Graduate Forum

COMSNETS Graduate Forum 2026

COMSNETS 2026 Graduate Forum presents a unique opportunity for open discussions and feedback from reviewers (and judges) for students enrolled in graduate programs (Undergraduate, Postgraduate, and Doctoral Researchers) on their research (including early-stage research works) in areas related to communications, systems, and networking.

In addition to the useful feedback on their current research and possible future research directions, it offers an opportunity to interact with eminent researchers from both academia and industry. All submissions will receive detailed reviews from the review committee.

Program Schedule: 7^th January 2026

Time (IST)	Session / Paper Details
2:00 PM – 2:40 PM	SPECIAL SESSION Invited Talk
2:40 – 2:50 PM	A Comprehensive Investigation of Security Vulnerabilities in Distributed Multi-Robot Systems Rubal Sagwal, Vishal Gupta (BITS Pilani)
2:51 – 3:01 PM	Towards Byzantine-Robust Federated Graph Learning for Secure IoT Intrusion Detection Bommy M, Karthik N (NIT Puducherry)
3:02 – 3:12 PM	TACG: A Topic-Aware Community-Guided Framework for Context-Aware Influence Maximization J. Bhattacharya, A. Namtirtha (JIS); A. Dutta (NIT Durgapur)
3:13 – 3:23 PM	MoSE-XAI: A Lightweight MobileNetV2-Squeeze and-Excitation Model For Crop Disease Detection A. Mandal, Y.S. Patel, A. Choubey, A. Singh
3:24 PM – 3:30 PM	☕ Refreshment Break
3:30 – 3:40 PM	Enhancing Execution in Kubernetes for Optimized Resource Utilization Arham Jain, Suchi Kumari, Indrajeet Gupta
3:41 – 3:51 PM	Correlation and Classification of Physiological Signs for Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prediction M Vinodhini, Karthik N (NIT Puducherry)
3:52 – 4:02 PM	EvoRoute: An Evolutionary Multi-Agent Framework for Sustainable and Congestion-Aware Routing S.S. Chakraborty, P.K. Guhathakurta (NIT Durgapur)
4:03 – 4:13 PM	MCP-Diag: A Deterministic, Protocol-Driven Architecture for AI-Native Network Diagnostics Devansh Lodha, Mohit Panchal, Sameer G Kulkarni (IITGN)
4:14 – 4:24 PM	Anomaly Detection using Directed Motif and Node Attributes Sarjita Soo (NIT Durgapur)
4:25 – 4:35 PM	Understanding Cache-Level Profiling of 5GC NFs Ayushman Singh, Sameer G Kulkarni (IITGN)
4:36 – 4:46 PM	Memory Bottlenecks in Quantum Simulation: Cache Contention and Adaptive Allocation Policy Mallika Chouhan, Sameer G Kulkarni (IITGN)
4:47 – 4:57 PM	PFSA: A Predictive Fair Slot Allocation Mechanism for Dynamic IoT Environments D. Jha, J. Dave, N. Choudhury (BITS Pilani)
4:58 PM – 5:00 PM	Concluding Remarks

Accepted Papers

A Comprehensive Investigation of Security Vulnerabilities in Distributed Multi-Robot Systems
Towards Byzantine-Robust Federated Graph Learning for Secure IoT Intrusion Detection
TACG: A Topic-Aware Community-Guided Framework for Context-Aware Influence Maximization
EvoRoute: An Evolutionary Multi-Agent Framework for Sustainable and Congestion-Aware Routing in Intelligent Transportation Systems
Enhancing Execution in Kubernetes for Optimized Resource Utilization
Correlation and Classification of Physiological Signs for Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prediction in Sports
MoSE-XAI: A Lightweight MobileNetV2-Squeeze and-Excitation Model For Crop Disease Detection with XAI visualization
MCP-Diag: A Deterministic, Protocol-Driven Architecture for AI-Native Network Diagnostics
Anomaly Detection using Directed Motif and Node Attributes
Understanding Cache-Level Profiling of 5GC NFs
Memory Bottlenecks in Quantum Simulation: Cache Contention and Adaptive Allocation Policy
PFSA: A Predictive Fair Slot Allocation Mechanism for Dynamic IoT Environments

Best Paper Award:

A “Best Graduate Forum Paper Award” will be awarded based on the presentations by a panel of judges.

Who can Submit:

To be eligible to submit your work to the Graduate Forum, you must be registered as a Ph.D., Master’s or Bachelor's student at the time of submission.

The topics of interest for the Graduate Forum are in line with the main conference program. Submissions must include the author’s name, affiliations, and email addresses. We will follow a single-blind review policy.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission deadline (final): ~~10^th November 2025, AoE~~ 19^th November 2025, AoE
Notification of Acceptance: ~~5^th December 2025, AoE~~ 14^th December 2025, AoE
Camera-ready Submission: 15^th December 2025, AoE