Conference Program

7th January 2014

COMSNETS 2014

Inauguration and Opening Remarks (9:00 AM – 9:30 AM)

General Co-Chairs

Steering Committee Co-Chairs

TPC Chairs

KEYNOTE TALK (9:30 AM – 10:30 AM)

A Brief History of Three Ideas in Signal Estimation, Localization and Transmission
Speaker:Arogyaswami Paulraj


Venue: SIGMA HALL

Tea Break (10:30 AM – 11:00 AM)  (outside Sigma Hall) 
Paper Sessions  (11:00 AM – 12:40 PM)

Session 1: Mobile System and Applications

Session Chair : Venkatesh Tamarapalli, IIT Guwahati

A Invited Talk
by Romit Roy Choudhury
(11:00-11:25 AM)

SIGMA HALL

Session 2: Wireless Communications

Session Chair : Venkatesh Ramaiyan, IIT Madras

Invited Talk by Veljko
Pejovic

(12:15-12:40 PM)

SIGMA HALL B

Demos and Exhibits

ESQUIRE

Lunch Break (12:45 PM – 1:45 PM)  (outside Esquire) 
Paper Sessions  (1:45 PM – 3:00 PM)

Session  3: Video

Session Chair : Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi

Invited Talk by Dah Ming Chiu

(1:45-2:10 PM)

SIGMA HALL A

Session 4: Smart Grids

Session Chair : Shalabh Bhatnagar, Indian Institute of Science

SIGMA HALL B

Demos and Exhibits

ESQUIRE

Demo Snaptalk

(3:00 PM – 3:15 PM)

SIGMA Hall

Tea Break (3:15 PM – 3:45 PM) (outside Esquire) 

Posters

(3:15 PM – 5:00 PM)

Demos and Exhibits

(3:15 PM – 5:00 PM)

ESQUIRE HALL

COMSNETS Panel Discussion

(5:00 PM – 6:30 PM)
Topic: Telling gold from pyrite: Promising research direction or hype?

SIGMA HALL

COMSNETS Reception 

(7:00 PM Onwards)

Venue : Poolside

   

8th January 2014

KEYNOTE TALK

(9:00 AM – 10:00 AM)

Software defined networks and streamlining the plumbing Speaker: Nick Mckeown

SIGMA HALL

Tea Break

(10:00 AM – 10:30 AM) (outside Sigma Hall) 

Paper Session

(10:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session  5: Wireless and Sensor Networks

Session Chair : Antonio Rocha, Fluminense Federal University

A Invited Talk by
Sampath Rangarajan

(10:30-10:55 AM)

SIGMA HALL

Session 6: Networking and Cloud

Session Chair : Venkata Ramana Badarla, IIT Jodhpur

Invited Talk by
Sidharth Jaggi

(12:35-1:00 PM)

SIGMA HALL B

Demos and Exhibits

ESQUIRE

Lunch Break

(1:00 PM – 2:00 PM)  (near Esquire) 

Ph.D. Forum Session

(2:00-4:00PM)

Demos and Exhibits

ESQUIRE

Tea Break 

(3:00 PM – 3:30 PM)  (outside Sigma) 

COMSNETS Panel Discussion

(4:00 PM – 5:30 PM)

Topic: Leveraging synergy between academia/research labs/start ups

SIGMA HALL

COMSNETS Banquet

(7:00 PM Onwards)

Conference Awards: Best Paper; Best Poster; Best Ph.D Forum

SIGMA HALL, Chancery Pavillion Hotel, Bangalore

 

9th January 2014

 

KEYNOTE TALK

(9:00 AM – 10:00 AM)

Interpreting Entity-oriented Queries on the Annotated Web of Objects Speaker: Soumen Chakrabarti

SIGMA HALL

Tea Break

(10:00 AM – 10:30 AM) (outside Sigma Hall) 

Paper Sessions

(10:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session 7: Energy Optimization

Session Chair : Subir Biswas, Michigan State University

Invited Talk by Rajesh K Balan

(10:30-10:55 AM)

SIGMA HALL A

Session 8: Theory

Session Chair : Sidharth Jaggi, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Invited Talk by Rahul Vaze

(12:10-12:35 PM)

Invited Talk by Krishna P Jagannathan

(12:35-1:00 PM)

SIGMA HALL B

Lunch Break

(1:00 PM – 2:00 PM)  (outside Esquire) 

Paper Sessions 

(2:00 PM – 3:15 PM)

Session 9:  Privacy and Security

Session Chair : Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science

Sigma Hall A

Session 10: Social Network and Games

Session Chair : Rahul Vaze, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Sigma Hall B

Tea Break

(3:00 to 3:30 pm) (outside Sigma) 

COMSNETS Panel Discussion

(3:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Topic: Research aimed at broader societal impact

SIGMA HALL

Main Conference Closure

10 January 2014

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