About the Authors

B. S. Manoj is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Avionics, Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, India. He worked as associate professor at IIST from 2011 to 2016 at the Department of Avionics, IIST.

Manoj was an Infosys doctoral student during 2000 and 2003 in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India, where he focused on the development of architectures and protocols for ad hoc wireless networks and next-generation hybrid wireless network architectures. He received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Madras in 2004. He obtained his MTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering with second rank at Pondicherry Engineering College, Pondicherry Central University, Pondicherry, India, in 1998.

Manoj worked as a Senior Engineer with Banyan Networks Pvt. Ltd., Chennai, India from 1998 to 2000, where his primary responsibility included design and development of protocols for real-time traffic support in data networks. From January 2004 to January 2005, he was a Project Officer at IIT Madras, India. From January 2005 to January 2011, he was at the University of California, San Diego, USA, working initially as a postdoctoral researcher and later as an assistant research scientist and lecturer.

He co-authored the textbook Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: Architectures and Protocols, (Prentice Hall, 2004). Among his other published works, Manoj’s co-authored paper “Graph Fourier Transform Based on Directed Laplacian” was awarded Springer Best Student Paper at the 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2016, Bangalore, India. His co-authored paper “Comparative Evaluation of ARIMA and ANFIS for Modeling of Wireless Network Traffic Time Series,” published in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (2014), was recognized by the journal as being highly accessed. “Quality of Service Provisioning in Ad Hoc Wireless Networks: A Survey of Issues and Solutions,” published in 2006, earned Manoj and his co-authors the Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal’s Top Cited Article during 2005–2010 award. At the 5th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference 2008 (IEEE CCNC 2008), he and his co-authors received the Best Paper award for “On Optimizing Non-Asymptotic Throughput of Wireless Mesh Networks.” He, along with his co-authors, earned a Best Paper award for “A Novel Battery Aware MAC Protocol for Ad Hoc Wireless Networks” at the 11th International Conference on High Performance Computing 2004 (HiPC 2004). Manoj and his co-authors also received the Best Paper award for “Multi-hop Cellular Networks: Architecture and Protocols for Best-effort and Real Time Communication,” at the First Inter-Research Institute Student Seminar in Computer Science 2002 (IRISS 2002).

Manoj received the IEEE International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC) Outstanding Leadership award in 2015, the IBM Outstanding PhD Student/Thesis award for the year 2004, and the ISCA (Indian Science Congress Association) Young Scientist award for the year 2003.

Manoj’s research interests include complex networks, cybersecurity, cognitive networks, ad hoc wireless networks, wireless mesh networks, software-defined networks, delay tolerant networks, and wireless sensor networks. He can be reached at [email protected].

Abhishek Chakraborty has recently completed his PhD research at the Department of Avionics from Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, India. He is currently working as Senior Project Fellow in Avionics, IIST, where his primary responsibilities include designing efficient technological complex networks. Chakraborty obtained his BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology (formerly West Bengal University of Technology), West Bengal, India and ME in ECE from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, India, in 2007 and 2012, respectively. He worked as a Programmer Analyst with Cognizant Inc., Kolkata, India from 2007 to 2009. During 2012–2013, he served as the IEEE Student Branch Chair at IIST. One of his recent co-authored publications was selected for the Springer Best Student Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2016, Bangalore, India. His current research interests include complex networks, wireless communications, wireless networks, wireless mesh networks, wireless sensor networks, and signal processing over networks. He can be reached at [email protected].

Rahul Singh obtained his MTech degree in 2015 from Indian Institute of Space science and Technology (IIST), Thiruvananthapuram, India. He was a Senior Project Fellow, in the Department of Avionics at IIST, working in the area of complex networks. He worked with Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. from 2011 to 2013. He is currently working toward his PhD at Iowa State University, Ames, USA. Singh is a recipient of the Best Student Paper award at the 11th International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2016, Bangalore, India. His current research focuses on statistical signal processing and signal processing over networks. He can be reached at [email protected].