COMSNETS 2026

18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

January 6 - 10
Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bengaluru, India

Initiative by COMSNETS Association


In-Cooperation With
Technical Co-Sponsors

Poster Session


Camera-ready guidelines: https://www.comsnets.org/camera_ready.html

Accepted Posters

  1. Static Multicast Route and Just-in-Time Any Source Multicast: A Hybrid Framework for Enterprise Networks
    Tathagata Nandy (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India); Anil Raj (HPE, India)
  2. Are We There Yet? Insights from Delhi-NCR and Beyond Reveal Gaps in Readiness for V2X Based IoT Rollout in Emerging Markets
    Gourab Ghatak (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Neetu R R (IIIT Delhi, India)
  3. Tag-to-tag Range Estimation for Passive Backscattering Tags
    Manavjeet Singh (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA); Yang Xie and Abeer Ahmad (Stony Brook University, USA); Milutin Stanacevic (SUNY Stony Brook, USA); Samir R. Das and Petar M. Djurić (Stony Brook University, USA)
  4. A Graphical User Interface Driven Method for Static and Dynamic Parameter Extraction of Solar Panels for Optical Communication
    Naman Singhal (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India); Rahul (IIIT-D, India); Ankit Kumar Pal (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India); Abhijit Mitra (IIIT-Delhi, India); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India)
  5. Graph Neural Network-based framework for predicting top Betweenness Centrality Nodes across Unseen Graphs
    Gargee Handique (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India); Rohit Tripathi (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)
  6. Joint Recognition of RS Code with Interleaver Parameters using GFFT Technique
    Pranshu Singh (Indian Institute of Technology, Indore, India); Sucharitha Chanda (Qualcomm, Bangalore, India); Swaminathan R (Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India)
  7. Hybrid Frequency-Selective Round Robin Scheduler for Next-Generation Wireless Systems
    Abhinaba Dey and Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)
  8. An NS-3/mmWave-Based Simulation Framework for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in UAV-Assisted 6G Networks
    Paarth Bahety, Prasad Chopade and Renuka Pawar (Sardar Patel Institute of Technology, India); Moumita Patra (IIT Guwahati, India); Krishnendu Thaliyassery Sidharthan (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
  9. FedTID: A Taxonomy Aware Federated Intrusion Detection Framework for non-IID IoT Environment
    Nityananda Basumatary (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India); Angshuman Jana (IIIT Guwahati, India)
  10. PQC Planner: Post-Quantum Cryptographic Migration Planner
    Mangesh Gharote, Sr. (Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India); Pankaj Kumar Sahu (Tata Consultancy Services Research & TCS Research, India); Shubhro Roy, Kumar Vidhani and Sutapa Mondal (Tata Consultancy Services Limited, India); Rajan M A (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Sachin Lodha (Tata Research Development and Design Centre, India)
  11. User-Space PQ Key Exchange in WireGuard Using ML-KEM-768
    Anurag Krishna Sharma (Indian Space Research Organizartion, India & ADRIN, India)
  12. Secure and Efficient Lightweight Authentication Mechanism for Constrained IoT Networks
    Adil Hussain Seh (Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India); Atul Dattatray Dubal, Santosh Laxmiprasad Dhamala, Manasi Ajit Patil and Mansi Siddharth Subhedar (Pillai HOC College of Engineering and Technology, India); John Jose (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
  13. AI-Driven Intent-based Layer 2 Time Scheduler
    Atharva Ramesh Nimje (India); Satheesh Kumar Kumar Perepu (Ericsson Research, India)
  14. NIRVANA: Nature-Inspired Resilience for UAV Agents via Distributed CoordiNAtion
    Partha Pratim Sarmah (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India); Satyaki Roy (University of Alabama, Huntsville, USA); Krishnandu Hazra (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)
  15. ADaRES: Adaptive Data Reallocation and Epoch Scheduling in Federated Learning Under Network and Resource Constraints
    Gururaj Harinahalli Lokesh (Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India)
  16. Clickbait Detection Using Contextual Embeddings and Deep Learning Techniques
    Bojja Revanth Reddy, Nirikshan Kumar, Chamith Kalyan, Ahammed Yasin Mohammed Shafi and Balasubramanian Palani (Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, India)
  17. Multi-Objective Edge Resource Optimization with D3QN-PER in Quantum-Classical IoT Edge Networks
    Panchadip Bhattacharjee (Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India & Manipal Academy of Higher Education Manipal, India); Somyajeet Arukh, Induj Gupta and Advithiya Duddu (Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India); Nishanth Shet (Manipal Institute of Technology, India); Gururaj Harinahalli Lokesh (Manipal Institute of Technology Bengaluru, India)
  18. Fusing Bistatic Measurements for Simultaneous Communication and Tracking
    Avinash M (Government, India & DRDO, India); Srikrishna Bhashyam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
  19. Lightweight Mutual Authentication between IoT Devices using One-way Accumulator
