Technical Program

T1-1 Security-I

Chair: Dr. Pranay Agarwal, BITS Hyderabad Campus | Wednesday, 07 January 2026 | 11:30-13:00 | SIGMA 1

Invited Talk Authentication Technique in the Emerging Cybernetic Avatar Era Prof. Rie Shigetomi YAMAGUCHI, University of Tokyo, Japan
11:30-11:50
Enhancing User Authentication with Wearable Data: Evaluating Sampling Strategies and Classifiers Using Apple Watch Sensor Logs Maharage N S Perera (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Allam Shehata (The University of Osaka, Japan)
11:50-12:10
Lightweight and Decoupled Distributed Authentication for Multihop IoT Networks Sreeparna Das and Manas Khatua (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
12:10-12:30
Zero-Trust Stealth Authentication for Networked Systems via Port Knocking and TLS Fingerprinting Goutami Sooda, Chandana S and Deepamala N (RV College of Engineering, India)
12:30-12:40
An Ubiquitous Two-factor Authentication (2FA) Platform for IoT Applications Lakshmi Poola (Indian Institute of Science & Project Scientist, India); Prabhakar Venkata T. (Indian Institute of Science, India); Mani Sharan Kosiga and Ganesh Venkata Sai Nadh Kosuru (IISc, India)
12:40-12:50
BERT-Based Multi-Scale CNN-LSTM Fusion Attention Model for Phishing URL Detection Kondaiah Cheemaladinne (SRM University - AP, India); Layona Sanjana Dmello (St Joseph Engineering College, India); Alwyn Pais (NIT Karnataka, India); Routhu Srinivasa Rao (Curebay, India)
12:50-13:00

T2-1 Learning and Communications

Chair: Prof. Narayan Mandayam, Rutgers | Wednesday, 07 January 2026 | 11:30-13:00 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk Deep Reinforcement Learning for Distributed And Uncoordinated Cognitive Radios Prof. Andres Kwasinski, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA
11:30-11:50
Less is More: Improving WiFi Localization Accuracy with Fewer Scans Yamini Shankar and Aravindh Sriram Kumar A G (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Ayon Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India)
11:50-12:10
Adaptive Beam Steering in WPCNs under Slotted ALOHA via Deep Q-Learning Samannaya Adhikari (IIT Mandi, India); Siddhartha Sarma (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India)
12:10-12:30
Distributed Inference on Mobile Edge and Cloud: A Data-Cartography based Clustering Approach Divya Jyoti Bajpai and Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)
12:30-12:50
A Unified Causal Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Resource Allocation in Next Generation Networks Abhishek Sarkar (Ericsson Research, India); Sathiyanarayanan Sampath (Ericsson India Global Services Private Limited, India); Satheesh Kumar Kumar Perepu (Ericsson Research, India); Georgios P. Koudouridis (Ericsson & Dept. of Physics, Aristotle Univerity ot Thessaloniki (AUTH), Sweden); Thirumaran Ekambaram (Ericsson, India)
12:50-13:00

T2-2 6G-I

Chair: Dr. Ankur Bansal, IIT Jammu | Wednesday, 07 January 2026 | 14:00-15:15 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk Agentic AI in Action: Ensuring responsible AI agents for Finance and Accounting Dr. Niyati Chhaya, Co-founder, Head of AI at Hyperbots Inc.
14:00-14:20
MBT: Multi-Beam Strategy for Best Transmit Beamforming in mmWave Communications Debamita Ghosh and Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Nikola Zlatanov (Innopolis University, Russia)
14:20-14:40
A Load Balancing Algorithm for multi-IRS aided 6G System Preksha Shah (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Prasanna Chaporkar (IIT Bombay, India)
14:40-15:00
Efficient Beam Prediction for 6G V2I Networks using Liquid Time-Constant Neural Networks Kirtan Kalaria and Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel (Ahmedabad University, India); Mehul Shirishchandra Raval (School of Engineering and Applied Science, Ahmedabad University, India); Mukesh Zaveri (Sardar Vallabhai National Institute of Technology, surat, India)
15:00-15:20

