Research

Research Interest

• Blockchain Technologies, Wireless Sensor Networks, IoT, Distributed Systems

Projects

• Digital Image Processing: “Segmentation and Detection of Optic Disc Using Learning Technique.”

• Internet Technologies, “Exploiting Capture Effect for Channel Assignment in Wireless Sensor Networks,” conducted all experiments for this work on INDRIYA testbed in NUS.

• Machine Learning: “Differentiating Clustering Techniques on Different Data Sets,” implemented agglomerative clustering techniques on different datasets and compared my results with other clustering techniques implemented by my other colleagues in this project. 

Publications

Conference

• Published research paper "ChainSEAL: A Blockchain-based Secure and Adaptive Evidence Ledger, 18th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)" 2026.

• Published research paper "Flood and Loot Attack in Distributed Routing Protocols in PCNs, 17th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS)" 2025.

• Published research paper "Attacks in Distributed Routing in PCNs, 7th IEEE International Conference on Blockchain, Denmark" 2024.

• Published research paper "Distributed Routing Algorithms for Concurrent Execution of Transactions in PCNs, 7th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing" 2023.

• Published research paper “Identification of Defective Nodes in Cyber-Physical System” 2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 2020.

Journals

• Published research paper “maxREE: Maximizing Flow by Replacing Exhausted Edges in Lightning Network" in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 12, pp. 1011-1025  2025.

• Published research paper “Deadlock Prevention in Payment Channel Networks" in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 21, pp. 5164-5177,  2024

• Published research paper “Design and Evaluation of Swift Routing for Payment Channel Network," in Blockchain: Research and Applications, Vol. 5, pp. 2096-7209, 2024

• Published research paper “Single Image Defogging using Deep Learning Techniques: Past, Present, and Future," in Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Vol. 28, pp. 4449-4469, 2021.

• Published research paper “Mitigating the effect of negative link correlation on contention mechanism of MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks". IET Communications, Vol. 14: pp. 4007-4013, 2020.

Refree Services

• IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)

• IEEE Transactions on Network Sceince and Engineering (TNSE)

• IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (iSES) 2024

Workshops

• Organised workshop on “Opportunistic Mobile Computing” in GHCI 17 in Bangalore.