Research Work
Peer-reviewed Journals
Biken Moirangthem, Himanshu Singh, and Ajay Pratap "Energy-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Based Federated Learning for Smart Healthcare System" Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, pp 1-12, 2023.
Amit Kumar, Shantipriya Parida, Ajay Pratap, and Anil Kumar Singh. "Machine Translation by Projecting Text into the Same Phonetic-Orthographic Space Using a Common Encoding." Accepted to Sādhanā, 2023.
Moirangthem Biken Singh, Navneet Taunk, Naveen Kumar Mall, Ajay Pratap. "Criticality and Utility-aware Fog Computing System for Remote Health Monitoring." IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, pp 1-12, 2022.
Amit Kumar, Ajay Pratap, and Anil Kumar Singh. "Generative Adversarial Neural Machine Translation for Phonetic Languages via Reinforcement Learning." IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, pp. 1-10, 2022.
Ajay Pratap, "Cyclic Stable Matching Inspired Resource Provisioning for IoT-enabled 5G Networks" Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Volume 0, pp. 1-11, 2022.
Federico Concone, Fabrizio De Vita, Ajay Pratap, Dario Bruneo, Giuseppe Lo Re and Sajal K. Das, "A Fog-assisted System to Defend against Sybils in Vehicular Crowdsourcing," Accepted to Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 0, pp.1-1, 2022.
A. Kumar, A. Pratap, A. K. Singh, S. Saha "Addressing Domain Shift in Neural Machine Translation via Reinforcement Learning" Accepted to Expert Systems With Applications, 2022.
A. Kumar, R. Kumar, A. Pratap, A. K. Singh, "TLSPG: Transfer Learning-based Semi-supervised Pseudo-corpus Generation Approach for Zero-shot Translation" Accepted to Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences, vol., no., pp. 1-12, 2022 (IF 13.473).
Ajay Pratap, Sajal K. Das, "Stable Matching based Resource Allocation for Service Provider's Revenue Maximization in 5G Networks", Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol., no., pp 1-17, 2021.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, Sajal K. Das “Maximizing Fairness for Resource Allocation in Heterogeneous 5G Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 603-619, 2021.
Ajay Pratap, Ragini Gupta, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Sajal K. Das, "Bandwidth-Constrained Task Throughput Maximization in IoT-enabled 5G Networks," Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 69, pp.101281, 2020.
Ajay Pratap, Rishabh Singhal, Rajiv Misra, Sajal K. Das “Distributed Randomized k-Clustering based PCID Assignment for Ultra-Dense Femtocellular Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 29(6), pp. 1247-1260, 2018, DOI:10.1109/TPDS.2018.2800050.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, “Random Graph Coloring-based Resource Allocation for Achieving User Level Fairness in Femtocellular LTE-A Networks”, Springer Wireless Personal Communications, 98 (2), pp.1975–1995, 2018, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-017-4957-x.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, Utkarsh Gupta, “Randomized Graph Coloring Algorithm for Physical Cell ID Assignment in LTE-A Femtocellular Networks”, Springer, Wireless Personal Communications, 91(3), pp.1213-1235, 2016, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3522-3.
Peer-reviewed conferences
Himanshu Singh, Moirangthem Biken Singh, Pratik Prakash Kagale, and Ajay Pratap, " Cost-aware Hierarchical Federated Learning for Smart Healthcare", 16th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS, under MINDS Workshop, 1-6, 2024.
Abhishek Kumar, Shilpi Kumari, Ajay Pratap and Sunil Kumar, “NVM-Enhanced MLI Placement for Revenue Maximization in UAV-Fog Assisted MEC with Stable Matching”, In 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, under SDN-CPS Workshop, pp. 1-6, 2024.
Himanshu Singh, Moirangthem Biken Singh, Ajay Pratap, Shilpi Kumari, Abhishek Kumar, Sajal K Das, "Splitfed-based Patient Severity Prediction and Utility Maximization in Industrial Healthcare 4.0", In 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, under SOCIETY Workshop, pp. 1-6, 2024.
Moirangthem Biken Singh, Suraj Mahawar, Himanshu Singh, Shilpi Kumari, and Ajay Pratap, "Blockchain and Fog Access Point Integrated Healthcare System for Contact Tracing and Infection Probability Evaluation", In 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, under NWDCN Workshop, pp. 1-6, 2024.
Moirangthem Biken Singh, Himanshu Singh, Ajay Pratap, "Criticality-Driven Scheduling for UAV-Assisted Remote Health Monitoring System", 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, pp 1-6, 2023.
Himanshu Singh, Moirangthem Biken Singh, Akash Patel, Ajay Pratap, "Stochastic On-Time Arrival Path Prediction and Dynamic Programming for Criticality Aware Mobile Healthcare System", 17th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems, pp 1-6, 2023. (Best Paper Award-2nd runner-up)
Himanshu Singh, Moirangthem Biken Singh, Harsh Pratik, and Ajay Pratap. "UAV and UGV Assisted Path Planning for Sensor Data Collection in Precision Agriculture." in 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Systems Devices and Computing (ESDC), pp. 1-6, 2023.
