Dr. Gaurav Khanna

Education:

• Ph. D., IIT Kharagpur, India and Curtin University, Australia (Dual Doctoral Degree)          
• M. Tech. Information and Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University, India           
• B. Tech., Gautam Buddh Technical University, India        

Biography:

Gaurav Khanna was born in Lucknow – capital city of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hereceived his B. Tech. Degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Gautam Buddha Technical University, Lucknow, India, in 2011 and M. Tech. from the School of Information and Communication Technology, Gautam Buddha University, Gautam Buddh Nagar, India, in 2015. He completed his doctoral studies, in 2021, from Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India and the School of Electrical Engineering, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia. Hisresearch is broadly associated with network reliability modelling and evaluation. During the course of his postgraduate and doctoral studies, he has published 13 research papers in refereed international journals, book chapters and conferences.

AREAS OF INTEREST (s)

• Computer & Communication Network Reliability Engineering:Topology Modelling and Reliability Analysis of Time Varying Communication Networks (TVCNs), e.g., Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) and Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs), whose topology varies as a function of time.
• Complex System Reliability Engineering & Design.
• Multistage Interconnection Networks.
• Design and performance analysis of Next Generation Networks.

Past Teaching Experience:

• Assistant Professor in the School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun, India,                       August 2021 – December 2021
• Lecturerin the Department of E&CE, SBBIT, Meerut,                                                                        February 2013–July 2013
• Assistant Professorin the Department of E&CE, IFTM University, Moradabad,                           August 2011–February 2013

Publications:

Book Chapters

• Gaurav Khanna, Modified MIP: A Versatile Search Procedure for Optimal Redundancy Allocation, in Advances in Performability Engineering - In honor of Prof. K. B. Misra on his 80^th Birthday, Dr. Durga R. Karanki, Eds. Springer, 2022 [accepted, under process].
• S. K. Chaturvedi, Sieteng Soh and Gaurav Khanna, On Modelling and Performability Evaluation of Time Varying Communication Networks, in Handbook of Advanced Performability Engineering, K. B. Misra, Eds. Springer, 2021, pp. 161-189.
• Gaurav Khanna, S. K. Chaturvedi and Sieteng Soh, Time Varying Communication Networks: Modelling, Reliability Evaluation and Optimization, in Advances in Reliability Analysis and its Applications, M. Ram and H. Pham, Eds. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020, pp. 1-30.

Transactions/Journal Publications

• Gaurav Khanna, Sieteng Soh, S. K. Chaturvedi, and Kwan-Wu Chin, On Enumeration of Spanning Arborescences and Reliability for Network Broadcast in Fixed-Schedule Dynamic Networks. IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering, 7(4) (2020): 2980-2996 [SCIE].
• Gaurav Khanna, S. K. Chaturvedi and Sieteng Soh, Two-Terminal Reliability Analysis for Time-Evolving and Predictable Delay-Tolerant Networks, Recent Advances in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, 13(2) (2020): 236-250 [Scopus, ESCI].
• Gaurav Khanna, S. K. Chaturvedi and Sieteng Soh, On Computing the Reliability of Opportunistic Multi-Hop Networks with Mobile Relays, Quality and Reliability Engineering International, 35(4), (2019): 870-88 [SCIE].
• Gaurav Khanna, S. K. Chaturvedi and Sieteng Soh, Reliability Evaluation of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks by Considering Link Expiration Time and Border Time, International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, 10(3), (2019): 399-415 [Scopus, ESCI].
• S. K. Chaturvedi, Gaurav Khanna and Sieteng Soh, Reliability Evaluation of Time Evolving Delay Tolerant Networks based on Sum-of-Disjoint Products, Reliability Engineering and system safety, 171, (2018): 136-151 [SCI].
• Gaurav Khanna and S. K. Chaturvedi, A Comprehensive Survey on Multi-Hop Wireless Networks: Milestones, Changing Trends and Concomitant Challenges, Wireless Personal Communications, 101(2), (2018): 677-722 [SCIE].
• Gaurav Khanna, Rajesh Mishra and S. K. Chaturvedi, Design of Fault Tolerant Shuffle Exchange Gamma Interconnection Network Layouts. Journal of Interconnection Networks, 17(02), (2017): 1750005 [Scopus, ESCI].
• Gaurav Khanna, Rajesh Mishra and S. K. Chaturvedi, 4DGIN-3: A new design layout of 4-disjoint gamma interconnection network. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 98, (2016): 40-7 [SCI].

Conference Papers

• Gaurav Khanna and Rajesh Mishra, Comparative Study of Reliability Evaluation Techniques In Shuffle Exchange Networks,International Conference on Academic Research in Engineering, Management and Information Technology, MJPRU Bareilly, February 21-23, 2015.
• Gaurav Khanna, Sushmita Pandey, Asha Kushwaha, RehnumaGour, and SrijanPurang, Algorithms and Approaches for Multicast Traffic Routing in Heterogeneous Networks, International Conference on Contemporary Challenges in Management, Technology and Social Sciences,Society of Engineering & Management Sciences (SEMS), April 5, 2014.

Professional Training:

• Course on Total Quality Management – I(8 Week course by NPTEL, August – October, 2017).
• Special Lecture by Prof. P. K. Ray on Quality Engineering(Subir Chowdhury School of Quality & Reliability, IIT Kharagpur, May 11–13, 2017).
• Workshop on “Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Logic in Informatics”(Reliability Engineering Centre, IIT Kharagpur, January 29, 2016).
• Industrial Training at Electrical Maintenance Section (Ordnance Equipment Factory, Kanpur, June 10 – July 07, 2010).

Professional Service:

Technical Program Committee Member:ISPCC2k21

Peer-Reviewed Articles for:

• Reliability Engineering & System Safety.
• International Journal of Sensors, Wireless Communications and Control.
• Journal of Vibroengineering. 
• Mathematical Problems in Engineering.
• International Journal of Performability Engineering.
• Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
• International Journalof Reliability and Safety.

Honors and Awards:

• Honorary Rosalind Member of London Journals Press –  (Membership ID: #BA89152),  2020
• Curtin International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (CIPRS),  2019
• Certificate for being in top 1% and successfully completing the course – Total Quality Management-1 from NPTEL, 2017
• Ph. D. research programme “Regular with Assistantship” of IIT Kharagpur, 2015
• Certificate for having 28^th city rank in the 6^th National Science Olympiad, 2003

Research Visits:

• Curtin University, Perth, Australia                                 January 2019 –December 2019

Host:Dr. Sie Teng Soh

• NIT Jamshedpur, Jamshedpur, India                              February, 2020

Host:Dr. Amit Prakash