Amitabh Mishra

Amitabh Mishra 

 

 

 

Assistant Research Professor
Department of Computer Science
324A New Engineering Building
Phone: (410) 516-4957
Fax: (410) 516-6134
Email:  amitabh@cs.jhu.edu

Education:

B.E., Jabalpur University, 1973
M. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, 1975
M. Eng.,McGill University, 1982
Ph. D., McGill University, 1985
M.S.(CS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1995

Research Interests:

Wireless Cellular, Ad hoc, and Sensor Networks, Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Telecommunications,    Performance & Architectures of Computers and Communication Systems, Software Performance, Fault Tolerance, Wireless Network Security, Numerical Algorithms

Research:

1.  Content Dissemination in Disruption Tolerant Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks

2.  MAC Protocols for Cognitive Radios

3.  Databases for Cognitive Radio Networks

4.  Cross-layer Design of Sensor Networks

5.  Content Based Addressing for Ad hoc Networks

6.  Management Protocols for Smart Radio Networks

Research Projects

Teaching:

Fall 2008

CS605.478.91 - Cellular Communications Systems

CS600.451 - Performance of Computer Communication Systems

Spring 2008

CS600.647 - Advanced Wireless Networks (with Dr. B. Awerbuch)

Fall 2009

CS600.467 – Wireless Networks and Mobile Communication Fundamentals

Spring 2010

CS600.647 - Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks

 

Publications: 

 

BOOK

 

  1. Amitabh Mishra, “Security and  Quality of Service in Wireless Ad hoc Networks”, Cambridge University Press,  February 2008.

 

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. Mishra, A., Awerbuch, B., & Cole R., "TCP, Congestion and Admission Control Protocols in Ad hoc Wireless Networks", to appear in Encyclopedia of Ad hoc Networks, Chapter 3, World Publishing, 2008
  2. Glore, N. & Mishra, A., “Privacy and Security in WiMax Networks”, M. Ilyas & S. Ahson (Editors), CRC Press, June 2007
  3. Dewasurendra, D. & Mishra, A., “Design Challenges in Energy Efficient Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks”,  Chapter 28, “Handbook of Wireless Sensor Networks”, M. Ilyas, Editor, CRC Press, April 2004, pages 28.1-28.25
  4. Chakrabarti, S., & Mishra, A. “Quality of Service in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Chapter 3, “Handbook on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, M. Ilyas, Editor, CRC Press, December 2002, pp. 3.1-3.29
  5. Mishra, A., & Nadkarni, K, “Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Chapter 3, “Handbook on Ad Hoc Wireless Networks”, M. Ilyas, Editor, CRC Press, December 2002, pp. 30.1-30.51

JOURNALS

  1. Na, Chewoo, Yang, Y., and Mishra, A., "An Optimal GTS Scheduling Algorithm for Time Sensitive Transactions in IEEE 802.15.4 Networks", Computer Networks, 2008
  2. Holbert, K., Mishra, A., Milli, L.,“Intrusion Detection through SCADA Systems using Fuzzy Logic-based State Estimation”, to appear in International Journal of Critical Infrastructure, Vol. 3, Nos. 1-2, 2007, pp. 58-87
  3. Sankaranarayanan, S. and Papadimitratos, P.  and  Mishra, A., ’’ A Bandwidth Sharing Approach to Improve Licensed Spectrum” IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 43, No. 12, December 2005, pp. S 10- S14
  4. Sankaranarayanan, S. & Mishra, A., “Enhancing the Spectrum Utilization in Cellular Band: A Study of GSM – Ad-hoc Inter-working”, (Invited paper) Journal of  Brazilian Telecommunications Society, Vol. 19, No. 3, December 2004, pp. 17 – 26
  5. Dewasurendra, D. & Mishra, A., “Scalability of a Scheduling Scheme for Energy Aware Sensor Networks”, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 289 -303
  6. Mishra, A., “Scalability Issues in Wireless Networks – Architectures, Protocols, and Services”, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 2004, pp. 247-249
  7. Mishra, A., Nadkarni, K., and Patcha, A., "Intrusion Detection in Wireless Ad hoc Networks", IEEE Wireless Communications, Vol. 11, February 2004, pp. 48-60
  8. Mishra, A. & Banerjee, P., “An Algorithm Based Error Detection Method for the Multigrid   Algorithm”, IEEE Transaction on Computers, Vol. 52, No. 9, September 2003, pp. 1089-1099
  9. Chakrabarti, S. & Mishra, A., “Quality of  Service Challenges for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing”,  Vol. 3, No. 4, September 2003, pp. 921-945
  10. Mishra, A., et al, “Scalability in IP Oriented Networks”, IEEE Communications   Magazine, Vol. 41, No. 6, June 2003, pp. 30-31
  11. Mishra, A., “Scalability Issues in Communication Networks”, IEEE Networks, Vol. 16, No. 4, July 2002, pp. 10-11
  12. Chakrabarti, S. & Mishra, A., “QoS Issues in Ad Hoc  Wireless Networking “ IEEE  Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 142-148
  13. Mishra, A. “Qos and Resource Allocation in 3G Wireless Systems”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 39, No. 2, February 2001, pp. 115-116.

