Academic Profile :

Sasthi C. Ghosh received the B.Sc. degree in Mathematics Honors from the University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India, in 1996, the Masters in Computer Application (M.C.A.) degree from the Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, in 2004. He is presently an Associate Professor in the Advanced Computing and Microelectronics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Before joining the Indian Statistical Institute, he had worked for about one and half year as a Research Associate with the School of Computer Science, Cardif University, Cardif, UK. He had also worked for about two years as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He also spent about seven months as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Theoretical Computer Science, Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India. His current research interests include mobile computing, wireless networks, device to device communications, 5G cellular networks, hand-off management in heterogeneous networks and wireless local area networks.

Publications :

Books

1. K. Sinha, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing”, CRC Press, 520 pages, published on October 15, 2015.

In Journals

1. D. Singh and S. C. Ghosh, “Mobility Aware Relay Selection in 5G D2D Communication using Stochastic Model”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE), accepted, 2019.

2. G. K. Audhya, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “Lower bound on bandwidth and channel assignment algorithm for multimedia communication in cellular networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE), accepted, 2018.

3. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, ”Interference aware frequency assignment and association control for uplink and downlink traffic in WLAN”, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (Inderscience), accepted, 2018.

4. N. K. Panigrahy and S. C. Ghosh, “Analyzing the effect of soft handover on handover evaluation metrics under load condition”, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE), Vol. 67, No. 4, pp. 3612-3624, 2018.

5. A. Bhattacharya, S. C. Ghosh, K. Sinha, B. P. Sinha, “Secure multipath routing for multimedia communication in cognitive radio networks”, International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (Inderscience), Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 26-55, 2018

6. P. Chatterjee, S. C. Ghosh and N. Das, “Load balanced coverage with graded node deployment in wireless sensor networks”, IEEE Transactions on Multi-Scale Computing Systems (IEEE), Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 100-112, April-June 2017.

7. S. Das, S. C. Ghosh, S. Nandi and S. Sen, “A lower bound technique for radio k-coloring”, Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol. 340, No. 5, pp. 855-861, May 2017.

8. S. Das, S. C. Ghosh and S. Nandi, “Optimal L(3,2,1)-labeling of triangular lattice”, Discrete Applied Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol. 228, pp. 32-40, September 2017.

9. B. Nandi, S. C. Ghosh, A. Banerjee and N. Banerjee, “Customer on-boarding strategies for cloud computing services with dynamic service level agreements”, Service Oriented Computing and Applications (Springer), Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 47-63, March 2017.

10. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, “Joint frequency assignment and association control to maximize the aggregate throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 94, No. 3, pp. 1193-1221, June 2017.

11. D. Bhaumick and S. C. Ghosh, “Efficient multicast association to improve the throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (ACM/Springer), Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 436-452, June 2016.

12. A. Sandhupatla and S. C. Ghosh, “Gracefulness of vertex duplicated complete bipartite graph for static and incremental frequency allocation”, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol. 48, pp. 89-93, July 2015.

13. S. Nandi, S. Sen, S. C. Ghosh and S. Das, “On L(k, k − 1, · · · , 1) labeling of triangular lattice”, Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics (Elsevier), Vol. 48, pp. 281-288, July 2015.

14. G. K. Audhya, K. Sinha, K. Mandal, R. Dattagupta, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “A new approach to fast near-optimal channel assignment in cellular mobile networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE), Vol. 12, No. 9, pp. 1814-1827, September 2013.

15. S. C. Ghosh, R. M. Whitaker, S. M. Allen and S. Hurley, “Optimising CDMA cell planning with soft handover”, Wireless Personal Communications (Springer), Vol. 68, Issue 2, pp. 321-347, January 2013.

16. S. C. Ghosh, R. M. Whitaker, S. M. Allen and S. Hurley, “Dynamic data resolution to improve the tractability of UMTS network planning”, Annals of Operations Research (Springer), Vol. 201, Issue 1, pp. 197-227, December 2012.

