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Standardization Activities

  • ITU-T Study Group 12 Contribution (Q. 14/12): “A Multi-platform Tool for Conducting Subjective Test” with  N. Ögren, I. Cotanis, P. Johansson, H.S. Rossi and C. Åhlund, Aug. 2023
  • ITU-T Study Group 12 Contribution (Q. 14/12): “Preliminary Results on Subjective Testing of Virtual Reality Cloud Games” with  N. Ögren, I. Cotanis, P. Johansson, H.S. Rossi and C. Åhlund, Aug. 2023
  • ITU-T Study Group 12 Contribution (Q. 14/12): Modelling User Interactivity with Cloud Gaming Over Mobile Networks,” with  N. Ögren, I. Cotanis, D. Minovski, P. Johansson, H.S. Rossi and C. Åhlund, 18th-23rd Jan 2023.
  • ITU-T Study Group 12 Contribution (Q. 14/12, Q17/12): Results of a cloud gaming interactive test within the context of mobile networks,” with  N. Ögren, I. Cotanis, D. Minovski, P. Johansson, H.S. Rossi and C. Åhlund, 18th-23rd Jan 2023.

Books

  1. Handbook of Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Thingsis published by Springer.

Journals (J)

  1. A. Albshri, A. Alzubaidi, M. Alharby, B. Awaji, K. Mitra and E. Solaiman, “A conceptual architecture for simulating blockchain-based IoT ecosystems,” Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 103, 2023. [Invited]
  2. A. Alzubaidi, K. Mitra and E. Solaiman, A blockchain-based SLA monitoring and compliance assessment for IoT ecosystems,” Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications, Vol. 12, No. 50, 2023. [Invited]
  3. K. Fizza, A. Banerjee, P.P. Jayaraman, N. Auluck, R. Ranjan, K. Mitra; D. Georgakopoulos, “A Survey on Evaluating the Quality of Autonomic Internet of Things Applications,” in IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2022, doi: 10.1109/COMST.2022.3205377.
  4. D. Minovski, N. Ögren, K. Mitra, C. Åhlund, “Throughput prediction using machine learning in LTE and 5G networks,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2021. (pdf)
  5. B. Sudharsan et al., Toward Distributed, Global, Deep Learning Using IoT Devices,” in IEEE Internet Computing, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 6-12, 1 May-June 2021, doi: 10.1109/MIC.2021.3053711.
  6. U. Demirbaga, Z. Wen, A. Noor, K. Mitra, K. Alwasel, S. Garg, A. Y. Zomaya, R. Ranjan, AutoDiagn: An Automated Real-time DiagnosisFramework for Big Data Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2021 (accepted).
  7.  K Fizza, A Banerjee, K Mitra, PP Jayaraman, R Ranjan, P Patel, “QoE in IoT: a vision, survey and future directions,” Discover Internet of Things 1 (1), 1-14, 2021.
  8. D. Minovski, C. Åhlund, K. Mitra, ”Modeling Quality of IoT Experience in Autonomous Vehicles” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, ISSN 2327-4662, Vol. 7, no 5, p. 3833-3849.
  9. D. Minovski, C. Åhlund, K. Mitra,  “Defining Quality of Experience for the Internet of Things,”  IT Professional Magazine, ISSN 1520-9202, E-ISSN 1941-045X, Vol. 22, no 5, p. 62-70.
  10. A. Noor, K. Mitra, E. Solaiman, A. Souza, D. N. Jha, U. Demirbaga, P. P. Jayaraman, N. Cacho, and R. Ranjan, “Cyber-Physical Application Monitoring Across Multiple Clouds,” Computers & Electrical Engineering Journal, Elsevier, Volume 77, 2019, Pages 314-324,
  11. A. Alzubaidi, E. Solaiman, P. Patel, K. Mitra, Blockchain-Based SLA Management in the Context of IoT,  IT Professional Magazine, ISSN 1520-9202, E-ISSN 1941-045X, Vol. 21, no 4, p. 33-40
  12. V. Araujo; K. Mitra,  S. Saguna, C. Åhlund,”Performance Evaluation of FIWARE: A Cloud-Based IoT Platform for Smart Cities” accepted in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, Elsevier. 2019.

