Research
Research Interests
Secure Network Coding Internet of Things Homomorphic Encryption
5G and Future Networks Secure Key Management Network Security
Research Projects
MIT-JMA Partnership for 5G Research July 2023 - Present
This project focuses on making Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) a reality without sacrificing performance.
Host Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Collaborators: JMA Wireless, USA
Practical Sliding Window Recoding Aug 2022 - Present
Developing practical sliding window recoders for reliable multi hop communications using network coding in challenging conditions.
Host Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Collaborators: Northrop Grumman Corporation
Network Coding Inspired Cryptosystems July 2023 - Present
We study an energy efficient hardware design of Hybrid Universal Network Coding Cryptosystem (HUNCC) as well as its security claims through mutual information estimation and analysis.
Host Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Collaborators: MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Clemson University, Technion
SNOB-5G Mar 2022 - July 2023
Its an MIT Portugal Flagship Project on Scalable Network Backhauling for 5G.
Host Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Collaborators: IT-Aveiro, University of Coimbra, Ubiwhere
Marie Curie Researcher in H2020-MSCA-ITN-SECRET Jan 2018 - Dec 2020
Individual Project Scenario: Secure network coding against pollution attacks in network coding enabled mobile small cells.
Host Institution: University of Patras, Greece
Supervisors: Prof. Stavros Kotsopoulos, Dr. Ilias Politis
Defending Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks using Dynamic Resource Ownership and Economic Incentive-Based Solution Nov 2016 - July 2017
Part of SERB – DST (Government of India) funded project.
Host Institution: National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
Supervisor: Dr. Brij Bhooshan Gupta
Defending Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks in the Internet of Things (IoT) Environment July 2016 - June 2017
Master's Thesis
Host Institution: National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, Haryana, India
Supervisor: Dr. Brij Bhooshan Gupta
Research Collaborations and Visits
Visiting Researcher
Ubiwhere/PROEF in Aveiro, Portugal and FOGUS Innovations in Athens, Greece as part of ITN secondment
Research Collaborations
Systems Security Laboratory, University of Piraeus, Greece
Networks and Analytics Group, Aarhus University, Denmark
Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University, West Bengal, India
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Fellowships and Research Grants
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship as Early Stage Researcher
MHRD (India) Scholarship for GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) qualified postgraduate students
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
C, C++, Python
Simulation Tools and Libraries
MATLAB, NS-3, NS-2, KODO, OmNET++, PN2Sim, COOJA, BigchainDB
Security Tools
Nmap, NESSUS, Wireshark, Metasploit, Ettercap
Operating Systems
Windows, Ubuntu, Kali Linux, Macintosh, Contiki