[Mip4] Call for Papers: COMSNETS 2013: The Fifth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks

[Koushik Kar <[e-mail]>]

[Apologies in case of duplicates]

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

Technical Co-Sponsorship:
IEEE, IEEE COMSOC, ACM SIGMOBILE and ACM SIGCOMM


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:    7 September 2012 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST).
Paper Submission    :    14 September 2012 at 2 pm EDT (11:30 pm IST).
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.

TPC members:

Vaneet Aggarwal, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Kevin Almeroth, UCSB, USA
Antonio Fernández Anta, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
Sebastien Ardon, NICTA, Australia
Mayutan Arumaithurai, NEC, Germany
Adrish Banerjee, IIT Kanpur, India
Nilanjan Banerjee, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, USA
Srikrishna Bhashyam, IIT Madras, India (co-chair)
Manav Bhatnagar, IIT Delhi, India
Krishna Chintalapudi, Microsoft Research, India
A. Chockalingam, IISc, Bangalore, India
Onkar Dabeer, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Swades De, IIT Delhi, India
Umamaheswari Devi, IBM Research, India
Amogh Dhamdhere, CAIDA, USA
Radhakrishna Ganti, IIT Madras, India
Vijay Gopalakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Sergey Gorinsky, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain (co-chair)
Carmen Guerrero, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain
Stratis Ioannidis, Technicolor, USA
David Irwin, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Krishna Jagannathan, IIT Madras, India
Rahul Jain, USC, USA
Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India
Rittwik Jana, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Shiv Kalyanaraman, IBM Research, India
Arun Pachai Kannu, IIT Madras, India
S. Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ravi Kokku, IBM Research, India
Ramana Kompella, Purdue University, USA
Dejan Kostic, EPFL, Switzerland
Kiran Kuchi, IIT Hyderabad, India
Puru Kulkarni, IIT Bombay, India
Joy Kuri, IISc Bangalore, India
John Lui, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Anirban Mahanti, NICTA, Australia
D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India
Neelesh Mehta, IISc Bangalore, India
Maitreya Natu, TCS Labs, India
Joerg Ott, Aalto University, Finland
Andrea Passarella, IIT-CNR, Italy
Sibi Raj B. Pillai, IIT Bombay, India
Dinesh Rajan, SMU Dallas, USA
A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M, USA
Maxim Podlesny, University of Waterloo, Canada
Gaurav Raina, IIT Madras, India
K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs Research, USA
Gabor Retvari, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi, India
Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo, Canada
Ashutosh Sabharwal, Rice University, USA
Sambit Sahu, IBM Research, USA
Deva Seetharam, IBM Research, India
Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India
Srinivas Shakkottai, Texas A&M, USA
Navin Sharma, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA (co-chair)
Krishna Sivalingam, IIT Madras, India
Vijay Sivaraman, University of New South Wales, Australia
Vikram Srinivasan, Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, India
Vijay Subramanian, Northwestern University, USA
Joe Touch, USC/ISI, USA
Tuan Trinh, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, Irvine, USA
Goeff Voelker, UCSD, USA
Joerg Widmer, Institute IMDEA Networks, Spain
Praveen Yalagandula, HP Labs, USA
Roger Zimmermann, National University of Singapore, Singapore