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Krishna Kant

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Computer and Information Sciences

      • Professor

Biography

Current Research Interests: Energy Efficiency and Sustainability issues in computing &
communications, Security and robustness issues in cloud computing and name resolution, Configuration management issues for large IT systems and its security, and emerging nonvolatile memory technologies,
Other expertise: Traffic characterization and congestion control, Low-level architectural
modeling, Acceleration technologies (security, XML, TCP, etc.), Peer to Peer computing,
Mathematical performance modeling, Telecommunication systems and Internet technologies,
data center design issues.

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

CIS 2107

Computer Systems and Low-Level Programming

Undergraduate

CIS 3217

Computer Architecture

Undergraduate

CIS 4360

Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems

Undergraduate

CIS 5590

Introduction to Cyber-Physical Systems

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Biswas, J., Gupta, J., Kant, K., Pal, A., & Minturn, D. (2021). Provisioning differentiated QoS for NVMe over fabrics. Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, 2021-October, 154-161. doi: 10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524967.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2021). A Neighborhood Aware Caching and Interest Dissemination Scheme for Content Centric Networks. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 18(3), 3900-3917. doi: 10.1109/TNSM.2021.3079326.

  • Pal, A., Jolfaei, A., & Kant, K. (2021). A Fast Prekeying-Based Integrity Protection for Smart Grid Communications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(8), 5751-5758. doi: 10.1109/TII.2020.3030799.

  • Jolfaei, A., Menon, V., Lv, C., Bashir, A., Tan, Y., & Kant, K. (2021). Guest Editorial Advanced Sensing and Sensor Fusion for Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(14), 15425-15426. doi: 10.1109/JSEN.2021.3081195.

  • Jolfaei, A., Kumar, N., Chen, M., & Kant, K. (2021). Guest Editorial Introduction to the Special Issue on Deep Learning Models for Safe and Secure Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 22(7), 4224-4229. doi: 10.1109/TITS.2021.3090721.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2021). DC-PoET: Proof-of-Elapsed-Time Consensus with Distributed Coordination for Blockchain Networks. 2021 IFIP Networking Conference, IFIP Networking 2021. doi: 10.23919/IFIPNetworking52078.2021.9472787.

  • Jolfaei, A., Jan, M., Kant, K., & Usman, M. (2021). Guest editorial: Configuration security for industrial automation and control systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17(6), 4206-4209. doi: 10.1109/TII.2020.3036114.

  • Pradeep, P., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2021). Automating conflict detection and mitigation in large-scale IoT systems. Proceedings - 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, CCGrid 2021, 535-544. doi: 10.1109/CCGrid51090.2021.00063.

  • Islam, S., Gulati, R., Domic, M., Pal, A., Kant, K., & Kim, A. (2021). Performance Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Coupling Method for Intra-Body Network (IBNet). IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. doi: 10.1109/TBME.2021.3130408.

  • Pradeepkumar, P., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2021). Resource Efficient Edge Computing Infrastructure for Video Surveillance. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. doi: 10.1109/TSUSC.2021.3064245.

  • Sharma, A., Sharma, A., Jalal, A., & Kant, K. (2021). A two-step clustering method for facility location problem. International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 18(3), 337-355. doi: 10.1504/IJAIP.2021.113326.

  • Gunta, J., Kant, K., & Abouelwafa, A. (2020). FussyCache: A Caching Mechanism for Emerging Storage Hierarchies. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom, 2020-December, 74-81. doi: 10.1109/CloudCom49646.2020.00010.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2020). NFMI: Near Field Magnetic Induction based communication. Computer Networks, 181. doi: 10.1016/j.comnet.2020.107548.

  • Usman, M., Jolfaei, A., Gondal, I., & Kant, K. (2020). Guest Editorial: Security, Reliability, Privacy, and Quality in Industrial Automation and Control. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 56(4), 4378-4380. doi: 10.1109/TIA.2020.2992575.

  • Jolfaei, A. & Kant, K. (2020). On the Silent Perturbation of State Estimation in Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, 56(4), 4405-4414. doi: 10.1109/TIA.2020.2969117.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2020). Exploiting Proxy Sensing for Efficient Monitoring of Large-Scale Sensor Networks. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 20(2). doi: 10.1145/3376919.

  • Ray, M., Kant, K., Li, P., & Trika, S. (2020). FlashKey:A High-Performance Flash Friendly Key-Value Store. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2020, 976-985. doi: 10.1109/IPDPS47924.2020.00104.

  • Sondur, S., Gross, K., & Kant, K. (2020). Thermo-Mechanical Coupling Induced Performance Degradation in Storage Systems. Proceedings - 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, CCGRID 2020, 152-161. doi: 10.1109/CCGrid49817.2020.00-78.

