Publications

Journal Publications

[J52] Vaishali A. Shirsath, Madhav M. Chandane, Chhagan Lal , Mauro Conti, Roy. Syntropy: TCP SYN DDoS Attack Detection Framework for Software Defined Network based on Renyi Entropy. In (Elsevier) Computer Networks, 2024.

[J51] Vaishali A. Shirsath, Madhav M. Chandane, Chhagan Lal , Mauro Conti, Roy. SPARQ: SYN protection using acyclic redundancy check and quartile range on P4 switches. In (Elsevier) Computer Communications, 2024.

[J50] Bhavna Sharma, Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal, Roy. Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks: A Deep Learning based Approach. In (Elsevier) Journal of Expert Systems With Applications, 2024.

[J49] Mohamed A. El-Zawawy, Chhagan lal, Mauro Conti. A Location-Aware and Healing Attestation Scheme for Air-Supported Internet of Vehicles.  In (IEEE) Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023.

[J48] Meng Li, Jianbo Gao, Liehuang Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Time-Restricted, Verifiable, and Efficient Query Processing over Encrypted Data on Cloud. In (IEEE)Transactions on Services Computing, 2023.

[J47] Saurabh Rana, Dheerendra Mishra, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Authenticated Message-exchange Protocol for Fog-assisted Vehicular Cloud Computing. In (Springer) Wireless Personal Communications, 2023.

[J46] Amin Nazari, Mojtaba Kordabadi, Reza Mohammadi, Chhagan Lal. EQRSRL: An Energy-aware and QoS-based Routing Schema using Reinforcement Learning in IoMT. In (Springer) Wireless Networks, in Press, 2023.

[J45] Hossein Ahmadvand, Chhagan Lal, Hadi Hemmati, Mehdi Sookhak, Mauro Conti. Privacy-Preserving and Security in SDN-based IoT: A Survey. In IEEE Access, 2023.

[J44] Anand Kumar, Karan Singh, Mohd Shariq, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Ruhul Amin, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry. An Efficient and Reliable ultralightweight RFID Authentication Scheme for Healthcare Systems. In (Elsevier) Computer Communications, 2023.

[J43] Bhavna Sharma, Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal, Roy. Anomaly based network intrusion detection for IoT attacks using deep learning technique. In (Elsevier) Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2023.

[J42] Mohammad Salar Arbabi, Chhagan Lal, Narasimha Raghavan Veeraragavan, Dusica Marijan, Jan F. Nygard, and Roman Vitenberg. A Survey on Blockchain for Healthcare: Challenges, Benefits, and Future Directions. In IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2023. 

[J41] Meng Li, Jianbing Ni, Liehaung Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab. Mnemosyne: Privacy-Preserving Ride Matching with CollusionResistant Driver Exclusion. In IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, in press, 2022. 

[J40] Reza  Mohammadi, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. HTTPScout: A Machine Learning based Countermeasure for HTTP Flood Attacks in SDN. In Springer International Journal of Information Security, in press, 2022. 

[J39] Meng Li, Yifei Chen, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab, Fabio Martinelli. Nereus: Anonymous and Secure Ride-Hailing Service based on Private Smart Contracts. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022. 

[J38] Mohd Shariq, Karan Singh, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Tayyab Khan. ESRAS: An Efficient and Secure Ultra-lightweight RFID Authentication Scheme for Low-cost Tags. In (Elsevier) Computer Networks, 2022.

[J37] Meng Li, Yifei Chen, Liehuang Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Jianbing Ni, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Astraea: Anonymous and Secure Auditing based on Private Smart Contracts for Donation Systems. In (IEEE) Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2022.

[J36] Dusica Marijan, Chhagan Lal. Blockchain Verification and Validation: Techniques, Challenges, and Research Directions. In (Elsevier) Computer Science Review, 2022.

[J35] Reza  Mohammadi, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Lokesh Sharma. SHFD: SDN-based HTTP Flooding Attack Defender. In Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2022. 

[J34] Meng Li, Liehuang Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab. User-Defined Privacy-Preserving Traffic Monitoring Against n-by-1 Jamming Attack. In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022. 

[J33] Meng Li, Yifei Chen, Neeraj Kumar, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab. Quantifying Location Privacy for Navigation Services in Sustainable Vehicular Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2022. 

[J32] Nagarathna Ravi, S. Mercy Shalinie, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. AEGIS: Detection and Mitigation of TCP SYN Flood on SDN Controller. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2021. DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9253566

[J31] Meng Li, Yifei Chen, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab, Donghui Hu. Eunomia: Anonymous and Secure Vehicular Digital Forensics based on Blockchain. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021. 

