COMSNETS 2010 - COMSNETS 2010 The Second International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks

COMSNETS 2010 The Second International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks
January 6-10, 2010
Bangalore, India
http://www.comsnets.org

After the great success of the First COMSNETS conference held in Bangalore,
India in January 2009, the SECOND International Conference on COMmunication
Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India from 6
January 2010 to 10 January 2010.

COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing
emerging topics and challenges in Networking and Communications Systems.
The goal of the conference is to create a world-class gathering of
researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, business leaders,
intellectual property experts and venture capitalists, providing a launch
pad 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
sessions of early work. 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,
complementing the technical program.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
? Internet architecture and protocols
? Network-based applications
? Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile video, Video on Demand)
? Operations and management of large networks
? Local and Metro Area Networks, including Wireless
? Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE, UWB)
? Mesh and Sensor Networks
? Software in wireless communications (cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum
access, SDR)
? Wireless operating systems and mobile platforms
? Optical Networks
? Network Security
? Cloud and Utility computing
? Storage area networks
? Next generation Web architectures
? Vehicular Networking

Conference Highlights:

- *Technical Paper and Poster sessions*
- *Panel Discussions*
- *Co-located Confirmed Workshops: WISARD, IAMCOM*
- *Keynote Talks by leading experts from Academia and Industry*
- *Demos and Exhibits*
- *MOBILE INDIA 2010 (Business Track)
*


Detailed conference information and paper submission guidelines will soon be
available on the conference Web site. Please see http://www.comsnets.org for
detailed information. The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that
their paper will be presented at the conference. Accepted papers will be
included in the conference proceedings published by IEEE. At least one
author of each accepted paper must be registered for the conference for that
paper to appear in the proceedings and be scheduled for presentation.

For any query related to COMSNETS 2010 conference, please send an email to:
comsnets2010-AT-gmail.com

*COMSNETS'10 Organizing Committee:*
**
*General Chairs*
P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
Harrick Vin, Tata Research, Development and Design Center (TRDDC), India

*Technical Program Chairs *
T. V. Lakshman, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Kevin C. Almeroth, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Joy Kuri, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

*Steering Committee Chairs*
Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India
G. Venkatesh, SASKEN Techn., India
Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India
Uday Desai, IIT Mumbai, India
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA

*Workshop Chairs*
Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA
Vikram Srinivasan, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Bangalore

*MOBILE INDIA 2010 (Business Track)*
Gene K. Landy, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C., Boston, USA (Chair)
Varadharajan Sridhar, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd., India
(Co-Chair)
Nimish Shrivastava, eMbience Inc., San Diego, CA, USA
Raja Raghavan Setlur, Sasken Communication Technologies Ltd., India
Karthee Madasamy, Qualcomm Ventures, Bangalore, India
Rajeev Shorey, General Motors, India Science Laboratory, Bangalore, India
Giridhar D. Mandyam, QUALCOMM Internet Services, San Diego, CA, USA
Gulzar Azad, Google, India

*Panel Chair*
Archan Misra, Telcordia Research, USA

*Demos and Exhibits Chairs*
Gulzar Azad, Google, India
Rahul Mangharam, UPenn, USA

*Publications Chair*
Debabrata Das, IIIT, Bangalore, India

*Web Chairs*
Syed Shahid Mehdi, SASKEN, India
Vinay B. Veerappa, SASKEN, India

*Sponsorship Chairs*
Sudipta Maitra, IBM-Daksh, India
Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India

*International Advisory Committee*
K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research, USA
Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul Nat. U., Korea
Sajal Das, Univ. Texas at Arlington, USA
B. N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India
Anurag Kumar, IISc, Bangalore, India
L. M. Patnaik, , IISc, Bangalore, India
Parmesh Ramanathan, U.Wisconsin, USA
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Kang Shin, U. Michigan, USA
Nitin Vaidya, U. Illinois,, USA

*UNIVERSITY PARTNERS*

- Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
- Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
- International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore


*TECHNICAL CO-SPONSORS (PENDING)*

- IEEE COMSOC
- ACM SIGMOBILE