  13. C.T. Yang, S.T. Chen, J.C. Liu, Y.Y. Yang, K. Mitra and R. Ranjan, “Implementation of a Real-Time Network Traffic Monitoring Service with Network Functions Virtualization,” Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Elsevier Press. 2018.

  14. J. Li, K. Zhang, X. Yang, P. Wei, J. Wang, K. Mitra, and R. Ranjan, “Category Preferred Canopy-Kmeans based Collaborative Filtering Algorithm,” Future Generation Computer Systems Journal,  Elsevier Press. 2018. (New)
  15. R, Ranjan, L. Wang, P.P.  Jayaraman, K. Mitra, and D. Georgakopoulos, “Recent Advances in Tools and Techniques for Big Data and Cloud of Things (CoT),” Journal of Software Practice and Experience (SPE), Wiley. 2017.
  16. T. Shah, A. Yavari, K. Mitra, S. Saguna, P.P. Jayaraman, F. Rabhi, and R. Ranjan,  “Remote Healthcare Cyber-Physical-System: Quality of Service Challenges and Opportunities,” IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, IET Press. 2016 (pdf)
  17. E. Solaiman, R. Ranjan, P.P. Jayaraman, and K. Mitra, “Failure Monitoring in the Internet of Things Application Ecosystems: Cloud to Edge,” IT Trends Department, IEEE IT Professional.(New)
  18. K. Alhamazani, R. Ranjan, P.P. Jayaraman, K Mitra, C. Liu, F. Rabhi, and L. Wang, “Cross-Layer Multi-Cloud Real-Time Application QoS Monitoring and Benchmarking As-a-Service Framework”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2015. (pdf) (bib)
  19. K. Mitra, S. Saguna, C. Åhlund, “A Mobile Cloud Computing System for Emergency Management”, IEEE Cloud Magazine,  2015. (pdf) (bib)
  20. Khalid Alhamazani, Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Fethi A. Rabhi, Samee Ullah Khan, Adnene Guabtni, Vasudha Bhatnagar,  “An Overview of the Commercial Cloud Monitoring Tools: Research Dimensions, Design Issues, and State-of-the-Art”, Computing, Springer, 2015. (bib)
  21. Karan Mitra, Arkady Zaslavsky and Christer Ahlund, “Context-Aware QoE Modelling, Measurement and Prediction in Mobile Computing Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing,  IEEE, 2015.(pdf)(all figures and tables) (bib)
  22. Zheng Li, Karan Mitra,  Miranda Zhang, Albert Y. Zomaya, Rajiv Ranjan, Liam O’Brien, and Shengtao Sun, “Towards Understanding the Runtime Configuration  Management of Do-It-Yourself Content Delivery Network Applications over Public Clouds,”   Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, 2014. (pdf pre-print),(bib).
  23. Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, MediaWise Cloud Content Orchestrator”, Journal of Internet Services and Applications, Springer, 2013. (pdf)
  24. Chen Wang, Rajiv Ranjan, Xiangmin Zhou, Karan Mitra, Suhit Saha, Meng Meng, Dimitrios Georgakopopulos, Lizhe Wang, and Peter Thew, “A Cloud-based Collaborative Video Story Authoring and Sharing Platform”, CSI Journal of Computing, (Invited).

