COMSNETS 2026

18th International Conference on
COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 6 - 10
Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bengaluru, India

Initiative by COMSNETS Association

Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

Call for Papers

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Accepted Papers (Oral)

Accepted Papers (Oral)

  1. 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)
  2. Evaluating Time-to-Collision Models and Steering Feasibility for Autonomous Emergency Braking
    Madhav Rajadurai (IIT Madras); Abhinav Jammi (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Mahesh V Shridhare (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
  3. Q-Learning-Based Multi-UAV Path Planning with Dynamic Obstacle Avoidance
    Amala Sonny (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA); Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Sr (University of Agder, Norway)
  4. Risk Assessment of Connected Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles under Cyber Attacks
    Princy Philip (IIT Madras); K b Devika (IIT Madras); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
  5. Identifying Relevant Witnesses Using a BEV-Based Query Technique for Vehicle Collision Investigation
    Siriboon Chaisawat (UNSW Sydney, Australia & National Electronics and Computer Technology Center, Thailand); Hye-young Paik (University of New South Wales, Australia); Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia)
  6. NARMAD: A Novel Aerial Road Dataset with Oriented Annotations for Granular Traffic Analysis
    Vatsal Prajapati (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Harshal Dave (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Vishal Patel (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Shriniwas Arkatkar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India)
  7. Analysing Spatiotemporal Mobility Trends of Public Bicycle Sharing Scheme Using Big Data: A Metropolitan City in India
    Rohit Rathod (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Parth Jhaveri (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Aninda Bijoy Paul (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Shriniwas Arkatkar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India)
  8. Longitudinal Speed and Wheel Slip Estimation During Combined Cornering and Braking for Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles
    Kausik, Giri (IIT Madras); Shravan S Devadiga (IIT Madras); Indra Mandal (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Mahesh V Shridhare (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Pvt Ltd, India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
  9. URLLC-Aware Bi-Objective User Scheduling for D2D Enabled V2X Networks
    Jagadeesha R Bhat (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Omar Alfandi (Zayed University, United Arab Emirates); Khyati Shivakumar Salgar (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Hanusha K (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India)
  10. Impact of Variable Speed Limit Concept at Bottleneck using Microsimulation Technique: A Case Study of Expressway
    Riya Thomas (SVNIT Surat); Atif Shaikh (SVNIT Surat and MIT Academy of Engineering); Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat)
  11. Integrated V2I-V2V Data Offloading for FiWi based Vehicular Communication
    Akshita Gupta (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi); Anand Srivastava (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology)
  12. TRIP-AV: Transformer-Powered Vehicle Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles
    Rajeev K K (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Satyaranjan Patra (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India); Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)

Accepted Papers (Poster)

