COMSNETS 2026

18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS

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

Initiative by COMSNETS Association


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Technical Program

(All times are mentioned in IST time zone.)
Presentation Duration
  • Invited talk: 25 mins including Q&A
  • Regular papers (Accepted as 20 minutes talk): 20 minute talk (Plan for 15 minutes + 5 minutes Q&A)
  • Papers accepted as 10 minutes talk: 10 minute talk (Plan for 7-8 minute max + 2 minutes Q&A)

Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T1-1: Wireless Communications I

Session Chair: Tanya Shreedhar, TU Delft

Invited Talk #1: Title: Clusterings In The Presence Of Outliers
Dr. Akanksha Agrawal, IIT Madras, India
Efficient Human Activity Recognition using Deep Unfolding in 802.11bf Wi-Fi Sensing
Raj Dave (Ahmedabad University), Dhaval K Patel (Ahmedabad University)
Improving VR Performance in WiFi-6 using Deep Reinforcement Learning based Spatial Reuse
Ayush Patel (Ahmedabad University), Dhaval K Patel (Ahmedabad University)
Physical Resource block Allocation in Private 5G Network for handoff Free operations
Alok Mathur (Indian Institute of Science), Bharadwaj Amrutur (Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems
Physics Driven Analysis of STAR-RIS Based Communication
Durga Purbey (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), Sandip Ghosal (National Institute of Technology Rourkela), Arijit De (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur)

Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

T2-1: Mobility and IoT – 1

Session Chair: Anuradha Ravi, UMBC

Invited Talk #2: Title: Frontiers of LEO Space Networks: Understanding the Intricacies of Starlink's Internet Access
Speaker: Dr. Nitinder Mohan, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands
'Experience': Achieving time-critical control in Edge Robotics Systems over 5G
Amit Baxi (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Vincent Mageshkumar (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Girish S Murthy (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Arvind Merwaday (Intel USA), Arvind Raju (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Gowtham Hosamane (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Sugnan Prabhu (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Venkat Natarajan (Intel Technology India Private Limited), Susruth Sudhakaran (Intel USA), Dave Cavalcanti (Intel USA), Atul N Hatalkar (Intel USA), Christian Maciocco (Intel), Ravishankar Iyer (Intel), Rath Vannithamby (Intel USA)
IoT-based Water Disaggregation in IWS System using ML and DL Techniques
Sahil Padole (IIIT Hyderabad), PONNAPUREDDY SRUJAN REDDY (IIIT Hyderabad), Ritik Yelakar (IIIT Hyderabad), Nitin Nilesh (IIIT Hyderabad) Sachin Chaudhari (IIIT Hyderabad)
PolluSenseCheck: Cost Effective TinyML-based Air Quality Monitoring System with In-Built Sensor Fault Detection
Arko Datta (National Institute of Technology Durgapur), Joyita Chakraborty (National Institute of Technology Durgapur), Pabitra Majhi (National Institute of Technology Durgapur), Astom Mondal (Dr. B. C. Roy Engineering College), Satyaki Roy (University of Alabama in Huntsville), Subrata Nandi (National Institute of Technology Durgapur), Sujoy Saha (National Institute of Technology Durgapur)
An FL-based Energy-Efficient Opportunistic Intelligent Node Selection Scheme for Healthcare IoV Applications
Narsimhulu Pallati (Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Campus, Hyderabad, Symbiosis International University, Pune, India), Rashmi Sahay (ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad)

Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM

T2-2: Network Architecture and Operations I

Session Chair: PV Krishna, Qualcomm

Invited Talk #3: Title: Large Scale AI Infrastructure - Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Dr. Rama Govindaraju, NVIDIA, US
BeeGuard: Explainability-based Policy Enforcement of eBPF Codes for Cloud-native Environments
Neha Chowdhary (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Utkalika Satapathy (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Theophilus A. Benson (Carnegie Mellon University), Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Institute for Developemnt and Research in Banking Technologies), Palani Kodeswaran (IBM Research India), Sayandeep Sen (IBM Research India), Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Institute for Developemnt and Research in Banking Technologies)
A Scalable and Fault-Tolerant 5G Core on Kubernetes
Sourav Paul (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Tanvi Keluskar (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), Mythili Vutukuru (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay)
Incidence Detection and Communication with Intelligent Transport Network Digital Twin
Saravanan M (Ericsson Research), Ahmet Cihat Baktir (Ericsson Networks)
ParaDSP: Parallelism-aware Dynamic SFC Placement in NFV-based Networks
Venkatarami Reddy (Chintapalli National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala), Rajat Partani (National Institute of Technology Surathkal, India), Balaprakasa Rao Killi (National Institute of Technology Warangal, India), Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma (IIT Hyderabad)

Tuesday, 7 January 2025 | 3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

T2-3: Wireless Communications II

Session Chair: Dr. Vinoth Babu Kumaravelu, VIT Vellore

Invited Talk #4: Title: Are We Teaching AI the Right Goals? Rethinking Recommender Systems
Speaker: Dr. Arpit Agarwal, IIT Bombay, India
TCP-Cubiwood: Enhanced Cubic Congestion Control for mmWave and Future Networks
Ujjayant Prakash (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai), Anand M. Baswade (Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai)
RIS-assisted OFDM-based SWIPT System
Emani N S S Anjana (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Neha Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Sumit Gautam (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
Optimized UAV Trajectory Design within Multi-Charging Station Scenario in the ISAC Framework
Kunj Kanzariya (Ahmedabad University), Dhaval K Patel (Ahmedabad University)
Impact of Receiver Orientation on the QoS of the VLC- Enabled Flying Base Station Network
Ankana Das (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Kirtan Gopal Panda (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Murala Laxmi Naresh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Debarati Sen (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)

Wednesday, 8 January 2025 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T1-2: Blockchain and Security

Session Chair: Dr. Rajan M A, TCS Research and Innovation, Bangalore

Invited Talk #5: Title: Privacy and Safety in Smart Home Devices: Redefining the Cybersecurity
Speaker: Dr. Rahul Chatterjee, University of Wisconsin Madison, US
Invited Talk #7 Title: Micro-architectural Security and Trust: Towards Secure ML/AI Architecture
Speaker: Dr. Sarani Bhattacharya
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)
Towards Secure AI-driven Industrial Metaverse with NFT Digital Twins
Ravi Prakash (Digital University of Kerala (DUK)), Tony Thomas (Digital University of Kerala (DUK))
CrossTenet: Enforcing Validity Rules across Blockchains
Aditya Ahuja (TCS Research India), Sachin Lodha (TCS Research India)

Wednesday, 8 January 2025 | 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T2-3: Network Architecture and Operations II

Session Chair: Basabdatta Palit, NIT

Invited Talk #6: Title: Internet of Realities: Vision and Challenges
Speaker: Dr. Takuro Yonezawa, Nagoya University, Japan
Invited Talk #8: Title: Approximate Caching for Efficiently Serving Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Speaker: Shubham Agarwal, Adobe Research
Flexiswap: A Cross-Chain Decentralized Exchange Protocol
Kirti Singh (Indian Institue of Technology Bombay), Vinay Joseph (Ribeiro Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Susmita Mandal (Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology)
Performance Evaluation of 5G Core Network Control Plane Using Open5GS and Kubernetes
Sooraj Subramanian M S (Indian Institute of Technology Madras), Madhan Raj Kanagarathinam (Samsung R&D Institute India Bangalore), Krishna M. Sivalingam (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
Regret-Optimal Policies for Rental Caches
Sri Prakash Rudrabhotla (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Nikhil Karamchandani (IIT Bombay), Sharayu Moharir (IIT Bombay)

Wednesday, 8 January 2025 | 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM

T2-4: Machine Learning – 1

Session Chair: Sharath M S, GE Healthcare

Invited Talk #9: Title: Learning-Enabled CPS Design for Edge-Cloud Computing
Speaker: Dr. Samarjit Chakraborty, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, US
Invited Talk #10: Title: Efficient Data Subset Selection to Generalize Training Across Models: Transductive and Inductive Networks
Speaker: Dr. Abir De, IIT Bombay, India
AutoPAC: Exploring LLMs for Automating Policy to Code Conversion in Business Organizations
Neha Chowdhary (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Tanmoy Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Subhrendu Chattopadhyay (Institute for Developemnt and Research in Banking Technologies), Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur)
Adaptive Moving Target Defense in Web Applications and Networks using Factored MDP
Megha Bose (IIIT Hyderabad), Praveen Paruchuri (IIIT Hyderabad), Akshat Kumar (Singapore Management University)
ReLVaaS: Verification-as-a-Service to Analyze Trustworthiness of RL-based Solutions in 6G Networks
Xin Tao (Ericsson Research, Stockholm, Sweden), Irene Vilà (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona), Swarup Kumar (Mohalik Ericsson Research, Bangalore), Jordi Pérez-Romero (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona), Oriol Sallent (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona)

Thursday, 9 January 2025 | 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T1-4: Cloud/Streaming

Session Chair: Sourav Kanti Addya, NIT

Trust-Based Security Solution for Attack Detection in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
Prathana Saikia (Tezpur University, Assam, India), Sanjib K. Deka (Tezpur University, Assam, India), Monisha Devi (Girijananda Chowdhury University, Assam, India)
A Lightweight QoS-Aware Resource Allocation Method for NR-V2X Networks
Chitranshi Saxena, Deb Mukherjee, Krishna Pal Thakur, Sadananda Behera, Basabdatta Palit
A Robust Framework for Online Fault Detection in Environmental Monitoring Using Pretrained Probabilistic Models
Ritwik Dash (IIT Kharagpur), Kasturi Gnanguna Sagar (IIT Kharagpur), Mamata Jenamani (IIT Kharagpur)
Performance Analysis of Resource Allocation Algorithms for Vehicle Platoons over 5G eV2X Communication
Gulabi Mandal (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur), Anik Roy (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), Basabdatta Palit (NIT Rourkela)
DAFLB: Dynamic Adaptive Fuzzy-Based Load Balancing with Genetic Optimization for Enhanced Cloud Performance
Madhav Khatri (Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur India), Mushtaq Ahmed (Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur India)
ReputeStream: Mitigating Free-Riding through Reputation-Based Multi-Layer P2P Live Streaming
Rashmi Kushwaha (IIT Kanpur), Rahul Bhattacharyya (IIT Kanpur), Yatindra Nath Singh (IIT Kanpur)
Efficient Downlink Channel Allocation in 6G HetNet: An Auction-Based Approach
Linuskrishna Rajbongshi (Tezpur University, Assam, India), Sanjib K. Deka (Tezpur University, Assam, India)
Investigating WebRTC BBR as an alternative to GCC for live video streaming
Rebecca Drucker (Stony Brook University), Anshul Gandhi (Stony Brook University), Aruna Balasubramanian (Stony Brook University)
Physical Layer Security for Amplify-and-Forward Relay Aided Cognitive Radio Networks
Abhilash Goswami (Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati), Shilpa Rao (IIIT Guwahati), SALIL KASHYAP (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
Adaptive Switch Migration Strategy for Load Balancing in Distributed Multi-Controller Software Defined Networks
Allu Sudharshan Rao (National Institute of Technology Sikkim), Bipal Khanal (National Institute of Technology Sikkim), Md. Sarfaraj Alam (Ansari National Institute of Technology Sikkim)
Performance Analysis and Predictive Modeling of MPI Collective Algorithms in Multi-Core Clusters: A Comparative Study
Biswajit Bhowmik (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal), Manideep R VSRS Reddy (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal), Sanjay R Raju (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal), Girish K K (National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal)
Murmur: A Secure and Low-Energy Audio Communication for the Internet of Bodies
Phani Pavan Kambhampati (IIIT Bangalore), Jagan P (IIIT Bangalore), Kurian Polachan (IIIT Bangalore), Madhav Rao (IIIT Bangalore)
Phish-Blitz: Advancing Phishing Detection with Comprehensive Webpage Resource Collection and Visual Integrity Preservation
Hriday Duddu (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Aditya Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad), Vivek Balachandran (Singapore Institute of Technology), Tamal Das (Indian Institute of Technology Dharwad)