Conferences and Workshops (C/W)

  1.  H.S. Rossi, K. Mitra, C. Åhlund and I. Cotanis, “A Demonstration of ALTRUIST for Conducting QoE Subjective Tests in Immersive Systems,” In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada. 2024.
  2. H.S. Rossi, K. Mitra, C. Åhlund, I. Cotanis, N. Ögren and P. Johansson, “Objective QoE Models for Cloud-based First Person Shooter Game over Mobile Networks,” In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, Nevada. 2024.
  3. H.S. Rossi, K. Mitra, C. Åhlund, N. Ögren, I. Cotanis, and P. Johansson, ALTRUIST: A Multi-platform Tool for Conducting QoE Subjective Tests,” in Proceedings of The 15th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience June 20-22, 2023, Ghent, Belgium.  (preprint)
  4. A. Alzubaidi, K. Mitra and E. Solaiman,Smart Contract Design Considerations for SLA Compliance Assessment in the Context of IoT,” 2021 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), 2021, pp. 74-81, doi: 10.1109/SmartIoT52359.2021.00021. (Best paper candidate award).
  5.  H.S. Rossi, N. Ögren, K. Mitra, I. Cotanis, C. Åhlund, and P. Johansson, Subjective Quality of Experience Assessment in Mobile Cloud Games,” in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE Globecom). (preprint)
  6. D. Minovski, C. Åhlund, K. Mitra and I. Cotanis, “Anomaly Detection for Discovering Performance Degradation in Cellular IoT Services,” 2021 IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2021, pp. 99-106, doi: 10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524931.
  7. J. C. Kim, S. Saguna, C. Åhlund and K. Mitra, “Augmented Reality-Assisted Healthcare System for Caregivers in Smart Regions,” 2021 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2021, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/ISC253183.2021.9562927. (Best paper award)
  8. AliAlzubaidi, Karan Mitra, Pankesh Patel, Ellis Solaiman, “A Blockchain-based Approach for Assessing Compliance with SLA-guaranteed IoT Services,” In: Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT), 14-16 August, 2020, Beijing, China (pp. 213-230). IEEE. (Best paper candidate award)
  9. Umit Demirbaga, Ayman Noor, Zhenyu Wen, Philip James, Karan Mitra and Rajiv Ranjan, “SmartMonit: Real-time Big Data Monitoring System,” The 38th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2019) Lyon, France, October 1-4, 2019.
  10. Orsola Fejzo, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, Saguna Saguna, Karan Mitra, Proactive Context-Aware IoT-Enabled Waste Management,” in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Next Generation Wired/Wireless Advanced Networks and System (NEW2AN 2019) pp. 3-15, St. Petersberg, Russia, August 26-28, 2019.
  11.  Ayman Noor, Devki Nandan Jha, Karan Mitra, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arthur Souza, Rajiv Ranjan, Schahram Dustar, “A Framework for Monitoring Microservice-Oriented Cloud Applications in Heterogeneous Virtualization Environments,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud), Milan, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.
  12. Dimitar Minovski, Christer Åhlund, Karan Mitra, Per Johansson,
    “Analysis and Estimation of Video QoE in Wireless Cellular Networks using Machine Learning,” 11th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX 2019), Berlin, Germany, June 5-7, 2019.
  13. Aigerim Zhalgasbekova, Arkady Zaslavsky, Saguna Saguna, Karan Mitra, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, “Opportunistic Data Collection for IoT-Based Indoor Air Quality Monitoring,” in Proceedings of the Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 17th International Conference, NEW2AN 2017, 10th Conference, ruSMART 2017,  St. Petersburg, Russia, August 28–30, 2017.
  14. Tamara Belyakhina, Arkady Zaslavsky, Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, “DisCPAQ: Distributed Context Acquisition and Reasoning for Personalized Indoor Air Quality Monitoring in IoT-Based Systems,”  in Proceedings of the Internet of Things, Smart Spaces, and Next Generation Networks and Systems: 17th International Conference, NEW2AN 2017, 10th Conference, ruSMART 2017,  St. Petersburg, Russia, August 28–30, 2017.
  15. Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, Christer Ahlund, and Rajiv Ranjan, “ALPINE: A Bayesian System for Cloud Performance Diagnosis and Prediction,” The 14th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2017), Honolulu, Hawaii.  (pdf
  16. Emanuel Palm, Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, and Christer Åhlund, “A Bayesian System for Cloud Performance Diagnosis and Prediction”, in Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2016), Luxembourg. (To Appear as demo paper)  (pdf
  17. Rohan Nanda, Saguna Saguna, Karan Mitra, and Christer Åhlund, “BayesForSG: A Bayesian Model for Forecasting Thermal Load in Smart Grids”, in Proceedings of the 31st ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC 2016), Pisa, Italy. (pdf)(bib)
