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

• Application of information theory to networks
• Broadband and cellular networks
• Cloud computing
• Cognitive radio and white-space networking
• Cooperative communications
• Cross-layer optimization of wireless systems
• Economics of networks and systems
• Energy-efficient communications & networking
• Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks
• Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior
• Machine learning for network applications
• Mobility and location management
• Network coding
• Network management and operations
• Network security and privacy
• Networked applications
• Online social networks
• Optical networks
• Overlay communications, content distribution
• Social networks
• Sensor and ad-hoc networks and cyber-physical systems
• Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability
• Traffic analysis and engineering
• Vehicular communications
• Video distribution
• Wireless communication theory, systems, and networks

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS

The conference will comprise the Mobile India event on January 6, the main conference, including keynotes, on January 7-9, and workshops on January 10. The list of keynote speakers and workshops will be posted on the conference website (www.comsnets.org) soon.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: 6 September 2013 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)
• Paper Submission: 13 September 2013 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)
• Main Conference Dates: 7-9 January 2014