastry Rachakonda (Ericsson, India), Balvinder Singh (Ericsson, India), Sourav Mazumdar (Ericsson, India)
SEC-ROAM: Secure and Efficient Roaming in LoRaWAN v1.1
Sravan S S (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology, India)
Performance of Multiple IRS-enabled V2V Communication over Double Generalized Gamma Fading Channel
Manojkumar Kokare (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Swaminathan Ramabadran (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Performance Analysis of Multiple HAPS-based Hybrid FSO/RF Space-Air-Ground Network
Deepshikha Singh (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Swaminathan Ramabadran (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India), Aravind Marrapu (Tiger Analytics, India), A S Madhukumar (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Saturday, 6 January 2024 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T2-6: Security

ASLADS: A Secure Lightweight Authentication and Data Transmission Scheme for Smart IoT Devices
Krishnendu T S (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India), Piyoosh Purushothaman Nair (College of Engineering Trivandrum, India)
PraaKrum: A Practical Byzantine-Resilient Federated Learning Algorithm
Prabhleen Kukreja (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India), Mahendran Veeramani (Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati, India)
ESAF: An Efficient and Secure Authentication Framework for V2G Network
Prarthana J. Mehta (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Balu Laxman Parne (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India), Sankita Patel (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India)
(Invited Talk) Securing P4-based Programmable Networks from Adversarial Inputs
Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad, India)

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