    Manas Khatua, Pradoom Sanjay Varma, Nihal Shaikh and Sreeparna Das (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
  20. FedAsyncM: A Hybrid Asynchronous Federated Learning Aggregation Algorithm
    Vedic Chawla (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat, India); Bhumil Rangholiya (IIIT Surat, India); Sachin Patil and Rajeev Shorey (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Surat, India)
  21. Fast and Accurate Flow Priority Detection in Encrypted Networks using Reinforcement Learning
    S Varun (SRIB, India); Sadanand Vishwas (Samsung R&D Institute Bangalore, India); Uday Trivedi (Samsung R&D Institute, Bangalore, India); Raviraj Bhat (Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore, India); Kuldeepsinh Rana (Samsung R&D Institute India-Bangalore & Samsung, India); Priyadarsan Patra (SRIB, India)
  22. SecQR Scan: A Secure Scanning Framework to Protect Against Malicious QR Codes
    Ojaswa Varshney and Kaustubh Dhondge (IIIT Surat, India)
  23. Impact of Human Blockages on Link-Aggregated Hybrid THz/VLC Communication Systems
    Hanshita Prabhakar (IIITD, India); Vivek A Bohara (Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi, India)
  24. A Framework for Enterprise Network Dimensioning -- Part 2: Comparison with Commercial Planning Software
    Gourab Ghatak (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Atul Singh and Raja S Bachu (Airspan Networks, India)
  25. Learning Based Multi-UE Scheduling for NB-IoT
    Durga Sitalakshmi S (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India); Ipshita Panda (Lekha Wireless Solution Pvt. Ltd., India); Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)
  26. CrypticRoute: Covert Data Transmission Ensuring Confidentiality and Integrity in Local Area Network
    Sridhar Tuli and Swyam Sharma (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India); Shubha Brata Nath and Arijit Nath (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India)
  27. Efficient Utilization of the Communal Strength at the Edge of IoT
    Anwesha Patel and Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Tyll Krueger (Bielefeld University, Germany)
  28. Decentralized Multi-Drone Delivery System: Efficient Resource Utilization
    Satwik Mondal and Sudipta Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
  29. A Survey of Security, Privacy, and Ethics of Large Language Models in Telecom
    Joy Bose (Ericsson, Bangalore, India); Srinivas Adyapak (Ericsson Global, India)
  30. AHEAD-N2: Accelerating N2 Handovers in 5G and Beyond using Early Adaptive Decisions for Improved Availability and Resilience
    Siddhesh Pratim Sovitkar (IIT Hyderabad, India); Shwetha Vittal (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India); Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
  31. A Secure UAV Integrated ULA Trajectory Model for Spoofing Attack Localization using Power Sectoring Technique
    Shilpa A S (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, India); Chris Prema (Associate Professor & Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)
  32. Joint User Association and Orientation Optimization based Reliability Aware OIRS VLC System
    Vishal Kumar (Delhi Technological University (DTU), India); Rohit Kumar (DTU Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
  33. Jammer-based Secure IRS-Aided Underwater Lightwave Communication System
    Himani Mehta (Delhi Technological University (DTU), India); Rohit Kumar (DTU Delhi, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
  34. Robust Doppler-Resilient SOQPSK CFO Estimation for Aeronautical Telemetry
    Vinayak Kumar Tripathi (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India); Sashiganth Muruganantham (Lekha Wireless Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India); Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)
  35. NL2SQL for Cybersecurity: Automating Osquery Threat Hunting via Natural Language Queries
    Anubhav Binit (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Nitish Kumar (Defence Institute of Advanced Technology, Pune); Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
  36. Evaluating Combinatorial Anti-Spoofing Strategies For IoT GNSS Receivers Under Dynamic Meaconing Attacks
    Kanagavarshini B, Poorna Pushkala SS and Periakarupan Gurusamy Sivabalan Velmurugan (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India)
  37. AI-Driven Handover Optimization for High Speed Railways: A Data-Driven Approach
    Sai Sumanth Reddy Karam and Sashiganth Muruganantham (Lekha Wireless Solutions Pvt. Ltd., India); Sreenath Ramanath (Lekha Wireless Solutions, India)
  38. Sparse Channel Estimation for Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems Using GANs
    D Abheeshek (BITS Pilani, India); Sandeep Joshi (Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani, India)
  39. Deadline-Aware Adaptive Fuzzification for Task Offloading in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Networks
    Vishesh Kothari (India); Supriya Dilip Tambe and Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
  40. PRET: Passive RADAR Engagement Trickery
    Sarthak S Dambare (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Pradeep Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai, India); Anurag Jaiswal (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India); Divit Sharma (IITBhilai, India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India)
  41. QoS-Driven User Offloading via IRS in UEC-6G Networks
