A Secure Decentralized Disaster Management Information Network using Rapidly Deployable Wireless and Mobile Computing Technologies (IIM Calcutta, NIT Durgapur, HIT)
Work on directional antenna (IIT Kharagpur)
A case study on disruption of communication infrastructure and disaster management after calamities in Japan, Pakistan, Haiti and India [pdf]
Analysis of coverage in information dissemination in DTN using bipartite networks (IIT Kharagpur)
Developing systems to search for recent information from Twitter OSN, on topics related to disasters (IIT Kharagpur)
Developing systems to utilize sensors in smart-phones for identifying landmarks (IIT Kharagpur)
Developing a system to build an annotated people / resource map which will show the approximate position of victims and the availability of resources (on a time-varying basis) (IIT Kharagpur, NITDGP)
Understanding the impacts of urban disasters and incorporating the lessons learnt into design of smart cities of the future (IIM C and HIT)
Assessing the need for use of ICT in managing disasters in India (IIM C and HIT)
Field visit for meeting victims of recent calamities, Government organizations, NGOs and other stakeholders (IIM C, IIEST, NIT DGP)
Developing multicast routing technique for delay tolerant networks with energy constrained nodes. (IIEST)
Feasibility study of proposed system architecture (NITDGP)
Developing a system to help the victims in disaster-environment (NITDGP)
Developing 4-tier network architecture for Post Disaster Management (PDM)(NITDGP)
Efficient map-based landmark identification for identifying best path for data mule movement and further smooth commute of data-mules. (KGEC)
Efficient neighbor finding using Geo-Hash techniques on GPS Locations. Extending the Geo-Hash technique to develop some solution to yield location information in absence of GPS connectivity. (KGEC)
Studying World Disaster Report 2013 (by International Red Cross Society), Sphere standards and different smartphone and web based applications used in disaster management around the globe and working on assessing the scope of using ICT in managing disasters in India (HIT)
Improving the performance of observer-based selfish node detection schemes using adaptive mobility of the observers. (HIT)
Using online social media for gathering situational updates (IIEST and IIT Kharagpur)
SensoSaur - Landmark based location tracking: a preliminary study (IIT Kharagpur) [slides (pdf)] [snapshot (pdf)]
Layered architecture for communication in post-disaster scenario (NIT Durgapur) [pdf] [Demo paper accepted at ACM CHANTS 2012]
Disaster management services - Android application (NIT Durgapur) [pdf]
Google Maps based user interface for post-disaster management (NIT Durgapur) [Poster accepted at ACM DEV 2013]
Collaborative download framework (IIT Kharagpur) [Youtube video]
Abir De, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Parantapa Bhattacharya, Niloy Ganguly and Soumen Chakraborty,Learning a linear model of influence from transient opinion dynamics: CIKM 2014
Swadhin Pradhan, Ananth Balashankar, Niloy Ganguly, and Bivas Mitra “(Stable) Virtual Landmarks: Spatial Dropbox to enhance Retail Experience”. COMSNETS 2014
S. Saha, N. Agarwal and S. Nandi, Google Map Based User Interface for Network Resource Planning in Post Disaster Management, ACM DEV Conference, 2013.
A Pragmatic Analysis of Facebook Posts for Extracting Useful Implicit Information, Submitted to 28th Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation (PACLIC 28).
SAGE-PRoPHET: A Security Aided and Group Encounter based PRoPHET Routing Protocol for Dissemination of Post Disaster Situational Data (submitted to ICDCN)
Post-disaster resource management using peer-to-peer opportunistic networks, Presented in The International Conference on Advances in Computing and Information Technology – (ACIT 2014) Bangkok, Thailand, 04-05 January, 2014.
Reviving Communication in Post Disaster Scenario Using ZIGBEE/GSM Heterogeneous Network, Accepted in The 3rd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications & Informatics – (ICACCI 2014) Delhi, India, 24-27 Sept, 2014
Design of Efficient Lightweight Strategies to Combat DoS Attack in Delay Tolerant Network Routing, submitted in Wiley Journal of Security and Communication Networks.
