R.K. Ghosh is at present a Distinguished Visiting Professor and Mentor of The Assam Kaziranga University Jorhat. Earlier he has served as a Professor in the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and also held the position of a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. After supperannuation, he was a Visiting Professor, Dept of EECS at IIT Bhilai for a brief period during Sept 2019-Dec 2020. Concurrently, he also was an adjunct professor of the dept of CSE at BITS Mesra. A few of the other positions he had held in the past include a UN Teacher Fellow at the International Institute for Software Technology (IIST) Macau, a Visiting Scientist at INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France, and a Visiting Faculty in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. His primary research interests are in Mobile Computing, Wireless Networking. He also has some interests in Cloud Computing and Data Analytics.

Books:

• R. K. Ghosh and H. Ghosh. Distributed Systems Theory and Applications, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society, USA, March 2023, 560 pages, ISBN: 978-1-119-82593-7.
• R. K. Ghosh. "Wireless Networking and Mobile Data Managament (Research monograph)." Springer Nature, Singapore, April 2017, 546 pages. Book review
• R. K. Ghosh, Rajat Moona, P. Gupta. "Foundations of Parallel Processing". Narosa Publishing House, New Delhi, 1995, 251 pages.

Book Chapters:

• Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing Enabled Disaster Management with Raj Gaire, et. al. In Handbook of Integration of Cloud Computing, Cyber Physical Systems and Internet of Thing,2020, Editors: Rajiv Ranjan et. al. Springer Nature Series on Scalable Computing and Communication.
• Raj Gaire, R. K. Ghosh et al. Chapter 5 - Crowdsensing and Privacy in Smart City Applications." Editor(s): Danda B. Rawat, Kayhan Zrar Ghafoor. In Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy, Elsevier,2019, Pages 57-73.
• R. K. Ghosh. "Chapter 5 - Mobile Agents for Mobile Services." Editors: Anup Kumar and Bin Xie. In Handbook of Mobile Systems Applications and Services, Auerbach Publications, 2016
• R. K. Ghosh, Gautam Barua and Abhinav Arora. Chapter 14 - Smart Card Based Protocol for Secure and Controlled Access of Mobile Hosts in IPV6 Compatible Foreign Networks Editors: Wen-Chen Hu et. al. In Advances in Security and Payment Methods for Mobile Commerce. Idea Group Publishing, 2005, pp. 312-337.

Edited Proceedings/Collections

• R. K. Ghosh and H. Mohanty (Editors). "Distributed Computing & Internet Technology, LNCS 3347." Springer, ISSN: 0302-9743, 6 December 2004, Pproceedings of ICDCIT 2004 edited jointly with Hrushikesha Mohanty.
• R. K. Ghosh and H. Mohanty (Editors). "Mobile Commerce". Allied Publishers Pvt Ltd, ISBN 81-7764-553-6, December 2003.
• R. K. Ghosh and D. Mishra (Editors). "Trends in Information Technology". Tata McGraw Hill, ISBN 0-07-043546-4 Proceedings of CIT 2000, December 2000.

Journal Papers:

