Graduate Forum

Graduate Forum Date: 8th January 2020

Authors of accepted Graduation Forum papers can register at the IEEE/ACM Student Member (or Student Non-member) rate.

COMSNETS 2020 Graduate Forum is a supportive environment for students in graduate programs (Master’s and PhD) to showcase early stage research in areas related to communications, systems and networking at COMSNETS, the premier conference that brings together networking researchers from both academia and the industry. COMSNETS 2020 Graduate Forum will provide students with useful feedback on their current research as well as future research directions from experienced researchers, and the opportunity to interact with eminent researchers from both academia and industry. All submissions will receive detailed reviews from the review committee. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings (unless the author requires otherwise). There will be a best presenter award (certificate and prize) based on the feedback received from the evaluation committee.

Who can Submit:

To be eligible to submit your work to the Graduate Forum, you must be registered as a PhD or Master’s student at the time of submission.

What to submit:

We encourage the authors to submit their proposals that overlaps the topics (but are not limited to) of interest at COMSNETS with the following as a single PDF file at EDAS containing:

  • Resume, a one page resume informing of your current position, broadarea of research, internship experiences, publications (if any), etc.
  • Abstract, a three page extended abstract explaining the problem statement, relevant state-of-the-art, proposed solution approach, preliminary results, and future work. Submissions must be written in IEEE two column format. and should adhere to the submission guidelines of the COMSNETS.
  • Presentation, 8-10 slides for a 12 minutes talk.

It is suggested that the prospective authors should merge all of the above submission files into a single PDF document and upload the PDF file at EDAS.

Important Dates

Paper Submission 25th November 2019, 11:59PM [strict]
Notification of Acceptance 13th December 2019
Camera-ready Submission 20th December 2019
Event Date 8th January 2020

Graduate Forum Schedule


Time Sessions
03:45 PM - 03:54 PM Paper 1: “Identifying Outdoor Context by Correlating Air and Noise Pollution Sensor log”
Biswajit Maity (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India); Yashwant Polapragada (NIT Durgapur, India); Arindam Ghosh (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India); Sanghita Bhattacharjee and Subrata Nandi (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)
03:54 PM - 04:03 PM Paper 2: “A LoRaWAN based Open Source IOT solution for monitoring Rural Electrification Policy”
Mohammed Samdani Shaik, Raghuram Chetty, Dipam Shah and Rahul Marathe (IIT Madras, India)
04:03 PM - 04:12 PM Paper 3: “Energy efficient wireless communication for IoT enabled Greenhouses”
Ritesh Kumar Singh, Rafael Berkvens and Maarten Weyn (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium)
04:12 PM - 04:21 PM Paper 4: “Performance Evaluation of QoS in Marine Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Network”
Dhanesh Raj (Amrita VishwaVidyapeetham, India)
04:21 PM - 04:30 PM Paper 5: “Half-Duplex Attack: An Effectual Attack Modelling in D2D Communication”
Misbah Shafi (Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India); Rakesh Kumar Jha (School of Electronics and Communication Kakryal & Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, India)
04:30 PM - 04:39 PM Paper 6: “VM Migration for Profit Maximization in Federated Cloud Data Centers”
Moustafa Najm and Venkatesh Tamarapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
04:39 PM - 04:48 PM Paper 7: “Joint Preference Metric for efficient resource allocation in co-existence of eMBB and URLLC”
Annapurna Pradhan (National Institute of Technology, India)
04:48 PM - 04:57 PM Paper 8: “Adaptive Segment-aware K-Push Algorithm for Improved QoE in Mobile DASH/2 Clients”
Hema Kumar Yarnagula and Venkatesh Tamarapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
04:57 PM - 05:06 PM Paper 9: “Cognitive Radio Networks with Energy Harvesting and Eavesdropping-Emulation Resilience”
Avik Banerjee and Santi Prasad Maity (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
05:06 PM - 05:15 PM Paper 10: “Revenue Sharing in a Soft-Neutral Regime”
Fehmina Malik (IEOR, IIT Bombay, India); Manjesh K Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Yezekael Hayel (LIA, University of Avignon, France); Jayakrishnan Nair (IIT Bombay, India)
05:15 PM - 05:24 PM Paper 11: “Online Signature Profiling using Generative Adversarial Networks”
Chandra Sekhar Vorugunti (Indian Institute of Information Technology- SriCity, India); Prerana Mukherjee and Viswanath Pulabaigari (Indian Institute of Information Technology SriCity, India)

Program Committee


  • Swetank Kumar Saha, University at Buffalo, New York, USA

  • Guohao Lan, Duke University, USA

  • Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, University of Southern California, USA

  • M. Hadi Amini, Florida International University, USA

  • Moumita Patra, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

  • Mahendran Veeramani, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India

  • Rakesh Tripathi, National Institute of Technology Raipur, India

  • Sougata Sen, Northwestern University, USA



Graduate Forum Co-Chairs

Alok Ranjan

Alok Ranjan

Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

T. Venkatesh

T. Venkatesh

IIT Guwahati, India