IIGW

Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop (IIGW)

Event Date: 6^th January 2026 • 9:30 AM – 5:45 PM IST • Venue: Sigma 1

Detailed Schedule

09:30 – 09:40

Welcome by Chairs

Session 1: Presentation : 25 mins (including Q&A)

09:40 – 10:05

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

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

10:05 – 10:30

AI-Powered Intelligent System through context aware log scrutiny for Anomaly detection

Shilpi Gupta (Microsoft, India), George Asirvatharaj (Microsoft, India), Ravi Teja Talluri (Microsoft, India)

10:30 – 11:00

Trends and Technologies Shaping the Future Mobile Networks

Satish K. (Head of Nokia Standards Division, APAC [Standards Team Leader])

11:00 – 11:30

Tea Break

Session 2

11:30 – 12:10

Governance of Digital Platforms

Prof. D Manjunath, IIT Bombay

12:10 – 12:35

Cost-optimized Multi-Technology Gateway Placement for Heterogeneous IoT Networks

Vijeth J Kotagi (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Vinay M Talageri (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Utkarsh Raj (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India)

12:35 – 13:00

TagFlow: A Hybrid Control and P4 Data Plane for Scalable IoT Device Validation and Connectivity

Prashanth Pvn (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Rohan Vachhani (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Miraj Rambhiya (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Krish Kotak (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur)

13:00 – 14:00

Lunch Break

Session 3

14:00 – 14:40

Trustworthy Internet Intelligence: Security, Privacy, and Ethics by Design

Dr. S D Sudarsan, Executive Director, C-DAC Bangalore

14:40 – 15:05

Smarter Grids Through Clearer Vision: AI for Predictive Fault Detection

Gurnoor S Dang (Stanford University, USA), Majid Rodgar (Stanford University, USA), Michael Snyder (Stanford University, USA)

15:05 – 15:30

Promoting Equitable Access to Glaucoma Screening Using Open-Source Multimodal Imaging Tools

Gurnoor S Dang (Stanford University, USA), Gloria Wu (University of California, San Francisco), Ivan Chim (University of California, San Diego), Swara Tewari (University of California, Santa Barbara), Priyal Badala (University of California, San Diego), Brian Hoang (University of California, Davis)

15:30 – 16:00

Tea Break

Session 4

16:00 – 16:40

AI Infrastructure and the Evolution of Software Defined Networking (SDN)

Mr. Sreenivas Voruganti, Google

16:40 – 17:05

Environment-Aware Real-Time Intelligent Central Unit-User Plane Migration in O-RAN

Naren Nandakumar (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Manu Smitha Pradeep (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Abhishek Bhattacharyya (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Linqi Xiao (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Aparaajitha Gomathinayakam Latha (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Fazlur Rahman Bin Karim (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Andrea Fumagalli (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Koteswararao Kondepu (IIT Dharwad)

17:05 – 17:30

Context-Aware Secure Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models Using ERP Metadata and Role-Based Data Constraints

Sagar Gupta (ServiceNow India), Chitta Ranjan Sahoo (ServiceNow, India)

17:30 – 17:45

Closing & Best Paper Award announcement

Keynote Speakers

S D Sudarsan

Executive Director, CDAC, India

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Trustworthy Internet Intelligence: Security, Privacy, and Ethics by Design

This keynote examines the concept of Trustworthy Internet Intelligence, arguing that security, privacy, and ethics must be treated not as afterthoughts or compliance checkboxes, but as design principles of the Internet itself. It explores emerging risks such as opaque algorithmic control, data concentration, and autonomous network behaviour, highlighting why traditional governance approaches struggle to keep pace with technically mediated decision-making.
Drawing from advances in cybersecurity, cryptography, identity systems, DNS security, and AI governance, the talk presents a design-centric perspective on trust, where resilience, accountability, transparency, and human oversight are built into protocols, standards, and intelligent network architectures.
The keynote concludes by outlining a forward-looking governance framework for trustworthy Internet intelligence, one that aligns technical innovation with societal values, strengthens digital trust, and positions India to play a leading role in shaping global norms for the intelligent Internet.

Satish Kanugovi

Nokia Bell Labs, India

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Trends and Technologies Shaping the Future Mobile Networks

With 6G standardization underway and picking speed, the shape that future mobile networks will take is becoming increasingly clearer. We begin with discussing the current industry trends and future human needs that are shaping the evolution to the next generation of mobile networks. We will then describe the technology and system considerations like AI, Security, Sustainability and Sensing driving the design of the 6G network, including opportunities and challenges along the way.

Satish Kanugovi is part of Nokia Strategy and Technology division and heads the Standardization and Industry Engagements in APAC, focussing on India, Japan and Korea regions. He is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) and Senior Member IEEE. In his earlier roles, he has been part of Robotic Systems Research at Nokia Bell Labs, and contributing to wireless research and standardization in the Mobile Networks CTO organization. Current research interests include 6G communication systems with focus on sustainable and secure networking. He did his engineering in Electronics and Communication from Delhi College of Engineering and masters in Nyaya and Vaisheshika from Karnataka Samskrit University.

