Call For Participation
The 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 5 - 9, 2021. 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 & white-space networking
- Economics of networks
- Energy-efficient communications
- Cloud computing
- Enterprise, data center, & storage-area networks
- Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science & 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
- SDN/NFV and Network Programmability
- Internet Measurement and Modeling
- Networks for smarter energy & sustainability
- Vehicular Networks & Intelligent Transportation
- Smart Grid communications & networking
- Machine Learning and AI in Networking
- Big Data/IoT Analytics in Networking
- Blockchain and Distributed Ledger
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
- COMSJOB
- Tutorials
- Co-located Workshops
- MINDS
- LastMileS
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Cyber Security & Blockchain
- Networked Healthcare
The COMSNETS2021 Tutorials will be held on January 4 and January 11, 2021.
The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held on January 8-10, 2021.
The workshops will be held on the first and last days of the conference, i.e, January 5 and January 9, 2021.
For any queries please contact us at comsnets.conference@gmail.com
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jennifer Rexford
Princeton University, USA
Sunita Sarawagi
IIT Bombay, India
Michele Zorzi
University of Padua, ItalyINDUSTRY INVITED SPEAKERS

Kenneth Duda
Arista Networks, USA
Timothy Lee
IEEE FNI, USA
Kiran Mukkavilli
Qualcomm Wireless Research, USA
Laxmi Mukund
CISCO, IndiaINVITED SPEAKERS »

Dinesh Bharadia
University of California, San Diego, USA

Andra Lutu
Telefonica Barcelona, Spain

Harsha Madhyastha
University of Michigan, USA

Sharayu Moharir
IIT Bombay, India

K P Naveen
IIT Tirupati, India

Damith Ranasinghe
University of Adelaide, Australia

Winston Seah
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Karthik Sundaresan
NEC Labs, USA

Pooja Vyavahare
IIT Tirupati, India
MINDS Workshop »
Invited Speakers

Ketan Rajawat
IIT Kanpur, India

Arun Rajkumar
IIT Madras, India
LastMileS Workshop »
Invited Speakers

Vivek Ashok Bohara
IIIT Delhi, India

Rajesh Gandhi
Arista Networks, India

Sreenath Ramanath
Lekha Wireless, India

Chetna Singhal
IIT Kharagpur, India
Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop »
Invited Speaker

Tulika Pandey
MEITY, GoI, India
ITS Workshop »
NetHealth Workshop»
Invited Speakers

Sreeram Dhurjaty
IEEE Rochester, USA
Women in Engineering»
Keynote Speakers

Suparna Bhattacharya
Hewlett-Packard, India

Rashmi Urdhwareshe
Former Director at Automotive Research Association of India, India
Tutorials »
Title | Presenters | Time |
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WiFi 6 and WiFi 7: WLAN for the multi-Gigabit Era | Srikanth S, Nanocell Networks, India | 4th January, 2021 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM |
Nadeem Akhtar, Arista Networks, India | ||
Learning-Based Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming for Radar and Communications | Kumar Vijay Mishra, U. S. Army Research Laboratory, USA | 4th January, 2021 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Ahmet M. Elbir, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey | ||
Distributed Learning Algorithms For Wireless Networks | Manjesh K. Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India | 11th January, 2021 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM |
Sumit J. Darak, IIIT Delhi, India | ||
5G NR Deployment Considerations and its Continued Evolution in 3GPP | Sendil Kumar, Ericsson, India | 11th January, 2021 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM |
Vinosh Babu James, Qualcomm, India |