  1. Smart Urban Transportation using Geolocation Intelligence on Automated Bus Fare Calculation using Face Verification System
    Surya, B (Nandha Engineering College, India); Parveez M (Nandha Engineering College, India); S Santhosh (Nandha Engineering College, India); Geetha S (Nandha Engineering College, India); Deepa B (Nandha Engineering College, India); Jaisankar Paramasivan (Nandha Engineering College, India)
  2. Replace Traditional FORV Scanning Systems with a MEMS-based High Actuation Angle Mirror in ToF lidars
    Aruni Basu (USA)
  3. Driver Emotion Detection and Behavior Analysis During Peak and Off-peak Traffic Conditions
    Sai Sesidhar Vullapu (IIT Kharagpur); Madhumita Paul (IIT Kharagpur); Arkopal Kishore Goswami (IIT Kharagpur)
  4. 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)
  5. ML-Based Perception and Control for Semi-Autonomous Electric Buggy in Smart Campus Environments
    Anand Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India); Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India)
  6. Offloading Compute-Heavy Workloads of an Agricultural Robot to Edge-Cloud
    Amit K Patel (IIT Hyderabad); Vidya Vepoori (IIT Hyderabad); Yuvraj Chowdary Makkena (IIT Hyderabad & TiHAN); Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
  7. Offloading Real-Time Collision Avoidance to the Edge-Cloud: Improving Energy Efficiency in Autonomous Systems
    Mohana Bathula (IIT Hyderabad); Prashanth P S (IIT Hyderabad); Yuvraj Chowdary Makkena (IIT Hyderabad & TiHAN); Praveen Tammana (IIT Hyderabad)
  8. Time Series Forecasting of Public Bicycle Demand Using Neural Networks in an Indian Tier-II City
    Pragya Verma (SVNIT Surat); Shriniwas Arkatkar (SVNIT Surat); Chetan R. Patel (SVNIT Surat)
  9. Relative View of a Multi-Drone Swarm: An IoT-based Approach
    Satwik Mondal (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
  10. Constraint-Driven Optimization Framework for Camera Calibration and Vehicle Trajectory Extraction in Heterogeneous Traffic
    Anuj Kishor Budhkar (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Kanishka Bandopadhyay (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Sharif Hossain (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India)
  11. Intelligent Road Surface Assessment: A Comparative Deep Learning Approach using YOLOv12 and RF-DETR
    Tharun Kumar Reddy Bollu (IIT Roorkee, India)
  12. DQN-Augmented V2X Communication with AoI-Based Data Freshness for Safer Autonomous Driving
    Pragati Nayak (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal); Suresh Chavhan (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala)
  13. High-Bandwidth Hybrid Brake Control for Enhanced Stopping of Heavy Electric Vehicles
    Aneesh V A (IIT Madras); Shravan S Devadiga (IIT Madras); Pavel Vijay Gaurkar (IIT Madras); Rajesh R (IIT Madras); Gunasekaran Vivekanandan (Madras Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd., India); Sriram Sivaram (Madras Engineering Industries Pvt. Ltd., India); Shankar Subramanian (IIT Madras)
  14. A Meta Learning Framework for Dynamic Sensor Fusion in Autonomous Systems
    Abhay Nayak (KLE Technological University, India); Aditi S K (KLE Technological University, India); Gautami Mokashi (KLE Technological University, India); Nalini Iyer (KLE Technological University, India)

Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline:           15th October 2025 (AoE)  30th October 2025 (AoE)
Notification of Acceptance:            15th November 2025  20th November 2025  26th November 2025
Camera-ready Submission:            30th November 2025  5th December 2025
Workshop Date:                                10th January 2026

Workshop Overview

The 10th workshop on Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVNets) will be held in conjunction with COMSNETS 2025, highlighting the significance of Intelligent Transportation Systems—an amalgamation of cutting-edge technologies and communication used in traffic control and management systems to improve the sustainability, effectiveness, and safety of vehicular networks. This special workshop in COMSNETS 2025 aims to bring together engineers, researchers, and practitioners from various disciplines to share their experiences on interdisciplinary approaches to solving transportation problems. The workshop invites original papers that make contributions to the sensing, modeling, control, learning, and analysis in the field of connected and autonomous vehicles.

