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The selected best papers from COMSNETS 2020 will be invited for a submission of their significant extended version at a special issue in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal (2018 Impact factor: 3.490).

High quality papers making novel contributions may be considered for fast track publication (after significant extension) in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal (2018 Impact factor: 2.769).

=============================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) January 7-11, 2020 Bangalore, India https://www.comsnets.org

Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Future NETWORKS In-Cooperation With: ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE ***********************************************************************************************************************

The 12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) https://www.comsnets.org will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 7 - 11, 2020. 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:

The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following:

• 5G and wireless broadband networks • Technologies for 6 - 100 GHz spectrum • Visible Light Communications • Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) • Cognitive radio and white-space networking • Economics of networks • Energy-efficient communications • Cloud computing • Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks • Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and 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) • Network management and operations • Network security and privacy • Trusted computing • Network science • Online social networks • Overlay communications, content distribution • Wireless adhoc and sensor networks • Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability • Vehicular communications • Smart Grid communications and networking • Machine Learning and AI in Networking • Big Data Analytics in Networking, including IoT Analytics • Cognition and Cognitive Computing in Networking

The selected best papers from COMSNETS 2020 will be invited for a submission of their significant extended version at a special issue in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks journal (2018 Impact factor: 3.490).

High quality papers making novel contributions may be considered for fast track publication (after significant extension) in Elsevier's Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) journal (2018 Impact factor: 2.769).

Important Deadlines:

Abstract submission: 30th August, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE Paper submission: 6th September, 2019, 11:59pm AoE Notification of Acceptance: 31st October, 2019 Camera-ready Submission: 15th November, 2019

Conference Highlights:

The conference will comprise of several:

• Keynote/Invited/Banquet Talks • Technical Paper and Poster Sessions • Graduate Research Forum • Panel Discussions • Demos & Exhibits • Mentoring Sessions • Co-located Workshops • MINDS • LastMileS • Intelligent Transportation Systems • Cyber Security & Blockchain • ACM IMOBILE AIMS • Networked Healthcare

COMSNETS provides generous travel grants to International student applicants who have an accepted paper in the conference. Please see the home page for details.

Poster Session

The COMSNETS 2020 Poster Session is a forum to showcase preliminary/ongoing work in the area of computer networking and communications. Poster presenters will benefit from lively discussions and critical feedback on their work in progress. Accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings.

Important Dates and Deadlines for Posters

Paper submission: 7th November, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: 28th November, 2019 Camera-Ready Submission: 7th December, 2019

Demos and Exhibits

COMSNETS invites demos from researchers, startups, and corporates showcasing cutting edge information technologies and their applications. There will be dedicated demo sessions without any simultaneous paper sessions. Additionally, every accepted demo will be given 2 – 3 minutes on the main stage to advertise the demo. All accepted demos will be considered for the Best Demo Award.

Important Dates and Deadlines for Demos

Paper submission: 1st November, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: 1st December, 2019 Camera-Ready Submission: 15th December, 2019 Event date: 8-9th January, 2020

COMSNETS 2020 Keynote Speakers

• Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Gerhard P. Fettweis, TU Dresden, Germany • Saravanan Radhakrishnan, Cisco, India • Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research, India

COMSNETS 2020 Banquet Speaker

• Rahul Mangharam, University of Pennsylvania, USA

COMSNETS 2020 Invited Speakers

• Hrishikesh B. Acharya, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA • Claudio Casetti, Politecnico di Torino, Italy • Sanjay Jha, UNSW Sydney, Australia • Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia • Supratik Mukhopadhyay, Louisiana State University, USA • Vishnu Navda, Microsoft Research, India • Nirmalya Roy, University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA • Simone Silvestri, University of Kentucky, USA • Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India

Conference Venue:

The conference will be held in The Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Bangalore, India.

Paper Registration/Submission Guidelines: https://www.comsnets.org/submission_guidelines.html

For any queries please contact us at comsnets.conference@gmail.com

Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs: Swades De, IIT Delhi, India Falko Dressler, University of Paderborn, Germany Vijay Raghunathan, Purdue University, USA

Technical Program Co-Chairs: Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA JeongGil Ko, Ajou University, Korea

Poster Co-Chairs: SaiDhiraj Amuru, WiSig Networks, India Nabanita Das, ISI Kolkata, India

Workshop Co-Chairs: Vijay Gabale, Huew, India Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India

Demos and Exhibit Chair: Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India

Graduate Forum Co-Chairs Alok Ranjan, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA T. Venkatesh, IIT Guwahati, India

Panel Co-Chairs Monisha Ghosh, University of Chicago, USA Pamela Kumar, TSDSI, India R K Pathak, Department of Telecommunications, India

Mentoring Sessions Chair Abhishek Appaji, B.M.S College of Engineering, India

MINDS Workshop Co-Chairs: Vijay Gabale, Huew, India Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India

ITS Workshop Co-Chairs: Bhargava Rama Chilukuri, IIT Madras, India Tarun Rambha, IISc Bangalore, India

LastMileS Workshop Co-Chairs: Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University, USA Seshan Srirangarajan, IIT Delhi, India

Cyber Security & Blockchain Workshop Co- Chairs: Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Prashant Pillai, University of Wolverhampton, UK

NetHealth Workshop Chair: Dr. Dayaprasad G Kulkarni, Syracuse University, USA Abu Saquib Tauheed, Coeo Labs, India

IMOBILE AIMS Workshop Co-Chairs Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India

COMSJOB Co-Chairs: Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India

Publication Co-Chairs: Bivas Mitra, IIT Kharagpur, India Mainack Mondal, Cornell Tech, USA

Publicity Co-Chairs: Joongheon Kim, Chung-Ang University, Korea Joe Novak, Raytheon, USA Sushmita Ruj, ISI Kolkata, India

Travel Grants Chair: S. V. R. Anand, IISc Bangalore, India

Web Chair: Madhumita Mallick, IIT Kharagpur, India

Operations Chair Sudipta Maitra, New Delhi, India

IT Chair Ananda Krishna, Astra Security, India

Finance Co-Chairs Raj Sharma, VideoKen, India Chandrika Sridhar, IISc Bangalore, India

Registration Co-Chairs Chandrika Sridhar, IISc Bangalore, India Ashwini Sampath, IISc Bangalore, India Rajeswari Maitra, Arka Business Solutions, New Delhi, India

Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Rajeev Shorey, TCS Innovation Labs

Awards and Honors Co-Chairs: Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India Jeffrey Tew, TCS, USA

Advisory Committee: Tulika Pandey, MEITY, GoI, India Prashant Pillai, , University of Wolverhampton, UK Dah Ming Chiu, CUHK, China Pamela Kumar, CCICI, India

Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Rajeev Shorey, TCS Innovation Labs, India G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India

Dr. Sandip Chakraborty Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302 India, Contact Number : +91 3222 282898 (Office)/ +91 9547499374 (Mobile) http://cse.iitkgp.ac.in/~sandipc/ ================================================= “What makes a mathematician is not technical skill or encyclopedic knowledge, but insatiable curiosity and a desire for simple beauty.” ~ Paul Lockhart

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