Forcing page numbers with IEEEtran

Put this right after \maketitle:

\thispagestyle{plain}
\pagestyle{plain}

For bare_journal_comsoc.tex with IEEEtran.cls, the following works.

Put this after \maketitle

\thispagestyle{empty} %--to make title page number less
\pagestyle{empty}    % -- to make other pages number less.

If you put

\thispagestyle{plain}
\pagestyle{plain}

then, numbers are still coming but at the center of the footer as in IEEE published papers.