Graduate Forum

Graduate Forum Date: 6th January 2021

Congratulations! Accepted proposals have been announced. Click to view.

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

COMSNETS 2021 Graduate Forum is a supportive environment for students enrolled 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 2021 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. The Best Paper Graduate Forum Awardee will receive exciting prizes for research contributions in the scope of Innovative solutions and Societal challenges.

The topics of interest for the Graduate Forum are in accordance with the main conference program. We will follow a single-blind review policy.

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 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 Notice: Owing to safety concerns as well as statutory restrictions preventing travel and gatherings, the presentations in COMSNETS 2021 Graduate Forum will be held virtually.

For any queries please contact us at [email protected]

Graduate Forum Judges

Ashwin Ashok

Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Mainack Mondal

IIT Kharagpur, India

Important Dates

Paper Submission	~~20th November 2020 (AoE) [Strict]~~
Notification of Acceptance	~~13th December 2020~~
Camera-ready Submission	~~20th December 2020~~
Event Date	6th January 2021

Graduate Forum Schedule

Time (IST)	Agenda
4:00 - 4:05 pm	Welcome Address
4:05 - 4:15 pm	Unseen Locomotion Mode Detection Problems using Inertial Sensors
4:15 - 4:25 pm	Assessing Driver's Behavior considering Surrounding Vehicles' Action
4:25 - 4:35 pm	Indoor RSSI Prediction using Machine Learning for Wireless Networks
4:35 - 4:45 pm	Optimization of Polar code designs for industrial wireless communications
4:45 - 4:55 pm	Web Page Classification base on Unsupervised Learning using MIME type Analysis
4:55 - 5:05 pm	Sub-GHz Cooperative Container Stack Estimation
5:05 - 5:15 pm	Deep Analysis of Dementia Disorder Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Healthcare Services
5:15 - 5:25 pm	Security Issues in Narrowband-IoT: Towards Green Communication
5:25 - 5:35 pm	Towards a blockchain powered IoT data marketplace
5:35 - 5:45 pm	A Cognitive IoT Smart Surveillance Framework for Crowd Behavior Analysis
5:45 - 5:50 pm	Closing Address by the Judges