COMSNETS 2026 Awards

COMSNETS 2026 Awards Announced!

Best Paper Awards

Adaptive Beam Steering in WPCNs under Slotted ALOHA via Deep Q-Learning

Samannaya Adhikari (IIT Mandi, India), Siddhartha Sarma (IIT Mandi, India)

Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Based Relaying for Efficient Multi-Rate SWIPT in Energy-Constrained Networks

Sneha Choudhury (IIT Jammu, India), Atul Banotra (IIT Jammu, India), Sudhakar Modem (IIT Jammu, India)

Best Poster Award

Tag-to-tag Range Estimation for Passive Backscattering Tags

Manavjeet Singh (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA), Yang Xie and Abeer Ahmad (Stony Brook University, USA), Milutin Stanacevic (SUNY Stony Brook, USA), Samir R. Das (Stony Brook University, USA), Petar M. Djurić (Stony Brook University, USA)

Best Poster - First Runners Up

Real-Time Topology-Aware Log-Metric Correlation for LLM-based Root Cause Analysis in Distributed Systems

Preetham M and Rahul Singh (Juniper Networks, India), Jit Gupta and Tarun Banka (Juniper Networks, USA)

Best Poster - Second Runners Up

AHEAD-N2: Accelerating N2 Handovers in 5G and Beyond using Early Adaptive Decisions for Improved Availability and Resilience

Siddhesh Pratim Sovitkar (IIT Hyderabad, India), Shwetha Vittal (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India), Antony Franklin A (IIT Hyderabad, India)

Best Demos-Exhibits Awards

High Resolution Range Estimation Using Millimeter Wave Integrated Sensing and Communication on RFSoC

Jai Mangal (IIIT Delhi, India), Antriksh Choudhary (IIIT Delhi, India), Sumit Jagdish Darak (IIIT Delhi, India), Shobha S Ram (IIIT Delhi, India)

Mirror-Assisted Non-Line-of-Sight Voice Communication Over Solar Panels as Receivers for Long-Range Low-Power Links

Ankit Kumar Pal (IIIT Delhi, India), Rahul (IIIT Delhi, India), Abhijit Mitra (IIIT Delhi, India), Vivek A Bohara (IIIT Delhi, India)

Graduate Forum Best Paper Award

Anomaly Detection using Directed Motif and Node Attributes

Sarjita Soo (NIT Durgapur), Amrita Namthirtha (JIS College of Engineering, Kalyani), Animesh Dutta (NIT Durgapur)

Graduate Forum Best Paper - Runners Up

MCP-Diag: A Deterministic, Protocol-Driven Architecture for AI-Native Network Diagnostics

Devansh Lodha, Mohit Panchal, Sameer G Kulkarni (IIT Gandhinagar, India)

Undergraduate Forum Best Paper Awards

Zero-Trust Stealth Authentication for Networked Systems via Port Knocking and TLS Fingerprinting

Goutami Sooda, Chandana S, and Deepamala N (RV College of Engineering)

Curiosity-Driven Deep-RL for Adaptive Handover Optimization in O-RAN on the NH-47 Corridor

Devashree K. Parikh, Dhaval K. Patel, Kashish D. Shah, and Harsh Patel (Ahmedabad University)

Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems

How Far is too Far? Fixing Vision of Autonomous Vehicles using Selective Super-Resolution

Najiya Naj (IIIT Delhi), Ritik Vaishnav (MBM University), Arani Bhattacharya (IIIT Delhi)

Cyber Security and Privacy - Best Paper Awards

eQUIC: A Resource-friendly Encryption-based Framework to Secure QUIC Handshake Process from MITM Attacks

Debasmita Dey (IIEST Shibpur, India), Sayan Pal (IIEST Shibpur, India), Niray Ghosh (IIEST Shibpur, India)

Post-Quantum DLT Framework for Secure Financial Transactions in Banking Applications

Abhishek Pandey (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Debnath Ghosh (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Prithwi Bagchi (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Ashok Kumar Das (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Ravi Kumar Kappagantu, Srinivas V Katakam and Jitendra Chougala (Lloyds Technology Centre, Hyderabad, India)

Cyber Security and Privacy - Best Paper Honorable Mention

A Service Provider Recommendation System for Verifiable Credential Ecosystem

Vigneswaran R, Nallagonda Harshita, Batsayan Das, Siddhasagar Pani and Srujana Kanchanapalli (Tata Consultancy Services, India), Praveen Gauravaram (Tata Consultancy Services, Australia & New Zealand)

Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (Oral)

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Dynamic Microservice Placement in Vehicular Edge Computing

Surayya A (SRM University, Andra Pradesh, India), Md Muzakkir Hussain (SRM University, Andra Pradesh, India)

Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (Poster)

Interpretable Traffic Flow Prediction with LSTM and Graph Convolutional Networks

Om Chiddarwar (IIITDM Kurnool, India), Priyanka Mandal (SVNIT Surat), Praveen Kumar Chandaliya (SVNIT Surat), Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat)

Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop

Revisiting Queue Delay Estimation Techniques in PIE and FQ-PIE: An Empirical Evaluation

Arun Kumar R (NITK Surathkal), Mohit P Tahiliani (NITK Surathkal)

Systems for the Future of AI/ML

Post-Quantum Secure IoT-Enabled Crop Recommender System Using Machine Learning

Snehal Jain (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Abhishek Pandey (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Ashok Kumar Das (IIIT Hyderabad, India), Shantanu Pal (Deakin University, Australia)

ML-Based Refrigerator Scheduling for Energy Efficiency in Renewable-Integrated Smart Homes

Sanjiban Roy (IIIT Guwahati, India), Yamini Sisodia (IIIT Guwahati, India), Nilotpal Chakraborty (IIIT Guwahati, India), Preveen Kumar Devarajan (NCMRWF, India)