COMSNETS 2022

14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 3 - 8 | Hybrid Conference | Bengaluru, India

Initiative by COMSNETS Association

In-Cooperation With
Technical Co-Sponsors

Technical Program

(All times are mentioned in IST time zone.)
Time GBR GBR

Wednesday, January 5

11.30 am - 1.00 pm T1-1: Security I T2-1: Distributed Systems and Communication
03:30 pm - 05:00 pm   T2-2: Learning I

Thursday, January 6

12:15 am - 01:15 pm T1-2: Security II T2-3: Learning II
04:00 pm - 06:30 pm T1-3: Security and Information Theory T2-4: Resource Allocation & Traffic Engineering

Friday, January 7

11:15 am - 01:00 pm T1-4: Communication T2-5: Networks
02:00 pm - 04:00 pm T1-5: 5G T2-6: IoT

Presentation Duration
  • Invited talk: 25 mins + 5 mins Q & A
  • Regular papers: 10 mins + 2 mins Q & A

Wednesday, 5 January 2022 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-1: Security I

Session Chair: Himanshu Gandhi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

(Invited Talk) Driving Application-oriented Research through Sensing Technology
Koji Yatani
Fast and Secure Routing Algorithms for Quantum Key Distribution Networks
Vishnu B (IIT Madras, India); Abhishek Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Kub-Sec, an automatic Kubernetes cluster AppArmor profile generation engine
Hui Zhu (Lund University, Sweden); Christian Gehrmann (Lund University, Sweden)
Polymorphic Malware Behavior Through Network Trace Analysis
Xiyue Deng (University of Southern California, US); Jelena Mirkovic (USC/ISI, US)
Securely Improving Stability and Performance of PoW Blockchains using Anchors
Ovia Seshadri (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Vinay Ribeiro (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Shadab Zafar (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

Wednesday, 5 January 2022 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T2-1: Distributed Systems and Communication

Session Chair: Ranjan K. Mallik (Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi, India)

Energy Efficiency Performance Analysis of Single and Multi-Receive Antenna Backscatter Communication System
Manoj Joshi (BITS Pilani, India); Gaurav Punjabi (BITS Pilani, India); B. Sainath (BITS Pilani, India)
Whisper when under Attack: Delay Tolerant Fast-Forward Relays against Full-Duplex Jamming
Vivek Chaudhary (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India); J Harshan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Latency-Redundancy Tradeoff in Distributed Read-Write Systems
Saraswathy Ramanathan (Indian Institute of Science, India); Gaurav Gautam (Indian Institute of Science, India); Vikram Srinivasan (Zettata, India); Parimal Parag (Indian Institute of Science, India)
NUMASFP: NUMA-aware Dynamic Service Function Chain Placement in Multi-core Servers
Venkatarami Chintapalli (IIT Hyderabad, India); Sai Balaram Korrapati (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India); Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
(Invited Talk) A fluid model for Google’s new BBR congestion control algorithm
Sreelakshmi Manjunath

Wednesday, 5 January 2022 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

T2-2: Learning I

Session Chair: Himanshu Gandhi (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Bharadwaj Satchidanandan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States)

Collaborative Best Arm Identification in Multi-armed Bandits
Amit Jha (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Nazal Mohamed (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Krishna Jagannathan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Evidential Obstacle Learning in Millimeter wave D2D communication using Spatial correlation
Harish Ganesan (Anna University, India); Sasthi Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
SAC-ABR: Soft Actor-Critic based deep reinforcement learning for Adaptive BitRate streaming
Mandan Naresh (BITS Pilani, India); Nandiraju Gireesh (BITS Pilani, India); Paresh Saxena (BITS Pilani, India); Manik Gupta (BITS Pilani, India)
FedFM: Towards a Robust Federated Learning Approach For Fault Mitigation at the Edge Nodes
Manupriya Gupta (IIT Delhi, India); Pavas Goyal (IIT Delhi, India); Rohit Verma (University of Cambridge, GB); Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Huzur Saran (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
(Invited Talk) Air-Water Communication and Sensing with Light
Xia Zhou

Thursday, 6 January 2022 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

T1-2: Security II

Session Chair: Serene Banerjee (GAIA, Ericsson, India)

(Invited Talk) AI for Security and Security for AI
Arunesh Sinha
Secure, Anonymity-Preserving and Lightweight Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Home Automation IoT Networks
Akash Gupta (Defence Research and Development Organization, Govt. of India, India); Gaurav Kasbekar (IIT Bombay, India)
A Wireless Intrusion Detection System for 802.11 WPA3 Networks
Neil Dalal (Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, India); Nadeem Akhtar (Arista Networks, India); Anubhav Gupta (Arista Networks, India); Nikhil Karamchandani (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Gaurav Kasbekar (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Jatin Parekh (Arista Networks, Inc., India)

