Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop (IIGW)
Schedule
| Monday, 6th January 2025 | ||
| Time | Title | Speaker/Authors |
| Session 1: Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A) | ||
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome by Workshop Chairs | |
| 9:45 - 10:10 | Neural Network-Driven Base Station Selection in Next-Generation Cellular Networks | Harrithha B (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad); V. Kotagi (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad); R. Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) |
| 10:10 - 10:35 | Study of 5G NR Network Against Mixed Traffic | Chinmay Naik (COEP Technological University Pune); Shrirang Patil (COEP Technological University Pune); Mohan Mali (COEP Technological University Pune); Satish Kumbhar (COEP Technological University Pune); Sachin Patil (Indian Institute of Information Technology Surat) |
| 10:35 - 11:00 | Evaluating Kubernetes Distributions: Insights from Stress Testing Scenarios | Ibrahim Mohamed Ramadan (University of L’Aquila); Carlo Centofanti (University of L’Aquila); Andrea Marotta (University of L’Aquila); Fabio Graziosi (University of L’Aquila) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Tea Break | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Keynote 1: Internet Governance: A key Enabler for Viksit Bharat | Dr. Devesh Tyagi, CEO, NIXI |
| 12:00- 12:35 | Invited Talk 1: Reliability Analysis of Communication Network of IoT Safety Critical Systems. | Dr. Lalit Singh, Head, Artificial Intelligence Applications, NPCIL-BARC |
| 12:35 - 13:00 | NURPS: NUMA- and Reliability-aware Parallelized SFC Deployment in Multi-Core Server (Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A)) | Venkatarami Reddy Ch (NIT Calicut), Shaik Sameer (NIT Calicut) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Session 3 | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Verifiable Identities: Way Forward | Prof. Rajat Moona (Director, IIT Gandhinagar) |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Hate Speech Detection in Low-Resource Languages Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, and Sinhala Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A) | Jahnavi Enduri (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad); Animesh Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad) |
| 15:10 - 15:35 | Enhancing Privacy and Trust in Societal Surveillance through Attribute-Based Encryption Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A) | Kasturi Routray (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar), Aditya Das (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar), Padmalochan Bera (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar) |
| 15:35 - 16:00 | Tea Break | |
| Session 4 | ||
| 16:00- 16:30 | Panel Discussion: The Role of IPv6: Current Status, Challenges, and Lessons | Dr. Devesh Tyagi (CEO NIXI), Dr. Lalit Singh (Head, AI Application, BARC), Dr. Mohit P. Tahiliani (NITK, Surathkal), Prof. Rajat Moona (Director, IIT Gandhinagar) (Moderator, University of L'aquila, Italy) |
| 16:30- 16:55 | Invited Talk 2: An MLIR-based Approach Towards Truly Open-RAN. | Mr. Makarand Kulkarni (RAN Innovation Lead, Tejas Networks) |
| 16:55 - 17:20 | mmTCP: An Adaptive Congestion Control Algorithm for 5G mmWave Networks Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A) | Danam Yashwanth Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Veerendra kumar Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad), Sangeeta Sharma (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur), Mukesh Giluka (Jawaharlal Nehru University) |
| 17:20 - 17:45 | ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A) | Aditya Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Vivek Balachandran (Singapore Institute of Technology) |
| 17:45-18:00 | Closing & Best Paper Award announcement | |
Call for Papers
Camera Ready Guidelines
Accepted Papers
- Neural Network-Driven Base Station Selection in Next-Generation Cellular Networks
B. Harrithha (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), V. Kotagi (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), R. Thakur (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee) - Enhancing Privacy and Trust in Societal Surveillance through Attribute-Based Encryption
Kasturi Routray (IIT Bhubaneswar) - Hate Speech Detection in Low Resource Languages Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Sinhala
Jahnavi Enduri (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Animesh Chaturvedi (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad) - Evaluating Kubernetes Distributions: Insights from Stress Testing Scenarios
Ibrahim Mohamed Ramadan (University of L’Aquila, Italy) Carlo Centofanti (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Andrea Marotta (University of L’Aquila, Italy), Fabio Graziosi (University of L’Aquila, Italy) - Study of 5G NR Network Against Mixed Traffic
Chinmay Naik (COEP Technological University) Shrirang Patil (COEP Technological University) Mohan Mali (COEP Technological University) Sachin Patil (Indian Institute of Information Technology Surat) Satish Kumbhar (COEP Technological University) - NURPS: NUMA- and Reliability-aware Parallelized SFC Deployment in Multi-Core Servers
Venkatarami Reddy Ch (NIT Calicut), Shaik Sameer (NIT Calicut) - mmTCP: An Adaptive Congestion Control Algorithm for 5G mmWave Networks
Danam Yashwanth Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Veerendra kumar Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad), Sangeeta Sharma (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur), Mukesh Giluka (Jawaharlal Nehru University) - ODoQ: Oblivious DNS-over-QUIC
Aditya Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Vivek Balachandran (Singapore Institute of Technology)
Important Dates
| Manuscript Submission Due: |
| Notification of Acceptance: 3rd December 2024 |
| Camera-ready Submission: 10th December 2024 |
| Workshop Date: 6th January 2025 |
The India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) is an initiative associated with the UN Internet Governance Forum (UN IGF), established in 2006. The IGF is a multi-stakeholder governance group that aims to enable a platform for policy dialogue on issues of Internet Governance. Through an open and inclusive process, IIGF brings together all stakeholders in the Internet Governance ecosystem in the country – including Government, Industry, Civil Society, Academic Community, and social minorities – as equal participants in the larger Internet Governance discourse. The IIGF aims to provide a platform to facilitate discussions between experts from industry, academia, and research to express their vision and their findings related to the next generation Internet.