17. G. K. Audhya, K. Sinha, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “A survey on the channel assignment problem in wireless networks,” Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Wiley), Vol. 11, Issue 5, pp. 583-609, May 2011.

18. M. N. Smadi, S. C. Ghosh, A. A. Farid, T. D. Todd and S. Hranilovic, “Free-space optical gateway placement in hybrid wireless mesh networks”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE), Vol. 27, Issue 14, pp. 2688-2697, July 2009.

19. V. Rajakumar, M. N. Smadi, S. C. Ghosh, T. D. Todd and S. Hranilovic, “Interference management in WLAN mesh networks using free-space optical links”, IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (IEEE), Vol. 26, Issue 13, pp. 1735-1743, July 2008.

20. G. K. Das, S. C. Ghosh and S. C. Nandy, “Improved algorithm for minimum cost range assignment problem for linear radio networks”, Int. J. of Foundations of Computer Science (World Scientific), Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 619-635, June 2007.

21. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “Coalesced CAP: An improved technique for frequency assignment in cellular networks,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE), Vol. 55, No. 2, pp. 640-653, March 2006.

22. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “Channel assignment using genetic algorithm based on geometric symmetry,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (IEEE), Vol. 52, No. 4, pp. 860-875, July 2003.

23. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “A new approach to efficient channel assignment for hexagonal cellular networks,” Int. J. of Foundations of Computer Science (World Scientific), Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 439-463, June 2003.

In Refereed Conference Proceedings

1. S. Ghosh and S. C. Ghosh, “Analyzing the Performance of Dual Connectivity in Control/Userplane Split Heterogeneous networks”, Proc. of the 15th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference, Wengen, Switzerland, January 22-24, 2019 (IEEE/IFIP WONS 2019).

2. S. Ghosal and S. C. Ghosh, “A Decentralize Algorithm for Perturbation Minimization in 5G D2D Communication”, Proc. of the 15th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference, Wengen, Switzerland, January 22-24, 2019 (IEEE/IFIP WONS 2019).

3. D. Bhaumick and S. C. Ghosh, “A pseudo-dynamic scheme for mixed unicast and multicast traffic scheduling in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Communication Systems & Networks, Bengaluru, India, January 7-11, 2019 (COMSNET 2019).

4. D. Bhaumick and S. C. Ghosh, “Throughput optimization for multirate multicasting through association control in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, pp. 27-47, December 3-4, 2018 (QSHINE 2018).

5. A. Das, S. C. Ghosh, N. Das and A. Das Barman, “Q-learning based co-operative spectrum mobility in cognitive radio networks, Proc. of the 42nd Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Singapore, pp. 502-505, October 9-12, 2017 (IEEE LCN 2017).

6. S. Ghosh and S. C. Ghosh, “A predictive handoff mechanism for 5G ultra dense networks”, Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 473-477, October 30, 2017 - November 1, 2017 (IEEE NCA 2017).

7. D. Singh and S. C. Ghosh, “A distributed algorithm for D2D communication in 5G using stochastic model”, Proc. of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 459-466, October 30, 2017 - November 1, 2017 (IEEE NCA 2017).

8. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, “Combined power control and partially overlapping channel assignment for interference mitigation in dense WLAN”, Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 646-653, March 27-29, 2017 (IEEE AINA 2017).

9. S. Ghosh and S. C. Ghosh, “An analytical framework for throughput analysis of real time applications in all-IP networks”, Proc. of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 508-515, March 27-29, 2017 (IEEE AINA 2017).

10. P. Pandey and S. C. Ghosh, “Improving throughput and user fairness through priority scheduling in WLAN”, Proc. of the 31st International Conference on Information Networking, Da Nang, Vietnam, pp. 700-705, January 11-13, 2017 (ICOIN 2017).

11. S. Ghosh and S. C. Ghosh, “A goodness based vertical handoff algorithm for heterogeneous networks”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 254-267, May 25-27, 2016 (IFIP WWIC 2016).

12. S. Mukherjee and S. C. Ghosh, “Throughput improvement using partially overlapping channels in WLAN with heterogeneous clients”, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Wired/Wireless Internet Communications, Thessaloniki, Greece, pp. 335-347, May 25- 27, 2016 (IFIP WWIC 2016).