Himanshu Singh, Moirangthem Biken Singh, Ranju Sharma, Jayesh Gat, Ayush Kumar Agrawal, and Ajay Pratap. "Optimized Doctor Recommendation System using Supervised Machine Learning." In 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, under MLBSS Workshop, pp. 360-365. 2023 (Best Paper Award under MLBSS).
Moirangthem Biken Singh, Suraj Mahawar, Himanshu Singh, and Ajay Pratap. "COVID-19 Spread Detection and Controlling with Fog-based Infection Probability Evaluation Model." In 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, under MLBSS Workshop, pp. 354-359. 2023.
Federico Concone, Fabrizio De Vita, Ajay Pratap, Dario Bruneo, Giuseppe Lo Re and Sajal K. Das "A Novel Recruitment Policy to Defend against Sybils in Vehicular Crowdsourcing", in IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), pp. 1-8, August 23-27, 2021, California, USA (Best Paper Award).
Ajay Pratap, Shivani Singh, Shaswat Satapathy, Sajal K. Das “Maximizing Joint Data Rate and Resource Efficiency in D2D-IoT Enabled Multi-Tier Networks”, in 44th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp. 177-184 , October 14-17, 2019, Osnabrück, Germany.
Ajay Pratap, Federico Concone, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Sajal K. Das “Three-Dimensional Matching based Resource Provisioning for the Design of Low-Latency Heterogeneous IoT Networks”, in 22nd ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), pp. 79-86 , November 25 - 29, 2019, Miami, USA.
Ajay Pratap, Ragini Gupta, Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Sajal K. Das “On Maximizing Task Throughput in IoT-enabled 5G Networks under Latency and Bandwidth Constraints”, in IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), pp. 217-224, June 12-14, 2019, Washington D.C . , USA (Best Paper Candidate Award).
Rishabh Singhal, Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, Sajal K. Das “Factor Graphbased Message Passing Technique for Distributed Resource Allocation in 5G Networks”, in 11th IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), pp. 359-366, January 7 - 11, 2019, Bengaluru, India.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, Sajal K. Das “Resource Allocation to Maximize Fairness and Minimize Interference for Maximum Spectrum Reuse in 5G Cellular Networks” in 19th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), pp.1-9, June 12-15, 2018, Chania, Greece.
Sri Sanjeevini Devi Ganni, Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, “Distributed Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Downlink Heterogeneous Small Cell Networks” in ACM MobiHoc workshop on Mobility, Interference and MiddleWare Management in HetNets (MobiMWareHN), pp. 1-6, July 10-14, 2017, Chennai, India.
Ritik Mathur, Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, “Distributed Algorithm for Resource Allocation in Uplink 5G Networks” in ACM MobiHoc workshop on Mobility, Interference and MiddleWare Management in HetNets (MobiMWareHN), pp. 1-6, July 10-14, 2017, Chennai, India.
Rajiv Misra, Ankish Gupta, Ajay Pratap, “Fairness while Improving Smartphone Battery life Using D2D Cooperative Relays Underlaying LTE Networks”, in IEEE, International Conference on Computational Techniques in Information and Communication Technologies (ICCTICT), 2016 , pp. 459–462, March 11-13, 2016, New Delhi, India.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra, “Resource Sharing in D2D Communication Underlaying Cellular LTE-A Networks”, in IEEE, International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI), pp. 103–109, 10-13 August 10-13, 2015, Kochi, India.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra “Firefly Inspired Improved Distributed Proximity Algorithm for D2D Communication”, in IEEE, International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPSW), 2015, pp. 323-328, May 25-29, 2015, Hyderabad, India.
Ajay Pratap, Hemanta Kumar Pati “Capacity Estimation for Cellular LTE Using AMR Codec with Semi-persistent Scheduling”, in Springer, Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices(ICCD), pp. 725-736, April 18-19, 2014, Bhubaneswar, India.
Book Chapter
Ajay Pratap, Sajal K. Das “Internet of Things in 5G Cellular Networks: Radio Resource Perspective ”, in Internet of Things and Secure Smart Environments: Successes and Pitfalls, CRC Press, October 2020, USA.
Poster and Demos
Ajay Pratap, Sajal K. Das “Cyclic Stable Matching based Algorithm for IoT-Enabled Three-Sided Heterogeneous Networks”, in IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2019, USA.
Ajay Pratap, Ragini Gupta, Sajal K. Das “Achieving Minimum Resource Requirement for IoT Edge Devices in 5G Networks”, in Intelligent Systems Center, 2018, Missouri University of S & T, USA.
Ajay Pratap, Rajiv Misra. “Resource Utilization in 5G Femtocellular Networks” at Research Scholar Day, 2017, IIT Patna, India.