[J30] Gulshan Kumar, Rahul Saha, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Internet-of-Forensic (IoF): A Blockchain Based Digital Forensics Framework for IoT Applications. In (Elsevier) Future Generation Computer Systems, 2021.

[J29] Meng Li, Liehuang Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab. Anonymous and Verifiable Reputation System for E-commerce Platforms based on Blockchain. In IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2021. 

[J28] Mauro Conti, Pallavi Kaliyar, Chhagan Lal*. A Robust Multicast Communication Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks. In (Elsevier) Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102675 

[J27] Meng Li, Liehuang Zhu, Zijian Zhang, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Fabio Martinelli. Privacy for 5G-Supported Vehicular Networks. In (IEEE) Open Journal of the Communications Society, in press, 2021. 

[J26] Meng Li, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Donghui Hu*. LEChain: A Blockchain-based Lawful Evidence Management Scheme for Digital Forensics. In Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2020.09.038

[J25] Mauro Conti, Ankit Gangwal, Muhammad Hassan, Chhagan Lal, Eleonora Losiouk*. The Road Ahead for Networking: A Survey on ICN-IP Coexistence Solutions. In (IEEE) Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2020.2994526

[J24] Meng Li, Yifei Chen, Shuli Zheng, Donghui Hu, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Privacy-preserving Navigation Supporting Similar Queries in Vehicular Networks. In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2020.3017534 

[J23] Pallavi Kaliyar, Wafa Ben Jaballah, Mauro Conti, and Chhagan Lal*. LiDL: Localization with early detection of sybil and wormhole attacks in IoT Networks, (Elsevier) Computer & Security, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2020.101849 

[J22] Muhammad Hassan, Mauro Conti, Chhagan Lal*. NC based DAS-NDN: Network Coding for robust Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over NDN. In (Elsevier) Computer Network, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107222 

[J21] Meng Li, Donghui Hu, Chhagan Lal*, Mauro Conti, Zijian Zhang. Blockchain-enabled Secure Energy Trading with Verifiable Fairness in Industrial Internet of Things. In (IEEE) Transaction on Industrial Informatics, 2020. DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9000864 

[J20] Wafa Ben Jaballah, Mauro Conti, Chhagan Lal*. Security and Design Requirements for Software-Defined VANETs. In (Elsevier) Computer Network, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107099 

[J19] Mauro Conti, and Chhagan Lal*, “Context-based Co-presence Detection Techniques: A Survey”, (Elsevier) Computer & Security, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2019.101652 

[J18] Mauro Conti, Muhammad Hassan, and Chhagan Lal, “BlockAuth: BlockChain based Distributed Producer Authentication in ICN”, (Elsevier) Computer Networks, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2019.106888 

[J17] Reza Mohammadi, Mauro Conti, Chhagan Lal*, K. Satish, “SYN-Guard: An effective countermeasure for SYN flooding attack in Software Defined Networking”. (Wiley) International Journal of Communication Systems, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4061 

[J16] Mauro Conti, Chhagan Lal*, Reza Mohammadi, and Umashankar Rawat, “Lightweight Solutions to Countermeasure DDoS Attacks in Software Defined Networking”. (Springer) Wireless Networks, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-019-01991-y 

[J15] Ajay Nehra*, Meenakshi Tripathi, M.S.Gaur, R.B. Battula, and Chhagan Lal, “SLDP: A Secure and Lightweight Link Discovery Protocol for Software Defined Networking”, (Elsevier) Computer Networks, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2018.12.014

[J14] Anshul Anand, Mauro Conti, Pallavi Kaliyar, and Chhagan Lal*, “TARE: Topology Adaptive Re-kEying Scheme for Secure Group Communication in IoT Networks”, (Springer) Wireless Networks, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-019-01975-y

[J13] Mauro Conti, Ralph Droms, Muhammad Hassan, and Chhagan Lal*, “Fair- RTT-DAS: A Robust and Efficient DynamicAdaptive Streaming over ICN”, (Elsevier) Computer Communications, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2018.07.033

[J12] Balu Deokate, Chhagan lal*, Denis Trcek, Mauro Conti, “MACARON: A Novel Mobility-aware Cross-layer Routing for P2P Network over MANET”,  (Elsevier) Computers and Electrical Engineering , 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2018.11.014

[J11] Sarada Prasad, Chhagan lal, Lokesh Sharma, D.P Sharma, and Deepak Gupta, “Reliable and Secure Data Transfer in IoT Networks”, (Springer) Wireless Networks, 2019.

