COMSNETS 2021 Awards

LRN Foundation Travel Grant Award

Bishakh Chandra Ghosh (IIT Kharagpur)
Conference: IEEE INFOCOM 2021, Virtual Conference, May 10-13, 2021
Paper Title: Leveraging Public-Private Blockchain Interoperability for Closed Consortium Interfacing

Soumyajit Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur)
Conference: IEEE PerCom 2021, Kassel, Germany (Virtual Event), March 22-26, 2021
Paper Title: Non-intrusive Continuous User Identification from Activity Acoustic Signatures (WiP Track)


Best Paper Award

(Paper 1) Demand-aware Channel Topologies for Off-chain Payments
Julia Khamis (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Ori Rottenstreich (Technion, Israel)

(Paper 2) Influencing Opinions of Heterogeneous Populations over Finite Time Horizons
Arunabh Saxena (IIM Ahmedabad, India); Bhumesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Anmol Gupta (IIT Bombay, India); Neeraja Sahasrabudhe (IISER Mohali, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)


Best Graduate Forum Presenter Award

Optimization of Polar code designs for industrial wireless communications
Yasantha Chamara Samarawickrama (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland); Victor Cionca (Cork Institute of Technology & Nimbus Centre, Ireland); Susan Rea (Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland); Alan McGibney (Nimbus Centre for Embedded Systems Research & Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland)

Sub-GHz Cooperative Container Stack Estimation
Abdil Kaya (University of Antwerp & Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, Belgium); Maarten Weyn and Rafael Berkvens (University of Antwerp - imec, Belgium)


Best Poster Paper Award

(Best Poster Award) MatchCloud:Service Matching for Multi Cloud Marketplace
Arpana Chakma (NITK Surathkal, India); Shubham Kumar (Silicon Institute Of Technology, Sambalpur, India); Pradeep Kumar Mahato (Silicon Institute of Technology, Sambalpur, India); Anurag Satpathy (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India); Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, India)

(Best Poster Presentation) Differential d-Vectors for RSS based Localization in Dynamic IoT Networks
Piyush Tiwary, Ankur Pandey and Sudhir Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)


Best Research Demo

(Best Research Demo) Demonstrating High-Performance Simultaneous Visible Light Communication and Sensing
Ila Gokarn and Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

(Runner up) Implementing QZMAC (a Decentralized Delay Optimal MAC) over 6TiSCH under the Contiki OS in an IEEE 802.15.4 Network
Shivam Vinayak (Indian Institute of Science, India); Avinash Mohan (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel); Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, India)

(Honorable Mention for Societal Impact) P-Tracer: Proximity Detection for Contact Tracing
Laxmi Thakare, Ruchi Dohare and Nadeem Akhtar (Arista Networks, India)


Best Paper in NetHealth Workshop

Blockchain-Based Data Transmission for Electronic Medical Record on Data Management of Hospital Emergency Ward
Watchara Jiamsawat, Chidchanok Choksuchat, Sureena Matayong (Prince of Songkla University, Thailand)

Exploration of Temporal and Spectral Features of EEG Signals in Motor Imagery Tasks
Mansi Saxena, Anubha Gupta (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, India)

Position Paper: Low-Cost Analytics and Solutions for Personal Home-Based Healthcare
Srihari Yamanoor, Narasimha Sai Yamanoor


Best Paper in MINDS Workshop

(Best Paper) A novel deep neural design and efficient Pipeline architecture for Person Re-Identification in high resolution Video
SGovardhan Mattela (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, India); Manmohan Tripathi (Ceremorphic India Pvt Ltd, India); Chandrajit Pal (Ceremorphic India Pvt Ltd)

(Best Paper Runner Up) Disease Assessment in Rice with Pervasive Stationary and Mobile Sensing - Learnings from Rabi 2019-20
Mariappan Sakkan and Sanat Sarangi (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Swagatam Bose Choudhury (Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India); Prachin Jain, Hemavathy B., Rajesh Urkude and Srinivasu Pappula (Tata Consultancy Services, India)