COMSNETS 2026

18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 6 - 10
Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bengaluru, India

Initiative by COMSNETS Association


In-Cooperation With
Technical Co-Sponsors

Schedule

Conference Schedule

Time mentioned in the schedule is in IST (GMT + 5.30).

Venue: Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore


COMSNETS 2026 All Hands Meeting
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Monday, 5 January 2026

Participants: All organizing committee members, All volunteers, All sponsors, Event Management Team, Hotel Staff

Tuesday, 6 January 2026

COMSNETS’26 WORKSHOPS

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Cybersecurity and Privacy Workshop (CPS)

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Workshop on Systems for the Future of AI/ML (SysAI)

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Internet Intelligence & Governance Workshop (IIGW)

COMSNETS
WORKING SPACE

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS)

ESQUIRE HALL (Basement)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 2

SIGMA 3

Workshop Session #1
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Workshop Session #2
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

Pool Side

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Workshop Session #3
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea/Coffee Break

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Workshop Session #4
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Research Café & COMSJOB: Industry perspectives

Participating Organizations: All Sponsoring Organizations

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

COMSNETS 2026 WELCOME RECEPTION

Pool Side, Chancery Pavilion Hotel

7:00 PM – 10:30 PM

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Wednesday, 7 January 2026

COMSNETS’26 Day 1: Main Conference

CELEBRATING 18 YEARS OF COMSNETS
COMSNETS 2026 Inauguration and Opening Remarks
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

General Co-Chairs; TPC Co-Chairs; Steering Committee Co-Chairs
COMSNETS Co-Founders

SIGMA HALL
Keynote Talk #1
Speaker: Prof. Alexandre Proutiere
KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH @SIGMA HALL

Paper Sessions (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session T1-1: (Security I)
Invited Talk #1
Speaker: Prof. Yamaguchi
University of Tokyo, Japan

Session T2-1: (Learning & Communication)
Invited Talk #2
Speaker: Prof. Kawansi
Rochester Institute of Technology, US

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS


Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Graduate Forum

Session T2-2 (6G I)
Invited Talk #3
Speaker: Neha Sharma
Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore

Poster Session

(1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Pool Side

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Tea/Coffee Break

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Paper Sessions (3:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Graduate Forum

Session T2-3 (IoT/Sensors I):
Invited Talk #4
Speaker: Prof. Linga Reddy
University of Agder, Norway

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

COMSNETS Panel Discussion #1

Topic: 6G and WiFi8 Meets Generative AI: Reimagining the Future of Intelligent Connectivity

5:15 PM – 6:45 PM

Venue: SIGMA Hall

COMSNETS Association Meeting

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

SIGMA Hall

Dinner for Organizing Committee and Association Members Only

8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

[SIGMA HALL FOYER]

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Thursday, 8 January 2026

COMSNETS’26 Day 2: Main Conference

Keynote Talk #2
Speaker: Prof. Stefano Salsano
University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Tea/Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Paper Sessions (10:45 AM – 1:15 PM)

Women in Engineering (WiE)

Session T3-1 (Security II):
Invited Talk #5
Speaker: Prof. Dipankar Dasgupta
University of Memphis

Session T3-2 (Systems):
Invited Talk #6
Speaker: Dr. Anees Shaikh
Google, USA

Demos & Exhibits

I+ART Industry – Academia Research Track

SIGMA 1

Esquire Hall (Basement)

Indian Affairs

SIGMA 3


Lunch Break

1:15 PM – 2:00 PM

Under Graduate Forum

Session T3-3 (Network Performance):
Invited Talk #7
Speaker: Prof. Florin Ciucu
University of Warwick

Poster Session

(1:00 PM - 4:00 PM)

Demos & Exhibits

I+ART Industry – Academia Research Track

SIGMA 1

ESQUIRE HALL (Basement)

Pool Side

INDIAN AFFAIRS

SIGMA 3

Tea/Coffee Break

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Paper Sessions (4:00 PM – 5:30 PM)

Under Graduate Forum

Session T3-4 (Multimedia):
Invited Talk #8
Speaker: Dr. R. Venkatesha Prasad
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Demos & Exhibits

I+ART Industry – Academia Research Track

SIGMA 1

ESQUIRE HALL (Basement)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

SIGMA 3

COMSNETS Panel Discussion #2

Topic: Networks Beyond People: Designing Infrastructure for Autonomous Systems, Machines, and Digital Beings

5:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Venue: SIGMA HALL

COMSNETS 2025 BANQUET TALK


Speaker: Dr. Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, CEO, ANRF, India

7:15 PM – 8:00 PM

COMSNETS 2026 Award Ceremony [8:00 PM - 8:15 PM]

Best Papers; Best Posters; Best Demos; Best Graduate Forum

Handing over the Baton to the COMSNETS 2027 Committee

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH
COCKTAILS and and GALA DINNER
8:15 PM - 11:00 PM

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Friday, 9 January 2026

COMSNETS’26 Day 3: Main Conference

Keynote Talk #3

Speaker: Dr. Ranjita Bhagwan
Google, India

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

Tea/Coffee Break

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Paper Sessions (11:00 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session T1-2 (Vehicular and Autonomous Networks)
Invited Talk #9
Speaker: Prof. Sanjay K Madria
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Session T2-4 (Networking)
Invited Talk #10
Speaker: Prof. Balajee Vamanan
University of Illinois Chicago, USA

Entrepreneur Ignite Summit (EIS)

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Lunch Break

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (Hotel Entrance)

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Paper Sessions
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Session T1-3 (6G II)
Invited Talk #11
Speaker: Dr. Niyati Chhaya
Hyperbots Inc.

Session T2-5 (IoT/Sensors II)
Invited Talk #12
Speaker: Prof. Balaji Palanisamy
University of Pittsburgh, USA

Entrepreneur Ignite Summit (EIS)

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Tea/Coffee Break

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Keynote Talk #4

Speaker: Albert Greenberg
Uber, USA

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
COMSNETS Panel Discussion #3

Topic: Networking for a World Where AI Talks to AI: Autonomous Agents and Next-Gen Traffic

5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

Venue: SIGMA HALL

Main COMSNETS Conference Closure

6:30 PM - 7:00 PM

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Saturday, 10 January 2026

COMSNETS’26 WORKSHOPS

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Decarbx: AI, Energy and Industry in the Road to Net-Zero

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Standards-driven Research (SDR)

COMSNETS
WORKING SPACE

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

ESQUIRE HALL (Basement)

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 2

SIGMA 3

Workshop Session #1
09:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Workshop Session #2
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

Pool Side

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Workshop Session #3
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea/Coffee Break

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Workshop Session #4
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
COMSNETS CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS CLOSURE

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.