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The Tenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 3-7, 2018. 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
Visible Light Communications
Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
Cognitive radio and white-space networking
Economics of networks
Energy-efficient communications
Cloud computing
Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks
Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior
Mobility and location management
Mobile Sensing
Traffic analysis and engineering
Internet of Things (IoT)
Caching & content delivery systems

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
Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
Vehicular communications
Smart Grid communications and networking
Machine Learning and AI in Networking
Big Data Analytics in Networking, including IoT Analytics
Cognition and Cognitive Computing in Networking

Conference Highlights

The conference will comprise of several -

Keynote/Invited/Banquet Talks
Technical Paper and Poster Sessions
Graduate Research Forum
Panel Discussions
Demos & Exhibits
Mentoring Sessions

Co-located Workshops

WACI (Big Data Analytics & IoT)
Social Networking
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Networked Healthcare

Mobile India
ASSET

The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held on January 4-6 2018.

The workshops will be held on the first and last days of the conference i.e January 3 and January 7.

ASSET will be held on January 8 and January 9.

For any queries please contact us at comsnets.conference@gmail.com

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Lixia Zhang

UCLA, USA
4^th Jan 2018

Krishna Gummadi

MPI-SWS, Germany
5^th Jan 2018

Dhananjay Gore

Qualcomm Research, India
6^th Jan 2018

BANQUET SPEAKERS

VC Gopalratnam

CISCO, India

Ananth Krishnan

Tata Consultancy Services, India

Tulika Pandey

Ministry of Electronics and IT, Govt. of India

INVITED SPEAKERS »

Kirill Kogan

IMDEA Networks, Spain

Binbin Chen

Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore

Venu Veeravalli

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Kaushik Roy Chowdhury

Northeastern University, USA

Mahesh K. Marina

The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Biplab Sikdar

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Prasenjit Dey

IBM Research, India

Georg Carle

Technical University of Munich, Germany

Raghunath Nambiar

UCS, Cisco Systems

Lipika Dey

TCS Innovation Labs, India

Josef Noll

University of Oslo, Norway

Ajit Rao

Qualcomm, India

Panel Discussions »

Panel 1 - Connected and Self-Driving Cars in India: Will They Ever Work?

Date - 4th Jan 2018, 05:45 PM - 7:00 PM | Venue: Grand Ball Room

Abstract:

Smart, autonomous/self-driving and connected vehicles have the potential of huge societal impact. Most of these efforts today are focused in developed regions of the world where road and communication infrastructure is advanced and reliable. Since autonomous self-driving vehicles require support infrastructure with clear indications of the surrounding driving environment to detect obstacles, pedestrians, signage, etc., it is important to understand the limitations of this emerging technology to apply it in a safe, predictable and cost effective manner in challenging situations. This panel will discuss and debate the state of the art and several important questions in this context, including the following:

What are the challenges of self-driving cars, and how are academics, startups and established industry players addressing them”?
Can autonomous vehicles be deployed safely in developing regions of the world? What are the associated technical challenges?
What new algorithms are needed and what additional requirements are placed on the computing and communication infrastructure to mitigate the challenges of the less than adequate physical transport infrastructure? At what cost?
Do crowd-sensing and vehicle-to-vehicle communication techniques play a bigger role in these environments in receiving high fidelity data to operate vehicles autonomously?

Venkat Padmanabhan

Microsoft Research, India

Lux Rao

Cisco, India

Sridhar Reddy

Savari, India

Shailesh Kumar

Olacabs, India

Saad Nasser

Ati Motors, India

Panel 2 - Networking Research is Dead. Long live Networking Research!

Date - 5th Jan 2018, 05:15 PM - 6:30 PM | Venue: Grand Ball Room

Abstract:

The lines between networking, storage and compute are fast blurring and have been for a while. A lot of networking functions are now part of the compute infrastructure with host based networking techniques. Software defined networking (SDN) also proposes to put the network intelligence and control in servers that coordinate the operation of distributed programmable network devices. Special purpose network middlebox functions are now virtualized and run in VMs and containers. With these accelerating trends, is the network just fast and dumb plumbing with limited innovation potential? This panelists will provide their perspectives on whether networking is still a hot area, provide a vision for future networking and will debate the following topics:

What are the new emerging challenges in networking? What are the “holy-grail” networking problems?
Is inter-disciplinary networking research for example, with machine learning, programming languages topic areas the right way to go?
How should a student interested in networking choose relevant problems to work on?

Krishna Gummadi

MPI-SWS, Germany

Anand Rangarajan

Google, India

Mythili Vutukuru

IIT Bombay, India

Lixia Zhang

University of California, LA, USA

George Varghese

University of California, LA, USA

Panel 3 - Connecting the Next Trillion: The Future of Wireless at a Crossroads

Date - 6th Jan 2018, 05:15 PM - 6:30 PM | Venue: Grand Ball Room

Abstract:

We are on the brink of the widespread proliferation of several competing and complementary wireless technologies, such as 5G and ubiquitous Wifi, LoRa and NB-IoT, loons, drones, and satellite communications . It is important to understand the benefits and the shortcomings of each, and where these fit into the broader picture of emerging IoT applications such as Connected Cars. In this panel, we shall discuss the pros and cons of these technologies, and, apart from their applicability to the Internet of Things, we shall also discusswhat their proliferation will mean for the general population. We will debate where we, as a community, should be focusing our attentions: should we concentrate cutting-edge technology for the privileged but powerful few, or should we apply our efforts to ensure that larger sections of the world population have access to wireless services and technologies.