  • Roy, T. & Kant, K. (2020). Enhancing endurance of SSD based high-performance storage systems using emerging NVM technologies. Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 34th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, IPDPSW 2020, 1070-1079. doi: 10.1109/IPDPSW50202.2020.00178.

  • Kant, K. (2020). Advanced Persistent Threats in Autonomous Driving. Performance Evaluation Review, 47(4), 25-28. doi: 10.1145/3397776.3397783.

  • Jolfaei, A., Ostovari, P., Alazab, M., Gondal, I., & Kant, K. (2020). Guest Editorial Special Issue on Privacy and Security in Distributed Edge Computing and Evolving IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 7(4), 2496-2500. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2020.2980103.

  • Pal, A., Raj, M., Kant, K., & Das, S. (2020). A Smartphone-based Network Architecture for Post-disaster Operations Using WiFi Tethering. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 20(1). doi: 10.1145/3372145.

  • Sondur, S., Shankar, G., & Kant, K. (2020). CHeSS: A Configuration Health Scoring System and Its Application to Network Devices. 2020 23rd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks and Workshops, ICIN 2020, 250-257. doi: 10.1109/ICIN48450.2020.9059494.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2020). Smart sensing, communication, and control in perishable food supply chain. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 16(1). doi: 10.1145/3360726.

  • Alazzawe, A., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2020). Efficient Big-Data Access: Taxonomy and a Comprehensive Survey. IEEE Transactions on Big Data. doi: 10.1109/TBDATA.2020.3036813.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2019). Using Blockchain for Provenance and Traceability in Internet of Things-Integrated Food Logistics. Computer, 52(12), 94-98. doi: 10.1109/MC.2019.2942111.

  • Sondur, S., Kant, K., Vucetic, S., & Byers, B. (2019). Storage on the edge: Evaluating cloud backed edge storage in cyberphysical systems. Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems, MASS 2019, 362-370. doi: 10.1109/MASS.2019.00050.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2019). Water flow driven sensor networks for leakage and contamination monitoring in distribution pipelines. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 15(4). doi: 10.1145/3342513.

  • Alazzawe, A. & Kant, K. (2019). Mimic: Fast Recovery from Data Corruption Errors in Stencil Computations. 2019 IEEE 38th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2019. doi: 10.1109/IPCCC47392.2019.8958749.

  • Pang, L., Alazzawe, A., Kant, K., & Swift, J. (2019). Data Heat Prediction in Storage Systems Using Behavior Specific Prediction Models. 2019 IEEE 38th International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, IPCCC 2019. doi: 10.1109/IPCCC47392.2019.8958715.

  • Ray, M., Biswas, J., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2019). Adaptive Data Center Network Traffic Management for Distributed High Speed Storage. Proceedings - 2019 IEEE 44th Local Computer Networks Symposium on Emerging Topics in Networking, LCN Symposium 2019, 166-174. doi: 10.1109/LCNSymposium47956.2019.9000662.

  • Jolfaei, A. & Kant, K. (2019). A lightweight integrity protection scheme for low latency smart grid applications. Computers and Security, 86, 471-483. doi: 10.1016/j.cose.2018.09.014.

  • Jolfaei, A., Kant, K., & Shafei, H. (2019). Secure data streaming to untrusted road side units in intelligent transportation system. Proceedings - 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering, TrustCom/BigDataSE 2019, 793-798. doi: 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00115.

  • Murugan, M., Kant, K., Raghavan, A., & Du, D. (2019). Software defined deduplicated replica management in scale-out storage systems. Future Generation Computer Systems, 97, 340-354. doi: 10.1016/j.future.2019.02.018.

  • Pal, A., Gulati, R., & Kant, K. (2019). Towards building low power magnetic communication protocols for challenging environments. Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN, 2019-July. doi: 10.1109/ICCCN.2019.8847145.

  • Jolfaei, A. & Kant, K. (2019). Privacy and Security of Connected Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation System. Proceedings - 49th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2019, 9-10. doi: 10.1109/DSN-S.2019.00010.

  • Biswas, J., Ray, M., Sondur, S., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2019). Coordinated Power Management in Data Center Networks. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 22, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.suscom.2019.01.021.

  • Farooq, A.A., Al-Shaer, E., Moyer, T., & Kant, K. (2019). IoTC2: A formal method approach for detecting conflicts in large scale IoT systems. 2019 IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Network and Service Management, IM 2019, 442-447.

  • Gulati, R., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2019). Experimental Evaluation of a Near-Field Magnetic Induction Based Communication System. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, WCNC, 2019-April. doi: 10.1109/WCNC.2019.8885541.

