Indian Institute of Information Technology

Dr. Arijit Roy

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

Academic Qualifications

Education:

Doctor of Philosophy -- January, 2021
Topic: Service-oriented Sensor-cloud Management for IoT Applications
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Supervisor: Sudip Misra, Fellow IEEE, FNAE (India), FNASc (India), FIETE (India), FIET (UK), FRSPH (UK)

Master of Science (by Research) -- August, 2015
Topic: Dumb Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks
Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
Supervisor: Sudip Misra, Fellow IEEE, FNAE (India), FNASc (India), FIETE (India), FIET (UK), FRSPH (UK) and Prof. Debashis Samanta

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology -- April, 2010
Topic: Cyber Court
West Bengal University of Technology, West Bengal, India
Project Supervisor: Prof. Rajat Subhra Goswami

Experience

Experience:

Research and Project Handling:

  • Apr. 2021 -- Apr. 2022: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in “EuroCC Project “, European Govt. Responsible for analyzing the requirements (both technical and non-technical) of HPC in the nations, and maximizing the usability of National HPC Centre of Luxembourg.
  • Nov. 2020 -- Feb. 2021: Research Associate in “Ambulatory Sensing and Point-of-Care Recommendation for IoT-based Healthcare “, sponsored by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Govt. of India
  • Jun. 2019 -- Oct. 2021: Project Staff in “Ambulatory Sensing and Point-of-Care Recommendation for IoT-based Healthcare “, sponsored by Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), Govt. of India.
  • Aug. 2018 -- Dec. 2020: Project Staff in an India-French project “Fog City: QoS - Aware Resource Management for Smart Cities “, sponsored by Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (CEFIPRA).
  • Jun. 2017-- Jun. 2020: Project Staff in an India-UK project “SAFE: Secure and Usable IoT Ecosystem Project “, sponsored by UGC-UKIERI.
  • May 2017 -- May 2020: Senior Research Fellow, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.
  • Virtual Lab on Advanced Network Technologies, sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), New Delhi, Govt. of India. This lab is widely used in different Institutes and Universities to conduct virtual experiments on advanced network topics.
  • Apr. 2016 -- Apr. 2017: Senior Research Fellow.
  • Apr. 2013 -- Mar. 2016: Senior Project Assistant
  • Mar. 2011 -- Dec 2011: Junior Project Assistant.
  • Dec. 2011 -- Mar. 2013: Junior Project Assistant in the research project “Target Tracking in the Presence of Malicious Nodes in
  • Wireless Sensor Networks, sponsored by Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development, IIT Kharagpur, India

Research Areas of Interest

Internet of Things, Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensor-Cloud Architecture, Cloud and Fog Computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Wireless Body Area Network

