12th International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS)

Event Date- 8th January 2020

Bangalore, India

https://www.comsnets.org

Technical Co-Sponsor: IEEE, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE Future NETWORKS

In-Cooperation With: ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE

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COMSNETS 2020 Graduate Forum is a supportive environment for students in graduate programs (Master’s & Ph.D.) to showcase early stage research in areas related to communications, systems and networking at COMSNETS, the premier conference that brings together networking researchers from both academia and the industry. COMSNETS 2020 Graduate Forum will provide students with useful feedback on their current research as well as future research directions from experienced researchers, and the opportunity to interact with eminent researchers from both academia and industry. All submissions will receive detailed reviews from the review committee. Accepted submissions will be published in the conference proceedings (unless the author requires otherwise). There will be a best presenter award (certificate and prize) based on the feedback received from the evaluation committee.

Who can submit?

To be eligible to submit your work to the Graduate Forum, you must be registered as a Ph.D. or Master’s student at the time of submission.

What to submit?

We encourage the authors to submit their proposals that overlaps the topics (but are not limited to) of interest at COMSNETS with the following as a single PDF file at EDAS (https://edas.info/N26253) containing:

•Resume, a one page resume informing your current position, broad area of research, internship experiences, publications (if any), etc.

•Abstract, a three page extended abstract explaining the problem statement, relevant state-of-the-art, proposed solution approach, preliminary results, and future work. Submissions must be written in IEEE two column format and should adhere to the submission guidelines of the COMSNETS.

•Presentation, 8-10 slides for a ten minutes talk.

It is suggested that the prospective authors should merge all of the above submission files into a single PDF document and upload the PDF file at EDAS (https://edas.info/N26253).

Important Dates

Paper Submission- 15th November 2019, 11:59 PM

Notification of Acceptance- 1st December 2019

Camera Ready Submission- 10th December 2019

Event Date- 8th January 2020

 Travel Grants and Mentoring Session

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We have several travel grants available for students. Students are encouraged to register and apply for the travel grants. To help the students, COMSNETS also provides an opportunity to meet and interact with eminent researchers from both academia and industry through "Mentor-Mentee" session. We encourage students to sign up for such sessions and get benefited!

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• Swetank Kumar Saha, University at Buffalo, New York, USA

• Guohao Lan, Duke University, USA

• Gowri Sankar Ramachandran, University of Southern California, USA

• M. Hadi Amini, Florida International University, USA

• Moumita Patra, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

• Mahendran Veeramani, Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati, India

• Rakesh Tripathi, National Institute of Technology Raipur, India

• Sougata Sen, Northwestern University, USA

• T Venkatesh, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India

• Alok Ranjan, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA

Detailed conference information and paper submission guidelines will be available via the conference web site https://www.comsnets.org and at Graduate Forum web page https://www.comsnets.org/graduate_forum.html.

Best Wishes and Warm Regards

T. Venkatesh & Alok Ranjan