• Enhancing Quality of Experience using Peer-to-Peer Overlay on Device-to-Device Communications, with Sumit Kumar Tetarave and Somnath Tripathy, International Journal of Communication Systems, volume 33, number 15.
• An Integrated P2P Framework for E-Learning, with Nikita Bhagatkar, Kapil Dolas and Sajal Das, Peer to Peer Networking and Applications, volume 13, pages1967–1989(2020).
• GMP2P: Mobile P2P over GSM for Efficient File Sharing, with Sumit Kumar Tetarave, Somanath Tripathy, ICDCIT 2018: 217-231
• Maitreya Natu, R. K. Ghosh, R. K. Shyamasundar and Rajiv Ranjan. "Holistic performance monitoring of hybrid clouds: Complexities and future directions." IEEE Cloud Computing 3.1 (2016): 72-81.
• Deepak Jeswani, Maitreya Natu and R. K. Ghosh. "Adaptive Monitoring: Application of Probing to Adapt Passive Monitoring". Journal of Network Management and Systems (2015).
• Shashank Shekhar, Ranjeet Mishra, R. K. Ghosh, R. K. Shyamasundar. "Post-order based routing & transport protocol for wireless sensor networks". Pervasive and Mobile Computing, vol. 11: 229-243 (2014)
• Jing Wang, R. K. Ghosh and Sajal Das. "A Survey in Sensor Localization". Journal of Control Theory and Applications, vol. 8, no. 1, 2010.
• A. Tripathi, T. Suman Kumar Reddy, Sanjay Kumar Madria, R. K. Ghosh and Hrushikesha Mohanty. "Algorithms for validating E-tickets in mobile computing environment". Information Science, vol 179, No, 11, 1678-1693 (2009)
• R. K. Ghosh, V Garg, MS Meitei, S Raman, A. Kumar, N Tiwari. "Dense Cluster Gateway Based Routing Protocol for Mulithop Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". Ad hoc networks, vol 4, 2006, pp 168-185,
• K. V. Arya and R. K. Ghosh. "Designing a New Class of Fault Tolerant Multistage Interconnection Networks". Journal of Interconnection Networks, 2005, vol. 6, no. 4, pp 361-381,
• Saurabh Srivastava and R. K. Ghosh. "Distributed Algorithms for Finding and Maintaining a k-Tree Core in a Dynamic Network". Information Processing Letters Vol 88, No. 4, pp. 187-194, 2003.
• S. Banerjee, A. P. K. Reddy and R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Algorithm for Shortest Pairs of Edge-Disjoint Paths". Journal of Parallel & Distributed Computation, vol 33, 1996, pp. 165-171.
• R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Search Algorithms for Graphs and Trees". Information Sciences, vol. 67, 1993, pp. 137-165.
• R. K. Ghosh. "Genetic Algorithms (invited paper)". Jnl. of Assam Sci. Society), vol 34, pp. 1-12, 1992.
• V. Rajan, R. K. Ghosh and P. Gupta. "An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Random Sampling". Information Processing Letts., vol 30, 1989, 265-268.
• Pranay Chaudhuri and R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Algorithms for Analyzing Activity Networks". BIT , vol. 26, 1986, pp. 418-429.
• R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Algorithms for Connectivity Problems in Graph Theory". International Journal of Computer Maths., vol. 18, pp. 193-218, 1986.
• R. K. Ghosh and G. P. Bhattacharjee. "Parallel Algorithm for Shortest Paths". IEE Proceedings-E Computers & Digital Techniques, vol. 133, 1986, pp. 87-93.
• R. K. Ghosh and G. P. Bhattacharjee. "A Parallel Search Algorithm for Directed Acyclic Graph". BIT, vol. 24,1984, pp. 134-150.
• R. K. Ghosh and G. P. Bhattacharjee. "Parallel Breadth-First Search Algorithms for Trees and Graphs". International Journal of Computer Maths., vol. 16, 1984, pp. 255-268.

Conference Papers:

