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Ashok Singh Sairam

Professor Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)

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Research Area: Computer Networks and Network Security
Room No: E1-205
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Department Responsibilities:
DFAC, Member
DUPC, Member
Infrastructure Advisory and Purchase Committee, Member
Internal Member

Research

Network Security, Computer and Social Networks

Education

Ph.D. (IIT Guwahati)
M.Tech (IIT Guwahati)
B.Tech (NIT Silchar)

Experience

1. Professor, IIT Guwahati, June 2021 - till date
2. Associate Professor, IIT Guwahati, Aug 2018 - June 2021
3. Associate Professor, IIT Patna, December 2015 - Aug 2018
4. Assistant Professor (Regular), IIT Patna, June 2012 - December 2015
5. Assistant Professor (On contract), IIT Patna, Feb 2010 - June 2012
6. Senior Lecturer, IIT Patna, December 2008 - Feb 2010

Courses


#    Subject Code    Subject Name    Semester

1.  MA 511    Computer Programming    Monsoon 2017 (shared), Monsoon 2018, Monsoon 2023
2. MA 653   Network Science, Winter 2023  Winter 2024
3. MA 518    Database Management Systems    Monsoon 2020, Monsoon 2021, Monsoon 2022, Monsoon 2024
4. MA 512   Data Structures and Algorithms, Winter 2022 
5. MA 616     Algorithms for Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks    Winter 2021  
6. CS 348    Computer Networks    Winter 2020, Winter 2019 (shared), Winter 2018
7. MA 251    Data Structures    Monsoon 2019
8. DA 211     Algorithms and Data Structures, Monsoon 2022 (Shared)
9. DA 104    C Programming (Online) Oct - Jan 2024
10.DA 512H  Databases  Monsoon 2023 (Dhared)
 

Awards

Senior Member, IEEE (2017)

Book Chapter

3. Abha Kumari, Shubham Gupta, Joydeep Chandra, Ashok Singh Sairam, "Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Computer Network", Reinforcement Learning–Based Approach Towards Switch Migration for Load-Balancing in SDN , Chapman and Hall/CRC (9781003212249) [2023]

2. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Social Networking and Education - Global Perspectives Book", Effect of Social Networking on Higher Education in India , Springer International Publishing (978-3-319-17716-8) [2016]

1. Arka Prokash Mazumdar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Routing in Opportunistic Networks", On Performance Modelling of Ad hoc Opportunistic Routing , Springer Verlag, USA (978-1-4614-3513-6) [2013]

Journal Publications

19. Puspanjali Ghoshal, Mohit Dhaka and Ashok Singh Sairam, "On the effectiveness of differential privacy to continuous queries", Service Oriented Computing and Applications, Springer Nature [2024] , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11761-024-00397-9

18. Abha Kumari and and Ashok Singh Sairam, "SDN switch migration scheduling for load balancing, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer Nature", Look ahead before you leap [2024] , https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-024-11056-9

17. Abha Kumari, Arghyadip Roy and Ashok Singh Sairam , "Optimizing SDN Controller Load Balancing Using Online Reinforcement Learning", IEEE Access , vol.12 ,pp.131591-131604, [2024] , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10680044

16. Akash Yadav, Sumit Mishra, Ashok Singh Sairam, "A multi-objective worker selection scheme in crowdsourced platforms using NSGA-II, pages 116991", Expert Systems with Applications, Elseiver [2022]

15. Abha Kumari and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Controller placement problem in software‐defined networking: A survey, Networks, [Impact factor: 2.602]", Wiley ,pp.1-21, [2021] , https://doi.org/10.1002/net.22016

14. Akash Yadav, Joydeep Chandra and Ashok Singh Sairam, "A Budget and Deadline Aware Task Assignment Scheme for Crowdsourcing Environment", IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, (Accepted) [Impact factor: 6.043] [2021]

13. Pratima Biswas, Sourav Kumar Dandapat and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Ripple: An approach to locate k nearest neighbours for location-based services", Information Systems, Elseiver [2021] , https://doi.org/10.1016/j.is.2021.101933

