Subject: [Mip4] COMSNETS 2011 (Call for Participation)

From: Ramana Kompella <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:41:25 -0500

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          		COMSNETS 2011
The THIRD International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworks
	     January 4-8, 2011, Bangalore, India
		  http://www.comsnets.org
		Email: [email-masked]
            (In Co-operation with ACM SIGMOBILE)
          (Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE COMSOC)

The Third International Conference on COMmunication Systems and
NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, from 4 January
2011 to 8 January 2011. COMSNETS is a premier international conference
dedicated to addressing advances in Networking and 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
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 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. 

Registration site: http://www.comsnets.org/registration.html. 
Heavy student discounts available. We look forward to your participation.

Conference Scope
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 Internet Architecture and Protocols 
 Network-based Applications
 Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile Video, Video on Demand)
 Network Operations and Management
 Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE)
 Mesh, Sensor and PAN Networks
 Communication Software (Cognitive Radios, DSA, SDR) 
 Wireless Operating Systems and Mobile Platforms 
 Peer-to-peer Networking
 Cognitive Radio and White Space Networking
 Optical Networks
 Network Security & Cyber Security Technologies
 Cloud and Utility computing 
 Storage Area Networks 
 Next Generation Web Architectures 
 Vehicular Networking 
 Energy-Efficient Networking
 Network Science and Emergent Behavior in Socio-Technical Networks
 Social Networking Analysis, Middleware and Applications
 Networking Technologies for Smart Energy Grids
 Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking

Conference Highlights
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Conference Inaugural Speaker:
	Prof. Raj Jain, Washington U. , St. Louis, USA
 Banquet speakers:
	Dr. Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo Research, India
	Mr. Venkat Rajendran, Billonways Holdings Pvt. Ltd, India
 Keynote Speakers: 
	Prof. Don Towsley, U. Mass Amherst, USA 
	Dr. Partho Mishra, Cisco, India 
	Mr. Subu Goparaju, Infosys, India 
	Dr. Pravin Bhagwat, AirTight Networks, India 
	Dr. Jean Bolot, Sprint, USA 
	Mr. Michael Eisler, NetApp Inc, USA
 Workshops:
	WISARD (4, 5 Jan)
	NetHealth (4 Jan)
	IAMCOM (5 Jan)
	Mobile India 2011 (7 Jan)
 Technical Paper and Poster Sessions
 Ph.D Forum
 Panel Discussions
 Demos & Exhibits

General Co-Chairs
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David  B. Johnson, Rice University, USA
Anurag  Kumar,  IISc Bangalore, India

Technical Program Co-Chairs
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Jon  Crowcroft, U. of Cambridge, UK
D. Manjunath, IIT Bombay, India
Archan Misra, Telcordia Tech., USA

Steering Committee Co-Chairs
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Uday Desai, IIT Hyderabad, India
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA
Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India
Rajeev Shorey, NIIT University, India
G. Venkatesh, SASKEN, India

Panel Co-Chairs
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Aditya Akella, U. of Wisconsin, USA
Venkat Padmanabhan, MSR, India

Ph.D Forum Chair
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Bhaskaran Raman, IIT Bombay, India

Publications Chair
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Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India

Demos and Exhibits Co-Chairs
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Aaditeshwar Seth, IIT Delhi, India
Ajay Bakre, Netapps, India

Sponsorship Chair
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Sudipta Maitra, Delhi, india

Workshop Chairs
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Sharad Jaiswal, Alcatel-Lucent, India
Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA 
Neelesh Mehta, IISc Bangalore, India

Mobile India 2011 Co-Chairs
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Gene Landy, Ruperto-Israel & Weiner, USA
Rajaraghavan Setlur, SASKEN, India
Sridhar Varadharajan, SASKEN, India

Publicity Co-Chair
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Augustin Chaintreau, TTL, France 
Kameswari Chebrolu, IIT Bombay, India
Song Chong, KAIST, Korea
Ramana Kompella, Purdue Univ, USA
Nishanth Sastry, U. of Cambridge, UK

Web Co-Chairs
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Santhana Krishnan, IIT Bombay, India
Vinay Veerappa, SASKEN, India

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

University Partners:
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IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IISc Bangalore, IIT Hyderabad, NIIT University, BITS Pilani

Patrons:
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 CISCO, Infosys, Alcatel Lucent, Intel, Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Sasken, Datacipher, Mobile Monday Bangalore