D. Manjunath

IIT Bombay, India

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D. Manjunath received his BE from Mysore University, MS from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY in 1986, 1989 and 1993 respectively. He has worked in the Corporate R & D center of General Electric in Scehenctady NY during the summer of 1990. He was a Visiting Faculty in the Comuter and Information Sciences Dept of the University of Delaware and a Post Doctoral Fellow in the Computer Science Dept of the University of Toronto. He was on the Electrical Engineering faculty of the Indian Inst of Technology, Kanpur during December 1994 - July 1998. He has been with the Deptt of Electrical Engineering of IIT, Bombay since July 1998.

Invited Speaker

Sreenivas Voruganti

Google, India

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AI Infrastructure and the Evolution of Software Defined Networking (SDN)

The talk explores the critical and evolving intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) infrastructure and Software Defined Networking (SDN). The discussion will map the evolution of SDN toward the current Compute-Network Convergence era, where the Network is becoming an integral part of the Compute fabric. Furthermore, the presentation will identify critical research directions for next-generation infrastructure development, including power efficiency, scalability, and the shift from traditional automation to AI-driven Intent-Based Networking

Sreenivas Voruganti leads the Google DataCenter Software Defined Networking (SDN) team in Bengaluru. His work focuses on building large-scale datacenter fabrics and the network infrastructure essential for powering AI Infrastructure. Sreenivas has held roles at Juniper Networks, Lucent Technologies, Tellabs, and Arista. He is an inventor in US Patents and the author of the book Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with OpenStack.

Accepted Papers

AI-Powered Intelligent System through context aware log scrutiny for Anomaly detection

Shilpi Gupta (Microsoft, India), George Asirvatharaj (Microsoft, India), Ravi Teja Talluri (Microsoft, India)
Context-Aware Secure Prompt Engineering for Large Language Models Using ERP Metadata and Role-Based Data Constraints

Sagar Gupta (ServiceNow India), Chitta Ranjan Sahoo (ServiceNow, India)
Cost-optimized Multi-Technology Gateway Placement for Heterogeneous IoT Networks

Vijeth J Kotagi (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Vinay M Talageri (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Utkarsh Raj (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India), Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad, India)
Revisiting Queue Delay Estimation Techniques in PIE and FQ-PIE: An Empirical Evaluation

Arun Kumar R (NITK Surathkal), Mohit P Tahiliani (NITK Surathkal)
Environment-Aware Real-Time Intelligent Central Unit-User Plane Migration in O-RAN

Naren Nandakumar (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Manu Smitha Pradeep (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Abhishek Bhattacharyya (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Linqi Xiao (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Aparaajitha Gomathinayakam Latha (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Fazlur Rahman Bin Karim (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Andrea Fumagalli (University of Texas at Dallas, USA), Koteswararao Kondepu (IIT Dharwad)
Promoting Equitable Access to Glaucoma Screening Using Open-Source Multimodal Imaging Tools

Gurnoor S Dang (Stanford University, USA), Gloria Wu (University of California, San Francisco), Ivan Chim (University of California, San Diego), Swara Tewari (University of California, Santa Barbara), Priyal Badala (University of California, San Diego), Brian Hoang (University of California, Davis)
Smarter Grids Through Clearer Vision: AI for Predictive Fault Detection

Gurnoor S Dang (Stanford University, USA), Majid Rodgar (Stanford University, USA), Michael Snyder (Stanford University, USA)
TagFlow: A Hybrid Control and P4 Data Plane for Scalable IoT Device Validation and Connectivity

Prashanth Pvn (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Rohan Vachhani (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Miraj Rambhiya (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur), Krish Kotak (Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur)

Workshop Overview

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:

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 in ternet 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.

Call for Papers

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Camera Ready Guidelines

https://www.comsnets.org/camera_ready.html

Important Dates

Paper Submission deadline: ~~15^th October 2025 (AoE)~~ ~~30^th October 2025 (AoE)~~ 12^th November 2025 (AoE)
Notification of Acceptance: ~~15^th November 2025~~ ~~20^th November 2025~~ 26^th November 2025
Camera-ready Submission: ~~30^th November 2025~~ 5^th December 2025
Workshop Date: 6^th January 2026

Papers are invited from the researchers in the areas (but are not limited to) listed below.

Topics of Interest:

Internet

Multilingual Internet
Rural connectivity
Universal access and meaningful connectivity
Affordable Internet
ICT infrastructure
Energy-efficient technologies
Satellite broadband
Edge and cloud computing/networking, CDNs
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-generation technologies
Cyber hygiene for all
Trust, security, and 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 protocols and Internet applications
Blockchain and applications
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, abstract, all figures, tables, and references) must be no greater than 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 IIG 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/N34338

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