  • Dave, V., Ngo, T., Pernestig, A., Tilevik, D., Kant, K., Nguyen, T., Wolff, A., & Bang, D. (2019). MicroRNA amplification and detection technologies: opportunities and challenges for point of care diagnostics. Laboratory Investigation, 99(4), 452-469. doi: 10.1038/s41374-018-0143-3.

  • Saraswathi, E., Kant, K., Ranjan, H., Kumar, A., & Anand, A. (2019). Predictive analytics to SQL injection attack detection and prevention. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering, 8(6), 65-70.

  • Vinayaka, A., Ngo, T., Kant, K., Engelsmann, P., Dave, V., Shahbazi, M., Wolff, A., & Bang, D. (2019). Rapid detection of Salmonella enterica in food samples by a novel approach with combination of sample concentration and direct PCR. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 129, 224-230. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.09.078.

  • Wu, Y., Pal, A., Wang, J., & Kant, K. (2019). Incremental Spatial Clustering for Spatial Big Crowd Data in Evolving Disaster Scenario. 2019 16th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC 2019. doi: 10.1109/CCNC.2019.8651840.

  • Kant, K., Ngo, T., Matteucci, M., & Wolff, A. (2019). Fabrication of 3D microstructure array on chip for rapid pathogen detection. Sensors and Actuators, B: Chemical, 281, 774-782. doi: 10.1016/j.snb.2018.11.008.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2019). NFMI: Connectivity for Short-Range IoT Applications. Computer, 52(2), 63-67. doi: 10.1109/MC.2019.2892862.

  • Hema, N. & Kant, K. (2019). Cost-effective smart irrigation controller using automatic weather stations. International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 9(1), 1-27. doi: 10.1504/IJHST.2019.096795.

  • Sondur, S. & Kant, K. (2019). Towards automated configuration of cloud storage gateways: A data driven approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 11513 LNCS, 192-207. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-23502-4_14.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2019). Internet of Perishable Logistics: Building Smart Fresh Food Supply Chain Networks. IEEE Access, 7, 17675-17695. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2894126.

  • Shahbazi, M., Sedighi, M., Bauleth-Ramos, T., Kant, K., Correia, A., Poursina, N., Sarmento, B., Hirvonen, J., & Santos, H. (2018). Targeted Reinforcement of Macrophage Reprogramming Toward M2 Polarization by IL-4-Loaded Hyaluronic Acid Particles. ACS Omega, 3(12), 18444-18455. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b03182.

  • El-Shekeil, I., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2018). CloudMiner: A systematic failure diagnosis framework in enterprise cloud environments. Proceedings of the International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science, CloudCom, 2018-December, 73-80. doi: 10.1109/CloudCom2018.2018.00028.

  • Athamnah, M., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2018). A framework for misconfiguration diagnosis in interconnected multiparty systems. Proceedings - International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN, 2018-July. doi: 10.1109/ICCCN.2018.8487411.

  • Kant, K., Shahbazi, M., Dave, V., Ngo, T., Chidambara, V., Than, L., Bang, D., & Wolff, A. (2018). Microfluidic devices for sample preparation and rapid detection of foodborne pathogens. Biotechnology Advances, 36(4), 1003-1024. doi: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2018.03.002.

  • Kant, K. & Abalde-Cela, S. (2018). Surface-enhanced raman scattering spectroscopy and microfluidics: Towards ultrasensitive label-free sensing. Biosensors, 8(3). doi: 10.3390/bios8030062.

  • Alazzawe, A. & Kant, K. (2018). Slice swarms for HPC application resilience. Proceedings - 2017 5th International Symposium on Computing and Networking, CANDAR 2017, 2018-January, 1-10. doi: 10.1109/CANDAR.2017.107.

  • Sondur, S., Ray, M., Biswas, J., & Kant, K. (2018). Implementing data center network energy management capabilities in NS3. 2017 8th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference, IGSC 2017, 2017-October, 1-8. doi: 10.1109/IGCC.2017.8323566.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2018). E-Darwin2: A smartphone based disaster recovery network using WiFi tethering. CCNC 2018 - 2018 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2018-January, 1-5. doi: 10.1109/CCNC.2018.8319261.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2018). IoT-Based Sensing and Communications Infrastructure for the Fresh Food Supply Chain. Computer, 51(2), 76-80. doi: 10.1109/MC.2018.1451665.

  • El-Shekeil, I., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2018). PRECESION: progressive recovery and restoration planning of interdependent services in enterprise data centers. Digital Communications and Networks, 4(1), 39-47. doi: 10.1016/j.dcan.2017.08.001.

  • Ramljak, D., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2018). Patern mining based compression of IoT data. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. doi: 10.1145/3170521.3170533.