• S. Tetarave, R. K. Ghosh and S. Tripathy. "GMP2P: Mobile P2P over GSM for Efficient File Sharing, ICDCIT 2018: 217-231
• S .K. Tetarave, R. K. Ghosh and S. Tripathy V-Chord: An efficient file sharing on LTE/GSM Network. ICDCN 2018: 38:1-38:8
• Abhiroop Bhatnagar, A Kumar, R. K. Ghosh and R. K. Shyamasunder. "A framework of community inspired distributed message dissemination and emergency alert response system over smart phones." In proceedings of COMSNETS 2016: pages 1-8.
• R. K. Ghosh Maitreya Natu, R. K. Shyamasundar and Rajiv Rankan. "Holistic Performance Monitoring of Hybrid Clouds: Complexities and Future Directions". In IEEE Cloud Computing 3(1): 72-81 (2016).
• Deepak Jeswani, R. K. Ghosh and Maitreya Natu. "Adaptive Monitoring: Application of Probing to Adapt Passive Monitoring". J. Network Syst. Manage. 23(4): 950-977 (2015)
• R. K. Ghosh, Vinit Kataria, Vedant Mishra."Indoor navigation system using optical mouse sensor and smartphone." IPIN 2014: 426-430
• Avinash Chaurasia, Utkarsh Dubey, R. K. Ghosh. "A robust key management scheme with strong connectivity for wireless sensor network". Proceedings of CTS 2012: 190-194, Denver, USA
• Deepak Jeswani, R. K. Ghosh and Maitreya Natu. "Adaptive monitoring: a framework to adapt passive monitoring using probing". In Proceeding CNSM '12 Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Network and Service Management. Pages 350-356.
• Piyush Agrawal and Sajal K. Das. "Cooperative Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". In Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Communication and Management (ACM ICUICM 2008), Suwon, Republic of Korea (Invited paper).
• Jitendra Singh and K. N. Praveen. "Augmentation to GT4 Framework for B2B Collaboration over Grid". In Proceedings of ICDCIT 2007, Bangalore, December 2007 (LNCS vol 4882, pages 336-344).
• Piyush Agrawal, R. K. Ghosh and Sajal K. Das "Localization of Wireless Sensor Nodes Using Proximity Information", 16th IEEE International Conference on Computers Communication and Networks (ICCCN 07), Hawai, August 13-16, 2007 (Invited paper).
• Hrushikesha Mohanty, R. K. Ghosh and R. K. Shyamsundar. "Automatic Generation of BPEL and WSDL from FSM models of Web services".In Proceedings of ADCOM 2006, December, 2006.
• Anshul Gandhi and R. K. Ghosh. "Database Summarization and Publishing in Wireless Environments". In Proceedings of ICDCN 2006, December 2006.
• Ashok Prajapati, R. K. Ghosh and Hrushikesha Mohanty. "A Self-adaptive Hybrid Channel Assignment Scheme for Wireless Communication Systems". In Proceedings of ICIT 2006, December 2006.
• Siddhartha Chaudhuri, R. K. Ghosh and Sajal K. Das. "Towards Optimal Sensor Placement with Hypercube Cutting Planes". In Proceedings of IEEE Confrence on Wireless Communication and Wireless Network Computing (WCNC 05), March 2005 (invited paper).
• Chit Htuy Lwin, H. Mohanty, R. K. Ghosh and G. Chakraborty. "Resilient Dissemination of Events in a Large-Scale Event Notification Service System". In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on e-Technology, e-Commerce and e-Service (EEE 05), Hongkong, March 2005, pp 269.
• Ankur Gupta, Nitin Gupta, M. M. Gore and R. K. Ghosh. "Team Transaction: A New Transaction Model for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". In proceedings of ICDCIT 2004, Bhubaneswar, December 2004, LNCS 3347, pages 127-134.
• Vijay Garg and R. K. Ghosh. "Effect of Data Encryption on Wireless Ad Hoc Network Performance". In proceedings of IWDC, Kolkata, December 27-30, 2004, pages 258-263.
• Chit Htuy Lwin, H. Mohanty and R. K. Ghosh. "Just-in-Time Delivery of Events in Event Notification Service Systems for Mobile Use. In proceedings of Intelligence in Communication Systems". IFIP International Conference, INTELLCOMM 2004, Bangkok, Thailand, November 23-26, 2004, LNCS 3283, pages 190-198.
• R. K. Ghosh, Vijay K. Garg and S. Laxpati. "Integration of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) and Wireless Wide Area Networks (WWANs)". In proceedings of Mobility Conference 2004, Singapore, August 2004, pp 85-94.
• Vijay Garg and R. K. Ghosh. "Intetrworking of HIPERLAN Type Two (HIPERLAN/2) and UMTS". In proceedings of Mobility Conference 2004, Singapore, August 2004, pp 133-140.
• H. Mohanty, Chit Htuy Lwin and R. K. Ghosh. "Causal Ordering in Event Notification Service Systems for Mobile Users". International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, Track on Mobile Enterprise: Enabling Technologies and Applications, April 2004.
• R. K. Ghosh, S. Royanchu and H. Mohanty. "Location Management by Movement Prediction Using Mobility Patterns and Regional Route Maps". IWDC 2003.
• G. Gupta, R. K. Ghosh and S. V. Rao. "A Routing Algorithm for Multi-Hop Mobile Ad Hoc Network Using Additively Weighted Delaunay Triangulation". CIT 2003
• A Survey on Event Notification Service System, CIT 2003 (to appear), with Chit Htay Lwin and H. Mohanty.
• Mobichart For Modeling Mobile Computing Tasks IEEE TENCON 2003 (to appear) with H. Mohanty and S. Acharya and R. K. Shyamsunder.
• G. Das, H. Mohanty, R. K. Ghosh and S. Gurumurthy. "Web Ticker : An Adaptable News-based information Retrieval Tool for WEB Navigator". In Proceedings of IEEE TENCON 2003.
