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," IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (submitted in August 2025).

  2. 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) ( 2nd round of major revision submitted in August 2025).

  3. Debasmita Dey, Sayan Pal, and Nirnay Ghosh, "eQUIC:  A Resource-friendly Encryption-based Framework to Secure QUIC Handshake Process from MITM Attacks", International Conference on Information Systems Security (submitted in July 2025)

  4. 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 (Major revision submitted in July 2025).

  5. Debamista Dey and Nirnay Ghosh, "HessianAuth: A Secure Authentication Mechanism for Resource-Constrained IoT Networks," Springer International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Major revision submitted in May 2025). 

Journals

• 1. 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. 

  2. 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. 

  3. 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 

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 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. 

  8. 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.

  9. 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 . 

  10. 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.

  11. 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. 

  12. 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.

  13. 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. 

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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.

  20. 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. 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 . 

  2. 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.   

  3. 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. 

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.  

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

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

  20. 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.

  21. 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.

  22. 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.

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

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

  25. 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.