Publications

Communicated & Under Review

• 1. Priyanka Das, Nirnay Ghosh, Soumajit Pramanik, and Subhajit Sidhanta, "I2Q-FL: An Image Informativeness Quotient-Based Client Selection Mechanism For Federated Learning," Springer Computing Journal  (submitted in January 2026).

  2.  Pulak Majumdar, Preetom Biswas, Satyaki Roy, Preetam Ghosh, and Nirnay Ghosh, "AutoQoS: Autonomous QoS Modulation in Wireless Body Area Networks," IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IEEE IoT-J) (submitted in November 2025).

Journals

• 1. Sailaja V. Gowry,  Soumajit Pramanik, Subhajit Sidhanta, and Nirnay Ghosh, "PB-PAPP: An Efficient Mechanism for Real-Time Survivor Detection in Disaster Regions," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3649563, 2025 (Early access).

  2. Debamista Dey and Nirnay Ghosh, "HessianAuth: A Secure Authentication Mechanism for Resource-Constrained IoT Networks," Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer Nature), 18 (6), p. 305, 2025. 

  3. Utsa Roy, Ritoja Mukhopadhyay, Prateush Sharma, and Nirnay Ghosh, "D-RecSys: A Decentralized Recommendation Framework for Web 3.0-based Content-Sharing Platforms," ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), vol. 25, No. 4, pp. 1-26, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3771093, 2025. 

  4. Debamista Dey and Nirnay Ghosh, "iQUIC: An Intelligent Framework for Defending QUIC Connection ID-based DoS Attack using Advantage Actor-Critic RL", Elsevier Journal of Computers and Security, 155, p. 104463, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104463, 2025. 

  5. Utsa Roy and Nirnay Ghosh, "BloAC: A Blockchain-based Secure Access Control Management for Internet of Things," Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA),87, p.103897, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2024.103897, 2024. 

  6. Pulak Majumdar, Satyaki Roy, Sudipta Sikdar, Preetam Ghosh, and Nirnay Ghosh, "A Survey on Data-Driven Approaches for Reliability, Robustness, and Energy Efficiency in Wireless Body Area Networks," Sensors, 24(20), pp. 6531, https://doi.org/10.3390/s24206531, 2024 

  7. Shayantan Halder, Satyaki Roy, Preetam Ghosh, and Nirnay Ghosh, "ADRIN2.0: Enabling Post-Disaster Communication through Adaptive Mobility-informed Routing," IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 102368-102380, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3432866, 2024.

  8. Debasmita Dey and Nirnay Ghosh, "iTRPL: An Intelligent and Trusted RPL Protocol based on Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning," Elsevier Journal of Ad-Hoc Networks, Vol. 163, pp. 103586 DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2024.103586, 2024. 

  9. Utsa Roy and Nirnay Ghosh, "FabMAN: A Framework for Ledger Storage and Size Management for Hyperledger Fabric-based IoT Applications," IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM), Vol. 21, Issue 3, pp. 3140-3151, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2024.3372049, 2024.

  10. Satyaki Roy*, Nirnay Ghosh*, Nitish Uplavikar, and Preetam Ghosh,  "Towards a Unified Pandemic Management Architecture: Survey, Challenges, and Future Directions," ACM Computing Surveys (ACM CSUR), vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 1-32, 2023, DOI:10.1145/3609324, 2023. 

  11. Utsa Roy, Satyaki Roy, Rajshekhar Khan, Preetam Ghosh, and Nirnay Ghosh, "MCR: A Motif Centrality-based Distributed Message Routing for Disaster Area Networks," IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol. 9, Issue 24, pp.25337 - 25349, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3196150, 2022.

  12. Satyaki Roy, Preetam Ghosh, Nirnay Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, "Transcriptional Regulatory Network Topology with Applications to Bio-inspired Networking: A Survey", ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 54, no. 8,  pp. 1-36, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3468266, 2021 . 

  13. Satyaki Roy, Nirnay Ghosh, Preetam Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, "bioMCS 2.0: A Distributed, Energy-aware Fog-based Framework for Data Forwarding in Mobile Crowdsensing", Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal, vol. 73, pp. 101381, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2021.101381, 2021.

  14. Satyaki Roy, Andrii Cherevko, Sayak Chakraborty, Nirnay Ghosh, and Preetam Ghosh, "Leveraging Network Science for Social Distancing to Curb Pandemic Spread," IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 26196-26207, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3058206, 2021. 

  15. Satyaki Roy*, Nirnay Ghosh*, and Sajal K Das, "bioSmartSense+: A Bio-inspired Probabilistic Data Collection Framework for Priority-based Event Reporting in IoT Environments", Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal, vol. 67, pp. 101179, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2020.101179, 2020.

