Advances in Communication, Cloud, and Big Data Proceedings of 2nd National Conference on CCB 2016

This book is an outcome of the second national conference on Communication, Cloud and Big Data (CCB) held during November 10-11, 2016 at Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology. The nineteen chapters of the book are some of the accepted papers of CCB 2016. These chapters have undergone review process and then subsequent series of improvements. The book contains chapters on various aspects of communication, computation, cloud and big data. Routing in wireless sensor networks, modulation techniques, spectrum hole sensing in cognitive radio networks, antenna design, network security, Quality of Service issues in routing, medium access control protocol for Internet of Things, and TCP performance over different routing protocols used in mobile ad-hoc networks are some of the topics discussed in different chapters of this book which fall under the domain of communication.

Moreover, there are chapters in this book discussing topics like applications of geographic information systems, use of radar for road safety, image segmentation and digital media processing, web content management system, human computer interaction, and natural language processing in the context of Bodo language. These chapters may fall under broader domain of computation.

Issues like robot navigation exploring cloud technology, and application of big data analytics in higher education are also discussed in two different chapters.  These chapters fall under the domains of cloud and big data, respectively.

Dr. Hiren Kumar Deva Sarma is currently Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim. He received B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College in 1998. He completed Master of Technology in Information Technology from Tezpur University in 2000. He received Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) in 2013. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in the XVIII General Assembly 2005, held at New Delhi, India. He has published more than seventy research papers in different International Journals, refereed International and National Conferences of repute.  His current research interests are wireless sensor networks, mobility management in IPv6 based network, cognitive radio networks, network security, robotics, distributed computing and big data analytics.

Dr. Samarjeet Borah is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim Manipal University (SMU), Sikkim, India. He received PhD (Engineering) from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU) and M. Tech. from Tezpur University, India respectively. Dr. Borah is involved with three funded projects in the capacity of Principal Investigator/Co-principal Investigator. The projects are sponsored by, AICTE (Govt. of India), DST-CSRI (Govt. of India) and Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Fund.  Out of which one is completed and two are undergoing. He is associated with IEEE, ACM (CSTA), IAENG and IACSIT. Dr. Borah organized various events in SMU. Some of these events include ISRO Sponsored Training Programme on Remote Sensing & GIS, National Conference cum Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NCWBCB 2014), North Eastern Regional Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NER-WNLP 2014), First International Conference on Computing & Communication (IC3-2016), First IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computational & Communication Paradigms (ICACCP 2017), etc. Dr. Borah is involved with various journals of repute in the capacity of Editor/Guest Editor such as International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC), International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), Informatica, Journal of Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. He is also associated with some edited books of IGI Global Publication and Elsevier Inc. 

Dr. Nitul Dutta is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat. He received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jorhat Engineering College, Assam (1995) and M.Tech in Information Technology from Tezpur University Assam (2002). He completed his Ph.D. in engineering in the field of Mobile IPv6 at Jadavpur University (2012). He has published more than thirty research papers in various journals and conferences of repute. His research interests are mobile IPv6, cognitive radio networks, and distributed computing.