  18. Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, Tejal Shah, Dimitrois Georgakopoulos, and Rajiv Ranjan, “Orchestrating Quality of Service in the Cloud of Things Ecosystem,” First IEEE International Symposium on Nano-electronic and Information Systems, December 2015, Indore, India. (pdf)(bib)
  19. Baptiste Louis, Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, Christer Åhlund, “CloudSimDisk: Energy-Aware Storage Simulation in CloudSim”, in Proceedings of the  8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2015). (pdf)(bib)
  20. Khoi Ngo, Saguna Saguna, Karan Mitra, and Christer Åhlund,“IReHMo: An efficient IoT-Based Remote Health Monitoring System for Smart Regions”, in Proceedings of the 17th international Conference on E-Health Networking, Application and Services (IEEE Healthcom’15). (pre-print)(presentation)(bib)
  21. Karan Mitra, Saguna Saguna, Christer Åhlund and Daniel Granlund, “M2C2: A Mobility Management System for Mobile Cloud Computing”, in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE WCNC 2015) . IEEE, 2015.  (pre-print) (presentation)(bib)
  22. Khalid Alhamazani, Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Huang Zhiqian, Lizhe Wang and Fethi Rabhi, “CLAMS: Cross-Layer Multi-Cloud Application Monitoring-as-a-Service Framework,” in Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (IEEE SCC 2014). IEEE, 2014.
  23. Khalid Alhamazani, Rajiv Ranjan, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Karan Mitra, Meisong Wang, Zhiqiang (George) Huang, Lizhe Wang, Fethi Rabhi, “Real-time QoS monitoring for Cloud-based Big Data Analytics Applications in Mobile Environments,”  in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (IEEE MDM 2014).
  24. Khalid Alhamazani, Rajiv Ranjan, Fethi A. Rabhi, Lizhe Wang, Karan Mitra, “Cloud monitoring for optimizing the QoS of hosted applications,” in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE 4th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2012), Taipei, Taiwan.
  25. Karan Mitra, Christer Åhlund and Arkady Zaslavsky, QoE Estimation and Prediction Using Hidden Markov Models in Heterogeneous Access Networks“, in Proceedings of the  2012 Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ATNAC 2012), Brisbane, Australia. (pdf)
  26. Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Suhit Saha, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Arkady Zaslavsky, Do-it-Yourself Content Delivery Network Orchestrator, 13th International Conference on Web Information System Engineering (WISE 2012), Paphos, Cyprus, Nov. 28th-30th, 2012.
  27. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Xiangmin Zhou, “MediaWise – Designing a Smart Media Cloud”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC 2012), Banglore, India, July  26-28. [Keynote paper]
  28. Karan Mitra, Christer Åhlund and Arkady Zaslavsky, “Performance Evaluation of a Decision-Theoretic Approach for Quality of Experience Measurement in Mobile and Pervasive Computing Scenarios,”  in Proceedings of the  IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2012). (pdf)
  29. Karan Mitra, Arkady Zaslavsky and Christer Åhlund, Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Sequential Quality of Experience Modelling and Measurement, in Smart spaces and next generation Wired/Wireless networking : third Conference on Smart Spaces, ruSMART 2011, and 10th international conference, NEW2AN 2011, St. Petersburg, Russia, August 22-25, 2011. (pdf)
  30. Karan Mitra, Christer Åhlund and Arkady Zaslavsky, “A Decision-Theoretic Approach for Quality of Experience Measurement and Prediction”, Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2011, 11-15 July 2011, Barcelona, Spain. (pdf)
  31. Karan Mitra, Arkady Zaslavsky and Christer Åhlund,A  Probabilistic Context-Aware Approach for Quality of Experience Measurement”, Proceedings of the 2011 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), TaiChung,  Taiwan,  March 21-24, 2011. (pdf)
  32. Karan Mitra, Arkady Zaslavsky and Christer Åhlund, Measuring Quality of Experience in Pervasive Systems using Probabilistic Context-Aware Approach,” 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking, and Services, MobiQuitous 2010, December 7-9, 2010, Sydney, Australia. (Accepted as a poster)
  33. Karan Mitra, Ruwini Kodikara and Arkady Zaslavsky, “A Context-Aware Architecture to Facilitate Vertical Handovers in 4G Networks Using Multi-homed Mobile IP, International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems, 2009, Melbourne, Australia.
  34. Karan Mitra, Arkady Zaslavsky and Christer Åhlund,PRONET: Proactive Context-Aware Support for Mobility in Heterogeneous Access Networks,” LCN 2009 , Zurich, Switzerland. (pdf)
  35. Andreas Ahlund, Karan Mitra, Dan Johansson, Christer Åhlund and Arkady Zaslavsky, “Context-aware application mobility support in pervasive computing environments,” Mobility Conference 2009, Nice, France. (pdf)
  36. Karan Mitra, Ruwini Kodikara and Arkady Zaslavsky, “Context-Aware Vertical Handovers in Next Generation Networks”  in Proceedings of The Second IEEE International Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks 2006 (IEEE WoNGeN ’06), December 18-21, Bangalore, India.

