*Apologies for cross-posting* *Please consider contributing papers/posters to the COMSNETS 2019 (*www. comsnets.org <http://comsnets.us11.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e6e9a43ba608717dadd8af0d7&id=755cdfa63f&e=1f969772a3>*) conference and distribute to your colleagues/students who might be interested. THANK YOU!* ------------------------------ The *Eleventh** International Conference on COMmunication Systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS) *will be held in *Bangalore, India*, during *January 7-11, 2019. COMSNETS* is a premier international conference dedicated to advances in Networking and Communications Systems. The conference is organized under the auspices of IEEE & ACM in co-operation with SIGCOMM and SIGMOBILE. 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. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to *IEEE Xplore* and various Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. *Topics of Interest* The topics of interest for the technical program include (but are not limited to) the following: - 5G and wireless broadband networks - Technologies for 6-100 GHz spectrum - Visible light communications - Heterogeneous networks (HetNets) - Cognitive radio and white-space networking - Economics of networks - Energy-efficient communications - Cloud computing - Enterprise, data center, and storage-area networks - Internet architecture and protocols, Internet science and emergent behavior - Mobility and location management - Mobile Sensing - Traffic analysis and engineering - Internet of Things (IoT) - Caching & content delivery systems - Information/Content centric networks (ICN) - Network management and operations - Network security and privacy - Trusted computing - Network science - Online social networks - Overlay communications, content distribution - Wireless adhoc and sensor networks - Systems and networks for smarter energy and sustainability - Vehicular communications - Smart Grid communications and networking - Machine Learning and AI in Networking - Big Data Analytics in Networking, including IoT Analytics - Cognition and Cognitive Computing in Networking *Important Dates and Deadlines* *Abstract submission:* 7th September, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST *Paper submission:* 14th September, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST *Notification of Acceptance:* 31st October, 2018 *Camera-Ready Submission:* 23rd November, 2018 *Main Conference:* 7th – 11th January 2019 *Workshops:* 7th & 11th January 2019 *Conference Highlights* - *Keynote, Invited, Banquet Talks* - *Paper Sessions* - *Poster Session* - *Graduate Student Forum* - *Demo & Exhibits Sessions* - *Mentoring Sessions* - *Panel Discussions* - *Research Cafe* - *Mentoring Sessions* - *Co-located Workshops - WACI (Big Data Analytics & IoT)- Social Networking- Intelligent Transportation Systems- Networked Healthcare- Mobile India- Blockchain- MINDS (Machine Intelligence in Networked Data and Systems)- LastMileS * *2019 Keynote Speakers* 1. Rakesh Agrawal <https://www.linkedin.com/in/rakeshagrawal1/>, Data Insights Laboratories, USA 2. Anja Feldmann <https://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/inet/people/anja-feldmann/>, MPI, Germany 3. Gautam Shroff <http://sites.tcs.com/blogs/research-and-innovation/author/dr-gautam-shroff>, TCS Research, India *2019 Invited Speakers* 1. Falko Dressler <http://www.uni-paderborn.de/en/person/48097/>,University of Paderborn, Germany 2. Kassem Fawaz <https://kassemfawaz.com/>, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA 3. Saikat Guha <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/saikat/> , Microsoft Research, India 4. Swarun Kumar <https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/swarunk/>, Carnegie Mellon University, USA 5. Giovanni Pau <https://www.lip6.fr/actualite/personnes-fiche.php?nom=Pau>, Sorbonne Universite, France 6. *Aaditeshwar Seth*, IIT Delhi, India Please see comsnets.org for detailed information. For queries email us at: [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the cphc-conf list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=cphc-conf&A=1