<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#000000" face="Arial" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; text-align: justify; widows: 2;" class=""><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="border-collapse: collapse; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td align="center" valign="top" id="templateHeader" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Due to the uncertainties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, COMSNETS will allow authors of accepted papers to present and participate remotely if they wish to do so.</strong></p><p class="text-justify" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">The <strong class="">13<sup class="">th</sup> International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS)</strong> will be held in <strong class="">Bangalore, India</strong>, from <strong class="">January 5 - 9, 2021</strong>. <strong class="">COMSNETS</strong> is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is a yearly event for a world-class gathering of researchers from academia and industry, practitioners, and business leaders, providing a forum for discussing cutting edge research, and directions for new innovative business and technology.</p><p class="text-justify" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">The conference will include a highly selective technical program consisting of submitted papers, a small set of invited papers on important and timely topics from well-known leaders in the field, and a poster session of work in progress.</p><p class="text-justify" style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;">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 and will complement the technical program.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Topics of Interest</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class="">The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following:</font></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><ul class=""><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">5G and wireless broadband networks</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Visible light communications</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Heterogeneous networks (HetNets)</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Cognitive radio and white-space networking</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Economics of networks</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Energy-efficient communications</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Cloud computing</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks</font></li><li class="">Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior</li><li class="">Mobility and location management</li><li class="">Mobile Sensing</li><li class="">Traffic analysis and engineering</li><li class="">Internet of Things (IoT)</li><li class="">Caching & content delivery systems</li><li class="">Information/Content centric networks (ICN)</li></ul></td><td class=""><ul class=""><li class="">Network management and operations</li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Network security and privacy</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Trusted computing</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Network science</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Online social networks</font></li><li class="">SDN/NFV and Network Programmability</li><li class="">Internet Measurement and Modeling</li><li class="">Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability</li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Vehicular communications</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Smart Grid communications and networking</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Machine Learning and AI in Networking</font></li><li class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Big Data Analytics in Networking, including IoT Analytics</font></li><li class="">Blockchain and Distributed Ledger</li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Papers submitted to the main conference should be prepared in standard IEEE conference format and should contain no more than eight pages of technical content, plus one page of references. We will follow a single-blind review policy. Please check the conference website for more details.<br class=""><br class="">The selected best papers from COMSNETS 2021 will be invited for submission of their significant extended version at a special issue in Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal (2018 Impact factor: 3.490).</strong></p><hr class=""><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Conference Highlights</strong></p><ul class=""><li class="">Keynote/Invited/Banquet Talks</li><li class="">Technical Paper and Poster Sessions</li><li class="">Graduate Research Forum</li><li class="">Panel Discussions</li><li class="">Demos and Exhibits</li><li class="">Mentoring Sessions</li><li class="">COMSJOB</li><li class="">Co-located Workshops<ul class=""><li class="">Cyber Security & BlockChain</li><li class="">MINDS</li><li class="">IMOBILE AIMS</li><li class="">NetHealth</li></ul></li></ul><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Keynote Speakers</strong></p><ul class=""><li class="">Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay, India </li><li class="">Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University, USA</li></ul><hr class=""><strong class="">Important Dates and Deadlines</strong><br class=""> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Abstract submission:</strong></font></td><td class="">15th September 2020, 11:59 pm AoE</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Paper submission:</strong></font></td><td class="">15th September 2020, 11:59 pm AoE</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Notification of Acceptance:</strong></font></td><td class="">31st October 2020</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Camera-Ready Submission:</strong></font></td><td class=""><font color="#000000" class="">15th November 2020</font></td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Main Conference:</strong></font></td><td class=""><font color="#000000" class="">6th – 8th January 2021</font></td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Workshops:</strong></font></td><td class=""><font color="#000000" class="">5th & 9th January 2021</font></td></tr></tbody></table><br class=""><strong class="">COMSNETS provides generous travel grants to International student applicants who have an accepted paper at the conference. Please see the home page for details.</strong><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><hr class=""><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Poster Session</strong></font><br class="">The COMSNETS 2021 Poster Session is a forum to showcase preliminary/ongoing work in the area of computer networking and communications. Poster presenters will benefit from lively discussions and critical feedback on their work in progress. Accepted posters will be published in the conference proceedings.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Important Dates and Deadlines for Posters</strong></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Paper submission:</strong></font></td><td class="">7th November 2020, 11:59 pm AoE</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Notification of Acceptance:</strong></font></td><td class="">28th November 2020</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Camera-Ready Submission:</strong></font></td><td class="">7th December 2020</td></tr></tbody></table><hr class=""><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Demos and Exhibits</strong></font><br class="">COMSNETS invites demos from researchers, startups, and corporates showcasing cutting edge information technologies and their applications. All accepted demos will be considered for the Best Demo Award.</p><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><strong class="">Important Dates and Deadlines for Demos</strong></p><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" style="border-collapse: collapse;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Paper submission:</strong></font></td><td class="">1st November 2020</td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Notification of Acceptance:</strong></font></td><td class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">1st December 2020</span></td></tr><tr class=""><td class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><strong class="">Camera-Ready Submission:</strong></font></td><td class=""><span style="color: black;" class="">15th December 2020</span></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class=""> </td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 10px 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 24px;" class=""><br class="">Please see <a href="http://comsnets.org/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">comsnets.org</a> for detailed information. For queries email us at <a href="mailto:comsnets.conference@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(0, 124, 137);" class="">comsnets<font color="#2baadf" class="">.conference@gmail.com</font></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class="">
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