    Krishnendu Thaliyassery Sidharthan (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India); Moumita Patra (IIT Guwahati, India); Venkatesh Tamarapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
  42. BUFD-Q: Boltzmann-Guided Q-Learning for Optimized 3D UAV Deployment in Flood-Affected Wireless Networks
    Meenu Rani Dey and Swateya Gupta (IIT Guwahati, India)
  43. Deserialization Attacks in Federated Learning
    Spaarsh Thakkar and Dev Gupta (IIIT Surat, India); Rajeev Shorey (Adjunct Professor & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India)
  44. PTP time synchronization method in networks with large packet delay jitter
    Daisuke Nakamura (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology & NTT Docomo Business, Inc., Japan); Naoya Niwa and Hiroe Iwasaki (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan)
  45. Mirror-Based Optical RIS Aided NOMA Enabled VLC System
    Hari Shanker O K and Abhay Kumar Sah (IIT Roorkee, India)
  46. ChainSEAL: A Blockchain-based Secure and Adaptive Evidence Ledger
    Anil Singh, Aarav Mahajan, Bhavya Manchanda, Hardik Aggarwal, Hemanshu Mandhana, Khyati Bhatt, Neeraj Sharma and Jaspinder Kaur (Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, India)
  47. Event Sourcing with Kafka Streams: A Comprehensive Benchmark Against CRUD for Financial Workloads
    Akshay R, Akshaya Prakasha and Akhil H V (PES University, India); Prafullata Kiran Auradkar (PES Institute of Technology, India); Ranjitha Rani (University of Oregon, USA)
  48. Secrecy Outage Probability Analysis for Optimal RIS Selection Scheme with Phase Errors
    Yasin Khan (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Ankit Dubey (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Sudhir Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
  49. Beyond Melody: A Complex Network Framework for Cross-Cultural Music Plagiarism Analysis
    Avijit Gayen (Techno India University, India); Shrayan Misra and Ritu Raj (Techno India University, Kolkata, India); Angshuman Jana (IIIT Guwahati, India)
  50. Adaptive Threshold Learning for Robust First-Path Detection in UWB Ranging
    Shrishti Bekal Mudiakal and Akash Kumar Paul (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Arko Datta (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Ayon Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
  51. Performance Analysis of Hybrid Switching NOMA System with ML-based Clustering Technique
    Ayush Anand, Yasin Khan and Avnish Aryan (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India); Pawan Barnwal (Space Applications Center, ISRO, India); Sudhir Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India)
  52. Multi-Horizon Engine Fault Prediction Using Lightweight Deep Learning and Transformer Models
    Anand and Balasubramanian Palani (Indian Institute of Information Technology Kottayam, India)
  53. Indoor Dual-Band Experimental Evaluation of RIS-Aided Wireless Links at 5.2 GHz and 28 GHz under NLoS Conditions
    Pujitha Mamillapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Takumi Yoneda (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yoghitha Ramamoorthi (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan); Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Tomoki Murakami and Tomoaki Ogawa (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (Nanzan University, Japan & NTT Corporation, Japan)
  54. Unsupervised Neural Network for Joint Optimization of RIS Phase Shift and Resource Allocation in mmWave Network
    Pujitha Mamillapalli (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Yoghitha Ramamoorthi (NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories, NTT Corporation, Japan); Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Tomoki Murakami and Tomoaki Ogawa (NTT Corporation, Japan); Yasushi Takatori (Nanzan University, Japan & NTT Corporation, Japan)
  55. RIS-Aided NOMA with Imperfect Phase Alignment: A Deep Learning-Based Design
    Kshitij Pankaj Agarkar, Swaraj Srivastava and Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
  56. Real-Time Topology-Aware Log-Metric Correlation for LLM-based Root Cause Analysis in Distributed Systems
    Preetham M and Rahul Singh (Juniper Networks, India); Jit Gupta and Tarun Banka (Juniper Networks, USA)
  57. Efficient Sound Classification Model using Raw Audio Waveforms in Resource Constrained Devices: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
    Debolina Chowdhury, Chawan Vinod and Suman Samui (National Institute of Technology Durgapur, India); Mousumi Saha (NIT Durgapur, India); Sujoy Saha (National Institute of Technology, India)
  58. Smart Hybrid Intelligence for Day-Ahead Energy Forecasting and Demand Response in Smart Grid
    Prajwal and Nilotpal Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Guwahati, India)
  59. Robust Automatic Modulation Classification in OTFS Using Isolation Forest Based Outlier Removal and CNN-LSTM
    Ashok Parmar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology Surat, India); Kshitija Thete and Devanshi Tandel (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India); Kamal Manharlal Captain (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, India)
  60. Lightweight and Verifiable Edge-Assisted Access Control for Delay Tolerant Networks
    Kasturi Routray (IIT Bhubaneswar, India); Jatin Yadav (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India); Padmalochan Bera (IIT Bhubaneswar, India)

