[Mycolleagues] Call for Participation: COMSNETS-09, Jan. 5-10th, Bangalore

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       COMSNETS 2009: 5-10 January 2009, Bangalore, India
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COMSNETS 2009: The First International Conference on

            COMunication Systems and NETworks

 

                    January 5-10, 2009

                       Bangalore, India

               Chancery Pavillion Hotel,

               Residency Road, Bangalore

                 http://www.comsnets.org

 

  Technical Co-Sponsors:  IEEE Communications Society, ACM SIGMOBILE, COMSNETS Association

 

                  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

 

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.

 

Detailed conference information is available at: http://www.comsnets.org

 

Conference Highlights:

 

* Technical Paper Sessions (7, 8, 9 January 2009)

* Poster sessions (7, 8, 9 January 2009)

* Panel Discussions (7, 8, 9 January 2009)

* Co-located workshops: WISARD, IAMCOM, RiMCET, WIPCom, NGIntW

* COMSNETS Business Track (6 January 2009)

* Keynotes/Plenary/Banquet Talks

      * Nandan Nilekani, Infosys, India

      * Prof. Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras, India

      * Prof. P. R. Kumar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

      * Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University, USA

      * Dr. Hamid Ahmadi, Motorola, USA

 

Sponsoring Institutions:

 

ALCATEL-LUCENT,  INFOSYS,  INTEL, MOTOROLA,  SASKEN,  IBM, 

MARVELL, MICROSOFT RESEARCH, QUALCOMM, AIRVANA, FORUM NOKIA

US Air Force Research Laboratory, US Office of Naval Research Science & Technology

 

Media Sponsors: Voice & Data,  SmartTechie

 

University Sponsors: IISc Bangalore, IIT Delhi, IIT Mumbai, IIT Guwahati, IIIT Bangalore

 

Best Paper Award Sponsor: JET Airways, India

Airline Partner: JETLITE, India