The First International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks COMSNETS 2009

COMSNETS 2009

The First International Conference on COMunication Systems and NETworks

January 5-10, 2009
Bangalore, India

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IEEE and IEEE Communications Society Co-Sponsorship
Technically co-sponsored by ACM SIGMOBILE


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


THE FIRST International Conference on COMmunication Systems and
NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India from 5 January
2009 to 10 January 2009. 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.

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
* Technical paper and poster sessions
* Panel Discussions
* Co-located Workshops (see below)
* COMSNETS Business Track
* Keynote and Banquet Talks
* Demos and Exhibits

Keynote/Banquet Speakers

* Nandan Nilekani, Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies, India
* Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, India
* Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA
* Dr. Hamid Ahmadi, Motorola, USA
* Rajesh Kumar, Qualcomm Inc.


General Chairs

Jim Kurose, U. Massachussetts, USA
Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo Research, India
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA

Technical Program Chairs

K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research, USA
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM Research, India & RPI, USA
Geoffrey M. Voelker, UCSD, USA

Poster Session Chairs

Srinivasan Ramasubramanian, University of Arizona, USA
Aditya Karnik, GM Research, India

Steering Committee Chairs

Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India
G. Venkatesh, Sasken Technologies, India
Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India
Uday Desai, IIT Mumbai, India

Workshop Chairs

Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA
Rajeev Koodli, Starent Networks, USA

COMSNETS Business Chair

Gene Landy, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C., USA

Panel Chairs

Huzur Saran, IIT Delhi, India
Ajay Bakre, Intel, India

Demos/Exhibit Chairs

Aravind Iyer, GM Research, Bangalore
Shrix Shrikant, Samsung, Bangalore

Publications Chair

Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi, India

Publicity Chairs

Rahul Mangharam, U. Penn, USA
Falko Dressler, U. Erlangen Germany
Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea
Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sudipta Maitra, IBM, India
Debabrata Das, IIIT Bangalore
C S Kumar, IIT Kharagpur
Rajat Moona, IIT Kanpur
Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati
Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi

Local Arrangements Chairs

Syed Shahid Mehdi, Sasken, India
Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi

Web Chair

Syed Shahid Mehdi, Sasken, India

International Advisory Committee:

Krishan Sabnani, Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research, USA
Sunghyun Choi, Seoul National University, Korea
B. N. Jain, IIT Delhi, India
Anurag Kumar, IIS, Bangalore, India
L. M. Patnaik, IIS, Bangalore, India
Parmesh Ramanathan, U. Wisconsin, USA
Krithi Ramamritham, IIT Bombay, India
Kang Shin, U. Michigan, USA
Nitin Vaidya, U. Illinois, USA


WORKSHOPS

RiMCET - Emerging Technologies in Rich Media Communications

The RiMCET workshop covers Applications and Services of IPTV and Rich
Media Content Delivery. The emerging applications such as Next gen TV,
Virtual Internet, interactive Games, Enterprise collaboration, Health
Services, etc. benefit from rich multi-media content in an effective
way. This workshop will provide a forum for researcher and system
engineers, to share knowledge and innovations emerging in the
networking and service delivery architectures for driving the next
generation Rich media services.

WISARD - WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development

The Wisard workshop covers the area of wireless network systems,
services, and applications. It focuses on the MAC layer issues (802.11
series), cross-layer techniques between physical, MAC, and network
layers, power management techniques, sensor networks, and mobility and
location management. This workshop will be useful for wireless network
practitioners and engineers working in industries, universities, and
corporate offices.

IAMCOM - Intelligent Networks: Adaptation, Communication & Reconfiguration

The IAMCOM workshop covers the area of intelligent networking in
contemporary settings to enable QoS adaptations and rich communications.
Unlike the intelligent networks of the 1990's which focused exclusively
on telecom network signaling, this workshop recasts the intelligent
networking as a holistic approach to the design of distributed networked
systems by considering the cross-layer interactions between the various
units of a network system. A wide range of application areas benefit
from the use of intelligent techniques: QoS in data netwoks, automotive
systems control, geo-spatial resource management, and emergency-response
networks.

NGIntW - Next Generation Internetworking

The NextGen Internet workshop focuses on where the current internet
communication protocols are today and how they should change to
accommodate the growth of internet users in the next decade. It
offers a forum for discussing a wide range of topics: from the
classical internet models to the Future Internet architecures
(such as the Geni in USA and other European efforts). Topics that
are of covered are voice over IP, IPv4 vs IPv6, bandwidth management,
and the next generation architectures. The Internet designers and
managers will find this workshop quite useful.

WIPCom - Wireless IP Communication: Technologies, Network & Mobility
Architectures, Applications and Trends

Recent advances in wireless technologies, including the emergence of
3G/4G, fixed mobile convergence, rich media (web 2.0) applications and
femto/pico cells, are bringing about new paradigms of mobile
communication. This workshop aims to address new and work in progress
in technologies, architectures, applications and trends in wireless
mobile communication. The workshop will feature regular papers,
posters and invited talks.