SWASTIK K. BRAHMA Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 Tel: (505) 948-1288 Email: skbrahma@syr.edu Web: http://skbrahma.mysite.syr.edu/ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Postdoctoral Research Associate Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Advisor: Prof. Pramod K. Varshney July 2011 - Present Graduate Research Assistant Spring 2007 - Spring 2011 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Graduate Teaching Assistant Fall 2005 - Spring 2011 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL. Research Intern Summer 2004 Applied Statistics Unit (under Dr. Subhamoy Maitra) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India. Intern Summer 2003 Nishan Systems, Kolkata, India. EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science August 2011 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Dissertation: Spectrum Sharing and Service Pricing in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks Advisor: Prof. Mainak Chatterjee Master of Science in Computer Science May 2008 University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering July 2005 West Bengal University of Technology, Calcutta, India RESEARCH INTERESTS Wireless Networking & Mobile Computing: Dynamic spectrum access (DSA), Cognitive radio, Network design and performance analysis, DSA security, secure collaborative spectrum sensing, media access control (MAC) layer, cross-layer protocol optimization, wireless mesh; Cybersecurity: Network Security, Robust system design, Data Falsification attacks, Byzantine fault tolerance, denial of service attacks, Malicious node detection, keyless security, covert communications; Network Economics: Incentive based routing, spectrum trading, differentiated service pricing, strategy-proof protocols, auction theory, mechanism design, network neutrality; Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Embedded sensor systems, Social/participatory sensing, location estimation/tracking, price theoretic sensor management, traffic management, energy efficiency; Spectrum Sharing in Wireless Networks: Performance optimization, co-operation enforcement models, spectrum bargaining, power control, MAC design; Cloud Computing: Virtual Machine Management, Data Center Networks, Mobile Cloud Comp.
HONORS AND AWARDS IEEE Globecom Conference, Best Paper Award, 2008. IEEE WowMom Conference, Best Phd Forum Award, 2009. NSF Student Travel Award in the IEEE WowMom conference, 2009. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Technical Program Committee Member IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA), 2013. IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), 2012. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012. IEEE International Workshop on Smart Communication Protocols and Algorithms (SCPA), 2012. Selected Journal Reviewer IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking Selected Conference Reviewer IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2011, 2012, 2013). IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2013). IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012). IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2010, 2011, 2012). IEEE Intl. Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2011). IEEE Intl. Symp. on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WowMom 2008). IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009). STUDENT ADVISING EXPERIENCE Mr. Raghed Ahmad El Bardan, Ph.D. Student Dept. of EECS, Syracuse University Mr. Bhavya Kailkhura, Ph.D. Student Dept. of EECS, Syracuse University Mr. Venkata Sriram Siddhardh Nadendla, Ph.D. Student Dissertation Topic: Security Issues in Cognitive Radio Networks. Dept. of EECS, Syracuse University. Ms. Nianxia Cao, Ph.D. Student Dept. of EECS, Syracuse University
TEACHING EXPERIENCES Guest Lecturer Spring 2011 Course: Introduction to Discrete Structures Guest Lecturer Fall 2010 Course: Systems Software Teaching Assistant Spring 2006 - Summer 2010 Course: Design and Implementation of Computer Comm. Networks Duties: Laboratory Instruction, Grading, Office hours Teaching Assistant Fall 2006 Course: Introduction to C Programming Duties: Grading, Office hours, Proctoring Teaching Assistant Fall 2005 Course: Computer Network Concepts Duties: Grading, Office hours PUBLICATIONS Book Chapters: [B1] Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, and Shamik Sengupta Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks, Book Title: Wireless Sensors Technologies, Eds: I. Nikolaidis and K. Iniewski, CRC Press, 2013 (Invited). Journal papers: [J5] Swastik Brahma, Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas, and Pramod K. Varshney, A Truthful and Optimal Auction Mechanism for Spectrum Trading Markets, under submission in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [J4] Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee and Kevin Kwiat, Spectrum Bargaining: A Model for Competitive Sharing of Unlicensed Spectrum, under submission in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. [J3] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Truthful Optimal Path Auction Design for Incentive based Routing in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, under revision in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. [J2] Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee, Kevin Kwiat and Pramod K. Varshney, Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks: Decoupling Congestion Control and Fairness, Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications 35(6), pp. 670 681, 2012. [J1] Shamik Sengupta, Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee and N. Sai Shankar, Self-coexistence Among Interference-aware IEEE 802.22 Networks with Enhanced Air-interface, To appear in Elsevier Journal of Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2012. Conference Papers: [C16] Bhavya Kailkhura, Swastik Brahma, Yunghsiang S. Han and Pramod K. Varshney, Optimal Distributed Detection in the Presence of Byzantines, under submission in IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2013.
