Next-Generation Networking, Services, and Technologies (NEST) Research Group
About Research Group
Welcome to the Next-Generation Networking, Services, and Technologies (NEST) Lab at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore, India. The NEST Lab is led by Dr. Ayan Mondal. We primarily focus on research in intelligent systems enabling network technologies, services, and applications, including Internet of Things (IoT), Edge Cloud, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Sensor-Cloud, Edge/Fog Networks, Wireless Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, and Game-Theoretic Applications.
If you are interested in being part of the NEST Lab and motivated to contribute, please email your CV to nest.lab [AT] iiti.ac.in and ayanm [AT] iiti.ac.in with a detailed research proposal.
Workshop on Next-Gen Cybersecurity: Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era, July 1-2, 2025 [Registration Link] [Detailed Program]
News
| [Jun 2025] Congratulations to M Harsh Kumar for receiving one-year Internship Offer from IBM Systems division, India. |
| [Jun 2025] Congratulations to Lalita Agrawal for receiving International Travel Support (ITS) Award under ANRF-ITS Scheme for participating in 31st IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN 2025), France. |
| [May 2025] Workshop Chair, Third Edition of "SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8-12, 2025. |
| [May 2025] Workshop Chair, the Third Edition of "A4E: AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8-12, 2025. |
| [May 2025] "E-VaaS: Edge-Enabled Vehicle-as-a-Service for Smart Transportation Systems" accepted in International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) Workshop 2025. |
| [May 2025] "TRON: Traffic Management and Resource Allocation for SDN-Enabled 5G/6G Networks" accepted in IEEE International Symposium on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks (LANMAN) 2025. |
| [Mar 2025] "Delay-Aware Dynamic Resource Orchestration for IoT-Enabled Software-Defined Edge Networks" accepted in International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley. |
| [Jan 2025] Congratulations to Shabbir Poswal for receiving six-moths Internship Offer from Qualcomm, India. |
| [Nov 2024] "Event-Triggered Sliding Mode Controller for Cognitive Internet of Things" accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. |
| [Apr 2024] "T-RESIN: Throughput-Aware Dynamic Resource Orchestration for IoE-Enable Software-Defined Edge Networks" accepted in International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley. |
| [Mar 2024] Faculty Counselor, IEEE Student Branch Chapter, IIT Indore. |
| [Feb 2024] Elected as IEEE Senior Member. |
| [Jan 2024] "ABP: Attribute-based Broadcast Proxy Re-encryption with Coalitional Game Theory" accepted in IEEE Systems Journal. |
| [Nov 2023] Selected Areas in Communications (SAC) - E-Health Co-Chair at the IEEE ICC 2025, Montreal, Canada. |
| [Nov. 2023] "MBP: Multi-Channel Broadcast Proxy Re-Encryption for Cloud-Based IoT Devices" accepted in Computer Communications, Elsevier. |
| [Sep 2023] Congratulations to Arjun Singh and Shubham Pratap Pednekar for the selection to represnt IIT Indore at AVINYA 2023 organized by Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), Mhow. |
| [Aug 2023] Visiting Professor, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, August 19-September 3, 2023. |
| [Aug 2023] Congratulations to Lalita Agrwal for the selection as Visiting Researcher, Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland, for two months. |
| [Jun 2023] Corresponding Editor and Organizing Chair, MICA 2023, National Institute of Technology Warangal, Telangana, India, October 30-31, 2023. |
| [May 2023] Workshop Chair, the Second Edition of "A4E: AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2023, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 4-8, 2023. |
| [May 2023] "TiME: Time-sensitive Multihop Data Transmission in Software-Defined Edge Networks for IoT" accepted in the 23rd International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE) Workshop: The 3rd International Workshop on Big Data-driven Edge Cloud Services (BECS). |
| [Apr 2023] "CBP: Coalitional Game-based Broadcast Proxy Re-encryption in IoT" accepted in IEEE Internet of Things Journal. |
| [Dec 2022] Panel Chair, International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Engineering (ICACIE) 2022 (Springer), Cuttack, Odisha, India, December 23-24, 2022. |
| [May 2023] Program Committee Chair, "CLEF: Cloud, Edge, and Fog for Smart Industries" Workshop co-located with the 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGrid) 2023, Bangalore, India, May 1-4, 2023. |
| [Jan 2023] Program Committee Member, Doctoral Symposium of the 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking (ICDCN) 2023, IIT Kharagpur, January 4-7, 2023. |
| [Sep 2022] Associate Editor, IoT Services and Applications (specialty section of Frontiers in the Internet of Things), September 2022 - Present. |
| [May 2023] Workshop Chair, the Second Workshop on "SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services" Workshop co-located with IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2023, Rome, Italy, May 28-June 1, 2023. |
| [Dec 2022] Publicity Chair, International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS) 2022 (Springer), IIT Ropar, India, December 19-21, 2022 |
| [Oct 2022] Received the prestigious IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award, 2022 |
| [May 2022] Workshop Chair, "A4E: AI/ML for Edge/Fog Networks" Workshop co-located with IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2022, Virtual conference, May 2-5, 2022 |
| [Jan 2022] Co-host, the webinar series on "Next Generation IoT" organized by the Technical Committee on Communications Software: Special Interest Group on "NFV and SDN Technologies" of IEEE Communication Society |
| [Jan 2022] Co-host, the webinar series on "Healthcare IoT" jointly organized by the Technical Committee on eHealth: Special Interest Group on "IoT for eHealth" and Technical Committee Green Computing and Communications: Special Interest Group on "Pandemics" of IEEE Communication Society |
| [Dec 2021] Workshop Chair, "SIGNIS: Softwarized Next Generation Networks for IoT Services" Workshop co-located with IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2021, Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021 |
| [Oct 2021] "AuGrid: Edge-Enabled Distributed Load Management for Smart Grid Service Providers" accepted in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking |
| [Oct 2021] Joined as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Indore |