This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the International Applied Soft Computing and Communication Networks (ACN 2023) held at PES University, Bangalore, India, during December 18-20, 2023. The research papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from several initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on security and privacy, network management and software-defined networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems, intelligent distributed systems, mobile computing and vehicle communications, and emerging topics. The book is directed to the researchers and scientists engaged in various fields of intelligent systems.
Sabu M. Thampi is Professor at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Digital University Kerala, Trivandrum, India. His current research interests include the Internet of Things (IoT), cognitive security, social networks, endpoint security, and smart cyber-physical systems. Sabu also coordinates the Connected Systems and Intelligence (CSI) Lab at the University. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka. Dr. Sabu has been actively involved in funded research projects and published papers in book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings. He has authored and edited a few books and edited 45+ conference proceedings published by Springer in various series, as well as a few others published by IEEE, ACM, and Elsevier.
Dr. Jiankun Hu is a full professor of Cyber-Security at the School of Engineering and Information Technology, the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy (UNSW@ADFA), Australia. His major research interest is in computer networking and computer security, especially biometric security. He has been awarded ten Australia Research Council Grants. He was a program co-chair of the 2008 International Symposium on Computer Science and its Applications. He is serving as an associate editor of the following journals: Journal of Security and Communication Networks, Wiley; IEEE TIFS (Senior Area Editor); KSII TIIS (Area Editor); IET CPS; IEEE OJCS; and Wiley S&P.
Dr. Ashok Kumar Das is currently working as an associate professor in the Center for Security, Theory and Algorithmic Research (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) of the International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering, the M.Tech. degree in Computer Science and Data Processing, and the M.Sc. in Mathematics (Minor: Computer Science), all from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, India. His research interests include cryptography and network security. He has authored over 195 papers in international journals and conferences including 170 reputed journal papers (including IEEE Transactions). He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Jimson Mathew is an associate professor with Indian Institute of Technology in Patna, India. He received Doctorate from the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. His research interests include but are not limited to fault-tolerant computing, VLSI design and methodologies, reliability-aware designs, hardware security, machine intelligence, and IoT. He is a senior member IEEE and a member of IET.
Dr. Shikha Tripathi holds a Ph.D. from BITS, Pilani, India, and a Master's degree from BIT, Mesra, Ranchi, India. Dr. Tripathi joined PES University, Bangalore, in July 2017. Currently, she is serving as a professor in Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering and research head of the Electronic City campus. She is also the director of Centre for Robotics, Automation and Intelligent Systems at PES University, RR Campus. Prior to this, she was serving as a professor and chairperson at Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, School of Engineering, Bangalore campus, since July 2009. She has worked at BITS Pilani, Pilani campus in various capacities before joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham from 1998 to 2009. She was heading the Dept. of Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering at BITS Pilani before relocating to Bangalore.
