[Mycolleagues] COMSNETS 2009, Bangalore, India :Paper Registration Deadline: September 8, 2008

                      COMSNETS 2009

          The First International Conference on
            COMunication Systems and NETworks

                    January 5-10, 2009
                     Bangalore, India

     Venue:
     COMSNETS Workshops (5, 6 and 10 January): ECE Dept, IISc Bangalore
     Main Conference (7-9 January): Chancery Pavillion Hotel,
Residency Road, Bangalore

                     http://www.comsnets.org

  IEEE and IEEE Communications Society Co-Sponsorship
  ACM SIGMOBILE (Pending)

(Paper registration deadline: September 8, 2008. See below for details)

                     CALL FOR PAPERS

THE FIRST International Conference on COMmunication Systems and
NETworkS (COMSNETS) will be held in Bangalore, India from 5 January
2009 to 10 January 2009.  COMSNETS is a premier international
conference dedicated to addressing emerging topics and challenges in
Networking and Communications Systems.  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 launch pad for new
innovative business and technology.

General Chairs
Jim Kurose, U. Massachussetts, USA
Rajeev Rastogi, Yahoo Research, India
Giridhar Mandyam, Qualcomm, USA

Technical Program Chairs
K. K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Research,  USA
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM Research, India & RPI, USA
Geoffrey M. Voelker, UCSD, USA

Steering Committee Chairs
Rajeev Shorey, GM Research, India
G. Venkatesh, Sasken Technologies, India
Sanjoy Paul, Infosys, India
Uday Desai, IIT Mumbai, India

Workshop Chairs
Ravindran Kaliappa, CUNY, USA
Rajeev Koodli, Starent Networks, USA

COMSNETS Business Chair
Gene Landy, Ruberto, Israel & Weiner, P.C., USA

Panel Chairs
Huzur Saran, IIT Delhi, India
Ajay Bakre, Intel, India

Publications Chair
Ranjan Mallik, IIT Delhi, India

Publicity Chairs
Hiroyuki Morikawa, University of Tokyo
Rahul Mangharam, U. Penn, USA
Falko Dressler, U. Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Taekyoung Kwon, Seoul National University, Korea
Sudipta Maitra, IBM, India
Debabrata Das, IIIT  Bangalore
C S Kumar, IIT Kharagpur
Rajat Moona, IIT Kanpur
Sukumar Nandi, IIT Guwahati
Vinay Ribeiro, IIT Delhi

Local Arrangements Chairs
Syed Shahid Mehdi, Sasken, India
Sudipta Maitra, IBM, Delhi

Web Chair
Syed Shahid Mehdi, Sasken, India

International Advisory Committee:

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

The conference will include a highly selective technical program
consisting of two 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 early work.  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, complementing the
technical program.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Internet architecture and protocols
* Network-based applications
* Video Distribution (IPTV, Mobile video, Video on Demand)
* Operations and management of large networks
* Local and Metro Area Networks, including Wireless
* Broadband and Cellular Networks (3G/4G, WiMAX/LTE, UWB)
* Mesh and Sensor Networks
* Software in wireless communications (cognitive radios, dynamic spectrum
access, SDR)
* Wireless operating systems and mobile platforms
* Optical Networks
* Network Security
* Cloud and Utility computing
* Storage area networks
* Next generation Web architectures
* Vehicular Networking

Conference Highlights:

* Technical paper and poster sessions
* Panel Discussions

* FIVE Co-located workshops
*RiMCET - Emerging Technologies in Rich Media Communications*
*WISARD - WIreless Systems: Advanced Research and Development*
*IAMCOM - Intelligent Networks: Adaptation, Communication & **
Reconfiguration*
*NGIntW - Next Generation Internetworking*
**
*WIPCom - Wireless IP Communication: Technologies, Network & Mobility
Architectures, Applications and Trends*

* Keynotes by leading experts from academia and industry
* Panel Discussions
* COMSNETS Business Track (6 January 2009)
Detailed conference information and paper submission guidelines will
be available on the conference Web site. Please see
http://www.comsnets.org for detailed information.  The authors of
accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at
the conference.  Accepted papers will be included in the conference
proceedings published by IEEE.  At least one author of each accepted
paper must be registered for the conference for that paper to appear
in the proceedings and be scheduled for presentation.

Important Deadlines (firm and will not change)

Paper registration: September 8, 2008 at 11:59pm IST
Paper submission: September 15, 2008 at 11:59pm IST
Notification of Acceptance: November 7, 2008
Camera-Ready Submission: December 8, 2008

For further information please contact the TPC Chairs at:
comsnets09-tpc-chairs@cs.ucsd.edu

Sponsoring Institutions: ALCATEL-LUCENT, IBM, INFOSYS, MOTOROLA, SASKEN,
QUALCOMM, AIRVANA

US Air Force Research Laboratory (Pending)
Media Sponsors: DataQuest, Voice & Data
University Sponsors: IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, IIT Guwahati,
IIIT Bangalore

Best Paper Award Sponsor: JET Airways

Airline Partner: JETLITE