13. N. K. Panigrahy and S. C. Ghosh, “Analyzing the effect of soft handover on WLAN usage efficiency under load condition”, Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 192-199, September 28-30, 2015 (IEEE NCA 2015).

14. S. Ghosal and S. C. Ghosh, “Channel assignment in mobile networks based on geometric prediction and random coloring”, Proc. of the 40th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Florida, USA, pp. 237-240, October 26-29, 2015 (IEEE LCN 2015).

15. A. Das, S. C. Ghosh, N. Das and A. Das Barman, “Cooperative spectrum mobility in heterogeneous opportunistic networks using cognitive radio”, Proc. of the 40th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Florida, USA, pp. 402-405, October 26-29, 2015 (IEEE LCN 2015).

16. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, “Efficient Bonded Channel Assignment in IEEE 802.11 WLAN with Heterogeneous Clients”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 203-210, December 11-13, 2015 (MoMM 2015).

17. R. Singh, S. Mukherjee, S. C. Ghosh, “Improving user coverage through resource aware handoff management in heterogeneous networks”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 179-188, December 11-13, 2015 (MoMM 2015).

18. S. Nandi, N. Panigrahy, M. Agrawal, S. C. Ghosh and S. Das, “Efficient channel assignment for cellular networks modeled as honeycomb grid”, Proc. of the 15th Italian Conference on Theoretical Computer Science, Perugia, Italy, pp. 183-195, September 17- 19, 2014 (ICTCS 2014).

19. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh “ Interference avoidance through frequency assignment and association control in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 91-95, August 21-23, 2014 (IEEE NCA 2014).

20. S. Ghosal and S. C. Ghosh “A probabilistic greedy algorithm with forced assignment and compression for fast frequency assignment in cellular network”, Proc. of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications, Cambridge, MA, USA, pp. 189-196, August 21-23, 2014 (IEEE NCA 2014).

21. D. Bhaumick and S. C. Ghosh, “Efficient multicast association to improve the throughput in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 10th International Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness, IEEE, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 83-89, August 18-20, 2014 (QSHINE 2014).

22. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, “A combined frequency assignment and AP scheduling for throughput maximization in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 11th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia, ACM, Vienna, Austria, pp. 123-133, December 2-4, 2013 (MoMM 2013).

23. B. Nandi, H. Paul, A. Banerjee and S.C. Ghosh, “Fault Tolerance As a Service”, Proc. of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA, pp. 446-453, June 27-July 2, 2013 (IEEE CLOUD 2013).

24. B. Nandi, A. Banerjee, S. C. Ghosh and N. Banerjee, “Dynamic SLA based elastic cloud service management: A SaaS perspective”, Proc. of the 13th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management, Ghent, Belgium, pp. 60-67, May 27-31, 2013 (IFIP/IEEE IM 2013).

25. A. Bhattacharya, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “Multi-path routing in cognitive radio networks for multimedia communication using sample division multiplexing”, Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference, California, USA, pp. 1115-1120, December 3-7, 2012 (IEEE GLOBECOM 2012).

26. B. P. Tewari and S. C. Ghosh, “Joint frequency assignment and optimal association of stations to access points in IEEE 802.11 WLAN”, Proc. of the 15th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems, Paphos, Cyprus Island, pp. 253-260, October 21-25, 2012 (ACM MSWIM 2012).

27. B. Nandi, A. Banerjee, S. C. Ghosh and N. Banerjee, “Stochastic VM multiplexing for datacenter consolidation”, Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Service Computing, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, pp. 114-121, June 24-29, 2012 (IEEE SCC 2012).

28. A. Banerjee, S. C. Ghosh and N. Banerjee, “Pack your sack for the cloud”, Proc. of the 5th India Software Engineering Conference, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur, India, pp. 157-160, February 22-25, 2012 (ISEC 2012).