Thursday, 9 January 2025 | 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM

T2-5: Machine Learning -II

Session Chair: Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue University

DACC-Comm: DNN-Powered Adaptive Compression and Flow Control for Robust Communication in Network-Constrained Environment
Emon Dey (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Anuradha Ravi (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jared Lewis (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Vinay Krishna Kumar (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Jade Freeman (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Timothy Gregory (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Niranjan Suri (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Carl Busart (DEVCOM Army Research Lab), Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Digital Twin-based Dynamic Resource Provisioning Using Deep Q-Network on 6G-enabled Mobile Edge Networks
Suja A. Alex (St. Xavier's Catholic College of Engineering), Neha Singh (IIIT Lucknow), Mainak Adhikari (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram, India)
Fixed Budget Bayesian Best Arm Identification in Unimodal Bandits
Debamita Ghosh (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Manjesh K. Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay), Nikola Zlatanov (Innopolis University)
Dynamic Load Balancing on Switches of Software Defined Network Managed by OpenDayLight Controller
Manasa Kulkarni (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India), Bhargavi Goswami (Queensland University, Australia), Muhammad Furqan (Queensland University, Australia), Joy Paulose (CHRIST (Deemed to be University), India)
RAG-inspired Intent-Based Solution for Intelligent Autonomous Networks
Uma Maheswari Natarajan (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore), Jyotsna Bapat (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore)
Ranking-based Diversified Influence Maximization for Dynamic Social Networks
Sunil Kumar Meena (University of Delhi, Delhi) Shashank Sheshar Singh (Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology), Kuldeep Singh (University of Delhi, Delhi)
FedLabeling: A Federated Framework for Handling Noisy Labeled Data for Efficient Alarm Detection
Satheesh Kumar Perepu (Ericsson Research), Saravanan M (Ericsson Research)
Scheduling Big Machine Learning Tasks on Clusters of Heterogeneous Edge Devices
Saumya Mathkar (BITS Pilani, Goa), Shreya Aiyer (BITS Pilani, Goa), Yashovardhan Bapat (BITS Pilani, Goa), Pinki (BITS Pilani, Goa), Arnab K. Paul (BITS Pilani, Goa), Vinayak Naik (BITS Pilani, Goa)
Smart Sensing Framework Using Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Enhanced Detection in 5G Environments
Prapti Patel (Ahmedabad University), Dhaval Patel (Ahmedabad University)

Thursday, 9 January 2025 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T1-5: Datasets, Benchmarks, Testbeds and Green Networking

