PhD

Ashish Revar: Security in Cloud Computing (2024-present)

Ankit D. Patel: Smart Ecosystem for Ambient Assisted Living (2021-present)

Explainable AI-based Smart Ecosystem for Ambient Assisted Living. Indian Patent,  Application: 202321038003 (Filed on 02/06/2023; Published on 15/12/2023)

"Investigation of Machine Learning Models for Human Activity Recognition: A Comparative Study", Eighth International Conference for Convergence in Technology (I2CT), IEEE, April 2023, Pune, India.

"Security Trends in Internet-of-Things for Ambient Assistive Living: A Review", Recent Advances in Computer Science and Communications, Bentham Science, Oct 2023.

Sagar V. Ramani: Providing Network Resilience with Software-Defined Networking (Defended Thesis in Apr 2023)  [Working as a Lecturer at Government Polytechnic, Rajkot, India]

"ML-Based Delay Attack Detection and Isolation for Fault-Tolerant Software-Defined Industrial Networks", Sensors, MDPI, Sep 2022.

"SDN Framework for Mitigating Time-based Delay Attack", Journal of Circuits, Systems, and Computers, World Scientific, 31:15 (2250264-1 - 2250264-24), June 2022.

"Fault-Resilience for Bandwidth Management in Industrial Software-Defined Networks". IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, IEEE, 2021.

“Applications in Security and Evasions in Machine Learning: A Survey”, Electronics 2020 (SI: Machine Learning Techniques for Intelligent Intrusion Detection Systems), 9(1), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9010097, MDPI, Jan 2020. 

“Managing Industrial Communication Delays with Software-Defined Networking”, 25th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2019), IEEE, pp. 1-11, Aug 2019, Hangzhou, China. 

Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Rui Tan, Sagar V. Ramani, “Real-time QoS Routing Scheme in SDN-based Robotic Cyber-Physical Systems”, 5th International Conference on Mechatronics System and Robots (ICMSR 2019), IEEE, pp. 18-23, 2019, Singapore. 

MTech / ME

Devansh Gandhi (PDEU): Addressing network security through Software Defined Networking (2021-2022) 

"Penetration Testing Frameworks for Web Applications and APIs",  ISBN: 978-620-4-95382-3, LAMBERT Academic Publishing, May 2022.

Aneri M. Desai (GTU): A Predictive Approach to Mitigate Sequence Number Attacks in MANETs (2017-18)

"A Sequence Number Prediction Based Bait Detection Scheme to Mitigate Sequence Number Attacks in MANETs", Security and Communication Networks, Hindawi, pp. 1-13 (https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/3210207), Nov 2018. 

“Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks: A Predictive Approach”, International Journal of Information Technology, 11(2), 345-356  Springer, 2018.  

Jaina P. Bhoiwala (GTU): Defense Mechanism against Selfish Nodes in Delay Tolerant Networks (2016-17)

“Cooperation Based Defense Mechanism against Selfish Nodes in DTNs”, 10th International Conference On Security Of Information And Networks (SIN 2017), ACM, pp. 268-273, October 2017, Jaipur, India. (Ranked Conference) 

“A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Research on Machine Learning for Medical Science”, Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics (ICACNI 2017), AISC Springer, pp. 225-233, June 2017, Goa, India.

“A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Research on Cloud Computing”, Sixth International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Technologies (ACCT 2016), Research Publishing, pp. 103-109, September 2016, Rohtak, India.

Pooja R. Makawana (GTU): Prevention Mechanism against Flooding Attack in Delay Tolerant Networks (2016-17)

"Encounter RecordTrust-based Scheme against Flooding Attack in Delay Tolerant Networks”, International Journal of Information Technology, 9(4):399-409, Springer (DOI: 10.1007/s41870-017-0046-3), 2017. 

"A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Research on Machine Learning for Cyber Security”, International Conference on Internet of Things for Technological Development (IoT4TD 2017), LNNS Springer (Singapore), pp. 213-226, April 2017, Gandhinagar, India.

“A Bibliometric Analysis of Recent Research on Vehicular Ad Hoc Network”, Sixth International Conference on Advanced Computing & Communication Technologies (ACCT 2016), Research Publishing, pp. 159-166, September 2016, Rohtak, India.

Sachi N. Shah (GTU): Trust-Based Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (2015-16)

"A Trust-Based Scheme against Packet Dropping Attacks in MANETs ", 2nd International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Computing and Communication Technology (iCATccT), IEEE, pp. 68-75, July 2016, Banglore, India. 

" Recent Research on Wireless Body Area Networks: A Survey”, International Journal of Computer Applications 142(11):42-48, May 2016, DOI: 10.5120/ijca2016909893, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

"A Survey of Various Energy Efficient Secure Routing Approaches for Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), IEEE, pp. 1424-1429, October 2015, Greater Noida, India.