Thursday, 6 January 2022 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

T2-3: Learning II

Session Chair: Abhishek Mahesh Appaji (BMS College of Engineering, India)

Enhanced Annotation Framework for Activity Recognition Through Change Point Detection
Sourish Dhekane (Georgia Institute of Technology, US); Shivam Tiwari (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Manan Sharma (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Dip Sankar Banerjee (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
Joint Channel Estimation and Symbol Detection in MIMO OFDM Systems: A Deep Learning Approach using Bi-LSTM
Aswathy Nair (AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham-Amrita University, India); Vivek Menon (AMRITA Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India)
(Invited Talk) Leveraging kernel extensions for safe and efficient networking
Srinivas Narayana

Thursday, 6 January 2022 | 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

T1-3: Security and information theory

Session Chair: J Harshan (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)

(Invited Talk) Learning the influence graph and the dynamics from binary opinions
Avhishek Chatterjee
SACRIFICE: A Secure Road Condition Monitoring Scheme over Fog-based VANETs
Nishttha Sharma (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Jayasree Sengupta (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India); Sipra DasBit (Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, India)
Android Web Security Solution Using Cross-device Federated Learning
Amit Singh (Birla Institute of Technology, Pilani, India); Navneet Goyal (BITS-Pilani, India)
Channel Coding for Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Under Imperfect Reporting Channels
Kamal Captain (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India); Ankit Chauhan (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India); Rahul Kumar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India)
A Fast Community-based Approach for Discovering Anomalies in Evolutionary Networks
Arnab Ghoshal (A K Choudhuri School of Information Technology, India); Nabanita Das (Indian Statistical Institute, India); Soham Das (Microsoft, US)
On Commitment over General Compound Channels
Anuj Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Manideep Mamindlapally (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Pranav Joshi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Amitalok Budkuley (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
Continual Learning for Anomaly based Network Intrusion Detection
Suresh Kumar Amalapuram (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Akash Tadwai (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderbad, India); Reethu Vinta (Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderbad, India); Sumohana Channappayya (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad, India)

Thursday, 6 January 2022 | 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM

T2-4: Resource allocation & Traffic engineering

Session Chair: Rohit Verma (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

Challenges in Net Neutrality Violation Detection: A Case Study of Wehe Tool and Improvements
Vinod Khandkar (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Manjesh Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
A Memory Optimized Aggregated Bit Vector Algorithm for large rule-sets
Jyotsna Dhumale (Samsung R & D India, Bangalore, India); Uday Trivedi (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India)
Optimizing Age-of-Information in Adversarial Environments with Channel State Information
Avijit Mandal (IIT Madras, Electrical Engineering, India); Rajarshi Bhattacharjee (CICS, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, US); Abhishek Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
Latency-Memory Optimized Splitting of Convolution Neural Networks for Resource Constrained Edge Devices
Tanmay Jain (Delhi Technological University, India); Avaneesh Maithil (Delhi Technological University, India); Rohit Verma (University of Cambridge, GB); Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Joint Link Adaptation and Resource Allocation for Uplink in 3GPP Machine-Type Communications
Pavan Reddy M (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Kiran Kuchi (IIT Hyderabad, India)
SmartSplit: Latency-Energy-Memory Optimisation for CNN Splitting on Smartphone Environment
Ishan Prakash (Delhi Technological University, India); Aniruddh Bansal (Delhi Technological University, India); Rohit Verma (University of Cambridge, GB); Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
(Invited Talk) Sensing the World with Pervasive Wireless Infrastructures
Elahe Soltanaghai

Friday, 7 January 2022 | 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM

T1-4: Communication

Session Chair: Nadeem Akhtar (Arista Networks, India)

Performance of RIS Assisted Networks in Noise Limited and Interference Limited Scenarios
Kausheek Akella (IIT Bhilai, India); Ashutosh Soni (IIT Bhilai, India); Thazhathe Veetil Sreejith (IIT Bhillai, India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India)
Performance Analysis of DF-Relaying-based Cooperative NOMA System with Partial Relay Selection
Kalla Satya Ganapathi Kiran (Samsung Semiconductor India Research (SSIR), Bangalore, India); Swaminathan Ramabadran (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
Design LoRaWAN Network For Unbiased Communication Between Nodes and Gateway
KM Poonam Maurya (IIT Bhilai, India); Aatmjeet Singh (India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India)
Cluster-based 3D-Beam Power Management in Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks
Poorva Sironja (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India); Surender Redhu (University of Agder, NO); Rajesh Hegde (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India); Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (University of Agder, NO)
(Invited Talk) IoT for Smart Healthcare: From Wearables to Diagnostic Systems
Sudip Misra

