COMSNETS

2018

10^th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 3 - 7 | Bengaluru, India

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SIGCOMM

MeitY

ITRA

COMSNETS 2019 will be held from 7 to 12 January 2019 at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India. Please be on the lookout for the new home page by the middle of February 2018. See you at COMSNETS 2019 !

Conference Schedule

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	Wednesday, 3 January 2018
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Workshop *Indian Affairs*	*Wild and Crazy Ideas on the Interplay between IoT and BigData (WACI)* *SIGMA HALL 1,2,3*
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Tea Break
	ITS Workshop	WACI Workshop
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Break
	ITS Workshop	WACI Workshop
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Tea Break
	ITS Workshop	WACI Workshop
6:00 PM – 7:15 PM	*Research Café: Industry perspectives* *Participating Organizations: CISCO, TCS, Qualcomm* Venue: Indian Affair
7:15 PM onwards	COMSNETS Welcome Reception Venue: The Pool Side Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore

	Thursday, 4 January 2018
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM	COMSNETS 2018 Inauguration and Opening Remarks General Co-Chairs TPC Co-Chairs Steering Committee Co-Chairs Tulika Pandey (MeitY, Government of India)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK Speaker: Prof. Lixia Zhang University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA Venue: Grand Ball Room (GBR)
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM	Tea Break @ GBR		Demo Spotlight talks @ GBR
11:30 AM – 1:00 PM	Paper Sessions
	Session T1-1 Network Protocols and Applications (INV) GBR	Session T2-1 Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) GBR		Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Poster Session @ Pool Side
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Paper Sessions
	Graduate Forum GBR	Session T1-2 Mobile Sensing (MSens) GBR		Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Tea Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia, GBR
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM	Paper Sessions
	Graduate Forum GBR	Session T2-2 Online Social Networks (OSN) GBR		Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall
5:45 PM – 7:00 PM	COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 1 Topic: Connected and Self-Driving Cars in India: Will They Ever Work? Location: GBR

	Friday, 5 January 2018
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK Speaker: Prof. Krishna Gummadi Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany Venue: GBR
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Tea Break
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-3 Traffic analysis and engineering (TE) GBR	Session T2-3 Physical Layer Communication (PLC) GBR		Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall	Mobile India SIGMA Hall
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia
1:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Poster Session @ Pool Side
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-4 5G and wireless broadband networks (5GN) GBR	Session T2-4 Wireless and sensor networks (WSN) GBR		Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall	Mobile India SIGMA Hall
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Tea Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-5 Wireless and vehicular networks GBR			Demos and Exhibits ESQUIRE Hall	Mobile India SIGMA Hall
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM	COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 2 Topic: Networking Research is Dead. Long live Networking Research! Location: GBR
6:45 PM onwards	COMSNETS Banquet Banquet Speakers: VC Gopalratnam, Cisco K. Ananth Krishnan, TCS Tulika Pandey, MeitY, Government of India COMSNETS 2018 Award Ceremony: Best Papers, Best Posters, Best Graduate Forum Book Launch: "Enterprise Digitization Patterns" Authored by Srikanth Narasimhan, Distinguished IT Engineer, Cisco Jagadish Chundury, Technical Architect, Cisco Systems Cocktails and Dinner: 7:45 PM onwards Photograph Session with the Committee Members and Volunteers Handing over the Baton to the 2019 Committee Location: GBR, Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore

	Saturday, 6 January 2018
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM	COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK Speaker: Dr. Dhananjay Gore Qualcomm Research, India Venue: GBR
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Tea Break @ Pool side
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-6 Network Protocols and Applications (NPA) GBR		Session T2-6 5G and Wireless Broadband Networks (5GN) GBR
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Break @ Pool Side, India Affairs, Amnesia
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-7 Mobile Sensing (MSens) GBR		Session T2-7 Internet of Things (IoT) GBR
3:30 PM – 4:00 PM	Tea Break @ Pool Side
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM	Paper Session
	Session T1-8 Network security and privacy (S&P) GBR		Session T2-8 Smart Energy System (SES) GBR
5:15 PM – 6:30 PM	COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 3 Topic: Connecting the Next Trillion: The Future of Wireless at a Crossroads Location: *GBR*
	COMSNETS Mentor-Mentee Handshake (Students/Young Engineers/Researchers meet Global Gurus) 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM Venue: GBR MAIN CONFERENCE CLOSURE

	Sunday, 7 January 2018
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM	*Social Networking* *SIGMA HALL 1, 2, 3*	*NetHealth Workshop* *Indian Affairs*
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM	Tea Break: Pool Side
	Social Networking Workshop	NetHealth Workshop
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM	Lunch Break: Pool Side
	Social Networking Workshop	NetHealth Workshop
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM	Tea Break: Pool Side
	Social Networking Workshop	NetHealth Workshop
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January 3 - 7, 2018
Bangalore, India