Traditionally, a technical conference is organized with IIGF. From last year, the technical conference is organized as a workshop collocated with COMSNETS. The workshop shall provide a platform to present the research work on the topics of interest and shall provide an effective networking stage. The following key points are aimed as objectives at IIGW:
Papers will be invited from the researchers in the areas listed below. The workshop shall provide a platform to present the research work on the topics of interest and shall provide an effective networking stage.
- To Cover a broad range of digital governance issues, including civil society, artificial intelligence impact of India's Internet, and data privacy.
- To help in understanding the greater initiatives on smart cities, public policy on the internet and gaps to address in civil society with advanced technologies.
- To automate solutions to problems faced by various industries like agriculture, health services, energy, security, disaster management, etc, by using next-generation networks.
- To provide a platform to discuss ongoing implementation support to various initiatives on public policies on intelligent internet, including critical efforts at multilingualism and multistakeholderism.
- Strengthen capacities for participation in digital policymaking at all levels of expertise and backgrounds, including advanced research.
Topics of interest
- Internet
- Multilingual Internet
- Rural Connectivity
- Universal access and meaningful connectivity
- Affordable Internet
- ICT infrastructure
- Energy Efficient Technologies
- Satellite Broadband
- Edge & Cloud Computing/Networking, CDN
- Digital Divide and Online Inequality
- Public policy on the Internet
- Security and Data Privacy
- Data and Identity Protection
- Cybersecurity
- Cryptography: Enabling Technologies
- Ethical use of next-gen Technologies
- Cyber Hygiene for all
- Trust, Security, Stability
- DNS Security
- Cross border Data Flows
- Advanced Technologies
- Big Data, machine learning and AI for Internet
- Internet of Things
- Next Generation Internet and services
- Internetworking protocol and Internet applications
- Blockchain and application
- Visible Light Communications
- Metaverse
- Standards and Policies
- 5G and beyond standards
- Open 5G stack
- Open RAN (O-RAN)
- Wireless LANs
- Internet resilience
- Heterogeneous Networks
- Ethics of Internet
- Inclusive Internet
- Indian stack for services and applications
- Applications
- Online Education
- Smart cities
- Health care
- Agriculture
- e-commerce
- Banking and Finance
- Disaster management
Submission Guidelines
- The IIGW invites submission of original work not previously published or under review at another conference or journal.
- Submissions (including title, author list, abstract, all figures, tables, references, appendix) should not exceed 6 pages.
- Reviews will be double-blind: authors name and affiliation should not be included in the submission.
- Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on IEEE Website, and those that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed.
- All papers must be in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) and submitted through the IIGW Workshop submission site on HotCRP.
- All workshop papers will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore and other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Papers can be submitted through HOTCRP: https://comsnets25iigw.hotcrp.com/
For any queries please contact us at IIGW Chairs:comsnets.iigw@gmail.com comsnets.workshop@gmail.com
Keynote Speakers
Rajat Moona
Director, IIT GhandhinagarVisit Homepage
Prof Rajat Moona is currently heading IIT Gandhinagar as Director. Before joining IIT Gandhinagar, he had served as Director of IIT Bhilai and Director General of the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). He is also a faculty member in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He, along with his students and colleagues, has authored 18 patents, several research papers and books. Prof Moona is the recipient of several awards and recognitions, including Indo-US Science and Technology Fellowship, Poonam and Prabhu Goel Chair Professorship, VASVIK Award for the year 2010, IESA Techno-visionary Award 2014, Fellowship of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences 2015, National award of Election Commission of India 2016 for the best electoral practices, and most recently, a Special Award for IT Initiatives by the Election Commission of India in 2022.