T2-3 IoT/Sensors-I

Chair: Dr. M. N. Sevwandi Perera, University of Tokyo | Wednesday, 07 January 2026 | 15:30-17:00 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk mmWave Radar based sensing and it's applications using machine learning Prof. Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, University of Agder, Norway
15:30-15:50
An Approximation Algorithm for Minimizing the Number of Distance Constrained Mobile Sinks for Data Collection from Static and Mobile Sensors Rohit Kumar (Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology, Surat, India & Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India); Joy Chandra Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India)
15:50-16:10
Nonlinear Energy Harvesting Based Relaying for Efficient Multi-Rate SWIPT in Energy-Constrained Networks Sneha Choudhury and Atul Banotra (IIT Jammu, India); Sudhakar Modem (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India)
16:10-16:20
QIEA-RTO: Quantum-Inspired Evolutionary Algorithm for Resilient Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted IoT Networks Tushar Barai, Dipankar Ch. Barman, Nayanjit Talukdar and Nabajyoti Mazumdar (Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, India); Pavan Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India)
16:20-16:40
On the Optimality of STARS-Embedded Sensors for NOMA-ISAC: A Sensing Centric Design Maroof Bashir Bhat and Ankur Bansal (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India)
16:40-17:00

T3-1 Security-II

Chair: Dr. Bhuvana Krishnaswamy, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Thursday, 08 January 2026 | 10:45-12:05 | ESQUIRE

Invited Talk Security issues of Generic LLMs Dipankar Dasgupta Hill Professor in Cybersecurity Director, Center for Information Assurance The University of Memphis
10:45-11:05
A Novel Image Encryption and Decryption Framework Using Graph Neural Networks Atin Chowdhury and Piyush Joshi (IIIT Sri City, India); Mrinmoy Ghorai (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City, India); Nikhil Tripathi (IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India)
11:05-11:25
Tsetlin Machine-based Network Anomaly Detection System Bhumika Salvi (IIITDM Kurnool, India); Sreenivasa Reddy Yeduri, Ole-Christoffer Granmo and Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi, Sr (University of Agder, Norway)
11:25-11:45
FAPL-DM-BC: Adaptive Privacy-Aware, Blockchain-Backed FL Framework with Dual-Model XAI for the IoVs Sathwik Narkedimilli (National University of Singapore, Singapore); Sujith Makam (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Narendra Dewangan (NIT Raipur, India); Shrinivas Kulkarni (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Chengappa Munjandira (Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India)
11:45-11:55
Enhanced Audio Steganography: Audio-in-Audio Steganography with Multi-Bin Phase Coding and Adaptive Post-Processing R Deraj Yojith and Kamalakanta Sethi (IIIT Sri City, India)
11:55-12:05

T3-2 Systems

Chair: Dr. Soumya P. Dash, IIT Bhubaneswar, India | Thursday, 08 January 2026 | 12:20-13:15 | ESQUIRE

Invited Talk Software Systems for Highly Available Global WANs Dr. Anees Shaikh, Google, USA
12:20-12:40
A Causal Inference Approach to Optimising Internet Peering Attractiveness Martin Thodi (University of Cape Town, South Africa & University of Malawi, Malawi); Amreesh Phokeer (Internet Society, Mauritius); Josiah Chavula (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
12:40-12:50
Are today's web pages designed for poor network conditions? Abhijeet V Salunke (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Bhaskaran Raman (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India); Abhilash Jindal (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
12:50-13:00
Experience: From Sensors to Service: Advancing Ambient Living with an AIoT Community Testbed Garvit Chugh (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India); Ananya Mondal and Osho Osho (Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur, India); Suchetana Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India)
13:00-13:10

T3-3 Network performance

Chair: Prof. M.V. Panduranga Rao, IIT Hyderabad | Thursday, 08 January 2026 | 14:00-15:30 | ESQUIRE

Invited Talk On Some Ultra-Sharp Bounds in Queueing Systems Florin Ciucu, Director of Post Graduate Research Computer Science, Department University of Warwick
14:00-14:20
Memory-aware Hierarchical Scheduling of ML Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters of Edge Computing Devices with GPUs Saumya Mathkar (Bits Pilani, Goa, India); Pinki Pinki (Post Doc, India); Vinayak Naik (BITS Pilani, Goa, India)
14:20-14:40
Discrete Time Credit-Based Shaping for Time-Sensitive Applications in 5G/6G Networks Anudeep Karnam (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Kishor Chandra Joshi (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands); Jobish John and George Exarchakos (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands); Sonia Heemstra de Groot (Eindhoven Technical University, The Netherlands); Ignas Niemegeers (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
14:40-15:00
Stochastic Multi-Armed Bandits with Limited Control Variates Arun Verma (Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Singapore); Manjesh Kumar Hanawal (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India); Arun Rajkumar Chellappa (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India)
15:00-15:20
A mechanism for TCP-aware adaptive management of queues in Internet routers Swarnarup Bhunia, Somit Gond and Sreelakshmi Manjunath (Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, India); Padmanabhan Rajan (IIT Mandi, India)
15:20-15:30

T3-4 Multimedia

Chair: Prof. Ranjan K. Mallik, IIT Delhi | Thursday, 08 January 2026 | 16:00-17:40 | ESQUIRE