Awards / Honours

  • Raman-Charpak Fellowship (RCF 2018): Awarded the prestigious fellowship (Only 4 applicants were selected in the Engineering Sciences across India) to conduct research in a French Research Organization for 3-9 months. 
  • Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Fellowship (CSIR): The fellowship was awarded to selected PhD scholar across India to pursue research work during 2017-20Institute Scheme for Innovative Research and Development (ISIRD) Fellowship: The fellowship is received in 2013 to work in a research project, at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
  • Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) Fellowship: Received MHRD fellowship in 2011 to work in a research project.
  • IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award 2021: Ph.D. Thesis was selected as the outstanding dissertation award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), which is an international forum fostering research and education in Scalable Computing.
  • ICACIE-2020, Springer, Best Paper Award: Paper titled QSens: QoS-aware Sensor Node Selection in Sensor-Cloud Architecture.
  • IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award: Paper titled MEGAN: Multipurpose Energy-Efficient, Adaptable, and Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Node for the Internet of Things was recognized as ISJ Best Paper Award. In 2019, only 7 papers were selected by the journal committee for the best paper out of total of 793 papers. 
  • Top Downloaded Article 2017-18: Paper titled Knowledge Discovery for Enabling Smart Internet of Things: A Survey, published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Review - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery was amongst articles published between January 2017 and December 2018, the paper received some of the most downloads in the 12 months.  The paper was also recognized as a top 20 most read paper.
  • Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) 2018: Selected as one of the most qualified young researchers (among 200 researchers world-wide) to participate in the 6th HLF and interact with the Nobel Laureates, Abel Prize Awardees, Fields Awardees, ACM A. M. Turing Awardees, ACM Prize Awardees, and Navanlinna Awardees. 
  • Dr. Amulya K. N. Reddy Award: Awarded by the Hari-om Ashram Prerit Society for commercialization of prototype (INR 50,000) developed to address a socially relevant problem in 2018. Only 3-4 awards are granted annually among 25,000 (approx.) entries.
  • Gandhian Young Technological Innovation (GYTI) 2018: Awardee of GYTI for the product Batteryless IoT Sensing Nodes. Award was received in the hands of the honorable President of India. 
  •  IBM Day Award: Runner-Up in Demo Presentation for the product Batteryless Sensing in IoT in IBM Day, organized by IBM and IIT Kharagpur, 2016    
  • Runner-Up in Poster Presentation in 6th Research Scholars' Day, organized by the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2015
  • Received Honorary Certificate of Appreciation at IEEE ComSoc Student Competition "Communications Technology Changing the World", 2014 for being ranked among the top 9 projects worldwide
  • Second Runners Up in Samsung Innovation Award 2014 for the product Big-Sensor-Cloud
  • Outstanding Poster Presentation Award 5th Research Scholars' Day, organized by the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2014

Position Served

  • Co-host, Webinar on Next-Generation IoT, IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on Communications Software: Special Interest Group (SIG) on “NFV and SDN Technologies” on 2021 and 2022
  • Co-host, Webinar on Healthcare IoT, IEEE Communication Society Technical Committee on eHealth: Special Interest Group (SIG) on “IoT for eHealth” and Technical Committee Green Computing and Communications: Special Interest Group on  “Pandemics” on 2021 and 2022
  • Area Expert, IEEE ComSoc Technical Committee e-Health SIG on IoT
  • Co-chair, Workshop on AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks co-located with the IEEE INFOCOM 2022.
  • Co-chair, Workshop on Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services co-located with the IEEE GLOBECOM 2021.
  • Chair (Lead), Workshop on Virtualization for Enabling Next-Generation IoT Networks co-located with IEEE HPSR 2021.
  • Technical Program Committee in the 4th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering, Springer 
  • Technical Program Committee in the 1st ACM International Workshop on Future Industrial Communication Networks in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2018
  • Reviewer in the IEEE TMC, the IEEE TVT, the IEEE TGCN, the IEEE TSUSC, the IEEE IoT J, the IEEE Access, the IEEE Comm. Lett., the IEEE WCM, the IEEE IoT Mag., the IEEE Net. Mag., the PMC., Elsevier, and the IET WSS
  • Organizing Committee Member in IEEE Students' Technology Symposium, 2016 
  • Reviewer in IEEE Students' Technology Symposium, 2016 
  • Reviewer in the IEEE ANTS 2015 and 2016, the IEEE Covi-Com Workshop, Globecom 2016, IEEE HCI, 2014 
  • General Secretary-Technology for Research Scholar Hostel (VSRC), IIT Kharagpur, 2015-2016 
  • Organizing committee member, All India Council for Technical Education sponsored short term course - 2015 on Internet of Things: Convergence of Sensing, Cloud, and Big-Data Networking
  • Organizing committee member in Knowledge Dissemination Program - 2015 on Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things Organizing committee member in International Summer and Winter Term - 2015 on Enabling Internet of Things with Cloud and Big Data Networking 
  • Program Committee Members in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Scalable Computing and Communications, 2014 
  • Reviewer in IEEE Students' Technology Symposium, 2014 
  • IEEE Member
  • ACM Member

