Dear all,
Please do participate in COMSNETS 2012 and its associated workshops. The formal Call for Participation is given below. The Fourth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS COMSNETS will be held at the Chancery Pavilion Hotel, Residency Road, Bangalore, India, from 3rd January 2012 to 7th January 2012. COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in Networking and Communications Systems, and Telecommunications services. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders, intellectual property experts, and venture capitalists, 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 parallel tracks 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, thus complementing the technical program. Registration site: http://www.comsnets.org/registration.html. We encourage student participation through discounts and travel grants. See http://www.comsnets.org/student_travel_grants.html Please see http://www.comsnets.org/ for detailed information. The conference email address is: [email protected]; [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Technical Program Topics · Internet Architecture, Protocols and Applications· Network Algorithms · Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile Video, Video on Demand)· Network Operations and Management · Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE)· Mesh, Sensor and PAN Networks · Wireless Operating Systems and Mobile Platforms · Peer-to-peer Networking · Cognitive Radios and White Space Networking · Performance Analysis · Stochastic Models of Communication Networks · Network Economics & Network Optimization · Optical Networks · Network Security & Cyber Security Technologies· Cloud and Utility computing · Storage Area Networks · Next Generation Web Architectures · Vehicular Networking · Energy-Efficient Networking · Network Sciences· Social Networking Analysis, Middleware and Applications· Networking Technologies for Smart Energy Grids· Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking Conference Highlights Conference Inaugural Speaker (4 January) * Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan, Co-Founder & Executive Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies Limited Keynote Speakers * Prof. Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University, USA (5 January) * Prof. George Varghese, UC San Diego, USA (7 January) * Mr. Virendra Gupta, SVP, Huawei Technologies, India (6 January) * Mr. P. Balaji, MD, Sony Ericsson-India (6 January) Banquet Speakers (6 January) * Dr. Partho Mishra, VP, Cisco, India * Dr. Inder Gopal, VP, IBM, USA COMSNETS Workshops · WISARD (3-4 January) · NetHealth (3 January) · Energy in Communication, Information and Cyber-physical Systems (E6) (4 January) Mobile India 2012 (6 January) Technical Paper & Poster Sessions (5, 6, 7 Jan) Ph.D. Forum (5 January) Panel Discussions (5, 6, 7 Jan) · ICT For Energy Sustainability: How Computer Science can save the World <http://www.comsnets.org/panel_discussion.html#1> · Behavior Analytics for Telecom Providers: Opportunities & Challenges <http://www.comsnets.org/panel_discussion.html#2> · Hot or Not: How to choose research problems, avoid dead topics and lead from the frontier <http://www.comsnets.org/panel_discussion.html#3> Demos & Exhibits (5, 6, 7 Jan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------- COMSNETS 2012 Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs * K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA * Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India * Don Towsley, U. Mass. at Amherst, USA Technical Program Co-Chairs * Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA * Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India * R. Srikant, U. of Illinois, USA Posters Chair * Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research, India Publications Chair * Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Bombay, India Publicity Co-Chairs * Ajay Kulkarni, CISCO, USA * Rubén Cuevas Rumín, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi, India Local Arrangement Chair * Sudipta Maitra, New Delhi, India Steering Committee Co-Chairs * Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India * Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA * Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India * G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India International Advisory Committee * K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T, USA * Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA * Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National U., Korea * Sajal Das, U. Texas at Arlington, USA * B. N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India * Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore, India * P. R. Kumar, UIUC, USA * Tulika Pandey, Department of IT, Government of India * L. M. Patnaik, IISc, Bangalore, India * Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India * Parmesh Ramanathan, U. Wisconsin, USA * Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent, USA * Kang Shin, U. Michigan, USA * Nitin Vaidya, U. Illinois, USA _______________________________________________ IEEE Communications Society Tech. Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - for discussions on computer networking and communication. [email protected] https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/cucslists/listinfo/tccc