 

CONFERENCES

  1.  Mishra, A., Na, C., and Rosenburgh, D., “On Scheduling Guaranteed Time Slots for Time Sensitive Transactions in IEEE 802.15.4 Network”, Proceedings of IEEE Milcom 2007, Orlando, Florida
  2. Sunny, M. R., Kapania, R. K., Moffitt, R.D., and Mishra, A., “A Modified Fractional Derivative Approach to Model Hysteresis”, Proceedings of IMECE 2007, Seattle, Washington
  3. Mishra, A. and Agrawal D. P., S. “ Design of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks”, Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow, UK
  4. Wang, X., Wang, D., Agrawal D. P., and Mishra, A. “On Data Fusion and Life-time Constraints”, Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2007, Glasgow
  5. Mishra, A. and Sankaranarayanan, S. “A Multi-channel MAC Protocol for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Primary Secondary Systems”, Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2006, San Francisco
  6. Mishra, A., and P. Papadimitratos, “A Cross-layer Design of IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol”, Proceedings of  IEEE Globecom 2006, San FranciscoMishra, A., A Multi-channel MAC for Opportunistic Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Networks, accepted IEEE Milcom, October 2006, Washington, D.C.
  7. Papadimitratos, P. and Mishra, A., "A Cross-Layer Design Approach to Enhance 802.15.4", Proc. of IEEE Milcom, October 2005, Atlantic City, NJ
  8. Sankaranarayanan, S., Papadimitratos, P. and Mishra, A., Enhancing Wireless Spectrum Utilization with a Cellular Ad hoc Overlay Architecture', Proc. of IEEE Milcom, October 2005, Atlantic City, NJ.
  9. Sankaranarayanan, S., Papadimitratos, P. and Mishra, A., “A Bandwidth Sharing Approach to Improving Licensed Spectrum Utilization”, IEEE DySPAN November 2005, pp. 279 - 288
  10.  Mishra, A. and L. Milli, A. Phadke, “Algorithm Based Fault Tolerant State Estimation of Power Systems”, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Probabilistic Methods Applied to Power Systems, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, September 2004, pp. 97 – 103
  11. Nadkarni, K., and Mishra, A., "A Novel Intrusion Detection Scheme for Wireless Ad hoc Networks", In  Proc. of IEEE WCNC’04 , Vol. 2, March 2004, pp. 831 - 836
  12. Raghuwanshi, S. & Mishra, A., “A Traffic-adaptable Algorithm for Increased Energy-efficiency and Scalability in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proc. Of IEEE RAWCON’03, Boston, August 2003, pp. 225-228
  13. Patcha, A., & Mishra, A., “A Secure Routing Algorithm for Black-hole Attacks in Ad Hoc Networks”, Proc. Of  IEEE RAWCON’03, Boston, August 2003, pp. 75-78
  14. Lal, S. & Mishra, A., “A Look Ahead Scheme for Adaptive Spectrum Utilization”, Proc. Of IEEE RAWCON’03, Boston, August 2003, pp. 83-86
  15. Mishra, A.,   “Performance Characterization of Signaling Traffic for UMTS Core Networks ”, in Proceedings of  IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom 2003, Vol. 2, ), November 2003, pp. 1141-1146
  16. Nadkarni, K. and Mishra, A., "Intrusion Detection in MANETs - The Second Wall of Defense", in Proceedings of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2003) Conference, Roanoke, Virginia, USA, November 2003, pp. 1235-1239.
  17. Sane, S., Patcha, A., & Mishra, A., “Quality of Service Routing in Wireless Ad hoc Networks, in Proceedings of ITCOM’03, , Internet Quality of Service, M. Attiquzamman and M. Hasan, editors, Vol. 5245,  September 2003, pp. 125-130
  18. Raghuwanshi, S. &  Mishra, A., “An Adaptable Algorithm for increased Energy-efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in Proceedings of  IEEE VTC Fall 2003, Vol. 5, pp. 2921-2925
  19.  Samal, S. and  Mishra, A.,  “Supporting QoS in Ad hoc Networks with Mobility Pattern Adaptive Routing Algorithm”,  in Proceedings of ITCOM’03, Internet Quality of Service, M. Attiquzamman and M. Hasan, editors, Vol. 5245, September, 2003, pp. 104-115
  20.  Scalera, Jonathan E., Creed F. Jones III, Maneesh Soni, Mark B. Bucciero,  Athanas, P., Abbott, A. L., Mishra, A. "Reconfigurable Object Detection in FLIR Image Sequences,"  FCCM’2002, pp. 284 - 285
  21. Mishra, A., "Performance of Signaling Architecture for UMTS", Proceedings of Wireless 2001 Conference, Calgary Alberta, pp. 361-370.
  22. Mishra, A., “An Architecture for SGSN & GGSN of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)", Proceedings of Wireless  2001 Conference, Calgary Alberta, pp. 386-390.
  23. Mishra, A., “Performance and Architecture of SGSN and GGSN of General Packet Radio Service”, IEEE    Global      Telecommunication Conference, (Globecom 2001), Vol. 6, November, pp. 3494-3498
  24. Mishra, A., “Architecture & Performance of a Network Processor Based Frame Selection and Distribution Unit (SDU) for CDMA-2000”, in Technologies, Protocols, & Services for Next Generation Internet, Anura Jayasumana, Editors, Proceedings Of SPIE, Vol. 4527, Denver, August  2001, pp. 37-41
  25. Mishra., A. & Korah, J., “QoS of Streaming Video Traffic over UMTS Networks”, in Quality of Service over Next Generation Data Networks, Mohammad Atiquzaman, Mahbub Hasan, Editors, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 4524, Denver, August  2001, pp. 238-242
  26. Mishra, A., “Impact of Signaling on QoS Traffic Classes in UMTS”, in Modeling and Design of Wireless Networks, Edwin K. P. Chong, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 45, Denver, August 2001, pp. 228-237
  27. Mishra, A., “Performance Scalability in Switching System Software”, Proc.  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’99), Vancouver, 1999, pp. 290-295
  28. Chakrabarti, S. & Mishra, A., “A Network Architecture for Global Position Location Services”, Proc. IEEE International Conference in Communications (ICC’99), Vancouver, 1999, pp 1779-1783
  29. Mishra, A. & Banerjee, P., “An Algorithm Based Error Detection Scheme for the Multigrid Method”, Proc. IEEE Fault Tolerance in Computer Science Conference  (FTCS-29), Madison, Wisconsin, June 1999, pp. 12-19
  30. Mishra, A., “ Scalability in Switching System Software”, Proceedings of  IEEE Global    Telecommunications Conference (Globecom’98), Sydney, 1998,  pp. 3374 – 3380
  31. Mishra, A., & Banerjee, P., “A Fault Tolerant Parallel Multigrid Algorithm”, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS), Chicago, September 1998, pp. 282-289
  32. Mishra, A., “Performance of a  Scaled  Switching System , Proceedings of  12th  International Conference on Advanced  Science &  Technology,  The University of Illinois, Chicago, 1996, pp. 237-242
  33. Mishra, A. & Kozik, J., “Switching System Performance under Software Reuse”,  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’96), Dallas, 1996,  pp. 220-224
  34. Mishra, A., “Response Times for AIN Features from Human Perspective”, AT&T Symposium on Human Factors & Behavioral Sciences, Holmdel, February, 1995, pp. 211-215
  35. Mishra, A., Sundararaman, M., & Mazzario, A., “Performance Analysis of  Intelligent  Networks”,   IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’90), Atlanta, 1990, pp. 306-310
  36. Mishra, A. & Agrawal, D. P., “Design of a Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks”, submitted IEEE ICC 2007 - accepted