• T. Suman Reddy, Hrushiksha Mohanty, R. K. Ghosh and Sanjay Madria. "Two Distributed Algorithms for E-Ticket Validation Protocols for Mobile Clients". In Proceedings of 2003 IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce (CEC'03), California, June 2003, pp 223-230.
• T. Suman Reddy, Hrushiksha Mohanty and R. K. Ghosh. "An E-ticket Validation Protocol for Mobile Computing Environment". in Proceedings of NCC 2003, February 2003, Chennai, pp 50-54.
• R. K. Ghosh and Hrushikesha Mohanty. "On Restructuring Distributed Algorithms for Mobile Computing". In Proceedings of IWDC 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2571, pp. 224-233, .
• Shantanu Sharma, Vinay Chaudhray and R. K. Ghosh. "AAB: A Generalized Java-Based Algorithm Animation Builder". In Proceedings of CIT'02, December 2002.
• Saurabh Srivastava and R. K. Ghosh. "A Cluster Based Routing Using a k-Tree Core Backbone for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks". In Proceedings DIAL M 2002, Sept 2002.
• S. M. Tripathi and R. K. Ghosh. "An Implementational Study of Certain Heuristics for the Performance Enhancements of AODV". In Proceedings of PDP 2002, Jan 2002 pp 407-414.
• P. Mohaptra and R. K. Ghosh. "WAAL: A Web-based Algorithm Animation & Learning System". In Proceedings of International Workshop on Distributed Computing 2001, Dec 2001.
• M. M. Gore and R. K. Ghosh. "Design and Implementation of Extended Transaction Support System". In Proceedings of 4th ICIT 2001, December 2001, pp 138-143.
• M. M. Gore and R. K. Ghosh. "Contention-free Team Transaction Management and Recovery on Mobile Networks using Ad Hoc Groupings. In Proceedings of 4th ICIT 2001, December 2001, pp 31-36.
• Nilabh Dev and R. K. Ghosh. "Practical Parallel Algorithms for Some Tree Computation Problem". In Proceedings of 4th ICIT 2001, Dec 2001, pp 291-296.
• M. M. Gore and R. K. Ghosh. "Recovery of Mobile Transactions". In Proceedings of 3rd International DEXA Workshop NIBIS 2000, Greenwich-London, September 2000.
• R. K. Ghosh and M. M. Gore. "Recovery of Distributed Extended Long-lived Transaction Models". In Proceeding of DASFAA’99, Hsinchu, Taiwan, April 19-21, 1999.
• M. M. Gore and R. K. Ghosh. "Design of a Storage Manager Extendible in Transaction Support". In Proceedings of Computer and Communication Engineering Technical Conference of the World Engineering Congress at Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, July 1999.
• D. Jaiswal, T. K. Nayak and R. K. Ghosh. "A Synchronized Retrieval and Presentation System for Distributed Generalized Multi- Streams". In Proceedings of International Conference on Information Technology, pp 129-134, Dec 21-23, 1998, Bhubaneswar, India.
• Anup Kumar, Alok Srivastava, Aditi Singru and R. K. Ghosh. "Robust and Distributed Genetic Algorithm for Ordering Problems". In Proceddings of Fifth International Symposium of High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-5), 253- 262, 1996.
• K. Hari Prasad, R. K. Ghosh and T. K. Nayak. "DiET: A Distributed Extended Transaction Processing Framework". In Proceedings of 3rd Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing, Dec. 1996, Trivandrum, India, pp 114-119.
• K. V. Praveen, R. K. Ghosh and S. K. Aggarwal. "Incremental Data Dependence Analysis". In Proceedings of HiPC, Dec. 1996, Trivandrum, India, pp 195-200.
• S. Singhai, S. K. Agarwal and R. K. Ghosh. "GAtest: An Exact Dependence Test". In Proceedings of HiPC, New Delhi, Dec. 1995, 523-528.
• N. S. Arora, R. K. Ghosh and P. K. Kalra. "Transputer Based Parallel Computing Environment for Genetic Algorithms". In Proceedings of ITUG ’94, pp. 65-73.
• H. R. Sudheer, R. K. Ghosh and P. Gupta. "An Exact Dependence Test for Restructuring Nested Loops for Parallel Execution". In Proceedings of the 6th ISCA PDCS , 1993, pp. 326-331
• A Chandramouli, P. K. Kalra, S. C. Srivastava, R. K. Ghosh and D. K. Mishra. "Genetic Algorithms: Some Applications to Electric Power Systems". In Proceedings ISCA PDCS, 1993, pp. 405-410.
• S. Nath and R. K. Ghosh "Parallel Algorithm Biconnected Augmentation". In Proceedings 17th National Systems Conference, 1993, pp. 529-531.
• S. Nath and R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Algorithms for Tree Pattern Matching". In Proceedings of Third National Seminar for Theoretical Computer Science, 1993, pp. 299-308.
• Sudheer H. and R. K. Ghosh. "Genetic Algorithms and Applications". In Proceedings of Workshop on System Design and Simulation, April 1992,Agra.
• V. Rajan, P. Gupta and R. K. Ghosh. "Parallel Generation of Combinations and Permutations". In Proceedings of National Seminar on Theoretical Computer Science, July 1991, Madras, pp. 129-135
• R. K. Ghosh and G. P. Bhattacharjee. "Parallel Algorithm for finding a Fundamental Set of Cycles of an Undirected Graph". In Proceedings of FST & TCS-1, Dec 1981, Bangalore, pp. 217-226.
• R. K. Ghosh and G. P. Bhattacharjee. "Parallel Algorithms for Finding a Fundamental Set of Cycles and the Bridges of an Undirected Graph" In Proceedings of Int. Conf. Systems & Sig. Processing, Dec 1981, Bangalore, pp. 199-203.