Session Chair: Suchetana Chakraborty, IIT Jodhpur

Active Rule Mining for Multivariate Anomaly Detection in Radio Access Networks
Ebenezer Isaac (Global AI Accelerator (GAIA), Ericsson), Joseph H. R. Isaac ( Global AI Accelerator (GAIA), Ericsson)
Few-Shot Learning for Structure Extraction from Heterogeneous Log Data
Pranjal Gupta (IBM Research), Debanjana Kar (IBM Research), Harshit Kumar (IBM Research), Prateeti Mohapatra (IBM Research), Pooja Aggarwal (IBM Research)
PyBlkSim: An Open-Source Block-Based Discrete-Time Simulator
Kurian Polachan (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B)), Bijeet Basak (International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore (IIIT-B))
Simulating Application Driven Mobile D2D underlay Networks using Gym API
Suvadip Batabyal (National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India)
TEIMA - Telecom Equipment Installation Multimodal Assistant
Narayan Sastry (Ericsson), Balvinder Singh (Ericsson), Sujoy Roychowdhury (Ericsson), Avantika Sharma, Anushka Gupta, Sourav Mazumdar (Ericsson)
Analysis of Analog-Domain Energy-Based Low-Power Wake-Up Receivers in Colored Noise
Ganesan Thiagarajan, Sanjeev Gurugopinath, Thiagarajan MMRFIC
Energy Harvesting in Multi-Hop UAV-Assisted FSO Communication Systems
Prashant Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Manda Sarvani (National Institute of Technology Mizoram), Swaminathan Ramabadran (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
IRS-Assisted SWIPT: Power Optimization Strategies for Green Communications
Pradeep Vishwakarma (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India), Samarendra Nath Sur (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India), Sourav Dhar (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India), Dipanjan Bhattacharjee (Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim Manipal University, India)

Thursday, 9 January 2025 | 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM

T2-6: Mobility and IoT - II

Session Chair: Debasree Das, University of Bamberg, Germany

Delay and Energy Efficient Multipath Selection for Achieving Hard Reliability in MC-IoT Network
Soumya Nandan Mishra (IIT Guwahati), Manas Khatua (IIT Guwahati)
A link-quality-aware grouping-based efficient routing scheme in Software-Defined Vehicular Networks
Madhuri Malakar (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela), Judhistir Mahapatro (National Institute of Technology, Rourkela)
Cross-Compatible Encryption Adapter for Securing Legacy Modbus Devices
Aditya Patil (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur), Sreeram T. S. (National Institute of Technology Hamirpur)
Exploiting O-RAN as an Effective Solution for Malicious User Localization
Steve Azarsh Ratti (University of L'Aquila), Antonio Tuzi (University of L'Aquila), Alex Piccioni (University of L'Aquila), Andrea Marotta (University of L'Aquila), Dajana Cassioli (University of L'Aquila), Fabio Graziosi (University of L'Aquila)
Advancing Software-Defined Vehicles: An End-to-End Framework with Digital Twin Based Attestation for OTA Updates
Krish Agrawal (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Nishkarsh Luthra (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Pilla Venkata Sekhar (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Jha Rohan (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Hrishesh Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology Indore), Gourinath Banda (Indian Institute of Technology Indore)
Leveraging Benford's Law for Effective Intrusion Detection in MQTT-IoT Networks
Munmun Swain (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City), Charugundla Lakshmi Nishitha (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City), Meghana Maganti (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City), Kamalakanta Sethi (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City), Nikhil Tripathi (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City)
IoT enabled Battery Monitoring System (BMS) for Industrial, Commercial and Home Applications
Shubham Madane (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Priyusha K R (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Ashutosh Singh (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Chetan Ashok Chavan (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Tagaram Praveen Kumar (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Vishal J. Rathod (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Kaushik Nanda (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Hari Babu Pasupuleti (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore), Dr. S. D. Sudarsan (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Bangalore)
Biomimetic Robotic System for Efficient Larva Removal in Paddy Fields: A Simulation-Based Study
PRASANNA KUMARI MALLEPALLI (School of Technology, Woxsen University), Dr. Jaswanth Nidamanuri (School of Technology, Woxsen University)
Adaptive Numerology-based Rate Optimization for enhanced-Vehicle-to-Everything Use Cases in Beyond 5G Networks
Nadine Hasan (IIT Hyderabad), Abhinav Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad) Kotaro Katoka (IIT Hyderabad)
RETO: Energy-Efficient and Reliable Task Offloading Scheme with Deadline in Fog-Enabled IoT Networks
Dasari Rajasekhar (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram), Sanjeet Kumar Nayak (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Kancheepuram)

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