Projects

Publications

Book: S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, A. Roy., “Introduction to IoT”, Cambridge University Press, UK

Journals:

  • T. Ghosh, A. Roy, S. Misra, I2M: Intelligent Information Management for Rendering IoE Services in Society 5.0”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2022 (Accepted)
  • T. Ghosh, A. Roy, S. Misra, “B2H: Enabling Delay-Tolerant Blockchain Network in Healthcare for Society 5.0”, Computer Networks, Elsevier, 2022 (Accepted)
  • A. Shukla, N. Ahmed, A. Roy, S. C. Misra, “Softwarized Management of 6G Network for Green Internet of Things,” Computer Communications, Elsevier, 2022 (Accepted), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.\\comcom.2022.01.018
  • N. A. Singh, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “Edge Intelligence for Rendering Green Camera-Network-as-a-Service”, IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 365 - 375, 2021
  • T. Ghosh, R. Saha, A. Roy, S. Misra, N. S. Raghuwanshi, “AI-based Communication-as-a-Service for Network Management in Society 5.0”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2021 (Accepted)
  • T. Ghosh, A. Roy, S. Misra, N. S. Raghuwanshi, “CASE: Context-Aware Security Scheme for Preserving Data Privacy in IoT-enabled Society 5.0”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021 (Accepted), DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3101115
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, S. Bandyopadhyay, A. Jamalipour, “Mobile Sensor-Cloud for Rendering Sensors-as-a-Service”, IEEE Systems Journal, 2021 (Accepted), DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2021.3091585
  • P. Deb, C. Roy, A. Roy, S. Misra, “DEFT: Decentralized Multiuser Computation Offloading in a Fog-Enabled IoV Environment”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 15978-15987, 2020 
  • S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, A. Roy, N. Saurabh, Y. Rahulamathavan, R. Muttukrishnan, “Blockchain at the Edge: Performance of Resource-Constrained IoT Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 174-183, 2020.
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and F. Nait-Abdesselam, “Range-Price Trade-off in Sensor-cloud for Provisioning Sensors-as-a-Service”, IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing, 2020 (Accepted), DOI: 10.1109/TCC.2020.3030851 
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and S. Nag, “PRIME: An Optimal Pricing Scheme for Mobile Sensors-as-a-Service,” IEEE Transactions of Mobile Computing, 2020 (Accepted), DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2020.3023885 
  • S. Misra, A. Roy, C. Roy, A. Mukherjee, “DROPS: Dynamic Radio Protocol Selection for Energy-Constrained Wearable IoT Healthcare,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 338 - 345, 2021
  • N. Pathak, S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, A. Roy and A. Zomaya, “UAV Virtualization for Enabling Heterogeneous and Persistent UAV-as-a-Service,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 6, pp. 6731 - 6738, 2020
  • A. Roy, A. Mondal, S. Misra, and M. S. Obaidat, “ORCID: Opportunistic Re-Connectivity for 

Network Management in the Presence of Dumb Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 9 - 16, 2019.

