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The Sixth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2014)

COMSNETS 2014 will be held at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore, India, from6th to 10th January, 2014.

COMSNETS 2014 will be held at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore, India, from 6th to 10thJanuary, 2014. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology. The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster session of work in progress. Focused workshops and panel discussions will be held on emerging topics to allow for a lively exchange of ideas. International business and government leaders will be invited to share their perspectives, and will complement the technical program.

*Technical Program Topics* - Application of information theory to networks - Broadband and cellular networks - Cloud computing - Cognitive radio and white-space networking - Cooperative communications - Cross-layer optimization of wireless systems - Economics of networks and systems - Energy-efficient communications & networking - Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks - Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior - Machine learning for network applications - Mobility and location management - Network coding - Network management and operations - Network security and privacy - Networked applications - Online social networks - Optical networks - Overlay communications, content distribution - Social networks - Sensor and ad-hoc networks and cyber-physical systems - Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability - Traffic analysis and engineering - Vehicular communications - Video distribution - Wireless communication theory, systems, and networks

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS The conference will comprise the Mobile India event on January 6, the main conference, including keynotes, on January 7-9, and workshops on January 10. Confirmed keynote speakers: Nick McKeown, Stanford University, USA; A. Paulraj, Stanford University, USA; Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay, India The workshops will be posted on the conference website (*www.comsnets.org*) soon.

Important Dates

Abstract Submission: 6 September 2013 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)

Paper Submission: 13 September 2013 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)

Main Conference Dates: 7-9 January 2014

With Best Regards

COMSNETS 2014 Committee