Designing Delay Constrained Hybrid Ad Hoc Network Infrastructure for post-disaster Communication, Accepted in Journal of Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), Special Issue on New Research Challenges in Mobile, Opportunistic & Delay-Tolerant Networks.
A Global Reputation Estimation and Analysis Technique for Detection of Malicious Nodes in a Post-Disaster Communication Environment, accepted and presented in AIMoC 2014, India, published in IEEE Xplore.
An Observer-based Distributed Scheme for Selfish-node Detection in a Post-Disaster Communication Environment using Delay Tolerant Network, accepted and presented in AIMOC 2014, India, published in IEEE Xplore.
A Group-based Multilayer Encryption Scheme for Secure Dissemination of Post-Disaster Situational Data using Peer-to-Peer Delay Tolerant Network”, accepted in ICACCI 2014, India, to be published in IEEE Xplore.
Secured Categorization and Group Encounter based Dissemination of Post Disaster Situational Data using Peer-to-Peer Delay Tolerant Network”, accepted in FICTA 2014, India, to be published in Springer AISC Journal.
Sujoy Saha, V. K. Shah, Rohit Verma, Ratna Mandal and Subrata Nandi, "Is It Worth Taking A Planned Approach To Design Ad Hoc Infrastructure For Post Disaster Communication?", in Demos of the ACM MobiCom Workshop on Challenged Networks (CHANTS '12), August 22, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey.
Sudipta Saha, Niloy Ganguly, Animesh Mukherjee, Information Dissemination Dynamics in Delay Tolerant Network: A Bipartite Network Approach, ACM Mobiopp, Zurich, March 15-16, 2012.
Abyayananda Maiti, Fernando Peruani, Romit Roy Choudhury, and Niloy Ganguly, Broadcasting in DTN as Epidemic Dynamics, MC2R | Mobile Computing and Communications Review, 2010
Fernando Peruani, Abyayananda Maitiy, Sanjib Sadhu, Hugues Chaté, Romit Roy Choudhury, Niloy Ganguly. Modeling Broadcasting using Omnidirectional and Directional Antenna in Delay Tolerant Networks as an Epidemic Dynamic, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas of Communication Vol. 28, No. 4, May 2010
Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandyopadhyay “A Location -Aided Content Searching Mechanism for Large Mobile Ad Hoc Network using Geographic Clusters” published in proceedings of 9th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ICDCN 2008 , 5-8 January 2008 kolkata ,India
Sanjay Chatterjee, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, “A multi-hop Network of ZigBee-compliant Wearable RF Devices for Pre-coded Emergency Message Communication during Disaster Management”, ICDCN 2007.
Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandhopadhyay, “ An Efficient Cluster Management Protocol using GPS Based Geographic Clustering with Surrogate Cluster-heads for a Large Ad hoc Network “, accepted in World Mobile Congress 3-7 July 2006 , Munich Germany.
Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandhopadhyay “A Mobility Tolerant Cluster Management Protocol with Dynamic Surrogate Cluster-heads for A Large Ad Hoc Network” , published in proceedings of 8th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking ICDCN 2006 , IIT Guwahati 29-31 December.
Parama Bhaumik, Somprokash Bandhopadhyay, “Mobile Agent Based Message Communication in Large Ad hoc Networks through Co-operative Routing using Inter-Agent Negotiation at Rendezvous Points” published in proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Distributed Computing (IWDC) 27-30 December 2005 Indian Institute Of Technology Kharagpur
M. Scalem , Somprakash Bandyopadhyay, Sushanta Sinha, Ashok K Sircar," Decentralised Disaster Management Information Network (DDMIN): Research Discussions on the inherent Technological and Strategic Implementation Issues and proposed Solutions", CISTM 2005, New Delhi, India, July 24-26, 2005.
Parama Bhaumik, M. Scalen, Siuli Roy, Somprakash Bandhopadhyay, “Content-Based Query support in ad-hoc wireless networks using information-fading and narrow casting for efficient resource handling in disaster management”, published in the proceedings of 14th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Dresden Germany, June 2005 .