"A Survey of Various Approaches to Detect Selfishness in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), IEEE, pp. 627-632, October 2015, Greater Noida, India.

Priya P. Patel (GTU): Mitigating Selfish Vehicles in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (2015-16)

"A Honeypot Scheme to Detect Selfish Vehicles in Vehicular Ad-hoc Network", First International Research Symposium on Computing and Network Sustainability (IRSCNS 2016), LNNS Springer (Singapore), pp.389-401, July 2016, Goa, India. 

"Soft Computing Techniques to Address Various Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey", International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA 2016), IEEE, pp. 399-404, April 2016, Greater Noida, India.

"A Survey of Energy Efficient Schemes in Ad-hoc Networks”, 3rd International Conference on Electronic and Communication Systems (ICECS), IEEE, pp. , February 2016, Coimbatore, India.

"Various Schemes to Detect Selfishness in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: A Survey", International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), IEEE, pp. 881-886, October 2015, Greater Noida, India.

Jenish R. Gandhi (GTU): Trust-Based Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (2014-15)

“Packet Forwarding Misbehaviour Isolation using Fuzzy Trust-based Secure Routing in MANET”, International Journal of Computer Applications 122(3):30-35, July 2015, DOI: 10.5120/21684-4786, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

“Addressing Packet Forwarding Misbehaviour Using Trust-Based Approach in Ad-hoc Networks: A Survey”, In: Proceeding of International Conference on Signal Processing And Communication Engineering Systems (SPACES 2015), IEEE, pp. 391-396, Jan 2015, Vadeswaram, India.

"Energy Efficient Routing Approaches in Ad hoc Networks: A Survey", In: Proceeding of Second International Conference on INformation systems Design and Intelligent Applications (INDIA 2015), Springer (India), pp. 751-760, January 2015, Kalyani, India.

Kishan N. Patel (GTU): Addressing Packet Dropping Misbehavior in VANETs using Metaheuristic Approach (2014-15)

“Isolating Packet Dropping Misbehavior in VANET using Ant Colony Optimization”, International Journal of Computer Applications, 120(24):5-9, June 2015, DOI:10 10.5120/21406-4161, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

“A Survey on Emulation Testbeds for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”, In: Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications” (ICACTA 2015), Procedia Computer Science, Elsevier B.V., pp. 581-591, March 2015, Mumbai, India.

"Addressing Packet Dropping Misbehavior using Metaheuristic Approach: A Survey", In: Proceeding of International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Signals, Communication and Optimization (EESCO), IEEE, January 2015, Visakhapatnam, India.

Nirav J. Patel (GTU): Detecting Misbehaving Nodes using Machine Learning Techniques in MANETs (2014-15)

“Detecting Packet Dropping Misbehaving Nodes using Support Vector Machine (SVM) in MANET”, International Journal of Computer Applications 122(4):26-32, July 2015, DOI: 10.5120/21689-4794, Foundation of Computer Science, New York, USA.

“Trust based approaches for secure routing in VANET: A Survey”, In: Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Computing Technologies and Applications” (ICACTA 2015), Elsevier B.V., pp. 592-601, March 2015, Mumbai, India.

“Detecting Packet Dropping Nodes using Machine Learning Techniques in Mobile Ad-hoc Network: A Survey”, In: Proceeding of International Conference on Signal Processing And Communication Engineering Systems (SPACES 2015), IEEE, pp. 468-472, Jan 2015, Vadeswaram, India.

Research Interns

Hardiksinh Rathod, Niv Doshi (PDEU): Federated Learning and eXplainable AI in Internet-of-Things (2022-Till date)

Neel Modi, Astha Soni (PDEU): eXplainable AI for Heart Disease Prediction using Supervised Learning Techniques (2022-Till date)

Krishna Pandya, Dhruv Prajapati: (PDEU):  eXplainable AI for Mental Health (2022-Till date)

Aakash Bhandary, Vruti Dobariya (PDEU): eXplainable AI for Predicting Energy Consumption
"Enhancing Household Energy Consumption Predictions through Explainable AI Frameworks", IEEE Access, 2024.

Abhishek Savaliya (PDEU): SDN-based Recommender System to Improve Network Resilience (2020-2021)

"Securing Communication with Software-Defined Networking in Healthcare 4.0", Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, AIMS Press, 2021.

Priyanshi Deliwala (Ahmedabad University): Machine Learning to Secure SDN-Networks against Link Flooding Attack (2020-2021)

"Machine Learning in SDN Networks for Secure Industrial Cyber Physical Systems: A case of Detecting Link Flooding Attack", International Journal of Engineering Systems Modelling and Simulation, Inderscience, 2021.