Publications

SCI journals (Published)

1. V. K. Bhardwaj, Abhisekh Singh, O. P. Sahoo, Mahendra K. Shukla, and O. J. Pandey, Attention-Guided Encoder-Decoder Design for Efficient RIS Phase Configuration in Time-Varying IoT Networks,  IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, Sept. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2025.3610389.

2. Saransh Shanka, Divjot Singh, Anurag Badoni, Mahendra K. Shukla, O. J. Pandey, and Nadjib Aitsaadi Towards Robust IDS in Network Security: Handling Class Imbalance With Deep Hybrid Architectures,  IEEE Networking Letters, Sept. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2025.3610610.

3. V. K. Bhardwaj, O. P. Sahoo, Mahendra K. Shukla, and O. J. Pandey, Fault-Resilient RIS Systems: Toward SINR-and Sum-Rate Maximization of IoT Networks Using ML Frameworks,  IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, May 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2025.3562550.

4. Sankalp, Lata, G. Sondur, Mahendra K. Shukla, O. J. Pandey and M. Guillaud, Secure Communication in Gaussian Multiple Access Wiretap Channels: A Deep Learning and Friendly Jamming Approach,  IEEE Networking Letters, May 2025, DOI: 10.1109/LNET.2025.3566243.

5. H. Mishra, Mahendra K. Shukla, Priyanshu, S. Dengre, Y. Singh, and O. J. Pandey, A Lightweight Causal Sound Separation Model for Real-Time Hearing Aid Applications,  IEEE Sensors Letters, Feb. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3546132.

6. V. K. Bhardwaj, G. Mundada, O. P. Sahoo, Mahendra K. Shukla, and O. J. Pandey, SINR-Delay Constrained Node Localization in RIS-Assisted Time-Varying IoT Networks Using ML Frameworks,  IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Feb. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2025.3539711.

7. A. Kamble, H. Dalwadi, Mahendra K. Shukla, O. J. Pandey, and V. K. Singh, Medical Sensor Data Security: A DNN Framework for SOP Prediction in Two-Way Relay NOMA Systems, IEEE Sensors Letters, Jan. 2025, DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2025.3528978.

8. R. Kumar, Mahendra K. Shukla, V. Kumar and R. Tripathi, Dual-Hop Mixed FSO-RF Wireless Powered Relaying System: Performance Analysis With Nonlinear Energy Harvesting, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, Oct. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2024.3482866.

9. Aman Mishra, Yash Garg, Om Jee Pandey, Mahendra K. Shukla, Athanasios V Vasilakos, Rajesh M Hegde, A Novel Resource Management Framework for Blockchain-Based Federated Learning in IoT Networks, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Jan. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TSUSC.2024.3358915.

10. E. Kumari, Mahendra K. Shukla, Om Jee Pandey, and Suneel Yadav, NeuroAid: Emotion-Based EEG Analysis for Parkinson’s Disease Identification, IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1-4, Dec. 2023, DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2023.3335226.

11. A. K. Shrivastava, U. K. Agrawal, Mahendra K. Shukla, and Om Jee Pandey, Neural Networks Based Phase Estimation and Symbol Detection for RIS-Assisted Wireless Communications, IEEE Communications Letters, Oct. 2023, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2023.3323098.

12. Om Jee Pandey, T. Yuvaraj, J. K. Paul, Ha H. Nguyen, K. Gundepudi, and Mahendra K. Shukla,  Improving Energy Efficiency and QoS of LPWANs for IoT Using Q-Learning Based Data Routing, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 365-379, March 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCCN.2021.3114147.

13. Xuran Li, Hong-Ning Dai, Mahendra K. Shukla, Dengwang Li, Huaqiang Xu, Muhammad Imran,  Friendly-Jamming Schemes to Secure Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications in 5G and Beyond Communications, Elsevier Computer Standards & Interfaces, Published, DOI: 10.1016/j.csi.2021.103540, Oct. 2021.

14. Qubeijian Wang, Hong-Ning Dai, Xuran Li, Mahendra K. Shukla, Muhammad Imran,  Artificial Noise Aided Scheme to Secure UAV-assisted Internet of Things with Wireless Power Transfer, Computer Communications, Published, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2020.09.017, Sept. 2020.

15. Mahendra K. Shukla, Ha H. Nguyen, and Om Jee Pandey, Multiuser Full-Duplex IoT Networks with Wireless-Powered Relaying: Performance Analysis and Energy Efficiency Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 982-997, Dec. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2020.3008409, (In the list of most popular papers of IEEE TGCN, Jul. 2020, Sept. 2020, Nov. 2020, Feb. 2021-Apr. 2021).

16. Om Jee Pandey, Ved Gautam, Saket Jha, Mahendra K. Shukla, and Rajesh M. Hegde, Time Synchronized Node Localization Using Optimal H-Node Allocation in a Small World WSN , IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 2579-2583, Nov. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3008086.

17. Om Jee Pandey, Ved Gautam, Ha H. Nguyen, Mahendra K. Shukla, and Rajesh M. Hegde, Fault-Resilient Distributed Detection and Estimation over a SW-WSN Using LCMV Beamforming , IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1758-1773, Sept. 2020, DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.2988994.

18. Yalin Liu, Hong-Ning Dai, Qubeijian Wang, Mahendra K. Shukla, Muhammad Imran,  Unmanned aerial vehicle for internet of everything: Opportunities and challenges, Computer Communications, Published, DOI: 10.1016/j.comcom.2020.03.017, Mar. 2020.

19. Qubeijian Wang, Hong-Ning Dai, Qiu Wang, Mahendra K. Shukla, Wei Zhang, Carlos Guedes Soares,  On Connectivity of UAV-assisted Data Acquisition for Underwater Internet of Things, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 5371-5385, June 2020, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2979691.