  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and P. Dutta, “Dynamic Pricing for Sensor-Cloud Platform in the Presence of Dumb Nodes,” IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing 2019 (Accepted), DoI: 10.1109/TCC.2019.2950396.
  • S. Misra, S. Roy, A. Roy, M. S. Obaidat, and A. Jha, “MEGAN: Multipurpose Energy-Efficient, Adaptable, and Low-Cost Wireless Sensor Node for the Internet of Things,” IEEE Systems Journal Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 144 - 151, 2019. (IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award 2020).
  • S. Chatterjee, A. Roy, S. Roy, S. Misra, M. Bhogal, and R. Daga, “Big-Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure: A Holistic Prototype for Provisioning Sensors-as-a-Service,” IEEE Transactions of Cloud Computing Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 1323 - 1334, 2019
  • A. Chakraborty, A, Mondal, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “Dynamic Trust Enforcing Pricing Scheme for Sensors-as-a-Service in Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure,” IEEE Transactions of Services Computing, Vol. 14, No. 5, pp. 1345 - 1356, 2018
  • S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, and A. Roy, “Knowledge discovery for enabling smart Internet of Things: A survey,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Vol. 8, No. 6, 2018 (Selected among top 20 most read paper in 2017-18).
  • C. Roy, A. Roy, S. Misra, and J. Maiti, “Safe-aaS: Decision Virtualization for Effecting Safety-as-a-Service,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 1690 - 1697, 2018.
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, P. Kar, and A. Mondal, “Topology Control for Self-Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks with Temporary Connection Impairment,” ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 1 - 34, 2016.    
  • P. Kar, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “On the Effects of Communication Range Shrinkage of Sensor Nodes in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks Due to Adverse Environmental Conditions,” IEEE Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 2048 - 2055, 2016.
  • P. Kar, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “Connectivity Re-establishment in Self-organizing Sensor Networks with Dumb Nodes,” ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1-30, 2016.
  • A. Roy, P. Kar, S. Misra, and M. S. Obaidat, “D3: Distributed Approach for the Detection of Dumb Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley), Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 3916-3924, 2015.
  • S. Misra, P. Kar, A. Roy, and M. S. Obaidat, “Existence of Dumb Nodes in Stationary Wireless Sensor Networks,” Journal of Systems and Software (Elsevier), 91:135--146, 2014.

Conferences:

  • Roy, P. Bouvry “Opti-U: Optimal UAV Selection for Enabling UAV-as-a-Service,” in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Seoul, South Korea, 2022 (Accepted).
  • T. Ghosh, A. Roy, S. Misra, P. Bouvry “ServEx: Service Exchange Among Multiple SCSPs in Sensor-Cloud for IoT Applications,” in the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Madrid, Spain, 2021 (Accepted).
  • N Ahmed, A. Roy, A. Mondal S. Misra, “SDN-Based Link Recovery Scheme for Large-Scale Internet of Things,” in the $22^nd$ IEEE International Conference on High-Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), Paris, France, 2021 (Accepted) [Invited Paper].
  • M. Shenoy, A. Roy, S. Misra, “QoI-Aware Camera Network-as-a-Service for Social Behavior Analysis,” in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2021 (Accepted).
  • N. Ahmed, A. Roy, S. Misra, D. Tandur “Programmable IEEE 802.11ah Network for Internet of Things,” in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2021 (Accepted). 
  • N. A. Singh, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “OptiCam: Optimal Camera Selection for Provisioning Camera-Network-as-a-Service,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, 2020 (Accepted)
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and A. Kotasthane: “QSens: QoS-aware Sensor Node Selection in Sensor-Cloud Architecture,” International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE), Springer, Mauritius, Africa, 2020 (Best Paper Award).
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and Lakshay: “OPTIVE: Optimal Configuration of Virtual Sensor in Mobile Sensor-cloud,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Morocco, North Africa, 2019.
  • A. Roy, C. Roy, S. Misra, Y. Rahulamathavan, and M. Rajarajan: “CARE: Criticality-Aware Data Transmission in CPS-based Healthcare Systems,” IEEE International Workshop on Communication, Computing, and Networking in Cyber-Physical Systems (CCNCPS), colocated with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kansas City, MO, 2018.    
  • C. Roy, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “DIVISOR: Dynamic Virtual Sensor Formation for Overlapping Region in IoT-based Sensor-Cloud,” IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Barcelona, Spain, 2018.
  • A. Roy, S. Misra, and S Ghosh, “QoS-Aware Dynamic Caching for Destroyed Virtual Machines in Sensor-Cloud Architecture,” ACM International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, Varanasi, India, 2018 [Invited Paper]
  • S. K. Roy, A. Roy, S. Misra, N. S. Raghuwanshi, and M. S. Obaidat, “AID: A Prototype for Agricultural Intrusion Detection Using Wireless Sensor Network,” the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 7059-7064, London, 2015. 
  • P. Kar, A. Roy, S. Misra, and Mohammad S. Obaidat, “Energy-Efficient Topology Reconstruction of WSN in Presence of Dumb Nodes,” in the 4th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA), co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1485-1490, London, 2015.
  • A. Roy, P. Kar, S. Misra, “Detection of Dumb Nodes in a Stationary Wireless Sensor Network,” in the 11th IEEE India Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-6, Pune, India, 2014.
  • A. Roy, A. Mondal, S. Misra, “Connectivity Re-establishment in the Presence of Dumb Nodes in Sensor-Cloud Infrastructure: A Game-Theoretic Approach,” in the $6^th$ IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom), pp. 847-852, NTU, Singapore, 2014.

