COMSNETS 2021

COMSNETS 2021 will be organized as a virtual conference during January 5 – 9, 2021. Keynotes, Industry Keynotes, and Tutorials (Limited) are free.

Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE and ACM the (Virtual) 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held from January 5 – 9, 2021. COMSNETS (www.comsnets.org) is a premier international conference dedicated to the 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 a 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.

Conference Highlights

3 – Keynotes, 4 – Industry Keynotes, 9 – Invited Speakers (Main Track)

38 Technical (Main Track) and 34 Poster papers.

10 – Graduate Research Forum papers

3 – Panel Discussions

16 – Demos and Exhibits

4 – Tutorials

Mentoring Sessions

COMSJOB

5 – Co-located Workshops

Cyber Security & Blockchain

MINDS

NetHealth

LastMileS

ITS

Keynote Speakers

Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India 

Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA

Michele Zorzi, University of Padua, Italy

Industry Keynote Speakers

Kenneth Duda, Arista Networks, USA

Kiran Mukkavilli, Qualcomm Wireless Research, USA

Timothy Lee, IEEE Future Networks, USA

Laxmi Mukund, CISCO, India

Invited Speakers

Dinesh Bharadia, UCSD, USA

Andra Lutu, Telefonica Barcelona, Spain

Harsha Madhyastha, University of Michigan, USA

Sharayu Moharir, IIT Bombay, India

K P Naveen, IIT Tirupati, India

Damith Ranasinghe, University of Adelaide, Australia

Winston Seah, VUW, New Zealand

Karthik Sundaresan, NEC Labs, USA

Pooja Vyavahare, IIT Tirupati, India

Workshop Speakers

 Keynote SpeakersInvited SpeakersHarshad Khadilkar, TCS Research, India

Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M, USA

Aline Carneiro Viana, INRIA Saclay, France

Cyril Onwubiko, Research Series Limited, UK

Aunshul Rege, Temple University, USA

Venkata Chunduru, IBI Group, India

Sabya Mishra, University of Memphis, USA

V. Kamakoti, IIT Madras, India

Kush R. Varshney, IBM Research, USA

Suparna Bhattacharya, Hewlett-Packard, India

Rashmi Urdhwareshe, Automotive Research Association of India, India

Ketan Rajawat, IIT Kanpur, India

Arun Rajkumar, IIT Madras, India

Vivek Ashok Bohara, IIIT Delhi, India

Rajesh Gandhi, Arista Networks, India

Sreenath Ramanath, Lekha Wireless, India

Chetna Singhal, IIT Kharagpur, India

Tulika Pandey, MEITY, GoI, India

Sreeram Dhurjaty, IEEE Rochester, USA

Rajeev Kher, Preventative Health-Circular Sanitation Economy, India

Usha Norman, Alzheimer’s Prevention Network, USA

Tutorial Topics:

Learning-Based Massive MIMO Hybrid Beamforming for Radar and Communications by Kumar Vijay Mishra, U. S. Army Research Laboratory, USA and Ahmet M. Elbir, Duzce University, Duzce, Turkey

5G NR Deployment Considerations and its Continued Evolution in 3GPP by Sendil Kumar, Ericsson, India and Vinosh Babu James, Qualcomm, India

Distributed Learning Algorithms For Wireless Networks by Manjesh K. Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India and Sumit J. Darak, IIIT Delhi, India

WiFi 6 and WiFi 7: WLAN for the multi-Gigabit Era by Srikanth S, Nanocell Networks, India and Nadeem Akhtar, Arista Networks, India