12. Samant Saurabh, Sanjay Madria, Anirban Mondal, Ashok Singh Sairam , Saurabh Mishra, "An analytical model for information gathering and propagation in social networks using random graphs", Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elseiver DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2020.101852, 2020 (in Press) [Impact Factor: 1.476, H5 Index: 22] [2020] , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169023X19303441

11. Ayush Garg, Akash Yadav, Axel Sikora and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Wireless Precision Time Protocol", IEEE Communications Letters, 22(4):812-815, DOI: 10.1109/LCOMM.2017.2781706, [Impact factor: 3.419] [2018] , http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8171749/

10. Pratima Biswas and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Modeling Privacy Approaches for Location Based Services  Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.comnet.2018.04.016, 2018 (preprint). [Impact Factor: 2.516, H5 Index: 54]", Computer Networks [2018] , https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1389128618301890

9. Sangita Roy and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Distributed Star Coloring of Network for IP Traceback , International Journal of Information Security, Springer, pp: 1 – 12, ISSN="1615-5270", 2017. [Impact factor: 1.279, H5 Index: 20]", [2017] , https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10207-017-0366-0

8. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Increasing Accuracy and Reliability of IP Traceback for DDoS Attack Using Completion Condition", International Journal of Network Security , vol.18 No. 2 ,pp.224-234, [2016] , http://ijns.jalaxy.com.tw/contents/ijns-v18-n2/ijns-2016-v18-n2-p224-234.pdf

7. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Increasing the Effectiveness of Packet Marking Schemes using Wrap-Around Counting Bloom Filter, Security and Communication, John Wiley and Sons,No. 16, pp: 3467-3482, 2016. [Impact factor: 0.806, H5 Index: 21]", , vol.9 [2016] , http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sec.1554/abstract

6. Ashok Singh Sairam, Sangita Roy and Rishikesh Sahay, "Coloring Networks for Attacker Identification and Response  8(5): 751-768 (2015). [Impact factor: 0.806, H5 Index: 21]", Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley and Sons [2015] , http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sec.1022/abstract

5. Arka Prokash Mazumdar, Anandghan Waghmare and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Modeling Energy Efficiency of OR Protocols in Wireless Networks", International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience, 16(1): 42-57 (2014) [Impact factor: 0.493; H5 Index: 13] [2014] , https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJAHUC.2014.062490

4. Samant Saurabh, Sangita Roy and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Extended Deterministic Edge Router Marking, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Inderscience  13(2): 169-186 (2014)
H5 Index: 11]", [2014] , https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJCNDS.2014.064042?journalCode=ijcnds

3. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "ICMP based IP traceback with negligible overhead for highly distributed reflector attack using bloom filters,  Computer Communications, Elsevier, 2014. [Impact factor: 1.732, H5 Index: 49]", Computer Communications, Elsevier , vol.42 ,pp.60-69, [2014] , http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014036641400019X

2. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Professors – The new YouTube stars: Education through Web 2.0 and Social Network", the international Journal of Web Based Communities, Inderscience, Special Issue on: "Social Networking and Web-based Communities for Education" , vol. 9, no. 2 [2013] , https://www.inderscienceonline.com/doi/abs/10.1504/IJWBC.2013.053245

1. Arka Prokash Mazumdar, Anandghan Waghmare and Ashok Singh Sairam, "TOAR: transmission-aware opportunistic ad hoc routing protocol, 2013:237 [Impact factor: 0.627; H5 Index: 33]", EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2013 [2013] , https://jwcn-eurasipjournals.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1687-1499-2013-237

Conference Publications

40. Puspanjali Ghoshal and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Relationship between Noise addition and Compression based methods for Differential Privacy in Multi-Agent Systems", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2024 , IEEE [2023]

39. Abhradeep Datta, B Monish Kumar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Detecting toxic comments from highly skewed social media data", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS) 2024 , IEEE [2023]

38. Abha Kumari, Ashok Singh Sairam, "LALB: An SDN Architecture for Dynamic Load Balancing", 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems, 18 - 21 December 2022, Gandhinagar, India [2022]