Topics of Interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Infrastructure, Connectivity, and Communications for CAVs
    • Vehicle to everything (V3X) and cellular V2X (C-V2X) communications
    • Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) - service design, management, and control
    • Next-generation vehicular networks (5G, 6G, etc.)
    • Networked land/aerial vehicular systems
    • Integration of roadside infrastructure with intelligent vehicles
    • Energy-efficient driving and sustainable mobility
  • Sensing, Perception, and Cyber-Physical Architectures
    • Sensor data fusion and signal processing for multimodal inputs
    • Cooperative and multi-agent perception in connected environments
    • Advanced sensing systems, object event detection and response (OEDR) and simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) for CAVs
    • Cyber-physical architectures, distributed/edge computing on CAVs
    • Integration of high-definition maps and onboard sensors
    • ML/DL/vision-language models for perception and localization
  • Vehicle Automation, Control, Testing and Validation
    • Automated driving systems (ADS) - design and deployment
    • Vehicle control and motion planning
    • AI/ML for vehicle automation and control
    • Simulations, digital twins and real-world testing methodologies
    • Verification and validation techniques
  • Safety, Security, and Human-Machine Interaction
    • Vehicular active and passive safety
    • Collision avoidance systems for vulnerable road users (VRUs), non-motorized traffic (NMT) and animals
    • Functional safety in intelligent vehicles and advanced driving assistance systems
    • Cybersecurity for CAVs - intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS), secure and efficient over-the-air (OTA) updates, data protection
    • AI/ML applications for vehicle safety and uncertainty estimation in safety-critical applications
    • Human factors and human-machine interfaces in CAVs
    • Teleoperation of intelligent vehicles
    • Socially-aware and intention-predictive autonomous driving
    • Cognitive workload and driver state monitoring in shared economy
  • Policy, Ethics and Emerging Mobility Paradigms
    • Emerging mobility systems: e-mobility, air mobility, shared mobility, autonomous mobility, software-defined and cooperative vehicles, etc.
    • Ethical considerations, accessibility and societal acceptance of autonomous systems
    • Public policy, regulation, and societal issues in CAVs
    • Digital twins and simulation platforms for CAV design, testing and deployment
    • Applications of generative AI, quantum computing, blockchain to CAVs
    • Autonomous mobility in mixed-traffic and infrastructure-poor environments

Submission Guidelines

  • The ADVnet Workshop invites submission of original work, not previously published, or under review at another conference or journal.
  • Submissions (including title, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) should not exceed 6 pages in length.
  • Reviews will be double-blind: authors’ names and affiliations must not be included in the submission.
  • Submissions must follow the formatting guidelines as given on the 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 ADVnet Workshop submission site on EDAS.
  • All workshop papers (both regular and invited) will appear in conference proceedings and be submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.

Papers can be submitted through EDAS: https://edas.info/N34098

For any queries, please contact the workshop chairs at comsnets.workshop@gmail.com

Program Committee

  • Agnivesh P, IIT BHU
  • Ajinkya Mane, Stantec
  • Akshay Gupta, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad
  • Amit Agarwal, IIT Roorkee
  • Aninda Bijoy Paul, Senior Advisor (Road Safety and Compliances) at ICAT, Haryana
  • Anshuman Sharma, IIT (BHU) Varanasi
  • Archak Mittal, IIT Bombay
  • Arunabha Banerjee, Postdoctoral Research Associate at Western Kentucky University
  • Bhargava Rama Chulukuri, IIT Madras
  • Bhupali Dutta, NIT Silchar
  • Darshana O, NIT Tiruchirappalli
  • Debanga Raj Neog, IIT Guwahati
  • Digvijay Pawar, IIT Hyderabad
  • Indrajit Ghosh, IIT Roorkee
  • Jiten Shah, IITRAM
  • Manish Bhatt, IIT Guwahati
  • Nandan Maiti, Postdoctoral Researcher at Université Gustave Eiffel
  • Narayana Raju, Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology
  • Neetesh Kumar, IIT Roorkee
  • Ninad Gore, Postdoctoral Researcher, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  • Pranab Kar, Post-doctoral researcher at University of Memphis
  • Pranamesh Chakraborty, IIT Kanpur
  • Pushpa Choudhary, IIT Indore
  • Ravi Kiran, IIIT Hyderabad
  • RB Sharmila, IIT Guwahati
  • Ritvik Chauhan, NIT Tiruchirappalli
  • Sowjanya Dhulipala, IIT Bhubaneswar
  • Sreedevi Indu, Delhi Technological University
  • Suvin P. Venthuruthiyil, Dromolys Research and Development Pvt. Ltd.
  • Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore
  • Vijay Gopal Kovvali, IISc Bangalore
  • VS Vinayaraj, Research Scientist, IITB
  • Yogeshwar Vijaykumar Navandar, NIT Calicut

Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks (ADVnet) Workshop Co-Chairs

Nipjyoti Bharadwaj

Nipjyoti Bharadwaj

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
India

Email: nbharadwaj@iitg.ac.in

Sanhita Das

Sanhita Das

Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
India

Email: sanhita.das@ce.iitr.ac.in

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