[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Call for Papers Owing to safety concerns as well as statutory restrictions preventing travel and gatherings, we will not hold an in-person, physical conference this year. Rather, COMSNETS 2021 will be organized as a virtual conference. Selected best papers from COMSNETS 2021 will be invited for submission of their significant extended versions in a special issue of Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2019 Impact factor: 3.643). ===================================================== 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) January 5-9, 2021 https://www.comsnets.org ===================================================== Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Future NETWORKS In-Cooperation With: ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE * Paper submission deadline: 7 October 2020* The 13th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) https://www.comsnets.org will be held virtually during January 5 - 9, 2021. 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 & white-space networking - Economics of networks - Energy-efficient communications - Cloud computing - Enterprise, data center, & storage-area networks - Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science & 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 - SDN/NFV and Network Programmability - Internet Measurement and Modeling - Networks for smarter energy & sustainability - Vehicular Networks & Intelligent Transportation - Smart Grid communications & networking - Machine Learning and AI in Networking - Big Data/IoT Analytics in Networking - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Papers submitted to the main conference should be prepared in standard IEEE conference format and should contain no more than eight pages of technical content, plus one page of references. We will follow a single-blind review policy. Please check the conference website for more details. Important Deadlines: Abstract submission: 7 October 2020, 11:59 pm AoE Paper submission: 7 October 2020, 11:59 pm AoE Notification of Acceptance: 31 October 2020 Camera-ready Submission: 15 November 2020 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 Cyber Security & Blockchain ACM IMOBILE AIMS NetHealth LastMileS ITS 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 2021 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: 7 October 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 1 December 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 15 December 2020 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: 1 November 2020 Notification of Acceptance: 1 December 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 15 December 2020 COMSNETS 2021 Keynote Speakers Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA Michele Zorzi, University of Padua, USA Paper Registration/Submission Guidelines: https://www.comsnets.org/submission_guidelines.html For any queries please contact us at [log in to unmask] Organizing Committee: General Co-Chairs: Ranjita Bhagwan, Microsoft Research, India Ashutosh Dutta, Johns Hopkins University, USA Manish Gupta, Google Research, India Technical Program Co-Chairs: Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook, USA Krishna Jagannathan, IIT Madras, India Salil Kanhere, UNSW Sydney, Australia Poster Co-Chairs: Veena Mendiratta, Nokia Bell Labs, USA Mainack Mondal, Cornell Tech, USA Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India Workshop Co-Chair: Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India Demos and Exhibit Co-Chairs: Kaustubh Dhondge, Glaukes Lab, USA Alok Ranjan, Hitachi Research, India Kuldeep Yadav, VideoKen, India Graduate Forum Co-Chairs: Madhumita Mallick, IIT Kharagpur, India Ritesh Singh, University of Antwerp, Belgium Panel Co-Chairs: Pamela Kumar, TSDSI, India Veena Mendiratta, Nokia Bell Labs, USA Tulika Pandey, MEITY, GoI, India MINDS Workshop Co-Chairs: Manjesh Hanawal, IIT Bombay, India Dileep Kalathil, Texas A&M University, USA NetHealth Workshop Co-Chairs: Dr. Dayaprasad G Kulkarni, Syracuse University, USA IMOBILE AIMS Workshop Co-Chairs: Sandip Chakraborty, IIT Kharagpur, India Prasant Misra, TCS Innovation Labs, India Amit Kumar Saha, CISCO, India Kartik Muralidharan, TCS Innovation Labs, India Vinayak Naik, BITS Pilani (Goa Campus), India Cybersecurity and Blockchain Workshop Co-Chairs: Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Prashant Pillai, University of Wolverhampton, UK LastMileS Workshop Co-Chairs: Ashwin Ashok, Georgia State University, USA K P Naveen, IIT Tirupati, India ITS Workshop Co-Chairs: Anilkumar Bachu, IIT Patna, India Nagendra Rao Velaga, IIT Bombay, 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, IIT Kharagpur, India Publicity Co-Chairs: Subhankar Dhar, San Jose State University, USA Sreelakshmi Manjunath, IIT Mandi, India Suranga Seneviratne, University of Sydney, Australia Rohit Verma, University of Cambridge, UK Connie Yuen, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, HK Social Media Chair: Abhishek Appaji, B.M.S College of Engg, India Travel Grants Co-Chairs: S. V. R. Anand, IISc Bangalore, India Abhishek Appaji, B.M.S College of Engg, India Web Chair: Soumyajit Chatterjee, 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, India Sponsorship Co-Chairs: Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Rajeev Shorey, UQIDAR, IIT Delhi, India Awards and Honors Co-Chairs: Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India Jeffrey Tew, TCS, USA Advisory Committee: Tulika Pandey, MEITY, GoI, India B. M. Baweja, MEITY, GoI, India Geeta Kathpalia, MEITY, GoI, India Pamela Kumar, TSDSI, India Prashant Pillai, University of Wolverhampton, UK Dah Ming Chiu, CUHK, China Steering Committee Co-Chairs: Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA Rajeev Shorey, UQIDAR, IIT Delhi, India G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:[log in to unmask] For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------