Research

Publications

Journals

2025

• Ratna Raju Mekala, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Manoj Kumar Somesula. "DRL-based Task Scheduling Scheme in Vehicular Fog Computing: Cooperative and mobility aware approach"  Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) (2024): 103819. (SCI, IF-4.8160) Link

• Ratna Raju Mekala, Sai Krishna Mothku, Manoj Kumar Somesula, and Srilatha Chebrolu. "Age and energy aware data collection scheme for urban flood monitoring in UAV-assisted in UAV-Assisted Wireless Sensor Networks."  Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) (2024): 103704. (SCI, IF-4.8160) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula,  Banalaxmi Brahma, Ratna Raju Mekala, and Sai Krishna Mothku.  “ An Online Approach for Cooperative Cache Updating and Forwarding in Mobile Edge Network.” Wireless Networks (Springer) (2024): 1-15. (CORE B, SCI, IF-3.0) Link

2024

• Manoj Kumar Somesula,  Ratna Raju Mekala, Mallikarjun Reddy Dorsala, Banalaxmi Brahma, and Sai Krishna Mothku.  “ Service Caching and User Association in Cache Enabled Multi-UAV Assisted MEN for Latency-Sensitive Applications.” Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) (2024): 1-19. (CORE B, SCI, IF-4.0) Link 

• Ratna Raju Mekala, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Manoj Kumar Somesula.  “DMITS: Dependency and Mobility-aware Intelligent Task Scheduling in Socially-enabled VFC based on Federated DRL Approach.” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2024): 1-16. (SCI, IF-7.90) Link

• Ratna Raju Mekala, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Manoj Kumar Somesula.  “ SMITS: Social and Mobility aware Intelligent Task Scheduling in Vehicular Fog Computing -  A Federated DRL Approach” Computer Communications (Elsevier) 222 (2024): 13-25. (SCI, IF-6.0) Link

2023

• Ratna Raju Mekala, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Manoj Kumar Somesula.  “MITS: Mobility-aware Intelligent Task Scheduling in Vehicular Fog Networks.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 73, no. 3 (2023): 1-16. (SCI, IF-6.80) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Sudarshan Chakravarthy A.  “Cooperative Service Placement and Request Routing in Mobile Edge Networks for Latency-Sensitive Applications.” IEEE Systems Journal 17, no. 3 (2023): 4050-4061. (SCI, IF-4.802) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula and Rashmi Ranjan Rout and D. V. L. N. Somayajulu.  “User Preference Learning based  Cooperative  Cache  Placement  for  Mobile  Edge  Networks  with  Adaptive  User  Clustering.” Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier) 140 (2023): 103051. (SCI, IF-4.816) Link

2022

• Manoj Kumar Somesula, Sai Krishna Mothku, and Anusha Kotte.  “Deep Reinforcement Learning Mechanism for Deadline-aware Cache Placement in Device-to-Device Mobile Edge Networks.” Wireless Networks (Springer) 29, no. 2 (2022): 569-588. (CORE B, SCI, IF-2.701) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula, Anusha Kotte, Sudarshan Chakravarthy A, and Sai Krishna Mothku.  “Deadline-Aware Cache Placement Scheme Using Fuzzy Reinforcement Learning in Device-to-Device Mobile Edge Networks.” Mobile Networks and Applications (Springer) 27, no. 5 (2022): 2100-2117. (SCIE, IF-3.426) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula,  Rashmi  Ranjan  Rout,  and  D.  V.  L.  N.  Somayajulu.   “Cooperative  Cache Update using Multi-Agent Recurrent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Mobile Edge Networks.” Computer Networks (Elsevier) 209, (2022): 108876. (CORE A, SCIE, IF-5.493) Link 

2021

• Manoj Kumar Somesula, Rashmi Ranjan Rout, and D. V. L. N. Somayajulu. "Contact duration-aware cooperative cache placement using genetic algorithm for mobile edge networks." Computer Networks (Elsevier) 193, (2021): 108062. (CORE A, SCIE, IF-5.493) Link

• Manoj Kumar Somesula, Rashmi Ranjan Rout, and D. V. L. N. Somayajulu. "Deadline-aware caching using echo state network integrated fuzzy logic for mobile edge networks." Wireless Networks (Springer) 27, no. 4 (2021): 2409-2429. (CORE B, SCI, IF-2.701) Link

2015

• K. Anusha, S. Manoj Kumar, and K. Santhi Sree.  ”Case Study:  Outlier Detection on Sequential Data.” International Journal of Computer Applications (2015), 975, 8887. Link

• S. Manoj Kumar, K. Anusha, and K. Santhi Sree.  ”Semantic Web-based Recommendation:  Experimental Results and Test Cases.” International Journal of Emerging Research in Management & Technology (2015) 4, no.  6, page 215-222. Link

Book Chapters

2025

• Dorsala Mallikarjun Reddy, Manoj Kumar Somesula, and Mahesh Kumar.  “Embracing Blockchain Technologies in Outsourcing Practices: Cases and Studies in Operations Research and Management Studies” In Outsourcing: Cases and Studies in Using Operations Research and Management Science Methods, pp. 69-88. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2025. 

Conferences

2026

• Aditya Bharadwaj, Manoj Kumar Somesula and Swarnima Singh Gautam.  “A Hybrid Privacy-Preserving Framework for Cryptographic Efficiency in Vehicular Fog Computing Networks”, In Real-World Applications of Machine Learning. Mathematics for Sustainable Developments, pp. 445-457. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2026. Link

2025

• Gani Venkatesh and Manoj Kumar Somesula. “Optimized Server Selection in Multi-Core Edge Computing Environments using Fuzzy logic”, In International Conference on Soft Computing: Theories and Applications, pp. 303-315. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. Link

• Muddam Priyanka, Gani Venkatesh, and Manoj Kumar Somesula. "Optimizing Resource Allocation and Network Slicing for Time-Sensitive Applications in 5G Edge Networks." In International conference on soft computing for problem-solving, pp. 385-398. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. Link