In-Orbit On demand AI Model update for Geo Imaging platforms Vanukuru Hari Rohit (Department of Space, India & IIT Bombay, India); Raghavendra Kune and D. Mallikharjuna Rao (Department of Space, India)
16:00-16:20
BEATWAVE: Contactless Drum Generation from Ambient Wireless Sensing Srachet Rai (NIIT University, India); Anirban Das (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa Campus, India)
16:20-16:40
Design of a Kinesthetic Perception-Based Sampler for Haptic Application Syed Majed Ashraf and Sarthak S Dambare (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Arzad Kherani (Indian Institute of Technology, Bhilai, India); Brejesh Lall (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
16:40-17:00
Scalable Multimedia Broadcast Services in 5G Hetenets using Partial Feedback Pimmy Gandotra (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
17:00-17:10
Invited Talk Extreme Embedded Systems Prof. Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
17:10-17:40

T1-2 Vehicular and Autonomous networks

Chair: Prof. Vivek Bohara, IIIT Delhi | Friday, 09 January 2026 | 11:00-13:00 | SIGMA 1

Invited Talk Detection of Anomalous Data and Malicious Sensors in Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Networks Sanjay K Madria, Curators’ Distinguished Professor Department of Computer Science, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
11:00-11:20
Leveraging V2V Technology to Mitigate GPS Spoofing attacks on MSF Based Autonomous Driving K Saravanan (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India); Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli (IBM, USA); Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
11:20-11:30
Proactive Self-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Resource Management in NR-V2X Platooning Raj Paras Koticha, Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel and Kirtan Kalaria (Ahmedabad University, India); Harsh Patel (Techsture Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India)
11:30-11:40
Dual Hop RSMA Aided RF-THz Uplink System For Vehicular Network Isha Khirwar and Akash Gupta (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India); Aryan Bansal (THE LNMIIT, India); Parul Garg (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India); Bharat Verma (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India)
11:40-11:50
A Bid-Driven Optimization Framework for Real-Time Electric Vehicle Charging Scheduling Malay Kumar (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Aryan Jaiswal (IIIT Dharwad, India); Pranay Ch (Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad, India); Vinay Jain (IIIT Dharwad, India)
11:50-12:00
RIS-Enhanced Roadside Infrastructure for Robust Non-Line-of-Sight Vehicle-to-Everything Communication Narsimhulu Pallati (Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Campus, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India); Premkumar Chithaluru (Department of Information Technology, Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Technology, Telangana-500075, India); Rajanikanth Aluvalu (Symbiosis Institute of Technology, Hyderabad Campus, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India.)
12:00-12:10
On the Deployment of RIS-mounted UAV Networks Anupam Mondal (Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India); Priyadarshi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, India); Sasthi C. Ghosh (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
12:10-12:20
Sustainable Beam Hopping and Resource Allocation for Guaranteed QoS in Multi-beam LEO Satellite Pradnya Taksande, Prasanna Chaporkar and Shubham Kumar Raj (IIT Bombay, India)
12:20-12:30
Optimal Antenna Tilt Configurations in Hybrid Terrestrial/ Non-Terrestrial Network Shashwat Yadav (IIT Kanpur, India); Abhishek K Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
12:30-12:40

T2-4 Networking and Internet

Chair: Prof. Antony Franklin, IIT Hyderabad | Friday, 09 January 2026 | 11:00-12:00 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk Rethinking Network Protocols for Modern Applications Prof. Balajee Vamanan, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), USA
11:00-11:20
A Framework for Enterprise Network Dimensioning - Part 1: Planning Methodology Gourab Ghatak (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India); Atul Singh and Raja S Bachu (Airspan Networks, India)
11:20-11:40
Efficient SDN Security Function Offloading on Programmable Data Plane Jigmee Wangchuk Sherpa, Bipal Khanal, Chandan Kumar and Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India)
11:40-11:50
Ant Colony Optimization based Service Function Chain Placement and Routing in NFV/SDN Vidhi Verma, Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari, Bipal Khanal and Chandan Kumar (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India)
11:50-12:00

T2-5 Networking and Internet II

Chair: Dr. Kobayashi, University of Tokyo | Friday, 09 January 2026 | 12:10-13:00 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk Deciphering Time’s Patterns: Foundation Models for Time Series in ITOps Dr. Suparna Bhattacharya, HPE Fellow, Al Research Lab Hewlett Packard Enterprise, India
12:10-12:30
Dynamic Hybrid Resource Utilization and MCS-based Intelligent Layering Dhrumil Bhatt (Manipal Institute of Technology, India)
12:30-12:40
Multi-link Failure Aware Controller Placement in Software Defined Networks Bipal Khanal, Chandan Kumar and Md. Sarfaraj Alam Ansari (National Institute of Technology Sikkim, India)
12:40-12:50
Curiosity-Driven Deep-RL for Adaptive Handover Optimization in O-RAN on the NH-47 Corridor Devashree Kalpesh Parikh, Dhaval Karshanbhai Patel and Kashish Dineshbhai Shah (Ahmedabad University, India); Harsh Patel (Techsture Technologies India Pvt. Ltd., India)
12:50-13:00

