Message from PhD forum co-chair

COMSNETS 2015 PhD forum has been aimed at providing a friendly discussion atmosphere to the PhD students who are at the formative stage of their research aspirations and a research career. The PhD forum encouraged submissions from the doctoral research students (beginning/continuing) as well as the Masters and BTech students who are yet to make up their mind toward a research career. It is not expected that the students will have concrete research results to present. The feedbacks at the various stages, namely, proposal evaluation by the experts from the industry and academia, discussions during the brief PhD forum presentation session, and free-wheeling technical interactions throughout the conference days with the fellow researchers and subject experts, are expected to help the students in objectively understanding and appreciating the value of their research.