37. Sangita Roy, Hardik Chawla and Ashok Singh Sairam,, "IP traceback in dynamic networks, 2nd ISEA International Conference on Security & Privacy Springer, Singapore", Communications in Computer and Information Science, , vol.939 [2019]

36. Ashok Singh Sairam and Arav Garg,, "Detecting Semantic Attacks in Intelligent Transport System, 5 – 7 September, 2019, Singapore, IEEE Xplore", The fourth International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering, [2019]

35. Akash Yadav, Sumit Mishra and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Worker Selection in Crowd-sourced Platforms using Non-dominated Sorting, 17 – 20 October 2019, Kerala, India, IEEE Xplore", TENCON 2019 [2019]

34. Abha Kumari, Joydeep Chandra and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Predictive flow modeling in Software Defined Network", TENCON 2019, 17 – 20 October , Kerala, India, IEEE Xplore [2019]

33. Abha Kumari, Joydeep Chandra and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Optimizing flow setup time in software defined network, Communication Systems and Networks", COMSNETS 2018 Tenth International, 4 - 7 January 2018, Bangalore, India, IEEE Communication Society.[H5 Index: 23 [2018]

32. Ashok Singh Sairam, and Sagar Kumar Verma, "“Using Bounded Binary Particle Swarm Optimization to Analyze Network Attack Graphs ”", Nineteenth International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), 4 – 7 January 2018, Varanasi, India. [H5 Index: 17] [2018]

31. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Inferring the Deployment of Source Address Validation Filtering using Silence of Path-Backscatter", Twenty Fourth IEEE National Conference on Communications, NCC 2018, pp. 1-6, 25 - 28 Feb 2018, IIT Hyderabad, India. [2018]

30. Akash Yadav, Ashok Singh Sairam, and Anand Kumar, ""Concurrent Team Formation for Multiple Tasks in Crowdsourcing Platform"", IEEE GLOBECOM 2017, 4-8 December 2017, Singapore. [H5 Index: 45] [2017]

29. Akash Yadav, Ashok Singh Sairam and Arka Prokash Mazumdar, "Selecting Stable Route in Multipath RoutingProtocols", 8th International Conference on Computing Communication and Networking Technologies, 3 – 5 July 2017, Delhi, India [H5 Index: 17] [2017]

28. Ojas Mangal Vedhekar, Ashok Singh Sairam and Abha Kumari, "Binary Countdown Anti-collision Protocol for RFID Tag Collision Problem", IEEE International Conference on Accessibility to Digital World, 16 – 18 December 2016, Guwahati, India [2016]

27. Ravi Sharma, Ashok Singh Sairam, Akash Yadav and Axel Sikora, ""Tunable Synchronization in Duty cycled Wireless Sensor Networks"", 10th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems(ANTS), 6-9 November 2016, Bangalore, India. .[H5 Index: 11] [2016]

26. Akash Yadav, Ashok Singh Sairam and Rituraj Singh, "Efficient user assignment in crowd sourcing applications,", International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Informatics (ICACCI 2016), 21 - 24 September 2016, Jaipur, India. [H5 Index: 13] [2016]

25. Ashok Singh Sairam, Sangita Roy and Sanjay Dwivedi, "Using CAPTCHA Selectively to Mitigate HTTP-based", IEEE GLOBECOM 2015, 6 - 10 December 2015 , San Diego, California, USA. [H5 Index: 45] [2015]

24. Sangita Roy and Ashok Singh Sairam , "Network Attack Detection and Mitigation", IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems Workshops (SASOW),21-25 Sept. 2015, Cambridge, USA[H5 Index: 16] [2015]

23. Ashok Singh Sairam, Rahul Kumar and Pratima Biswas, "Implementation of a Traffic-aware firewall, ACM,", Seventh International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2014), 9-11 September 2014, Glasgow, UK. H5 Index: 11] [2014]

22. Arka Prokash Mazumdar_, Adhar Surange and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Providing Stable Routes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks", Ninth International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks, WCSN-2013, Springer, December 16-19, 2013 [2013]