[J10] Mauro Conti, Pallavi Kaliyar, and Chhagan Lal*, “CENSOR - Cloud Enabled Secure IoT Architecture over SDN Paradigm”, (Wiley) Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.4978

[J9] Prashant Kumar, Meenakshi Tripathi, Ajay Nehra, Mauro Conti, and Chhagan Lal*,“SAFETY: Early Detection and Mitigation of TCP SYN Flood Utilizing Entropy in SDN”, (IEEE) Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2018.2861741

[J8] Mauro Conti, Sandeep Kumar, Chhagan Lal*, and Sushmita Ruj, “A Survey on Security and Privacy Issues of Bitcoin”, IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2018.2842460

[J7] Ajay Nehra, Meenakshi Tripathi, M.S.Gaur, R.B. Battula, and Chhagan Lal*, “TILAK: Token-based preventIon pLan for threats Against topology discovery using random Key”, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.3781

[J6] Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal*, Pallavi Kaliyar, and DP. Sharma, “Mobility-aware and Radio Characteristics Enabled Routing for Video Streaming over MANETs”, In Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, (In press) 2018.

[J5] Chhagan Lal, R. Petroccia*, K. Pelekanakis, M. Conti and J. Alves, "Toward the Development of Secure Underwater Acoustic Networks," in IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 42, no. 4, pp. 1075-1087, Oct. 2017. DOI: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7970108

[J4] Pallavi Kaliyar*, Chhagan Lal, C.M Choudhary, Lokesh Sharma, “Multi-constraint Zigbee Routing to Prolong Lifetime of Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks”, In International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, InderScience, 2017.

[J3] Chhagan Lal*, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Singh Gaur, and Mauro Conti, "Enhancing QoE for video streaming in MANETs via multi-constraint routing". In Wireless Networks, Springer, Volume 24, Issue 1, pp 235–256, 2016.

[J2] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, Seok-Bum Ko*, "Bandwidth-Aware Routing and Admission Control for Reliable Video Streaming over MANETs". In Wireless Networks, Springer, Volume 21 Issue 1, January 2015.

[J1] V. Laxmi, Chhagan Lal*, M.S.Gaur, Deepanshu Mehta, “JellyFish Attack: Analysis, Detection and Countermeasure in TCP-based MANETs”. In Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, Volume 22, June 2015, Pages 99-112. 

* = Corresponding Author 

Conference Publications

[C23] Meng Li, Jianbo Gao, Zijian Zhang, Chaoping Fu, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti. Graph Encryption for Shortest Path Queries With k Unsorted Nodes. In Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom 2022), in press, Wuhan, China, October 28-30, 2022.

[C22] Meng Li, Mingwei Zhang, Jianbo Gao, Chhagan Lal, Mauro Conti, Mamoun Alazab, "Repetitive, Oblivious, and Unlinkable SkNN Over Encrypted-and-Updated Data on Cloud", The 24th International Conference on Information and Communications Security (Springer ICICS 2022), 5-8 September, 2022, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.

[C21] Bhawana Sharma, Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal, "Anomaly Based Network Intrusion Detection for IoT Attacks using Convolution Neural Network", 7th IEEE International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), April 06-08, 2022, (In press) Pune, India.

[C20] Yifei Chen, Meng Li, Shuli Zheng, Chhagan Lal and Mauro Conti, "Where to Meet a Driver Privately: Recommending Pick-Up Locations for Ride-Hailing Services", 17th Springer International Workshop on Security and Trust Management Co-located with ESORICS 2021, October 06 – 08, 2021 (Darmstadt, Germany).

[C19] Yifei Chen, Meng Li, Shuli Zheng, Donghui Hu, Chhagan Lal, and Mauro Conti, "One-Time, Oblivious, and Unlinkable Query Processing over Encrypted Data On Cloud", In Proceedings of the 22nd Springer International Conference on Information and Communications Security. (ICICS 2020), in press, Virtual, August 24-27, 2020.

[C18] Reza Mohammadi, Reza Javidan, Manijeh Keshtgary, Mauro Conti, and Chhagan Lal, “Practical Extensions to Countermeasure DoS attacks in Software Defined Networking”, IEEE International Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks - NFV-SDN'17.

[C17] Mauro Conti, Pallavi Kaliyar, and Chhagan Lal. 2017. REMI: A Reliable and Secure Multicast Routing Protocol for IoT Networks. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES '17). ACM, Reggio Calabria, Italy, Article 84, 8 pages.

