ANTS is the premier IEEE forum on networking and telecommunications topics in India. The distinguishing characteristic of IEEE ANTS is the promotion of an intense dialogue between academia and industry. This is fostered through panel discussions, invited talks and keynotes where academia is exposed to state-of-practice and results from trials, interoperability experiments and other demos. The industry is benefited in turn by exposure to leading-edge research in networking as well the opportunity to communicate to academic researchers which practical problems require further research.