The COMSNETS 2026 Poster Session is a forum to showcase preliminary/ongoing work in the area of computer networking and communications. COMSNETS, being the premier venue for networking research in India and abroad, attracts many researchers from academia and industry. Therefore, poster presenters will benefit from lively discussions and critical feedback on their work in progress. In addition, all submissions will get detailed reviews from renowned researchers in the poster reviewing committee.


COMSNETS takes a broad view of research in communication systems and networking. The topics of interest for the poster submissions aligned with the main conference theme include (but are not limited to) the following:

Accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings.

National/International travel grants will be available for a selected number of poster authors to cover partial support for their travel. These grants will be awarded by a panel of judges. Please see the travel grant application page separately.

Best Poster Awards will be awarded based on the poster session presentations by a panel of judges.


Topics of Interest

  • Emerging 6G technology advancements
  • 5G and wireless broadband networks
  • Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum
  • Edge and fog computing/networking
  • Studies on testbeds and large scale experimental platforms
  • Long-range/Low-power wide-area wireless networking
  • Connected unmanned aerial/terrestrial/underwater systems
  • CubeSats / Satellite Networking
  • Non-Terrestrial Networks
  • WLAN, RFID and NFC
  • Visible light communications
  • Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)
  • Cognitive radio & white-space networking
  • Economics of networks
  • Energy-efficient communications
  • Cloud computing
  • Enterprise, data center, & storage-area networks
  • Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science & emergent behavior
  • Mobility and location management
  • Mobile sensing
  • Traffic analysis and engineering
  • Internet of Things (IoT)
  • Caching & content delivery systems
  • Information/Content centric networks (ICN)
  • Large Language Models and Applications
  • Network management and operations
  • Network security and privacy
  • Trusted computing
  • Network science
  • SDN/NFV and Network Programmability
  • Internet Measurement and Modeling
  • Networks for smarter energy & sustainability
  • Vehicular Networks & Intelligent Transportation
  • Smart Grid communications & networking
  • Machine Learning and AI in Networking
  • Big Data/IoT Analytics in Networking
  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger

What to Submit:

Poster submissions must be at least 3 pages and a maximum of 4 pages of technical contributions (including Tables and Figures) + 1 page for references. It should contain the motivation for the research problem, the solution approach, and analytical or empirical results, if any.The submission should be double blind and must use the same template as that of the main conference.

Submissions that do not adhere to the conference template will be rejected without review. All submissions must be in PDF format.


Where to Submit:

Posters and additional documents can be submitted through EDAS at https://edas.info/N34106.

Important Dates:

Paper Submission deadline 12th November 2025, AoE 18th November 2025, AoE
Notification of Acceptance 5th December 2025, AoE
Camera-ready Submission 15th December 2025, AoE

Poster Co-Chairs

Dheryta Jaisinghani

Dheryta Jaisinghani

University of Northern Iowa
USA

Shantanu Pal

Shantanu Pal

Deakin University
Australia

Rohit Verma

Rohit Verma

Intel Labs
India


Technical Program Committee

  • Akira Uchiyama, Osaka University
  • Albert Levi, Sabancı University, Turkey
  • Anh Nguyen, University of Montana
  • Anurag Satpathy, Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T), USA
  • Argha Sen, IIT Kharagpur
  • Arindam Khanda, Missouri University of Science and Technology (S&T), USA
  • Arunkumar Sivapuram, SRM University-AP
  • Basabdatta Palit, IIEST
  • Debasree Das, University of Bamberg
  • Dilip Kumar Dalei, DRDO
  • Dulanga Weerakoo, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore
  • Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, Arizona State University
  • Inseok Hwang, Pohang University of Science and technology
  • Meera Lakshmi, University of Technology Sydney
  • Mridula Singh, CISPA, Germany
  • Naveen Gupta, BITS Pilani Goa
  • Pramit Biswas, Intel
  • Punyashlok Dash, SRM University-AP
  • Rohit Kumar, Delhi Technological University
  • Roopa Vishwanathan, New Mexico State University, USA
  • Shreya Ghosh, The Pennsylvania State University
  • Sitaram Chamarty, TCS Research, India
  • Snigdha Das, Ericsson Research
  • Sougata Sen, BITS PIlani - Goa Campus
  • Soumyajit Chatterjee, Brave
  • Sourav Addya, NITK
  • Sourav Kanti Addya, NIT Surathkal
  • Sugandh Pargal, Fujitsu
  • TRUONG Quang Hai, Singapore Management University
  • Vaibhav Singh, Intel
  • Vini Chaudhary, Mississippi State University