Vikas .

Dr. Vikas .

School of Engineering and Technology, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies - Technical Campus, Delhi, India
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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 July 2021 in Journal of Discrete Mathematical Sciences and Cryptography
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BSBharat Bhushan Sagar
Bharat Bhushan Sagar
MMManisha Munjul
Manisha Munjul
For many years, researchers have researched various aspects of WSN like clustering, security, data aggregation, routing protocols, anomaly detection, etc. Various techniques are being implemented in WSN’s for better data gathering, clustering, security, and many more to make these sensors inexpensive, cost-effective, and easy to deploy. One of the most pressing concerns in WSN is security and to secure sensor networks diverse techniques for instance cryptography, KMS, IDS, etc are used. In the paper, we try to cover varying recent researchers concerning intrusion detection in WSN are being done.

17 April 2025 in Sensors
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CWCharu Wahi
Charu Wahi
BSBharat Bhushan Sagar
Bharat Bhushan Sagar
MMManisha Manjul
Manisha Manjul
These days, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are expanding fast and are used in many fields such as healthcare, battlefields, etc. Depending upon the type of sensor, they are transmitting a considerable amount of data in a short duration, so security is a significant issue while transferring the data. So, it is essential to solve security concerns while transferring data by secure routing in wireless sensor networks. We address this challenge by proposing Trusted Energy-Aware Hierarchical Routing (TEAHR), a new framework for a multi-level trust assessment that raises the security level in WSNs. TEAHR introduces a variety of trust metrics ranging from energy trust to forwarding trust to consistency trust to behavioral trust to anomaly detection, unlike existing models, enabling it to effectively address the challenges of dynamic network topologies and evolving cyber threats. Trust-based routing mechanisms are usually associated with high computation and storage complexity and susceptibility to collusive attacks such as spoofing. The mechanism in TEAHR overcomes these challenges by placing an adaptive trust assessment mechanism that adapts to the background network conditions and real-time activities of the nodes. We show through empirical analysis in this paper that TEAHR not only uses computational and storage resources efficiently but also enhances network performance and security. Our experimental setup presents the simulation approach to prove our proposed protocol of TEAHR in comparison with typical trust models under different scenarios of node mobility, variable node density, and sophisticated security attacks such as Sybil, wormhole, and replay attacks. TEAHR keeps the network connected, even when the nodes are isolated due to trust misbehavior, and demonstrates that widely it reduces the chances of misjudgment in trust evaluation. Moreover, we explore the scalability of TEAHR across large networks as well as its performance in computationally constrained contexts. We have verified through our detailed investigation that the energy metrics used uniquely in TEAHR extend the life of the network while increasing data routing trust and trustworthiness. The comparisons of TEAHR with conventional techniques show that the proposed algorithm reduces total latency by 15%, enhances energy efficiency by around 20%, and maintains a stable packet forwarding rate, which is highly desirable for accurate operation in adversarial environments, as demonstrated through comparative analysis. Through in-depth theoretical and practical analysis, TEAHR is confirmed as a high-performance framework that outperforms currently existing studies for WSN security, making TEAHR a strong candidate for use in industrial IoT applications and urban sensor networks.

1 January 2025 in International Journal of Performability Engineering
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WCWahi Charu
Wahi Charu
SBSagar Bharat Bhushan
Sagar Bharat Bhushan
MMManjul Manisha
Manjul Manisha

21 February 2025 in Preprints.org
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Vikas .
CWCharu Wahi
Charu Wahi
BSBharat Bhushan Sagar
Bharat Bhushan Sagar
MMManisha Manjul
Manisha Manjul
These days, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are expanding fast and are used in many fields such as healthcare, battlefields, etc. Depending upon the sensor, they are transmitting a few bytes to megabytes, which is a considerable amount of data in a short duration, so security is a significant issue while transferring the data. Furthermore, it is essential to solve security concerns while transferring data by secure routing in wireless sensor networks, which critically depend on energy consumption. Trust is an essential parameter of reliable and safe communication between sensor nodes in dynamic WSNs. By developing trust relationships between sensor nodes, trust management is a successful method to overcome these issues. In WSNs, trust estimation methods are primarily employed in order to improve confidence, trustworthiness, system performance, lifecycle, decision-making processes, and relationships of cooperation among sensor nodes. The fundamental requirements of WSN are energy, connectivity, extended lifetime of the network, the availability of nodes, exchange of information, and memory overheads. In this paper, we present a novel trust-based algorithm to access the level of Trust among nodes called Trust-Based Energy-Aware Hierarchical Routing (TEAHR) in order to foster more reliable and energy-efficient WSNs. Several trust metrics like energy trust, forwarding Trust, consistency Trust behaviour and much more these ratings help in identifying potential malicious nodes (anomaly), hence ensuring network availability. With the exception of large-scale networks, we have performed a comparative study on another algorithm as well and demonstrated that the proposed model exhibits lower latency when compared to other models in terms of energy consumption (more significant) and the packet forwarding rate/lower. The comparisons of TEAHR with conventional techniques show that the proposed algorithm reduces total latency by 15%, enhances energy efficiency by around 20%, and maintains a stable packet forwarding rate, which is highly desirable for accurate operation in adversarial environments, as demonstrated through comparative analysis.

9 January 2026 in Franklin Open
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Rajesh PrasadRajesh Prasad
Rajesh Prasad
SUSantosh Kumar Upadhyay
Santosh Kumar Upadhyay
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SMSurya Prakash Mishra
Surya Prakash Mishra