 

PATENTS

  1. Mishra, A., “Method for Scaling a Telecommunications System”, Patent No. 5844823, December 199
  2. Mishra A., & Chakrabarti, S., “Telecommunication Network with Mobile Conferencing System and Method” , Patent No. 6163692, December 2000
  3. Mishra A., & Chakrabarti, S., “Hardware Configuration, Support Node and the Method for Implementing General Packet Radio Service over GSM”, Patent No. 6678281, January 2004
  4. Mishra, A. and Chakrabarti, S. “Wireless Position Location System and Method using Differential Global Positioning System Information and General Packet Radio Switching Technology”, Patent No. EP1215508, December 2004
  5. Mishra, A. and Chakrabarti, S., “Line Card for Supporting Circuit and Packet Switching”, Patent No. 6807167, October 2004

STUDENT ADVISING:

 

Current Students:

  1. Sachin Kumar, MS Thesis
  2. Taesung Kim, MS Thesis
  3. Alok Tiwari, Ph. D.

Past Students:

4.    Chewoo Na, Ph. D. (Former student)

  1. Srivatsan Sankarnarayanan, Ph. D. (Former student)
  2. YunHe Cho, Ph. D. (Former student)
  3. Farrukh Gondal, “Embedded Wireless Sensor Network for Aircraft/Automobile Tire Structural Health Monitoring”, MS Thesis, August 2007
  4. Savyasachi Samal, “Mobility Pattern Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, MS Thesis, June 2003
  5. Ketan Nadkarni, “Intrusion Detection in Wireless Mobile Ad hoc Networks based on DSDV Protocol”, MS Thesis, August 2003
  6. Srajan Raghuwanshi, “An Energy Efficient Cross Layer Design Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”, MS Thesis, August 2003
  7. Sachin Sane, “Multi-Path Routing for QoS in Ad hoc Networks”, MS Project, August 2002
  8. Nicholas McConnell, “Graduate School Experiences in ECE at Virginia Tech”, MS Project, August 2003
  9. Sachin Lal, “Dynamic Channel Allocation Algorithm for XG System”, MS Project, August 2004
  10. P. Parthasarathy, “Algorithm for Analyzing Biological Data”, MS Project, August 2003