Devesh Tyagi
CEO, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), IndiaVisit Homepage
Internet Governance: A Key Enabler for Viksit BharatIn the contemporary world, strength of a nation lies not only in its military, gold reserves, trade volumes, but also on the Internet which is playing a pivotal role in the 21st century. Digital infrastructure has gained crucial importance, as compared to the traditional necessities such as power, water, and roads. As the market embarks on disrupting businesses with the onset of the Emerging Technologies, creative thinking and problem-solving skills take centre stage by leveraging technology effectively. Moreover, it is evident that digital technology proliferated during the pandemic and became engines of growth altering the traditional silo based to modern and collaborative models. Technological advancement coupled with strategic fit including balancing the risk faced by the ecosystem actors can provide favourable outcomes, thereby releasing goal(s) enshrined under the SDGs while moving India closer to its vision of Viksit Bharat by 2047.
He has more than 31 years of experience in the IT/ESDM sector. He has been actively involved in the promotion of the IT/ ESDM sector and also working for the promotion of entrepreneurship, innovation and product creation in the country. He has also been involved in various policy formations for the IT/ESDM sector. Before joining STPI, he served the National Informatics Centre (NIC) in various capacities. He has a wide range of experience in Project Management and Software development. He possesses strong technical capabilities and delivered a lot of remarkable projects during this period. He has earned his Doctorate from SHUATS, Allahabad.
Invited Speakers
Makarand Kulkarni
Tejas NetworksVisit Homepage
Open-RAN (or O-RAN) promises disaggregation of the radio access networks at various levels and one such (unfulfilled) promise is to disaggregate HW from the SW. While the reasons for such tight dependency are often quoted in performance requirements and heterogeneity of hardware elements, we argue that such problems are not new to HPC world and frameworks exist to address these.
We present an overview of such a framework based on Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) and understand how it can tackle various problems which ultimately lead to the HW-SW coupling.
(The work presented is done in collaboration with Prof Nikhil Hegde from IIT-Dharwad)
Makarand leads the RAN innovation team at Saankhya labs (now Tejas Networks) which focusses on creating value in terms of product and service differentiation in the next generation wireless infrastructure. He has over 2 decades of experience in developing software for wireless systems ranging from GSM to 5GNR working on development of innovative solutions at UbiNetics (now Viavi), Navini Networks (acquired by Cisco) and Saankhya labs (acquired by Tejas Networks). Makarand holds Master's in Electrical and Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and is a Senior IEEE member.
Lalit Kumar Singh
Scientist in NPCIL-BARC, Department of Atomic Energy, Govt. of IndiaVisit Homepage
Safety critical computer based systems do have a high reliability requirements. They monitor all facets of the utility's health and help respond with care and adjustments needed, thus ensuring the defined goals. Many of the components of safety critical systems are distributed over IoT and due to the safety significance of such systems, it becomes increasingly important to ensure the reliability of the communication network that connects the components. The strategy discussed the reliability quantification of communication networks using mathematical modelling through Petri Net. The approach has been validated on several sets of operation profile data of reactor control systems of Nuclear Power Plants.
Dr. Lalit Kumar Singh, a senior scientist & Head, Artificial Intelligence Applications at NPCIL-BARC, Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. He has a rich experience in design & development of computer based systems of Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors (PHWR), Light Water Reactors (LWR) & Small ModularReactors (SMR). He is a prolific researcher with numerous high-impact publications and significant contributions to safety-critical nuclear systems. He is an IEEE Senior Member and recipient of many national & international awards awards. He mentors PhD students, collaborates internationally, and serves on advisory and editorial boards. He has completed 33 projects and ranks 520th in India’s AD Scientific Index of World Scientists.
Technical Program Committee
- Dr. Carlo Centifonti, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
- Dr. Mukesh Kumr Giluka, JNU Delhi
- Dr. Venkateswarlu Gudepu, University of Text at Dallas (UTD), U.S.A.
- Dr. Anish Hirwe, IIT Palakkad
- Dr. Mduduzi C Hlophe, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Dr. Chitradeep Mazumdar, Nokia, India
- Dr. PVN Prashanth, VNIT Nagpur
- Dr. Venkatarami Reddy Ch, NIT Calicut
- Dr. José Santos, Ghent University Belgium
Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop Co-Chairs
Anand Baswade
Indian Institute of Technology
Bhilai, India
Koteswararao Kondepu
Indian Institute of Technology
Dharwad, India
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