COMSNETS 2025 Awards

Best Paper Award

Efficient Human Activity Recognition using Deep Unfolding in 802.11bf Wi-Fi Sensing
Raj Dave (Ahmedabad University) and Dhaval K Patel (Ahmedabad University)


Best Paper 1st Runner Up Award

Towards Generating a Robust, Scalable and Dynamic Provenance Graph for Attack Investigation over Distributed Microservice Architecture
Utkalika Satapathy (IIT Kharagpur), Harsh Borse (IIT Kharagpur), Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)


Best Poster Award

Collaborative deadline-sensitive multi-task offloading in vehicular-cloud networks
Prasanna Kumar (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India), Sushma S A (National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal, India), Sourav Kanti Addya (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India), K Chandrasekaran (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India)


Best Poster - First Runners Up

Identifying CIP-centric Attacks in CPS
Praneeta Maganti (BITS PILANI, Hyderabad Campus, India), Rajib Ranjan Maiti (BITS PILANI, Hyderabad Campus, India), Sridhar Adepu (University of Bristol, England)


Best Poster - Second Runners Up

Reputation-Based Classification for Malicious User Detection in Cognitive Radio Networks
Ankit Chouhan (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology Surat, India), Ashutosh Nath Tiwari (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology Surat, India), Ashok Parmar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology Surat, India), Kamal Captain (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute Of Technology Surat, India)


Best Research Demo Award

Demo: An RFSoC-Based Testbed for Over-the-Air Wireless Transceiver at Millimeter Wave Frequency
Jeet Tekchandani, Jai Mangal, Sumit J. Darak, Shobha Sundar Ram, IIITD


Best Research Demo - Runners Up

Sunlight to Signals: Solar Panel as Active Data Receiver
Rahul (IIIT-Delhi), Vivek Ashok Bohara (IIIT-Delhi), Abhijit Mitra (IIIT Delhi), Anand Srivastava, Deepak Solanki


Graduate Forum Best Paper Award

A Game-Theoretic Approach for Cost-Effective and Reliable Task Offloading in Fog-enabled IoT Networks
Rajasekhar Dasari (IIITDM Kancheepuram), Sanjeet Kumar Nayak (IIITDM Kancheepuram)


Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems Best Paper 1

Unmasking Rumors on Social Media by Combining Affective Patterns Flow with User Behaviors
Asimul Haque (South Asian University, New Delhi, India), Muhammad Abulaish (South Asian University, New Delhi, India)


Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems Best Paper 2

TinyAP: A Smart Access Point to detect KRACK on WPA2 Handshake in Wi-Fi using TinyML
Anand Agrawal (Birla Institue of Technology and Science Pilani, India), Rajib Ranjan Maiti (BITS PILANI, Hyderabad Campus)


Systems for the Future of AI/ML

Phone Patrol: An Intelligent Surveillance System for Mobile-Free Environments
Aritra Dutta Banik (Heritage Institute of Technology), Trisagni Mandal (Heritage Institute of Technology), Anubhab Mukherjee (Heritage Institute of Technology), Sharnabho Chatterjee, Raja Karmakar (Heritage Institute of Technology)


Advances in Autonomous Driving and Vehicular Networks

Automated Detection of Roadway and Traffic Control Conditions Using On-Board Image Processing
Ashmitha Jaysi Sivakumar, L Pragati, Sambhavi Roy, Lelitha Vanajakshi (Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Madras)


Internet Intelligence and Governance Workshop

NURPS: NUMA- and Reliability-aware Parallelized SFC Deployment in Multi-Core Servers
Venkatarami Reddy Ch (NIT Calicut), Shaik Sameer (NIT Calicut)


Securing and Managing Advanced Technologies for Industry 4.0 Best Paper 1

Energy-Efficient Multi-Path Selection to Achieve Hard Reliability for Mission-Critical Data Transmission in Industrial IoT
Soumya Nandan Mishra (IIT Guwahati), Manas Khatua (IIT Guwahati)


Securing and Managing Advanced Technologies for Industry 4.0 Best Paper 2

DataDRILL: Resilience Testbed for Industrial Cyber-physical Systems
Murshedul Arifeen (Robert Gordon University, Igor Kotenko (ITMO University), Andrei Petrovski (ITMO University), Phil Hassard (Robert Gordon University)


Workshop on Quantum Technologies

Software tool-set for automated quantum system identification and device bring up
Anurag Saha Roy (Qruise), Kevin Pack (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Nicolas Wittler (Forschungszentrum Jülich), Shai Machnes (Qruise)


Cyber Security and Privacy Workshop

TinyDevID: TinyML-Driven IoT Devices IDentification Using Network Flow Data
Priyanka Rushikesh Chaudhary (BITS PILANI, Hyderabad Campus), Anand Agrawal (BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus), Rajib Ranjan Maiti (BITS PILANI, Hyderabad Campus)