21. Ashok Singh Sairam, Sriparna Saha, Asif Ekbal and Gurramapati Ravi Teja Reddy, "Improved Multi-objective Algorithm for Dynamic Load Balancing of Network Traffic", IEEE INDICON 2013, 13-15 Dec 2013. [H5 Index: 14] [2013]

20. Anandghan Waghmare, Arka Prokash Majumdar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Time Synchronization Protocol for 6LoWPAN", 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Informatics (ICACCI 2013), 22 - 25 August 2013, Mysore, India. [H5 Index: 13] [2013]

19. Sangita Roy, Anurag Singh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "IP Traceback in Star Colored Networks", Communication Systems and Networks, 2013. COMSNETS 2013. Fifth International, 7 - 10 January 2013, Bangalore, India, IEEE Communication Society. H5 Index: 23] [2013]

18. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "A More Accurate Completion Condition for Attack-Graph Reconstruction in Probabilistic Packet Marking Algorithm", Nineteenth IEEE National Conference on Communications, NCC 2013, pp. 1--5, 15 - 17 Feb 2013, IIT Delhi, India. [2013]

17. Asif Ekbal, Sriparna Saha, Ashok Singh Sairam, Shaik Hussain, "Dynamic Load Balancing of Network Traffic Using Multiobjective,", Third International Conference on Emerging Applications of Information Technology (EAIT 2012), 30 Nov - 1 Dec 2012, Kolkata, India. [H5 Index: 13] [2012]

16. Sangita Roy, Avinash Kumar Singh, Jyotirmayee Parida and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Audio Steganography Using LSB Encoding Technique with Increased Capacity and Bit Error Rate Optimization", Second International Conference on Computational Science, Engineering and Information Technology (CCSEIT 2012), 26 - 28 Oct. 2012, Coimbatore, India. [2012]

15. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Eagle Eyes: Protocol Independent Packet Marking Scheme to Selectively Filter Attack Packets During Flooding Based DoS and DDoS Attacks", Third International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology (ICCCT 2012), 23 - 25 Nov. 2012, Allahabad, India. [H5 Index: 15] [2012]

14. Viswanath Pratap Singh, Arka Prokash Mazumdar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "On Energy Consumption Analysis for Adhoc Routing Protocols, International Conference on Advances in Computing", Communication and Informatics (ICACCI 2012), 3 - 5 August 2012, Chennai, India. [H5 Index: 13] [2012]

13. Sriparna Saha, Ashok Singh Sairam, Asif Eqbal and Amulya Yadav, "Genetic Algorithm combined with Support Vector Machine for Building and Intrusion Detection System", International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communication and Informatics (ICACCI 2012), 3 - 5 August 2012, Chennai, India. [H5 Index: 13] [2012]

12. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "A Novel Scheme for Distributed Star Coloring of Graphs and its Application in IP Trace Back, Recent Advances in Information Technology, 2012", First International Conference, 15-17 March 2012, ISM Dhanbad, IEEE Communication Society. [H5 Index: 12] [2012]

11. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Linear and Remainder Packet Marking for Fast IPTraceBack", Communication Systems and Networks, 2012. COMSNETS 2012. Fourth International, 3- 7 January 2012, Bangalore, India, IEEE Communication Society. .[H5 Index: 23]. [2012]

10. Arka Prokash Majumdar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "PBFS: A Technique to Select Forwarders in Opportunistic Routing", TENCON 2011, 21-24 November 2011, Bali, Indonesia. ISBN: 978-1-4577-0254-9, IEEE Communication Society. [H5 Index: 8] [2011]

9. Samant Saurabh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "FC-DERM: Fragmentation Compatible Deterministic Edge Router Marking", The 17th Asia Pacific Conference on Communication, ACPC 2011, 2 - 5 October 2011, Sabah, Malaysia. IEEE Communication Society. .[H5 Index: 12] [2011]