  16. Shameek Bhattacharjee, Nirnay Ghosh, Vijay K Shah, and Sajal K Das, “QnQ: Quality and Quantity based Unified Approach for Secure and Trustworthy Mobile Crowdsensing”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 200-216, DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2018.2889458, 2020. 

  17. Nirnay Ghosh, Saket Chandra, Vinay Sachidanandan, and Yuval Elovici, "SoftAuthZ: A Context-aware, Behaviour-based Authorization Framework for Home IoT", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol.6, no. 6, pp. 10773-10785, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2019.2941767, 2019.

  18. Rajesh P Barnwal*, Nirnay Ghosh*, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, "PS-Sim: A Framework for Scalable Data Simulation and Incentivization in Participatory Sensing-based Smart City Applications", Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC) Journal, vol. 57, pp. 64-77, 2019.

  19. Rajesh P Barnwal*, Nirnay Ghosh*, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, "Publish or Drop Traffic Event Alerts? Quality-aware Decision Making in Participatory Sensing-based Vehicular CPS", ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems; Special Issue on Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 9:1-9:28, 2019.

  20. Francesco Restuccia, Nirnay Ghosh, Shameek Bhattacharjee, Sajal K Das, and Tommaso Melodia, “Quality of Information in Mobile Crowdsensing: Survey and Research Challenges”, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 34:1-34:43, 2017.

  21. Nirnay Ghosh, Debangshu Chatterjee, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, “Securing Loosely-coupled Collaboration in Cloud Environment through Dynamic Detection and Removal of Access Conflicts”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 349-362, 2016.

  22. Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, “SelCSP: A Framework to Facilitate Selection of Cloud Service Providers”. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 66-79, 2015.

  23. Nirnay Ghosh and Soumya K Ghosh, “A Planner-based Approach to Generate and Analyze Minimal Attack Graph”. Springer Applied Intelligence vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 369-390, 2012. 

Conference & Workshop Proceedings

• 1. Debasmita Dey, Sayan Pal, and Nirnay Ghosh, "eQUIC:  A Resource-friendly Encryption-based Framework to Secure QUIC Handshake Process from MITM Attacks", Cybersecurity And Privacy Workshop (CSP'26), IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS'26) (Accepted)

  2. Shayatan Halder, Satyaki Roy,  Preetam Ghosh, Nirnay Ghosh, "ADRIN:  An Adaptive and Distributed Routing Mechanism for Challenged IoT Networks," In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS'24), pp. 769-772, DOI: 10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427101, 2024 . 

  3. Debasmita Dey, Saket Chandra, and Nirnay Ghosh, "HessianAuth: An ECC-based Distributed and Efficient Authentication Mechanism for 6LoWPAN Networked IoT Devices", In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN '23), pp. 227-236, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3571306.3571407, 2023.   

  4. Satyaki Roy, Bilas Chandra, Anubhab Anand, Preetam Ghosh, and Nirnay Ghosh, “Learning Temporal Mobility Patterns to Improve QoS in Mobile Wireless Communications”, In: Das, A.K., Nayak, J., Naik, B., Vimal, S., Pelusi, D. (eds) International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Pattern Recognition. CIPR 2022. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 480. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3089-8_34, 2022. 

  5. Satyaki Roy, Ronojoy Dutta, Nirnay Ghosh, and Preetam Ghosh, "Leveraging Periodicity to Improve Quality of Service in Mobile Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), DOI: 10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369647, 2021.

  6. Satyaki Roy, Ronojoy Dutta, Nirnay Ghosh, and Preetam Ghosh, "Adaptive Motif-based Topology Control in Mobile Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE 18th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), DOI:10.1109/CCNC49032.2021.9369601, 2021. 

  7. Satyaki Roy, Nirnay Ghosh, Preetam Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, "bioMCS: A Bio-inspired Collaborative Data Transfer Framework over Fog Computing Platforms in Mobile Crowdsensing", ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3369740.3369788, 2020.

  8. Vinay Sachinandan, Suhas Bhairav, Nirnay Ghosh, and Yuval Elovici, "PIT: A Probe into Internet of Things by Comprehensive Security Analysis", IEEE TrustCom, pp. 522-529, 2019.

  9. Nirnay Ghosh, Rishabh Singhal, and Sajal K Das, "R2Q: A Risk Quantification Framework to Authorize Requests in Web-based Collaborations", ACM ASIACCS, pp. 247-254, 2019.

  10. Satyaki Roy*, Nirnay Ghosh*, and Sajal K Das, "bioSmartSense: A Bio-inspired Data Collection Framework for Energy-efficient, QoI-aware Smart City Applications", IEEE PerCom, DOI: 10.1109/PERCOM.2019.8767392, 2019.

