Conference Schedule


Time mentioned in the schedule is in IST (GMT + 5.30).






COMSNETS 2025 All Hands Meeting
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM Sunday, 5 January 2025

Participants: All organizing committee members, All volunteers, All sponsors, Event Managers, Hotel Staff

Venue: Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore

Monday, 6 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 WORKSHOPS*

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Internet Intelligence & Governance Workshop (IIGW)

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Workshop on Systems for the Future of AI/ML (SysAI)

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Workshop on Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems (MINDS)

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Advances in Autonomous Driving & Vehicular Networks (ADVnet)

INDIAN AFFAIRS

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Esquire Hall (Basement)

Workshop Session #1
09:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 Noon

Workshop Session #2
11:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

Pool Side

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Workshop Session #3
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Workshop Session #4
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Research Café & COMSJOB: Industry perspectives

Participating Organizations: All Sponsoring Organizations

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM

COMSNETS 2025 WELCOME RECEPTION

Pool Side, Chancery Pavilion Hotel

7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Tuesday, 7 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 Day 1: Main Conference

CELEBRATING 17 YEARS OF COMSNETS
COMSNETS 2025 Inauguration and Opening Remarks
9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

General Co-Chairs; TPC Co-Chairs; Steering Committee Co-Chairs
COMSNETS Co-Founders

SIGMA HALL
Keynote Talk #1
Speaker: Dr. Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft, USA
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Paper Sessions (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session T1-1: (Wireless Communications I)
Invited Talk #1
Title: Clusterings In The Presence Of Outliers
Speaker: Dr. Akanksha Agrawal

Session T2-1:(Mobility and IoT – 1)
Invited Talk #2
Title: Frontiers of LEO Space Networks: Understanding the Intricacies of Starlink's Internet Access
Speaker: Dr. Nitinder Mohan

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Indian Affairs


Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Pool Side
Paper Sessions (2:00 PM – 3:15 PM)

Graduate Forum

Session T2-2 (Network Architecture and Operations I)
Invited Talk #3
Title: Large Scale AI Infrastructure - Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Rama Govindaraju

Poster Session

(1:00 PM – 4:00 PM)

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Pool Side

Indian Affairs

Tea Break

3:15 PM – 3:30 PM

Paper Sessions (3:30 PM – 5:00 PM)

Graduate Forum

Session T2-3 (Wireless Communications II):
Invited Talk #4
Title: Are We Teaching AI the Right Goals? Rethinking Recommender Systems
Speaker: Dr. Arpit Agarwal

Demos & Exhibits

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

COMSNETS Panel Discussion #1

5:15 PM – 6:45 PM

Venue: SIGMA Hall

Topic: Topic: Flying Networks: Where Do Drones and Satellites Lead Us?

COMSNETS Association Meeting

7:00 PM – 8:30 PM

SIGMA Hall

Dinner for Organizing Committee and Association Members Only

8:30 PM – 10:00 PM

[SIGMAL HALL FOYER]

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Wednesday, 8 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 Day 2: Main Conference

Keynote Talk #2
Speaker: Dr. Kiran Kuchi, IIT Hyderabad, India
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Special Invited Talk: Prof. Debabrata Das & Prof. Prem Singh
IIITB COMET Foundation
10:30 AM – 11:10 AM

Tea Break

11:10 AM – 11:30 AM

Paper Sessions (11:30 AM – 1:00 PM)

Session T1-2 (Blockchain and Security):
Invited Talk #5
Title: Privacy and Safety in Smart Home Devices: Redefining the Cybersecurity
Speaker: Dr. Rahul Chatterjee

Invited Talk #7
Title: Micro-architectural Security and Trust: Towards Secure ML/AI Architecture
Speaker: Dr. Sarani Bhattacharya

Session T2-3 (Network Architecture and Operations II):
Invited Talk #6
Title: Internet of Realities: Vision and Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Takuro Yonezawa


Invited Talk #8
Title: Approximate Caching for Efficiently Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Speaker: Shubham Agarwal

Demos & Exhibits

Entrepreneur Ignite Summit

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Indian Affairs

Esquire Hall (Basement)