[C15] Raghed El-Bardan, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney Optimal Power Control for Spectrum Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach, under submission in ACM International Conference on High Confidence Networked Systems (HiCoNS), 2013. [C14] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Multi-path Routing in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks: A Mechanism Design Approach, under submission in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2013. [C13] Bhavya Kailkhura, Swastik Brahma, and Pramod K. Varshney, Optimal Byzantine Attack on Distributed Detection in Tree based Topologies, To appear in International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications Workshops (ICNC-CPS), 2013. [C12] V. Sriram Siddhardh (Sid) Nadendla, Swastik Brahma, Pramod K. Varshney, An Auctionbased Mechanism for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation in Participatory Cognitive Radio Networks, 50 th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2012. [C11] Swastik Brahma, Pramod K. Varshney and Mainak Chatterjee, Optimal Content Delivery in DSA Networks: A Path Auction based Framework, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2012. [C10] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Spectrum Sharing in Secondary Networks: A Bargain Theoretic approach, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2012. [C9] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, A Bayesian based Incentive-Compatible Routing Mechanism for Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2012. [C8] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, A Truthful Optimal Path Auction for DSA Networks, IEEE/CreateNet Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks and Communications (CrownCom), June 2011. [C7] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, A Bargaining Game for Channel Access in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2010, pp. 1-6. [C6] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Equilibrium Strategies for Interference Free Channel Access in Cognitive Radio based WRANs, International Conference on Adaptive and Self-Adaptive Systems and Applications (ADAPTIVE), November 2010, pp. 27-32. [C5] Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee and Kevin Kwiat Congestion Control and Fairness in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE PerCom Workshop on Sensor Networks and Systems for Pervasive Computing (PerSeNS), March 2010, pp. 413-418. [C4] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Mitigating Self-interference among IEEE 802.22 Networks: A Game Theoretic Perspective, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Nov-Dec 2009, pp. 1-6. [C3] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, Interference avoidance among IEEE 802.22 networks: A Game Theoretic Approach, IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WowMom), June 2009, pp. 1-3 (Best PhD Forum Award). [C2] Shamik Sengupta, Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, A game theoretic framework for distributed self-coexistence among IEEE 802.22 networks, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Nov-Dec 2008, pp. 1-6 (Best Paper Award). [C1] Shamik Sengupta, Swastik Brahma, Mainak Chatterjee and S. Shankar N, Enhancements to cognitive radio based IEEE 802.22 air-interface, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007, pp. 5155-5160.
Technical Reports: [T1] Swastik Brahma and Mainak Chatterjee, A Bayesian based Routing Mechanism for DSA Networks, Technical Report, University of Central Florida, 2011. Under Preparation: [P1] Bhavya Kailkhura, Swastik Brahma, Pramod K. Varshney, Susceptibility and Performance Analysis of Fusion schemes in the Presence of Byzantines, under preparation. [P2] Swastik Brahma and Pramod K. Varshney, Sequential Jamming Attacks: Allocating Transmission Power Prior to Attack, under preparation. [P3] Nianxia Cao, Swastik Brahma, Pramod K. Varshney, An Incentive based Target Localization Mechanism for Sensor Networks, under preparation. [P4] V. Sriram Siddhardh (Sid) Nadendla, Swastik Brahma, Pramod K. Varshney, Auction based Spectrum Allocation via Participatory Sensing in Cognitive Radio Networks, under preparation. RESEARCH GRANT ACTIVITIES PI P.K. Varshney, Competitions and Dynamics of Cognitive Radio Networks for Dynamic Spectrum Access and Service Provisioning: An Economic Perspective, National Science Foundation (NSF) NeTS Small program, Amount $235,000. (submitted) (S. Brahma: Senior Personnel) PI P.K. Varshney, Market based Mechanisms for Enabling Dynamic Spectrum Access, National Science Foundation (NSF) EARS program, 2012. (S. Brahma: Senior Personnel) PI M. Chatterjee, Wireless Broadband (WiMax) Testbed for High Bandwidth Streaming Applications, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP), Equipment Grant, 2008. (Funded) (S. Brahma: Research Assistant in grant writing) PI M. Chatterjee, Tackling Vulnerabilities in Cognitive Radio Networks: A Game Theoretic Approach, National Science Foundation (NSF) EAGER, Duration: September 2009 to February 2012, Amount: $100,000. (S. Brahma: Research Assistant in grant writing) COLLABORATORS IN THE LAST 48 MONTHS Dr. Pramod K. Varshney, Distinguished Professor, Syracuse University Dr. Mainak Chatterjee, Associate Professor, University of Central Florida Dr. Kevin A. Kwiat, Air Force Research Laboratory Dr. Yunghsiang S. Han, Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Dr. Carlos E. Caicedo, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University Dr. Shamik Sengupta, Assistant Professor, John Jay College at City University of New York Dr. Sai Shankar N, Director at Tensorcom Dr. Rajarathnam Chandramouli, Chair Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
REFERENCES Prof. Pramod K. Varshney Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 Email: varshney@syr.edu Prof. Mainak Chatterjee University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816 Email: mainak@eecs.ucf.edu Dr. Kevin A. Kwiat Information Directorate Air Force Research Laboratory Rome, NY 13441 Email: kevin.kwiat@rl.af.mil Prof. Yunghsiang S. Han Department of Electrical Engineering National Taiwan University of Science and Technology Taipei, Taiwan 106 Email: yshan@mail.ntust.edu.tw Dr. Carlos E. Caicedo Bastidas Assistant Professor School of Information Studies Syracuse University Syracuse, NY 13244 Email: ccaicedo@syr.edu