29. G. K. Audhya, K. Sinha, K. Mandal, R. Dattagupta, S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “An efficient algorithm for channel assignment in cellular mobile networks,” Proc. of the National Workshop on Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India, pp. 1-12, January 22-23, 2010 (NWDAA 2010).

30. S. C. Ghosh, R. M. Whitaker, S. M. Allen and S. Hurley, “Service coverage bounds through efficient load approximation in UMTS network planning,” Proc. of the First International Conference on Networks & Communications, Chennai, India, pp. 202-207, December 27-29, 2009 (NETCOM 2009).

31. L. Hodge, S. C. Ghosh, S. Hurley, R. M. Whitaker and S. M. Allen, “Flexible grids for wireless network planning,” Proc. of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 541-545, July 13-16, 2009 (ICWN 2009).

32. L. Hodge, S. C. Ghosh, S. Hurley, R. M. Whitaker and S. M. Allen, “Upper and lower bounds for pilot coverage in UMTS networks,” Proc. of the 2009 International Conference on Wireless Networks, Las Vegas, USA, pp. 423-429, July 13-16, 2009 (ICWN 2009).

33. L. Hodge, S. C. Ghosh, S. Hurley, R. M. Whitaker and S. M. Allen, “Coverage and service bounds for UMTS,” Proc. of the International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, Taiwan, Article No. 49, pp. 1-4, September 10-12, 2008 (MOBILITY 2008).

34. M. N. Smadi, S. C. Ghosh, A. A. Farid, T. D. Todd and S. Hranilovic, “Gateway placement in wireless mesh networks using free space optical links”, Proc. of the 17th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA, pp. 369-374, August 3-7, 2008 (ICCCN 2008).

35. A. A. Sayegh, S. C. Ghosh and T. D. Todd, “Optimal node placement in hybrid solar powered WLAN mesh networks”, Proc. of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, pp. 2277-2282, March 31, 2008-April 3, 2008 (IEEE WCNC 2008).

36. V. Rajakumar, M. N. Smadi, S. C. Ghosh, T. D. Todd and S. Hranilovic, “WLAN mesh network interference management using FSO link deployment”, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications, Guadeloupe, French Caribbean, pp. 77-82, March 4-9, 2007 (ICWMC 2007).

37. S. C. Ghosh and B. P. Sinha, “Generalized lower bounds on bandwidth for channel assignment in cellular networks with k-band buffering”, Proc. of the 4th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference, Kolkata, India, pp. 222-228, January 4-7, 2006 (AMOC 2006).

38. G. K. Das, S. C. Ghosh and S. C. Nandy, “Improved algorithm for minimum cost range assignment problem for linear radio networks”, Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, Kolkata, India, LNCS 3326, pp. 412-423, December 27-30, 2004 (IWDC 2004).

39. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “Coalesced CAP: An efficient approach to frequency assignment in cellular mobile networks”, Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, pp. 338-347, December 15-18, 2004 (ADCOM 2004).

40. G. K. Das, S. C. Ghosh and S. C. Nandy, “An efficient heuristic algorithm for 2D h-hops range assignment problem,” Proc. of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, Vol. 2, pp. 1051-1055, November 29-December 3, 2004 (IEEE GLOBECOM 2004).

41. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “More on lower bounds for channel assignment problem,” Proc. of 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing in Asia Pacific Region, Bangalore, India, Vol. II, pp. 522-527, December 2002 (HPC-ASIA 2002).

42. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “Optimal channel assignment in cellular networks with non-homogeneous demands” Proc. of 56th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Vol. 3, pp. 1739-1743, September 2002 (VTC FALL 2002).

43. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “An efficient channel assignment technique for hexagonal cellular networks,” Proc. of 6th International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks, Metro Manila, Philippines, pp. 361-366, May 2002 (I-SPAN 2002).

44. S. C. Ghosh, B. P. Sinha and N. Das, “On optimal and near-optimal schemes for channel assignment in cellular networks using genetic algorithm,” Proc. of 8th International Conference on Advanced Computing and Communication, Cochin, India, pp. 1-8, December 2000 (ADCOM 2000).