Friday, 7 January 2022 | 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM

T2-5: Networks

Session Chair: Laxmi Mukund (Cisco, India)

Multi-Player Age-of-Information Bandits: A Trekking Approach
Hitesh Gudwani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Manjesh Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Sharayu Moharir (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
Fast Efficient Online Selection of Sensors for Transmitter Localization
Arani Bhattacharya (IIIT-Delhi, India); Abhishek Maji (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, India); Jaya Prakash Champati (IMDEA Networks Institute, ES); James Gross (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Stochastic Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics: How Far Apart Do Opinions Drift?
Sushmitha Shree S (IIT Madras, India); Kishore Gv (India); Avhishek Chatterjee (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Krishna Jagannathan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
(Invited Talk) Opinion formation and manipulation over a finite time horizon
Neeraja Sahasrabudhe

Friday, 7 January 2022 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T1-5: 5G

Session Chair: Soma Pandey (Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited, India)

(Invited Talk) DeepDrug: Applying AI for the Advancment of Drug Discovery
Supratik Mukhopadhyay
Uncover latency anomalies in 5G RAN - a combination learner approach
Tobias Sundqvist (Umeå University, Sweden); Monowar Bhuyan (Umeå University, Sweden); Erik Elmroth (Umeå University and Elastisys, Sweden)
Time series based approach for detecting Passive Intermodulation occurrences in cellular network
Ranjani G. (Ericsson, India); Sleeba Puthenpurakel (GAIA, Ericsson, India); Arthur Brisebois (GAIA, Ericsson, US); Serene Banerjee (GAIA, Ericsson, India); Venkatesh Umaashankar (Ericsson, India)
Sparse Recovery of Beam Measurements in 5G NR mmWave Systems
Jyotirmoy Karjee (Samsung, Bangalore, India)
TLBO-based Resource Allocation scheme in 5G H-CRAN
K Sowjanya (National Institute of Technology Raipur, India); Amit Porwal (National Institute of Technology Raipur, India); Sudhakar Pandey (NIT Raipur, India); Pavan Mishra (NIT Raipur, India)
Optimize Next State Prediction in Safe RL for 5G Ecosystem
Satheesh Kumar Perepu (Ericsson, India); M Saravanan (Ericsson Research India, India)
Performance analysis of Multipath Transport layer schedulers under 5G/B5G hybrid networks
Pattiwar Kumar (BITS Pilani, India); Nida Fatima (BITS Pilani, India); Paresh Saxena (BITS Pilani, India)

Friday, 7 January 2022 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T2-6: IoT

Session Chair: Prasant Misra (TATA Consultancy Services, India)

SmartWatch for Wall Writing: Real-time Transcription of Wall Writing from Inertial Sensing
Snigdha Das (Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, India); Satyam Awasthi (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Abdul Shamnar P (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Pradipta De (Microsoft, US); Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India); Bivas Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
CORNET 2.0: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks
Srikrishna Acharya (Robert Bosch Center for Cyberphysical Systems, India); Bharadwaj Amrutur (Indian Institute of Science, India); Mukunda Bharatheesha (ARTPARK, India); Yogesh Simmhan (Indian Institute of Science, India)
Experience: Developing a testbed for ambient sensing and in-network data processing
Anirban Das (IIIT Guwahati, India); Suchetana Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
Analysis of Driving Behaviour through Instrumented Vehicles
Akshay Agnoor (Formerly with IIT Madras, India); Priyanka Atmakuri (IIT Madras, India); Sivanandan R. (IIT Madras, India)
Economic Dispatch for EV Storage-Integrated Power Systems
Bharadwaj Satchidanandan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US); Munther Dahleh (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
GPS Crowdsensing for Public Stoppage Planning of City Buses: A Perspective of Developing Economies
Ratna Mandal (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India); Nitin Agarwal (NIT Durgapur, India); Saikat Dey (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India); Sujoy Saha (National Institute of Technology, India); Subrata Nandi (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India); Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
(Invited Talk) SenseMyCity: a Mobile IoT Tool for Intelligent Urban Mobility
Ana Aguiar