[C16] Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal, D.P Sharma, Pallavi Kaliyar, “Enhancing QoS for Multimedia Services using Mobility-aware Bandwidth Estimation Algorithm in MANETs”, International Conference on Optical & Wireless Technologies (OWT2017), Springer, 2017 (In Press).

[C15] Chhagan Lal, Roberto Petroccia, Mauro Conti, João Alves, "Secure Underwater Acoustic Networks: Current and Future Research Directions", In Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/NATO Underwater Communications and Networking (IEEE/NATO UComm 2016), in press, La Spezia, Italy, August 30 - September 1, 2016.

[C14] Lokesh Sharma, Chhagan Lal, D P Sharma,“Improving QoE using Link Stability for Video Streaming in MANETs”, 15th International Conference, ADHOC-NOW 2016, Lille, France, July 4-6, 2016.

[C13] Nishant Garg, Kuldeep Pareek, Manoj Singh Gaur, Vijay Laxmi, and Chhagan Lal, "Analysis of Identity Forging Attack in MANETs", In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA

[C12] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “QoS-aware Routing for Transmission of H.264/SVC Encoded Video Traffic over MANETs”, 19th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2013), Bali, Indonesia.

[C11] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “Video Streaming Over MANETs: Testing and Analysis Using Real-Time Emulation”, 19th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC 2013), Bali, Indonesia.

[C10] V. Laxmi, Deepanshu Mehta, M.S.Gaur, Parvez Faruki, Chhagan Lal “Impact Analysis of JellyFish Attack on TCP-based Mobile Ad-hoc Networks” The 6th ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, November, 2013 Aksaray, Turkey.

[C9] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “A Node-Disjoint Multipath Routing Method based on AODV protocol for MANETs”, 26th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2012), Fukuoka, Japan, 2012.

[C8] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “A Rate Adaptation Scheme to Support QoS for H.264/SVC Encoded Video Streams over MANETs”, 3rd International Conference on Advanced Communication and Networking Springer, (ACN 2011), Czech Republic, 2011.

[C7] Singal, G.; Laxmi, V.; Gaur, M.S.; Chhagan Lal., "LSMRP: Link stability based multicast routing protocol in MANETs," Contemporary Computing (IC3), 2014 Seventh International Conference on , vol., no., pp.254,259, 7-9 Aug. 2014.

[C6] Gaurav Singal, Harshit Garg, Vijay Laxmi, Manoj Gaur, Chhagan Lal, Impact Analysis of attacks in Multicast Routing Algorithms in MANETs, IEEE Conference ICIIS, 2014.

[C5] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “Performance Analysis of MANET Routing Protocols for Multimedia Traffic”, 2nd International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology, IEEE ICCCT, Allahabad, India, 2011.

[C4] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “A Rate Adaptive and Multipath Routing Protocol to Support Video Streaming in MANETs”, ACM International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2012) Chennai, India.

[C3] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “An Adaptive Cross-Layer Routing Protocol for Delay-Sensitive Applications Over MANETs”, IEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2013) Mysore, India.

[C2] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “Analysis of a Traffic Classification Scheme for QoS Provisioning over MANETs”, 1st International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communications (ACC 2011), Springer, Cochin, India. 

[C1] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur, “QoS-aware Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks: A Survey” UGC International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication Systems Engineering (ICEICE-2010), Jodhpur, India.

Books

[B5] Mauro Conti and Ankit Gangwal and Chhagan Lal and Sushmita Ruj, "Bitcoin Blockchain System: An Overview of Security and Privacy Aspects" in Blockchains - A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications, Springer, 2022.

[B4] Mauro Conti and Gulshan Kumar and Chhagan Lal and Rahul Saha, "Blockchain-based Distributed and Secure Digital Forensic Investigation Systems" in Blockchains - A Handbook on Fundamentals, Platforms and Applications, Springer, 2022.

[B3] Mauro Conti, Pallavi Kaliyar, and Chhagan Lal, "Secure Machine to Machine Communication in Industrial Internet of Things" in Security and Privacy Trends in the Industrial Internet of Things, Springer, 2018.

[B2] Grover, Jyoti, P. Vinod, and Chhagan Lal. "Vehicular Cloud Computing for Traffic Management and Systems" IGI Global, 2018. 1-334. Web. 15 Feb. 2018. doi:10.4018/978-1-5225-3981-0.

[B1] Chhagan Lal, V. Laxmi, M.S.Gaur , Book Chapter in Building Next-Generation Converged Networks: Theory and Practice. “TAXONOMY OF QoS-AWARE ROUTING PROTOCOLS FOR MANETs” CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2013. ISBN/ISSN – 9781466507616.