20. Mahendra K. Shukla, Ha H. Nguyen, and Om Jee Pandey, Secrecy Outage Analysis of Two-Way Relay Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access Systems, IEEE Access,  vol. 8, pp. 39502-39512, 2020, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2975924.

21. Mahendra K. Shukla and Ha H. Nguyen, Ergodic Secrecy Sum Rate Analysis of a Two-Way Relay NOMA System, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 2222-2225, June 2021, DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2020.2978042.

22. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Performance Analysis of Full-Duplex Cellular Two-Way Relay Networks With the Nth Worst Relay Selection Under Channel Estimation Error and Co-Channel Interference, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, DOI: 10.1002/ett.3672, May 2019.

23.  Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Secure transmission in cellular multiuser two-way amplify-and-forward relay networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 12, pp. 11886 - 11899, December 2018.

24. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Joint impact of cochannel interference and channel estimation error on outage performance of cellular two-way relay networks, Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 261-274, Sept. 2018.

25. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Performance evaluation and optimization of traffic-aware cellular multiuser two-way relay networks over Nakagami-m fading, IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1933-1944, June 2018.

26. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Cellular multiuser two-way relay network with co-channel interference and channel estimation error: performance analysis and optimization, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 3431-3446, April 2018.

27. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Ergodic sum rate evaluation of cellular multiuser two-way relaying with beamforming and antenna selection over Nakagami-m fading, Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 95, no. 2, pp. 743-760, July 2017.

Book Chapters

1. Qubeijian Wang, Hong-Ning Dai, Qiu Wang, and Mahendra K. Shukla, On UAV-assisted Data Acquisition for Underwater IoT in Aquaculture Surveillance, Developments in Maritime Technology and Engineering,1st Edition, First Published 2021, CRC Press, eBook ISBN: 9781003216599.

Conferences

1. Apoorv Jain, Vinay Kokate, Astitva Kamble, Mahendra K. Shukla, Prateek Rathore, and Suneel Yadav, Deep Neural Network-Driven Outage Prediction in Multiuser Two-Way Relay Systems, IEEE 8th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (IEEE CICT 2024), IIIT Allahabad, Accepted.

2. Shatakshi Singh, Poonam Sharma, Aditya Trivedi, Divya Saxena, Mahendra K. Shukla, Channel Estimation Refinement in Intelligent Reflecting Surface aided Communication using Diffusion Model, IEEE 8th Conference on Information and Communication Technology (IEEE CICT 2024), IIIT Allahabad, Accepted.

3. Neha Sharma, Prateek Rathore, Mahendra K. Shukla, and Om Jee Pandey, Heuristic-based Multicasting Utilizing Network Coding over a Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Network, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS-2024), Accepted.

4. Ravindra Kumar, Mahendra K. Shukla, Vinay Kumar, Rajeev Tripathi, Outage Analysis of RIS-equipped RF-FSO Mixed Cooperative Communication System Over Nakagami-m Fading, 2nd International Conference on Microwave, Antenna, and Communication (MAC-2024), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India Presented (Received Best paper award).

5. Suneel Yadav, Devendra S. Gurjar, Gaurav Pandey, and Mahendra K. Shukla, Multi-Relay Multi-User Asymmetric Two-Way Relaying Over Fading Channels: A Unified Outage Analysis and Location Optimization Study, IEEE SILCON 2023, NIT Silchar, Presented (Received Best paper award).

6. Ashutosh Kumar Yadav, Suneel Yadav, Mahendra K. Shukla, Devendra Singh Gurjar, and Xingwang Li, Secrecy Performance Analysis of RIS-enabled Wireless Networks Over Rayleigh Fading Channels, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Signal Processing, accepted for oral presentation, 15-17 December, 2021.

7. Mahendra K. Shukla, Anshul Pandey, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Secrecy outage analysis of full duplex cellular multiuser two-way AF relay networks, IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications Signal Processing and Networking (WiSPNET), Chennai, India, 2019 (Accepted). 

8. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Effect of channel estimation error on multiuser two-way relaying with asymmetric data rates, Conference on Information and Communication Technology (CICT), IIIT Gwalior, 2017.

9. Suneel Yadav, Mahendra K. Shukla, and Neetesh Purohit, Performance evaluation of rate-aware multiuser two-way fixed gain relay networks, Conference on Information an Communication Technology (CICT), IIIT Gwalior, 2017.

10. Mahendra K. Shukla, Suneel Yadav, and Neetesh Purohit, Antenna selection with user scheduling in traffic-aware cellular two-way relay networks, IEEE Signal Process. Commun. and Computing (ICSPCC), City University, Hong Kong, 2016.

11. Abhishek Gupta, Om jee Pandey, and Mahendra K. Shukla, Intelligent perpetual echo attack detection on user datagram protocol port 7 using ant colony optimization, IEEE International conference, (ICESC), Nagpur, 2014.

12. Abhishek Gupta, Om jee Pandey, and Mahendra K. Shukla, Towards context–aware smart mechatronics networks: integrating swarm intelligence and ambient intelligence, IEEE International conference, (ICICT), Ghaziabad, 2014.

13. Mahendra K. Shukla, Aditya Trivedi, and Om jee Pandey, Physical layer authentication for mobile terminals over MIMO fading wiretap channel, International conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), Mysore, 2013.

14. Om jee Pandey, Aditya Trivedi, and Mahendra K. Shukla, Outage performance of decode-forward and amplify-forward protocols in cooperative wireless communication, International Conference on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN), Bhopal, 2013.

15. Abhishek Gupta, Om jee Pandey, and Mahendra K. Shukla, Computational intelligence based intrusion detection systems for wireless communication and pervasive computing networks, IEEE International conference, (ICCIC), Tamilnadu, 2013.