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Journals

  1. Gouda, K. C.; Shrivastava, S.; Thakur, R., “Subchannel Assignment for Social-Assisted UAV Cellular Networks Using Dynamic Hypergraph Coloring,” Elsevier Vehicular Communications, vol. 49, pp. 1-11, Oct 2024. [Impact Factor: 5.8, SJR: Q1]

  2. Thakur, R.; Swain, S.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Energy Efficient Cell Selection Framework for Femtocell Networks with Limited Backhaul Link Capacity,” IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1969-1980, June 2018. [Impact Factor: 4.0, SJR: Q1]

  3. Thakur, R.; Mishra, S.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Energy and Cost Aware Framework for Cell Selection and Energy Cooperation in Rural and Remote Femtocell Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 1, pp. 423-433, Dec 2017. [Impact Factor: 5.3, SJR: Q1]

  4. Thakur, R.; Kotagi, V.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Resource Allocation and Cell Selection Framework for LTE-Unlicensed Femtocell Networks,” Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 129, pp. 273-283, Dec 2017. [Impact Factor: 4.4, SJR: Q1]

  5. Swain, S.; Thakur, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Design and Stochastic Geometric Analysis of an Efficient Q-Learning Based Physical Resource Block Allocation Scheme to Maximize the Spectral Efficiency of Device-to-Device Overlaid Cellular Networks,” Elsevier Computer Networks, vol. 119, pp. 71-85, June 2017. [Impact Factor: 4.4, SJR: Q1]

  6. Thakur, R.; Swain, S.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Cell Selection and Resource Allocation for Sleep Mode Enabled Femtocells with Backhaul Link Constraint,” Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 105, pp. 105-115, June 2017. [Impact Factor: 4.5, SJR: Q1]

  7. Swain, S.; Thakur, R., Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Coverage and Rate Analysis for Facilitating Machine-to-Machine Communication in LTE-A Networks using Device-to-Device Communication,” IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 16, pp. 3014-3027, March 2017. [Impact Factor: 7.7, SJR: Q1]

  8. Patra, M.; Thakur, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Improving Delay and Energy Efficiency of Vehicular Networks using Femto Access Points,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 1496-1505, Feb. 2017. [Impact Factor: 6.1, SJR: Q1]

  9. Thakur, R.; Singh, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Energy Efficient Framework for User Association and Power Allocation in HetNets with Interference and Rate-Loss Constraints,” Elsevier Computer Communications, vol. 94, pp. 57-71, Nov. 2016. [Impact Factor: 4.5, SJR: Q1]

  10. Kotagi, V.; Thakur, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Breathe to Save Energy: Assigning Transmit Power and Resource Blocks to LTE Enabled IoT Networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 8, pp. 1607-1610, Aug. 2016. [Impact Factor: 3.7, SJR: Q1]

  1. Gouda, K. C; Thakur, R., “Adjusting Transmit Power in UAV-Enabled Heterogeneous Networks Using Social-Assisted Bipartite Graph Technique,” accepted at IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), USA, 2025, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B]

  2. Shrivastava, S.; Thakur, R., “Cost-Aware Social Collaboration for Efficient Resource Allocation in 5G Small Cell HetNets,” accepted at IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), South Africa, 2024, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  3. Singh, A.; Thakur, R., “Generalizable Multilingual Hate Speech Detection on Low Resource Indian Languages using Fair Selection in Federated Learning,” accepted at Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Mexico, 2024, pp. 1-11. [Core Rank: A]

  4. Shrivastava, S.; Thakur, R., “Resource Allocation Optimization in Local and Wide Area Networks through Social Network Integration,” in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) [Doctoral Symposium], India, 2024, pp. 254-255. - Best Presentation Award for Doctoral Symposium

  5. Gouda, K. C.; Thakur, R., “Enhancing Connectivity in UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks: A Dynamic Approach to User Association and Resource Allocation,” in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN) [Doctoral Symposium], India, 2024, pp. 250-251.

  6. Gouda, K. C.; Shrivastava, S.; Thakur, R., “An Efficient Hypergraph Based Clustering Technique for UAV-Enabled D2D Cellular Networks,” accepted at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), UAE, 2024, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A2]

  7. Gouda, K. C.; Shrivastava, S.; Thakur, R., “Social-Assisted Hypergraph Based Subchannel Assignment for UAV Cellular Networks,” accepted at 96th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Fall), London/China, 2022, pp. 1-7. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  8. Thakur, R.; Agarwal, S., Clustering and Transmit Power Control for Social Assisted D2D Cellular Networks” in Proceedings of the IEEE 19th Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), USA, 2022, pp. 871-876. [Core Rank: B]

  9. Shukla, S.; Thakur, R.; Agarwal, S., “Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithms for Altitude and Transmit Power Adjustments in UAV-Assisted Cellular Networks,” in Proceedings of the 93rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Finland, 2021, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  10. Jain, B.; Trivedi, K.; Agarwal, S.; Thakur, R., “MeshSOS: An IoT Based Emergency Response System” in Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Hawaii, 2020, pp. 1-10. [ERA: A, Qualis: A1]

  11. Agarwal, S.; Thakur, R.; Yadav, U.; Rathore, H., “Socio-Cellular Network: A Novel Social Assisted Cellular Communication Paradigm,” in Proceedings of the 91st IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Belgium, 2020, pp. 1-5. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  12. Agarwal, S.; Thakur, R.; Mishra, S., “A Link Analysis Based Approach to Predict Character Death in Game of Thrones,” in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities (TRIDENTCOM), People's Republic of China, 2019, pp. 229-244. [Core Rank: B]

  13. Thakur, R.; Kotagi, V. J.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Energy Efficient Cell Selection Scheme for Femtocell Network with Spreading,” in Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Hong Kong, 2015, pp. 1569-1573. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  14. Mishra, S.; Thakur, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Efficient Physical Resource Block Assignment for Dense Femtocell Networks,” in Proceedings of the 79th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC Spring), Seoul, 2014, pp. 1-5. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  15. Thakur, R.; Sengupta, A.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Power Consumption Modeling of Femto-Assisted Cellular Networks Using Renewal Reward Process,” in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, 2013, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B]

  16. Sengupta, A.; Thakur, R.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “An Efficient Preamble Compression for Multi Clock-Rate Sampling Wireless Devices,” in Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), Singapore, 2013, pp. 1-6. [Core Rank: B]. - Best Paper Award

  17. Thakur, R.; Mishra, S.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “A Load-Conscious Cell Selection Scheme for Femto-Assisted Cellular Networks,” in Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), London, 2013, pp. 2378-2382. [Core Rank: B, Qualis: A1]

  18. Thakur, R.; Sengupta, A.; Siva Ram Murthy, C., “Improving Capacity and Energy Efficiency of Femtocell Based Cellular Network Through Cell Biasing,” in Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium and Workshops on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Tsukuba Science City, 2013, pp. 436-443. [Core Rank: B]

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