  11. Rajesh P Barnwal, Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, “PS-Sim: A Framework for Scalable Simulation of Participatory Sensing Data”, IEEE SMARTCOMP, pp. 195-202, 2018.

  12. Shameek Bhattacharjee, Nirnay Ghosh, Vijay K Shah, and Sajal K Das, “QnQ: A Reputation Model to Secure Mobile Crowdsourcing Applications from Incentive Losses”, IEEE CNS pp. 1-9, doi: 10.1109/CNS.2017.8228635, 2017.  

  13. Shameek Bhattacharjee, Nirnay Ghosh, Vijay K Shah, and Sajal K Das, “W2Q: A Dual-Weighted QoI Scoring Mechanism in Social Sensing using Community Confidence”, IEEE IQ2S (IEEE PerCom Workshop), pp. 375-380, 2017.

  14. Rajesh P Barnwal, Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, “Enhancing Reliability of Vehicular Participatory Sensing Network: A Bayesian Approach”. IEEE SMARTCOMP, pp. 1-8, 2016.

  15. Nirnay Ghosh, Rajesh P Barnwal, Soumya K Ghosh, and Sajal K Das, “A Probabilistic Approach to Filter out Spam Reports in a Participatory Sensing-based Vehicular Traffic Management System”. IEEE COMSNETS, pp. 1-2, 2016.

  16. Anant Pushkar, Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K Ghosh, “A Statistical Approach to Detect Anomalous User Requests in SaaS Cloud-centric Collaborations”. ICISS (LNCS-9478), pp. 243-262, 2015.

  17. Nirnay Ghosh, Ishan Chokshi, Mithun Sarkar, Soumya K Ghosh, Anil K Kaushik, and Sajal K Das, “NetSecuritas: An Integrated Attack Graphbased Security Assessment Tool for Enterprise Networks”, ACM ICDCN, pp. 30:1-30:10, 2015.

  18. Nirnay Ghosh, Debangshu Chatterjee, and Soumya K Ghosh, “An Efficient Heuristic-based Role Mapping Framework for Secure and Fair Collaboration in SaaS Cloud”. IEEE ICCAC, pp. 227-236, 2014.

  19. Nirnay Ghosh, Triparna Mondal, Debangshu Chatterjee, and Soumya K Ghosh, “Verifying Conformance of Security Implementation with Organizational Access Policies in Community Cloud - A Formal Approach”, SECRYPT, pp. 329-336, 2014.

  20. Ishan Chokshi, Nirnay Ghosh, Soumya K Ghosh, “Efficient Generation of Exploit Dependency Graph by Customized Attack Modelling Technique”, IEEE ADCOM, pp. 39-45, 2012.

  21. Arkadeep Kundu, Nirnay Ghosh, Ishan Chokshi, Soumya K Ghosh. “Analysis of Attack Graph-based Metrics for Quantification of Network Security”, IEEE INDICON, pp. 530-535, 2012.

  22. Nirnay Ghosh and Soumya K Ghosh. “An Approach to Identify and Monitor SLA Parameters for Storage-as-a-Service Cloud Delivery Model”, IEEE Globecom Workshops, pp. 724-729, 2012.

  23. Nirnay Ghosh, Saurav Nanda, and Soumya K Ghosh, “An ACO based Approach for Detection of an Optimal Attack Path in a Dynamic Environment”. ICDCN (LNCS 5935), pp. 509-520, 2010.

  24. Nirnay Ghosh and Soumya K Ghosh, “An Approach for Security Assessment of Network Configurations using Attack Graph”. IEEE NetCom, pp. 283-288, 2009.

  25. Nirnay Ghosh and Soumya K Ghosh, “An Intelligent Technique for Generating Minimal Attack Graph”, SecArt (ICAPS Workshop), pp. 42-51, 2009.

  26. Nirnay Ghosh, Sourav Nanda, and Soumya K Ghosh, “A Quantitative Approach towards Detection of an Optimal Attack Path in a Wireless Network using Modified PSO Technique”,  IEEE COMSNETS, pp. 1-10, 2009. 

Book Chapters 

• 1. Rajesh P Barnwal, Nirnay Ghosh, and Soumya K Ghosh, “Data and Application Security in Cloud”, Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations, vol. 70, pp. 479-495, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.

  2. Nirnay Ghosh and Soumya K Ghosh, “An Intelligent Approach for Security Management of an Enterprise Network Using Planner”, Intelligent Autonomous Systems: Foundations and Applications, vol. 275, pp. 187-214, Springer-Verlag, 2010.