Call For Papers

The 12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 7 - 11, 2020. 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.


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

The selected best papers from COMSNETS 2020 will be invited for a submission of their significant extended versions at a special issue in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal (2018 Impact factor: 3.490).

Further, high quality papers making novel contributions may be considered for fast track publication (after significant extension) in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal (2018 Impact factor: 2.769).

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
    • MINDS
    • LastMileS
    • Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • Cyber Security & Blockchain
    • ACM IMOBILE AIMS
    • Networked Healthcare


Important Deadlines

Abstract submission 15th September, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE
Paper submission 15th September, 2019, 11:59pm AoE
Notification of Acceptance 3rd November, 2019
Camera-ready Submission 20th November, 2019

Paper Registration/Submission Guidelines:

For any queries please contact us at [email protected]