Lunch Break & Poster Session

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Pool Side

Women in Engineering (WiE)

Under Graduate Forum Keynote Speaker: Manohar Swaminathan, Microsoft Research

1:30 - 4:00 PM

Poster Session

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Demos & Exhibits

Entrepreneur Ignite Summit

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Pool Side

Indian Affairs

Esquire (Basement)

Tea Break & Poster Session

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

Paper Sessions (4:00 PM – 5:30 PM)

Women in Engineering (WiE)

Session T2-4: (Machine Learning – 1)
Invited Talk #9
Title: Learning-Enabled CPS Design for Edge-Cloud Computing
Speaker: Dr. Samarjit Chakraborty

Demos & Exhibits

Entrepreneur Ignite Summit

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Esquire Hall (Basement)

COMSNETS Panel Discussion #2

Topic: Topic: Is Computer Networking Know-How Useful in Other Fields?

5:45 PM – 7:00 PM

Venue: SIGMA Hall

COMSNETS 2025 BANQUET

Banquet Talk
Speaker: Deepak Bansal, Microsoft Azure, USA

7:00 PM – 7:45 PM

COMSNETS 2025 Award Ceremony

Best Papers; Best Posters; Best Demos; Best Graduate Forum

Handing over the Baton to the COMSNETS 2026 Committee

8:00 PM – 8:20 PM

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (Sigma Hall)
All Speakers, Organizing Committee Members and Volunteers
8:15 PM - 8:20 PM

COCKTAILS and and GALA DINNER
8:30 PM Onwards

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Thursday, 9 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 Day 3: Main Conference

Keynote Talk #3

Speaker: Dr. Nina Taft, Google, USA

9 AM – 10 AM

Tea Break

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Paper Sessions (10:30 AM – 1:00 PM)
Session T1-4 (Cloud/Streaming): Session T2-5 (Machine Learning -II): I+ART Industry – Academia Research Track

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH (Hotel Entrance)

All Speakers, Organizing Committee Members and Volunteers

1:00 PM - 1:10 PM

Lunch Break

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Paper Sessions
2:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Session T1-5 (Datasets, Benchmarks, Testbeds and Green Networking) Session T2-6: (Mobility and IoT - II)

I+ART Industry – Academia Research Track

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Tea Break

3:30 PM – 4:00 PM

COMSNETS Panel Discussion #3
Topic: Research and Education in the Time of GenAI

5:30 PM - 6:45 PM

Venue: SIGMA Hall

Main COMSNETS Conference Closure

6:45 PM - 7:00 PM

Friday, 10 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 WORKSHOPS*

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Workshop on Quantum Technologies (WQT)

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Securing and Managing Advanced Technologies for Industry 4.0 (SAMAT 4.0)

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Standards Driven Research

09:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Cybersecurity & Privacy Workshop

INDIAN AFFAIRS

Esquire Hall (Basement)

SIGMA 1

SIGMA 3

Workshop Session #1
09:30 AM – 11:00 AM

Tea Break

11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Workshop Session #2
11:30 PM – 1:00 PM

Lunch Break

Pool Side

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Workshop Session #3
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Tea Break

4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

Workshop Session #4
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
COMSNETS CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS CLOSURE

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.

Friday, 10 January 2025

COMSNETS’25 WORKSHOPS*

MINDS Workshop

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Indian Affairs

TASIR Workshop: Testbeds for Advanced Systems Implementation and Research

9:30 AM – 6:00 PM

SIGMA 1

Standards Driven Research Workshop

10:00 AM – 6:00 PM

SIGMA 3

Tea Break
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM

MINDS Workshop

TASIR Workshop

Standards Driven Research Workshop

Lunch Break
Pool Side

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

MINDS Workshop

TASIR Workshop

Standards Driven Research Workshop

Tea Break
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM

MINDS Workshop

TASIR Workshop

Standards Driven Research Workshop

COMSNETS CONFERENCE & WORKSHOPS CLOSURE

*Please refer to the individual workshop schedules for exact timings of the events.