T1-3 6G-II

Chair: Prof. Preetam Kumar, IIT Patna | Friday, 09 January 2026 | 14:00-16:00 | SIGMA 1

Invited Talk Evolution towards Next-Generation Network Architecture Neha Sharma, Samsung R&D Institute India, Bangalore
14:00-14:20
Balancing the Edge: Multi-Service Request Allocation in Urban 5G-MEC Environment Supriya Dilip Tambe and Antony Franklin A (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
14:20-14:30
Graph-Guided Data Generation for Deep Learning based Scheduling in Wireless Access Networks Poorvi Deshpande (Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India); Sayan Kisku (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India); Prathosh A P (INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE, India & IIT Delhi, India); Anurag Kumar (Indian Institute of Science, India)
14:30-14:40
Energy Efficiency Maximization of Cell-free based THz Cooperative Communication System Chittotosh Ganguly (IIIT Senapati, Manipur, India); Anupam Shome (Research Associate, India); Amit Dutta (Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India)
14:40-14:50
Robust Performance Analysis of STAR-RIS Aided OTFS-NOMA with User Fairness and Practical SIC Rakesh Sharma, Ankur Bansal and Ankit Dubey (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India)
14:50-15:00
Deep Learning Based Channel Estimator for Non-gaussian Channel Statistics Sree Harsha A (Indian Institute of Science & EdgeQ.inc, India); Nidhin Vaidhiyan (EdgeQ, India); Sriram Rajagopal (EdgeQ.inc, British Indian Ocean Territory)
15:00-15:10
PrecoderNet: A Feedback Framework for Massive MIMO-OFDM Systems Rahul Pal (Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, India); Vikram Singh (Tejas Networks, India); Shikha Maurya (NIT Agartala, India)
15:10-15:20
Sparse Regression Codes for Coherent SIMO Channels Arpit Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Sai Dinesh Kancharana (Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India); Madhusudan Kumar Sinha (Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India); Arun Pachai Kannu (IIT Madras, India)
15:20-15:30

T2-5 IoT/Sensors II

Chair: Prof. Neelesh B. Mehta, IISc Bengaluru | Friday, 09 January 2026 | 14:00-16:00 | SIGMA 3

Invited Talk Takeover Attacks in Delegated Proof-of-Stake Blockchains Balaji Palanisamy University of Pittsburgh, USA
14:00-14:20
IRS Aided Integrated Sensing and Communication Under Bistatic Configuration Rishitha Pulluru (IIT Guwahati, India); Salil Kashyap (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India)
14:20-14:30
Joint Cooperative Positioning and Sum Rate Maximization in D2D Enabled NOMA Systems Abdul Rahim, V C (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India); Chris Prema (Associate Professor & Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology, Trivandrum, India)
14:30-14:40
Context Based Routing using Imitation and Reinforcement Learning for IoT network Preeth Raguraman (IIIITDM Kancheepuram, India); Srinithi N S (IIITDM Kancheepuram, India); Rajathi Sankaralingam (IIITDM, Kancheepuram, India)
14:40-14:50
Context-Aware Two-Stage Machine Learning Framework for Adaptive Data Rate Optimization in LoRaWAN IoT Networks Janni Uma Mahesh and Judhistir Mahapatro (National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India)
14:50-15:00
Optimal Node Deployment in Multi-Hop Underwater Acoustics Communication Networks Aryan Bansal (THE LNMIIT, India); Akash Gupta and Isha Khirwar (The LNM Institute of Information Technology, India); Parul Garg (Netaji Subhas University of Technology, India)
15:00-15:10
Performance Analysis of Cognitive Two-Way Relay Networks with Multi-Rate SWIPT Paresh Kalsotra (Indian Institute of Technology Jammu, India); Atul Banotra (IIT Jammu, India); Sudhakar Modem (Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, India); Shankar Prakriya (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India)
15:10-15:20
QPhase: An extensible Simulator for Phased Entanglement Routing Protocols in Multi-Hop Quantum Networks Manan Patel (IIT Hyderabad, India); Sreyash Mohanty and Panduranga Rao V Marella (Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India)
15:20-15:30