Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Communications and Machine Intelligence

This book presents high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from International Conference on Advanced Communications and Machine Intelligence (MICA 2022), organised by M.Kumarasamy College of Engineering, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, during 9–11 December 2022. The book includes all areas of advanced communications and machine intelligence. The topics covered are network performance analysis, data mining and warehousing, parallel and distributed networks, computational intelligence, smart city applications, big data analytics, Internet of Things networks, information management and wireless sensor networks. The book is useful for academicians, scientists, researchers from industry, research scholars and students working in these areas.

Prof. Rajkumar Buyya is Redmond Barry Distinguished Professor and Director of the Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is also serving as the founding CEO of Manjrasoft Pty Ltd., a spin-off company of the University, commercialising its innovations in Cloud Computing. He served as a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council during 2012-2016. He serving/served as Honorary/Visiting Professor for several elite Universities including Imperial College London (UK), University of Birmingham (UK), University of Hyderabad (India) and Tsinghua University (China). He received B.E. and M.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from Mysore and Bangalore Universities in 1992 and 1995, respectively; and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2002. He was awarded Dharma Ratnakara Memorial Trust Gold Medal in 1992 for his academic excellence at the University of Mysore, India. He received Richard Merwin Award from the IEEE Computer Society (USA) for excellence in academic achievement and professional efforts in 1999. He received Leadership and Service Excellence Awards from the IEEE/ACM International Conference on High Performance Computing in 2000 and 2003. He received “Research Excellence Awards” from the University of Melbourne for productive and quality research in computer science and software engineering in 2005 and 2008. He acknowledges all researchers and institutions worldwide for their consideration in building on software systems created by his CLOUDS Lab and recognising them through citations and contributing to their further enhancements. With over 122,400 citations, a g-index of 332 and an h-index of 152, he is one of the highly cited authors in computer science and software engineering worldwide. He received the Chris Wallace Award for Outstanding Research Contribution 2008 from the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia, CORE, which is an association of university departments of computer science in Australia and New Zealand. Dr. Buyya received the “2009 IEEE TCSC Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing” for pioneering the economic paradigm for utility-oriented distributed computing platforms such as Grids and Clouds. He served as founding Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC). Dr. Buyya is recognised as “Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher” for six consecutive years since 2016, Scopus Researcher of the Year 2017 with Excellence in Innovative Research Award by Elsevier and “Lifetime Achievement Awards” from two Indian universities for his outstanding contributions to cloud computing and distributed systems. He has been recognised as the “Best of the World” twice for research fields (in Computing Systems in 2019 and Software Systems in 2021) as well as “Lifetime Achiever” and “Superstar of Research” in “Engineering and Computer Science” discipline twice (2019 and 2021) by the Australian Research Review. Recently, he received “Research Innovation Award” from IEEE Technical Committee on Services Computing and “Research Impact Award” from IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing.

Prof. Sudip Misra is Professor, Fellow of IEEE and Abdul Kalam Technology Innovation National Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests include wireless sensor networks and Internet of Things. Professor Misra has published over 350 scholarly research papers and 12 books. He has won eleven research paper awards in different journals and conferences. He was awarded the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, California, USA. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Faculty Excellence Award (IIT Kharagpur), Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University and the National Academy of Sciences, India—Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award), Samsung Innovation Awards-2014 at IIT Kharagpur, IETE-Biman Behari Sen Memorial Award-2014 and the Careers360 Outstanding Faculty Award in Computer Science for the year 2018 from the Honourable Minister for Human Resource Development (MHRD) of India. Thrice consecutively, he was the recipient of the IEEE Systems Journal Best Paper Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020. He was awarded the Canadian Government’s prestigious NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship and the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany. His team received the GYTI Award 2018 in the hands of the President of India for socially relevant innovations. Dr. Misra has been serving as the Associate Editor of different journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, IEEE Network and IEEE Systems Journal. He is Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, British Computer Society (BCS), UK, Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH), UK, and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (IETE), India. Professor Misra is Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society. He has been serving the Executive Committee of IEEE Kharagpur Section since 2008 in different capacities. Presently, he is Vice-Chair of the IEEE Kharagpur Section. He is Director and Co-Founder of the IoT startup, SensorDrops Networks Private Limited.

Prof. Yiu-Wing Leung received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. He is now Professor of Computer Science in the Hong Kong Baptist University. On the teaching side, he has rich experience in university teaching and curriculum design. In particular, he co-founded the MSc in IT Management programme, and he has been serving as the Programme Director for the MSc in IT Management programme and the MSc in Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence programme. He has received several teaching awards, including the President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Teaching. On the research side, he has been working on networking (including wireless networks, Internet and cloud computing, multimedia networks and optical networks) and systems engineering (including evolutionary computing and optimisation). He has published more than 100 research papers in these areas. His name is listed in the “Top 2% most-cited scientists in the world” by Stanford University in 2020.

Dr. Ayan Mondal is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India. Prior to this, he worked as Postdoctoral Research Engineer at Univ Rennes, INRIA, CNRS, IRISA, France. He received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2020. During his Ph.D., he received Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Research Fellowship (India) to support his research. He also received his Master of Science (by Research) (M.S.) degree from the School of Information Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, in 2015. He received his Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from St. Thomas' College of Engineering and Technology, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (Formerly known as West Bengal University of Technology), India, in 2012. He is IEEE Member and ACM Professional Member. His current research interests include algorithm design for data centre networks, software-defined networks, sensor-cloud, edge/fog networks, smart grid and wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. He is Former Member of Myriads research team at INRIA, Rennes, France, and Smart Wireless Applications & Networking (SWAN) Research Group, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.