Some Unpublished Technical Reports

• Kapil Dolas and Nikita Bhagatkar and R. K. Ghosh. An Integrated P2P Framework for E-Learning.
• Prashant Kumar and R. K. Ghosh. Formal Methods and Event Notification Systems in Mobile Computing Environment.
• J. Pavan Kumar, G. Sajith and R. K. Ghosh. On Automated Restructuring of Distributed Algorithms for Mobile Computing, Tech Report, Dept of CSE,IIT Guwahati, July 2003.
• Soham Mazumdar, Saurabh Srivastava and R. Ghosh. A Geometric Approach to the Routing Problem in Ad Hoc Network, CS497 Report, Dept of CSE, IIT-Kanpur, Nov 2001.
• Chinmoy Das and R. K. Ghosh. A Distributed Location Tracking and Call Accounting System for Mobile and Non Mobile Users, Technical Report Dept of CSE, IIT-Kanpur, June 2001.
• G. Agarwal, K V Srikanth, M. Varshney, M. Gupta and R. K. Ghosh. Yet Another Routing Protocol for MANETs, Technical Report, Dept of CSE, IIT-Kanpur, May 2001.
• A. Seth and A. Kashyap and R. K. Ghosh. Performance of High Bandwidth Applications Over Bluetooth Technical Report, Dept of CSE, IIT-Kanpur, May 2001.
• R. K. Ghosh and Chris George, Formal Specification of a Zonal Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Network, TR-209, IIST/UNU, Macau, August 2000.

Sponsored Projects:

Received funding from both non-government international agencies and Indian government agencies for carrying out research in general area of parallel/distributed computing, wireless and sensor network applications in disaster mitigation.

Sponsorering Agencies:

• Google India
• Innovation Center of EADS (Airbus Industries), Germany (Multi institutional collaboration).
• Indo-Trento Project on Advance Research (Multi institutional collaboration).
• Australia India Strategic Research Fund (AISRF Round 6) (Multi institutional collaboration).
• Korean Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIIT) (Hanyang University & IIT Kanpur).
• DST
• MHRD
• AICTE
• CSIR

Key Research collaborators:

• Maitreya Natu, TRDDC, TCS Pune, India
• Hrushikesha Mohanty, KIIT University (on leave from University of Hyderabad), India.
• Sajal K. Das, Chair Dept of CS at University Missiouri S & T, Rolla, USA.
• R. K. Shyamsundar, TIFR, Mumbai, India.
• Raj Gaire, Data 61, CSIRO, Australia.
• Gautam Barua, IIIT Guwahati, India.
• Sanjay K. Madria, University of Missouri S &s; T, Rolla USA. 11. Maitreya Natu, TRDDC-TCS, Pune, India.
• Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia.
• Rajiv Ranjan, Univ of New Castle, UK, and Data 61, CSIRO, Australia. 4. Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia.
• Anup Kumar, University of Louisville, USA.
• Gautam Chakraborty, Iwate-Prefectural University, Japan.
• Rupert Reiger, EDAS Innovation Center, Munich, Germany.
• Vijay K. Garg, Univ of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Service to Community:

• Life member of ACM.
• Associate Editor of Sadhana, Journal of Indian Science Academy 2014-continuing.
• Associate Editor CSI Computing Journal 2012-2014.
• General Chair ICDCIT 2020.
• TPC Member for ACM CHANTS 2019 (Workshop on Challenged NW).
• TPC Member for IEEEWCNC 2019
• Has been a TPC Member, Program Chair, General Chair for many conferences in the past which include IEEE CPADS, CyberC, etc.