General research interests topics are Wireless Communication, Cooperative Cognitive Communication, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and Internet of Things (IoT). Currently, I am involved with secure wireless communication for the future generation networks using physical layer security techniques.
Doctoral Thesis
Research Topic: Physical Layer Security for V2X-enabled Cooperative and Cognitive Relay Networks.
Supervisor: Dr. Suneel Yadav, Assistant Professor, IIIT Allahabad.
Brief Overview: Cooperative vehicular relaying networks (CVRNs) support various key intelligent transportation application services such as traffic management, payment services, infotainment etc. These CVRNs are paving the way for the development of a new paradigm called Internet of Vehicles (IoV). Such networks will require the information exchange to occur between the vehicles, infrastructure, users, and the Internet mostly over an open and vulnerable wireless medium. Thus securing the transmissions at the physical layer becomes essential. The objective in this work is to investigate the potential benefits of physical layer security (PHY-security) for providing information security in CVRNs under cognitive and non-cognitive scenarios.
M.Tech. Thesis
Research Topic: Intra-Cluster Community Mechanism for Energy Efficiency and Data Resolution in Wireless Sensor Network.
Supervisor: Dr. K.K. Pattanaik, Associate Professor, ABV-IIITM Gwalior.
Brief Overview: Clustering scheme is effective in large scale densely deployed Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Performing data aggregation at cluster head (CH) or compressing the data traffic originating from spatially correlated nodes does not resolve the redundant traffic within the cluster and causes energy wastage. Selecting one node at a time among the correlated ones affects the data resolution. The novelty of this work lied in eliminating the redundant transmissions through designing a novel community of spatially correlated nodes within the cluster and then using average consensus mechanism for an efficient data aggregation. The above mechanism resulted in considerable reduction of redundant traffic, energy consumption, channel contention and better GTS slot assignment while preserving data resolution. The above system was verified through both mathematical and simulation in OPNET Network simulator.