Communication systems and networks : 9th International Conference, COMSNETS 2017, Bengaluru, India, January 4-8, 2017 : revised selected papers and invited papers

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2017, held in Bengaluru, India, in January 2017. The 9 invited and 10 selected best papers have been carefully reviewed and selected from 192 submissions. They cover various topics in networking and communications systems. Front Matter ....Pages I-VIII Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Affordable Sensing Based Healthcare (Arpan Pal)....Pages 3-6 Interference Power Bound Analysis of a Network of Wireless Robots (Pradipta Ghosh, Bhaskar Krishnamachari)....Pages 7-23 Your Privacy Is in Your Hand: Interactive Visual Privacy Control with Tags and Gestures (Jiayu Shu, Rui Zheng, Pan Hui)....Pages 24-43 Navigation Assistance for Individuals with Visual Impairments in Indoor Environments (Rupam Kundu, Gopi Krishna Tummala, Prasun Sinha)....Pages 44-52 SpectraMap: Efficiently Constructing a Spatio-temporal RF Spectrum Occupancy Map (Aditya Ahuja, Vinay J. Ribeiro, Ranveer Chandra, Amit Kumar)....Pages 53-71 Activity Signatures in Smart IoT Environments (Ravi Kokku)....Pages 72-76 Integrating GLONASS with GPS for Drone Orientation Tracking (Mahanth Gowda, Justin Manweiler, Ashutosh Dhekne, Romit Roy Choudhury, Justin D. Weisz)....Pages 77-92 Edge Computing in the Extreme for Sustainability (Suman Banerjee, Neil Klingensmith, Peng Liu, Anantharaghavan Sridhar)....Pages 93-109 Unleashing the Potential of Data-Driven Networking (Junchen Jiang, Vyas Sekar, Ion Stoica, Hui Zhang)....Pages 110-126 Front Matter ....Pages 127-127 Dual-Hop Decode-and-Forward Relaying in the Combined Presence of CEE and RFI: Performance Analysis and Comparison (Anoop Kumar Mishra, Debmalya Mallick, Mareesh Issar, Poonam Singh)....Pages 129-149 Defending Cyber-Physical Systems from Sensor Attacks (Bharadwaj Satchidanandan, P. R. Kumar)....Pages 150-176 Exploring Functional Slicing in the Design of Distributed SDN Controllers (Yiyang Chang, Ashkan Rezaei, Balajee Vamanan, Jahangir Hasan, Sanjay Rao, T. N. Vijaykumar)....Pages 177-199 Near-Optimal Placement of Virtualized EPC Functions with Latency Bounds (David Dietrich, Chrysa Papagianni, Panagiotis Papadimitriou, John S. Baras)....Pages 200-222 A Buffer Aware Resource Allocation Framework for Video Streaming over LTE (Satish Kumar, Dheeraj Puri Goswami, Arnab Sarkar, Arijit Sur)....Pages 223-242 Convolutional Regression Framework for Human Health Prediction Under Social Influences (Srinka Basu, Saikat Roy, Ujjwal Maulik)....Pages 243-261 Designing 2-Hop Interference Aware Energy Efficient Routing (HIER) Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (Moumita Roy, Chandreyee Chowdhury, Nauman Aslam)....Pages 262-283 Techno-Economics Behind Provisioning 4G LTE Mobile Services over Sub 1 GHz Frequency Bands (Ashutosh Jha, Debashis Saha)....Pages 284-306 Modeling Request Patterns in VoD Services with Recommendation Systems (Samarth Gupta, Sharayu Moharir)....Pages 307-334 A Hidden Markov Restless Multi-armed Bandit Model for Playout Recommendation Systems (Rahul Meshram, Aditya Gopalan, D. Manjunath)....Pages 335-362 Back Matter ....Pages 363-363