Patents

  • S. Misra, A. Mukherjee, A. Roy, N. Pathak, S. Pal, “End-to-end Containerized Real-time Microservice-based Portable Remote Health Monitoring System “, Indian patent filed in 2017 (Ref: 202131029970).
  • S. Misra, S. K. Roy, A. Roy, S. Kumar, and S. Goswami, “Universal Electronics Circuit Node for Supporting Multiple Heterogeneous Sensors and Actuators Concurrently, “Indian patent filed in 2017 (Ref: 201731015829). 
  • A. Mondal, S. K. Roy, A. Roy, and S. Misra, “A Cloud Based Automatized System for On 

Demand and Without Service Delay Supply of Energy to End Users, “Indian patent filed in 2016 (Ref: 201631007632). 

  • S. Misra, S. Goswami, P. Kar, and A. Roy, “PKI enabled time-stamped digital signing system    involving certification authority issued digital certificate cryptographic token with real-time revocation verification, “Indian patent filed in 2016 (Ref: 201631001328). 
  • S. Misra, A. Roy, P. Kar, S. Goswami, and T. Ojha, “An adverse environmental effect resistant seamless wireless sensor network system, “Indian patent filed in 2015 (Ref: 425/KOL/2015).
  • S. Misra, P. Kar, A. Roy, S. Goswami, “An advanced wireless sensor Network System and method for accurate information gathering from a radiation affected area, “Indian patent filed in 2015 (Ref: 0006/KOL/2015). 
  • S. Chatterjee, A. Roy, S. K. Roy, S. Misra, M. S. Bhogal, R. Daga, “Sensory network for persuasive and pervasive virtualization of physical sensors into renderable time service, “Indian patent filed in 2014 (Ref: 1145/KOL/2014).

Students

Teaching

Teaching at Indian Institute of Information Technology
Computer Architecture: May 2022- Ongoing
Teaching Assistantship for the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).

  • Introduction to Internet of Things: Jul-Oct, 2017, Jan-Apr, 2018, Jul-Oct, 2018, Jan-Apr, 2019, Jul-Oct, 2019, Jan-Apr, 2019, Jan-Apr, 2020, and Jul-Oct, 2020
  • Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Jan-Mar, 2017 and Jan-Apr, 2018
  • Teaching Assistantship at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
  • Architecture and Protocols for IoT (CS61066): Autumn-2018, 2019
  • Wireless Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networks (IT60119): Autumn-2017
  • Software Engineering Theory (CS20006) and Lab (CS29006): Spring-2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
  • Programming and Data Structure Lab (CS19001): Autumn-2016
  • Advanced Network Technologies (IT60106): Spring-2016

Visiting Lecturer
The Institute of Engineers, IIT Kharagpur branch, India: Apr. 2011 -- Nov. 2013,

Industry:
Aug. 2010--Feb. 2011, Junior Network Engineer (WB-SWAN), Intec Infonet Pvt. Ltd., India.

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