COMSNETS 2013
The 5th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks:
Bangalore, India
7-10 January 2013
http://www.comsnets.org/

COMSNETS is a premier international conference dedicated to addressing advances in networking, communications systems, and telecommunications services. 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 forum for discussing cutting-edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology.

The conference will include a highly selective technical program of papers accepted from the open call, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and poster sessions 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, thus complementing the technical program.

COMSNETS 2013 solicits paper submissions describing original research work and practical experiences on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

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

For submission instructions please visit http://www.comsnets.org/

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission: 21 September 2012 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)
Paper Submission : 21 September 2012 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST)
Author notification: 8 November 2012
Camera-ready : 2 December 2012
Conference Dates : 7-10 January 2013


General Chairs :
David Kotz : Dartmouth College, USA
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman : IBM Research, India
Bhaskaran Raman : IIT Bombay, India


Technical Program Co-Chairs:
Prashant Shenoy : University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Sergey Gorinsky : Institute IMDEA Networks, Madrid, Spain
Srikrishna Bhashyam : IIT Madras, India