  • Athamnah, M., Alazzawe, A., & Kant, K. (2018). Collaborative similarity search across multi-party repositories. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. doi: 10.1145/3154273.3154352.

  • Ray, M., Sondur, S., Biswas, J., Pal, A., & Kant, K. (2018). Opportunistic power savings with coordinated control in data center networks. ACM International Conference Proceeding Series. doi: 10.1145/3154273.3154328.

  • Ramljak, D., Tom, D., Voigt, D., & Kant, K. (2018). Modular framework for data prefetching and replacement at the edge. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10973 LNCS, 18-33. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-94340-4_2.

  • Batra, P. & Kant, K. (2018). An energy-aware clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks: GA-based approach. International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, 11(3), 275-292. doi: 10.1504/IJAACS.2018.093696.

  • Vamsi, P. & Kant, K. (2018). Trust and reputation aware geographic routing method for wireless ad hoc networks. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 27(2), 121-137. doi: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.089581.

  • Zhang, S., Pal, A., Kant, K., & Vucetic, S. (2018). Enhancing Disaster Situational Awareness via Automated Summary Dissemination of Social Media Content. 2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2018 - Proceedings. doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2018.8647340.

  • Bhardwaj, D., Kant, K., & Chauhan, D. (2018). QoS-aware routing protocol using adaptive retransmission of distorted descriptions in MDC for MANETs. International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(1), 55-67. doi: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2018.091572.

  • Vamsi, P. & Kant, K. (2017). Generalized Trust Model for Cooperative Routing in MANETs. Wireless Personal Communications, 97(3), 4385-4412. doi: 10.1007/s11277-017-4730-1.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2017). Magnetic Induction Based Sensing and Localization for Fresh Food Logistics. Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN, 2017-October, 383-391. doi: 10.1109/LCN.2017.114.

  • Pal, A. & Kant, K. (2017). NACID: A neighborhood aware caching and interest dissemination in content centric networks. 2017 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 2017. doi: 10.1109/ICCCN.2017.8038370.

  • Hema, N. & Kant, K. (2017). Reconstructing missing hourly real-time precipitation data using a novel intermittent sliding window period technique for automatic weather station data. Journal of Meteorological Research, 31(4), 774-790. doi: 10.1007/s13351-017-6084-8.

  • Wu, Y., Kant, K., Zhang, S., Pal, A., & Wang, J. (2017). Disaster Network Evolution Using Dynamic Clustering of Twitter Data. Proceedings - IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, ICDCSW 2017, 348-353. doi: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2017.57.

  • Batra, P. & Kant, K. (2017). An energy efficient GA based routing algorithm for two-tiered sensor networks. India International Conference on Information Processing, IICIP 2016 - Proceedings. doi: 10.1109/IICIP.2016.7975318.

  • Ashley, J., Shahbazi, M., Kant, K., Chidambara, V., Wolff, A., Bang, D., & Sun, Y. (2017). Molecularly imprinted polymers for sample preparation and biosensing in food analysis: Progress and perspectives. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 91, 606-615. doi: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.01.018.

  • Shahbazi, M., Kant, K., Kaplinsky, J., Chidambara, V., Bang, D., & Wolff, A. (2017). From 2D fluidic array screening to 3D bacterial capturing structures in a point of care system for sepsis diagnosis. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS), 440-443. doi: 10.1109/MEMSYS.2017.7863437.

  • Alazzawe, A. & Kant, K. (2017). Power-aware program resilience through slicing. Proceedings - 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City and 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, HPCC/SmartCity/DSS 2016, 1139-1146. doi: 10.1109/HPCC-SmartCity-DSS.2016.0160.

  • Kant, K. & Pal, A. (2017). Internet of Perishable Logistics. IEEE Internet Computing, 21(1), 22-31. doi: 10.1109/MIC.2017.19.

  • Jolfaei, A. & Kant, K. (2017). A lightweight integrity protection scheme for fast communications in smart grid. ICETE 2017 - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications, 4, 31-42. doi: 10.5220/0006394200310042.

  • Ramljak, D. & Kant, K. (2017). Belief-based storage systems. 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage 2017, co-located with USENIX ATC 2017.

  • Potukuchi, R. & Kant, K. (2017). Trust aware cooperative optimised link state routing protocol. International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications, 8(1), 1-21. doi: 10.1504/IJSCC.2017.10002378.

  • Potukuchi, R. & Kant, K. (2017). Trust aware cooperative optimised link state routing protocol. International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications, 8(1), 1-21. doi: 10.1504/IJSCC.2017.081536.

  • Ramljak, D. & Kant, K. (2017). Belief-based storage systems. 9th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, HotStorage 2017, co-located with USENIX ATC 2017.