*COMSNETS 2018, 3 - 7 January 2018, Bangalore, India* * www.comsnets.org http://www.comsnets.org/* Technical Co-Sponsors: *IEEE, IEEE COMSOC* In Co-operation With: *ACM, ACM SIGCOMM, ACM SIGMOBILE*, *Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India* Conference Patrons: *CISCO, Qualcomm, TCS, Microsoft, Google, IBM Research, Bosch, **Singapore Management University, InnAccel, Adobe, VMware, Phimetrics, LG, ICANN*

The Tenth International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India, during January 3-7, 2018. COMSNETS 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.

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 poster session 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, and will complement the technical program.

The conference will recognize one or more papers, demos, posters, and Graduate Student forum presentations with awards.

*Conference Highlights* The main conference, including keynote and invited talks, will be held from *January 4-6 2018*. The workshops will be held on the first and the last day of the conference *- January 3 and January 7* *2018.* ASSET will be held on *January 8 and January 9* *2018.*

- Keynote Talks - Invited Talks - Paper Sessions - Poster Sessions - Mentoring Sessions - Panel Discussions - Graduate Student Forum - Demo & Exhibits - Mobile India 2018 - *Co-located COMSNETS Workshops* - *WACI* - *Intelligent Transportation Systems* - *Social Networking* - *NetHealth* - ASSET

*2018 Banquet Speaker*

- VC Gopalratnam, Cisco, India (https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in /about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html https://www.cisco.com/c/en_in/about/executive-profiles/vc-gopalratnam.html )

*2018 Keynote Speakers*

- Lixia Zhang, UCLA, USA (http://web.cs.ucla.edu/~lixia/) - Krishna Gummadi, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany ( https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/ https://people.mpi-sws.org/~gummadi/) - Dhananjay Gore, Qualcomm R&D, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/d hananjay-gore-b2b19b1/?ppe=1)

*2018 Invited Speakers*

- Kirill Kogan, IMDEA Labs, Spain (http://people.networks.imdea. org/~kirill_kogan/) - Binbin Chen, ADSC, Singapore (https://adsc.illinois.edu/peo ple/binbin-chen) - Venu Veeravalli, UIUC, USA (http://vvv.ece.illinois.edu/) - Kaushik Roy Chowdhury, Norhteastern University, USA ( http://krc.coe.neu.edu/) - Mahesh K Marina, University of Edinburgh, USA ( http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/ http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mmarina/) - Biplab Sikdar, NUS, Singapore (https://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/st aff/bio/biplab.html) - Prasenjit Dey, IBM, IRL (https://www.linkedin.com/in/p rasenjit-dey-4082763/?ppe=1) - Georg Carle, TU Munich, Germany (https://www.net.in.tum.de/mem bers/carle/) - Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA (https://blogs.cisco.com/autho r/raghunathnambiar) - Lipika Dey, TCS Innovation Labs (https://www.linkedin.com/in/l ipika-dey-3381713/?ppe=1) - Josef Noll, Univ. of Oslo., Norway (https://www.mn.uio.no/its/eng lish/people/aca/jnoll/) - Ajit Rao, Qualcomm, India (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ajitvrao/)

*COMSNETS 2018 General Co-Chairs* Bhaskar Krishnamachari, USC, USA Archan Misra, SMU, Singapore Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research, India

*COMSNETS 2018 Technical Program Committee Co-Chairs* Subir Biswas, MSU, USA Mun Choon Chan, NUS, Singapore Animesh Mukherjee, IIT Kharagpur, India

*COMSNETS 2018 Publicity Co-Chairs* Aswhin Rao, University of Helsinki Ashutosh Nayyar, USC, USA Arash Asadi, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Vinayak Naik, IIIT Delhi, India