Book Chapter (B)

  1. Mitra, K., Ranjan, R., Åhlund, C. (2020). Context-Aware IoT-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: A Vision and Future Directions,” In: Ranjan, R., Mitra, K., Prakash Jayaraman, P., Wang, L., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Handbook of Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things. Scalable Computing and Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43795-4_1. (pre-print)
  2. Alqahtani, A., Alwasel, K., Noor, A., Mitra, K., Solaiman, E., Ranjan, R. (2020). “The Integration of Scheduling, Monitoring, and SLA in Cyber Physical Systems,” In: Ranjan, R., Mitra, K., Prakash Jayaraman, P., Wang, L., Zomaya, A.Y. (eds) Handbook of Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Things. Scalable Computing and Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43795-4_10.
  3. M. Wang, P.P. Jayaraman, R. Ranjan,  K. Mitra, K, M. Zhang, E. Li,  S.U. Khan,  R.M. Pathan,  & D. Georgeakopoulos,“An Overview of Cloud Based Content Delivery Networks: Research Dimensions and State-of-the-Art” Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XX : Special Issue on Advanced Techniques for Big Data Management. Hameurlain , A., Küng, J., Wagner, R., Sakr, S., Wang, L. & Zomaya, A. (eds.). Berlin: Springer, p. 131-158 28 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; No. 9070).

Theses 

  1. Karan Mitra, “Quality of experience measurement, prediction and provisioning in heterogeneous access networks”, Ph.D. thesis, Monash University and Luleå University of Technology, 2013.
  2. Karan Mitra, “Context-aware Vertical Handovers in a 4G Network”, Masters Thesis, Monash University, 2007. 

Other Manuscripts

  1. Khalid Alhamazani, Rajiv Ranjan, Karan Mitra, Fethi A. Rabhi, Samee Ullah Khan, Adnene Guabtni, Vasudha Bhatnagar: An Overview of the Commercial Cloud Monitoring Tools: Research Dimensions, Design Issues, and State-of-the-Art. CoRR abs/1312.6170 (2013) (pdf)
‘Dynamic Bayesian Networks for Sequential Quality of Experience Modelling and Measurement

Patents

  • Provisional patent filed on gaming QoE prediction.