Conference Schedule





Tuesday, 7 January 2020

9:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Cybersecurity & Blockchain Workshop

Indian Affairs

MINDS Workshop

SIGMA HALL 1

LastMileS Workshop

SIGMA HALL 3

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea Break

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop

MINDS Workshop

LastMileS Workshop

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop

MINDS Workshop

LastMileS Workshop

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop

MINDS Workshop

LastMileS Workshop

6:00 PM – 7:15 PM

COMSJOB: Industry perspectives
Participating Organizations: All Sponsoring Organizations

Venue: Indian Affairs

7:00 PM – 11:00 PM

COMSNETS Welcome Reception

Venue: The Pool Side

Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore


Wednesday, 8 January 2020

9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

COMSNETS 2020 Inauguration and Opening Remarks
General Co-Chairs
TPC Co-Chairs
Steering Committee Co-Chairs

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK - I

Speaker: Carla-Fabiana Chiasserini

Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Venue: Grand Ball Room (GBR)

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALK - II

Speaker: Gerhard P. Fettweis

TU Dresden, Germany

Venue: Grand Ball Room (GBR)

11:30 AM – 11:45 AM

Tea Break @ GBR

Demo Spotlight talks @ GBR

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM

Paper Sessions

Session T1-1
Invited Talk: (11:45 am – 12:15 pm)
Claudio Casetti
,
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

GBR

Session T2-1
Invited Talk: (12:30 – 1:00 pm)
Veena Mendiratta
,
Nokia Bell-Labs, USA

GBR

Demos and Exhibits

Indian Affairs

1:15 PM – 2:15 PM

Lunch Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia

1:15 PM – 4:00 PM

Women in Engineering
(1:45 PM – 4:00 PM)

Venue: Sigma Hall

Demos and Exhibits

(Indian Affairs)

Poster Session

(Pool Side)

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia

4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

Paper Sessions

Graduate Forum
(3:45 PM – 5:30PM)

GBR

Session T2-2
Invited Talk: (4:00 – 4:30 pm)
Nirmalya Roy
,
UMBC, USA

GBR

Demos and Exhibits

Indian Affairs

5:45 PM – 7:00 PM

COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 1
Topic: AI/ML enablers for SMART Networks

Location: GBR

6:45 PM – 8:15 PM

COMSNETS Association Meeting

Location: Sigma Hall

8:15 PM – 10:30 PM

COMSNETS Association, COMSNETS Organizing Committee & Sponsors Cocktails & Dinner (by Invitation)

Location: Sigma Hall Foyer, Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore

Thursday, 9 January 2020

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

COMSNETS FIRESIDE CHAT

Anurag Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
P. R. Kumar, Texas A&M University, USA
Reflecting with Venkat Padmanabhan and Vijay Raghunathan

Venue: GBR

10:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea Break

11:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Paper Session

Session T1-3
Invited Talk: (11:00 – 11:30 am)
Sumit Roy
,
UW, USA

GBR

Session T2-3
Invited Talk: (12:30 – 1:00 pm)
Simone Silvestri
,
Univ of Kentucky, USA

GBR

Demos and Exhibits

Indian Affairs

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia

1:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Demos and Exhibits

(Indian Affairs)

Poster Session

(Pool Side)

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break @ Pool Side, Indian Affairs, Amnesia

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Paper Session

Session T1-4
Invited Talk: (4:00 – 4:30 pm)
Sanjay Jha
,
UNSW, Australia

GBR

Session T2-4
Invited Talk: (4:30 – 5:00 pm)
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
,
LSU, USA

GBR

Demos and Exhibits

Indian Affairs

5:15 PM – 6:45 PM

COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 2
Topic: Standards Beyond 5G

Location: GBR

7:00 PM onwards

COMSNETS Banquet

Banquet Speaker:
Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA



COMSNETS 2020 Award Ceremony:

Best Papers, Best Posters, Best Graduate Forum

Handing over the Baton to the 2021 Committee


Cocktails and Dinner: 7:30 PM – 11:30 PM

Location: GBR, Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore

Friday, 10 January 2020

9:30 AM – 11:00 AM

COMSNETS KEYNOTE TALKS

Speaker: Sriram Rajamani

Microsoft Research, India

Speaker: Saravanan Radhakrishnan

CISCO, India

Venue: GBR

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Tea Break

11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Paper Session

Session T1-5
Invited Talk: (11:30 am – 12:00 pm)
Krishna Sivalingam
,
IIT Madras, India

GBR

Session T2-5
Invited Talk: (12:30 – 1:00 pm)
Salil Kanhere
,
UNSW, Australia

GBR

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch Break @ Pool Side, India Affairs, Amnesia

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM

Paper Session

Session T1-6
Invited Talk: (2:00 – 2:30 pm)
Hrishikesh B Acharya
,
RIT, USA

GBR

Session T2-6
Invited Talk: (3:00 – 3:30 pm)
Vishnu Navda
,
MSR, USA

GBR

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break @ Pool Side

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Paper Session

Session T1-7

GBR

Session T2-7

GBR

5:15 PM – 6:30 PM

COMSNETS Panel Discussion - 3
Topic: India – the Greenfield for SMART Villages and Cities

Location: GBR

MAIN CONFERENCE CLOSURE

Saturday, 11 January 2020

9:00 AM – 10:45 AM

ACM AIMS Workshop

Indian Affairs

ITS Workshop

SIGMA HALL 1

NetHealth Workshop

SIGMA HALL 3

10:45 AM – 11:15 AM

Tea Break

11:15 AM – 1:00 PM

ACM AIMS Workshop

ITS Workshop

NetHealth Workshop

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Lunch Break

2:00 PM – 3:45 PM

ACM AIMS Workshop

ITS Workshop

NetHealth Workshop

3:45 PM – 4:15 PM

Tea Break

4:15 PM – 6:00 PM

ACM AIMS Workshop

ITS Workshop

NetHealth Workshop

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