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 [email protected]

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Jennifer Rexford

Jennifer Rexford

Princeton University, USA
Sunita Sarawagi

Sunita Sarawagi

IIT Bombay, India
Michele Zorzi

Michele Zorzi

University of Padua, Italy

INDUSTRY INVITED SPEAKERS

Kenneth Duda

Kenneth Duda

Arista Networks, USA
Timothy Lee

Timothy Lee

IEEE FNI, USA
Kiran Mukkavilli

Kiran Mukkavilli

Qualcomm Wireless Research, USA
Laxmi Mukund

Laxmi Mukund

CISCO, India

INVITED SPEAKERS »

Dinesh Bharadia

Dinesh Bharadia

University of California, San Diego, USA

Andra Lutu

Andra Lutu

Telefonica Barcelona, Spain

Harsha Madhyastha

Harsha Madhyastha

University of Michigan, USA

Sharayu Moharir

Sharayu Moharir

IIT Bombay, India

K P Naveen

K P Naveen

IIT Tirupati, India

Damith Ranasinghe

Damith Ranasinghe

University of Adelaide, Australia

Winston Seah

Winston Seah

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Karthik Sundaresan

Karthik Sundaresan

NEC Labs, USA

Pooja Vyavahare

Pooja Vyavahare

IIT Tirupati, India

MINDS Workshop »

Keynote Speakers

Harshad Khadilkar

Harshad Khadilkar

TCS Research, India

Srinivas Shakkottai

Srinivas Shakkottai

Texas A&M, USA

Invited Speakers

Ketan Rajawat

Ketan Rajawat

IIT Kanpur, India

Arun Rajkumar

Arun Rajkumar

IIT Madras, India

LastMileS Workshop »

Keynote Speaker






Aline Carneiro Viana

Aline Carneiro Viana

INRIA Saclay, France

Invited Speakers

Vivek Ashok Bohara

Vivek Ashok Bohara

IIIT Delhi, India

Rajesh Gandhi

Rajesh Gandhi

Arista Networks, India

Sreenath Ramanath

Sreenath Ramanath

Lekha Wireless, India

Chetna Singhal

Chetna Singhal

IIT Kharagpur, India

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop »

Keynote Speakers

Cyril Onwubiko

Cyril Onwubiko

Research Series Limited, UK

Aunshul Rege

Aunshul Rege

Temple University, USA

Invited Speaker

Tulika Pandey

Tulika Pandey

MEITY, GoI, India

ITS Workshop »

Keynote Speakers

Venkata Chunduru

Venkata Chunduru

IBI Group, India

Sabya Mishra

Sabya Mishra

University of Memphis, USA

NetHealth Workshop»

Keynote Speakers

V. Kamakoti

V. Kamakoti

IIT Madras, India

Kush R. Varshney

Kush R. Varshney

IBM Research, USA

Invited Speakers

Sreeram Dhurjaty

Sreeram Dhurjaty

IEEE Rochester, USA

Women in Engineering»

Keynote Speakers

Suparna Bhattacharya

Suparna Bhattacharya

Hewlett-Packard, India

Rashmi Urdhwareshe

Rashmi Urdhwareshe

Former Director at Automotive Research Association of India, India

Tutorials »

Title Presenters Time
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