Aug. 17, 2017 — The Tenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 3-7, 2018. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference shall be organised under the auspices of IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, and ACM in co-operation with SIGCOMM and SIGMOBILE. 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.

Topics of Interest

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

Important Dates and Deadlines
Abstract submission:    11th September, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST
Paper submission:    18th September, 2017 at 11:59 pm EST
Notification of Acceptance:    3rd November, 2017
Camera-Ready Submission:    26th November, 2017
Main Conference:    4th – 6th January 2018
Workshops:    3rd & 7th January 2018

Conference Highlights

Keynote Talks
Invited Talks
Paper  Sessions
Poster Session
Panel Discussions
Graduate Student Forum
Demo & Exhibits Sessions
Mobile India 2018
ASSET
Co-located Workshops — WACI, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Social Networking, NetHealth

2018 Keynote Speakers

Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/)
Krishna Gummadi (https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/)
Dhananjay Gore, Qualcomm R&D, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dhananjay-gore-b2b19b1/?ppe=1)

2018 Invited Speakers

Kirill Kogan, IMDEA Labs, Spain (http://people.networks.imdea.org/~kirill_kogan/)
Binbin Chen, ADSC, Singapore (https://adsc.illinois.edu/people/binbin-chen)
Samir R. Das, Univ. of Stony Brook, USA (http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~samir/)
Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Norhteastern University, USA (http://krc.coe.neu.edu/)
Mahesh K Marina, University of Edinburgh, USA (http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/)
Biplab Sikdar, NUS, Singapore (https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/staff/bio/biplab.html)
Prasenjit Dey, IBM, IRL (https://www.linkedin.com/in/prasenjit-dey-4082763/?ppe=1)
Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (https://www.net.in.tum.de/members/carle/)
Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA (https://blogs.cisco.com/author/raghunathnambiar)
Lipika Dey, TCS Innovation Labs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lipika-dey-3381713/?ppe=1)

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Source: COMSNETS