Call For Participation
The Ninth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 4-8, 2017. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology.
The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in progress.
Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement the technical program.
The conference will recognize one or more papers, demos, posters, and Graduate Student forum presentations with awards, including cash prizes.
Technical Program Topics
The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following:
- 5G and wireless broadband networks
 - Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum
 - Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
 - Cognitive radio and white-space networking
 - Economics of networks and systems
 - Energy-efficient communications & networking
 - Cloud computing
 - Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks
 - Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior
 - Mobility and location management
 - Traffic analysis and engineering
 
- Internet of Things (IoT)
 - Information/Content centric networks (ICN)
 - Network management and operations
 - Network security and privacy
 - Trusted computing
 - Network science
 - Online social networks
 - Overlay communications, content distribution
 - Wireless adhoc and sensor networks
 - Mobile sensing
 - Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
 - Vehicular communications
 - Smart Grid communications and networking
 
Conference Highlights
The conference will comprise of several -
- Keynote/Plenary/Banquet Talks
 - Technical Paper and Poster Sessions
 - Co-located Workshops
 - Mentor-Mentee Meetup
 
- Graduate Research forum
 - Panel Discussions
 - Demos & Exhibits
 
The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held on January 5-7 2016.
The workshops will be held on the first and last days of the conference i.e January 4 and January 8.
For any queries please contact us at comsnets.conference@gmail.com
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
BANQUET SPEAKER
						Harrick Vin
Tata ConsultancyServices
INVITED SPEAKERS »
                    Bhaskar Krishnamachari
USC, USA
                    Romit Roy Choudhury
UIUC, USA
                    Vyas Sekar
Carnegie Mellon University, USA
                Arpan Pal
TCS Innovation Labs, India
                    Prasun Sinha
Ohio State University, USA
                    Ravi Kokku
IBM Research, USA
                    Vijay Raghunathan
Purdue University, USA
					Suman Banerjee
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
                    Rajesh Sundaresan
IISc Bangalore, India
					Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Research, USA
					Pan Hui
HKUST, Hong Kong
Panel Discussions »
			
          Panel 3 - Smart cities: Delusions of grandeur 
		  
		  
Date - 7 Jan 2017, 05:00 PM - 06:30 PM | Venue: SIGMA Hall
						Amit Saha
CISCO, India
	
						Ranveer Chandra
Microsoft Research, USA
						Tulika Pandey
DEITY, GoI, India
					  Bijendra N 
 Jain
						 IIT Delhi, India
					  Narendra Ahuja
ITRA, India & 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
WACI Workshop »
Keynote Speakers
					Jeffrey Tew
TCS Innovation Labs, USA
					Archan Misra
SMU, Singapore
Invited Speakers
					Rushi Bhatt
LinkedIn, India
					Shivkumar Kalyanaraman
IBM Research, India
					Zainul Charbiwala
Tricog Health, India
					Giridhar Mandyam
Qualcomm, USA
Social Networking Workshop »
Invited Speakers
					Matteo Marsili
ICTP, Italy
					Aditya Telang
IBM Research, New Delhi
					Balaraman Ravindran
IIT, Madras
ITS Workshop »
Plenary Speakers
					Pravin Varaiya
University of California, Berkeley, USA
					Tomer Toledo
Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Israel