8. Sangita Roy, Avinash Kumar Singh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Detecting and Defeating SQL Injection Attacks", International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering (IJIEE), IACSIT Press, ISSN: 2010-3719, vol. 1, no. 1, pp: 38-46, 2011. [H5 Index: 12] [2011]

7. Sumit Kumar, Nahar Singh and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Key Validation using a Weighted-Edge Web of Trust Model", International Conference on Advances in Information Technology and Mobile Communication, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN: 978-3-642-20573-6, vol. 147, pp 156-161, 21-22 April 2011, Nagpur, India. [2011]

6. Arka Prokash Majumdar and Ashok Singh Sairam, "Opportunistic Routing: Opportunities and Challenges", International Conference on Network Communication and Computer, 2011. ICNCC 2011, International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering, vol: 2, No: 2, pp: 247-252, IACSIT Press, ISSN: 2010-3719, 21-23 March 2011, New Delhi, India. [2011]

5. Ashok Singh Sairam, Late Ashish Subramaniam and Gautam Barua, "Defeating Reflector Based Denial of Service Attacks using Single Packet Filters", Fifth International ICST conference on Communications and Networking in China, CHINACOM 2010, vol., no., pp.1-5, Aug 2010, Beijing, China. .[H5 Index: 14] [2010]

4. Ashok Singh Sairam and Gautam Barua, "Distributed Route Control Schemes to Load Balance Incoming Traffic in Multihomed Stub Networks", Sixteenth IEEE National Conference on Communications, NCC 2010, pp.1-5, 29 - 31 Jan 2010, IIT Madras, India. [2010]

3. Ashok Singh Sairam and Gautam Barua, "Load Balancing Inbound Traffic in Multihomed Stub Autonomous Systems", Communication Systems and Networks and Workshops, 2009. COMSNETS 2009. First International , vol., no., pp.1-10, 5-10 Jan. 2009, Bangalore, India.[H5 Index: 23] [2009]

2. Ashok Singh Sairam and Gautam Barua, "Survey of Bandwidth Estimation Techniques", IEEE International Advance Computing Conference 2009, IACC 2009, 6-7 March 2009, Patiala, India. [H5 Index: 17] [2009]

1. Ashok Singh Sairam, "Securing the Enterprise Network", Zonal Seminar (Guwahati), Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, 2006, Guwahati, India. [2006]

Current

1 Abhradeep Datta
2 Ajay Kumar (Part Time)
3 Puspanjali Ghoshal
4 Sachin Sahu (Jointly with IIT BHU)

Completed

Currently no completed student.

Current

1 Kabir Yadav
2 Sudhansh
3 Puranjay Singh Pippal

Completed

1 Ayush Raj

Current

1 Abha Kumari (IIT Patna)

Completed

1 Akash Yadav (IIT Patna)
2 Pratima Biswas (IIT Patna)
3 Arka Prokash Mazumdar (IIT Patna)
4 Sangita Roy (IIT Patna)
5 Samant Saurabh (IIT Patna)

1. Distributed Authentication & Privacy Scheme (DAPS)
Funding Agency : Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
Principal Investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2023
Status: Ongoing

2. Uncloaking Covert Networks: Identification and Analytics
Funding Agency : Elint Technologies (A subsidiary of Seclabs)
Principal Investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2019
Status: Completed

3. Detecting semantic attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems
Funding Agency : Start-up Grant, IIT Guwahati
Principal Investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2018
Status: Completed

4. Tunable Synchronization of Spatially Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems
Funding Agency : DST- DAAD Project based Personnel Exchange Programme
Principal Investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Co-investigator: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Axel Sikora, (PI, German Side)
Duration/Starting Year: 2015
Status: Completed

5. Development of solution to defend against Collaborative attacks in Peer-to-Peer networks
Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Somanath Tripathy
Co-investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Duration/Starting Year: 2015
Status: Completed

6. Development of a system to identify, filter and traceback network security attacks using new packet marking techniques
Funding Agency : Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India
Principal Investigator: Ashok Singh Sairam
Co-investigator:
Duration/Starting Year: 2010
Status: Completed

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