Publications, books & patents

01T. Ojha, M. M. Hussain, S. Bera, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra (Eds.), Edge-Enabled 6G Networking: Foundations, Technologies, and Applications, Springer Cham, 2026.

01N. Ahmed, T. Ojha, M. M. Hussain, and S. Bera, "Edge-Enabled 6G Networking: Transforming IoT for a Hyperconnected Future," in Edge-Enabled 6G Networking: Foundations, Technologies, and Applications, pp. 255-270, Springer Cham, 2026.

02S. Sarkar, A. Sengupta, P. Dey, A. Das, D. De, and N. Ahmed, "Agronomics: A Sustainable Economics for Consumer Electronics in Agriculture," in Humanized Intelligence in Sustainable Finance and Economic Behaviours, pp. 193-215, Springer Singapore, 2026.

03Ahmed, N. and N. Shakoor, "From Field to Cloud: IoT and Machine Learning Innovations in High-Throughput Phenotyping," in Machine Learning for Social Transformation - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol. 1131, p. 125, Springer Nature, 2025.

04R. K. Das, A. Gupta, S. Boda, P. Joshi, N. Ahmed, and D. De, "A Study on the Performance of Network Topologies in SDN-based Edge IoT Network," in Springer book series 'Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems', 2024.

05S. Sarkar, A. Sengupta, A. Das, D. De, and N. Ahmed, "Dew Computing Enabled Consumer Electronics for Sustainable Internet of Agricultural Things," in Dew Computing: The Sustainable IoT Perspectives, pp. 317-345, Springer, 2023.

06B. Ghosh, S. Roy, N. Ahmed, and D. De, "Dew Aeroponics: Dew-Enabled Smart Aeroponics System in Agriculture 4.0," in Dew Computing: The Sustainable IoT Perspectives, pp. 261-287, Springer, 2023.

07N. Ahmed, H. Rahman, and M. I. Hussain, "Scalability Analysis of Medium Access Control Protocols for Internet of Things," in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 508, pp. 601-611, Springer Singapore, 2017.

01B. Gano, M. de Gracia Coquerel, J. Saxton, N. Eck, K. H. S. Peiris, S. R. Bean, J. Stanton, N. Ahmed, and N. Shakoor, "Modeling grain biochemical composition traits of commercial sorghum hybrids under diverse management practices," Frontiers in Plant Science, vol. 17, 1768456, 2026.

02N. Ahmed and N. Shakoor, "Advancing agriculture through IoT, Big Data, and AI: A review of smart technologies enabling sustainability," Smart Agricultural Technology, vol. 10, 100848, 2025.

03M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "Analyzing the suitability of IEEE 802.11ah for next generation Internet of Things: A comparative study," Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 156, p. 103437, 2024.

04B. Gano, N. Ahmed, and N. Shakoor, "Drone-based imaging sensors, techniques, and applications in plant phenotyping for crop breeding: A comprehensive review," The Plant Phenome Journal, vol. 7, no. 1, e20100, 2024.

05M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "OptiFog: A Framework for Acquiring State Information and Predicting Resource Availability for Task Offloading in Cooperative Fog-Networks," IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 2024.

06L. C. Thungon, N. Ahmed, D. De, and M. I. Hussain, "A Survey on 6LoWPAN Security for IoT: Taxonomy, Architecture, and Future Directions," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 137, no. 1, pp. 153-197, 2024.

07S. Misra, S. Pal, N. Ahmed, and A. Mukherjee, "SDN-Controlled Resource-Tailored Analytics for Healthcare IoT System," IEEE Systems Journal, 2023.

08M. A. Mondal, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "IoT-MAC: A Channel Access Mechanism for IoT Smart Environment," Array, vol. 18, p. 100285, 2023.

09N. Ahmed and M. I. Hussain, "A QoS-aware scheduling with node grouping for IEEE 802.11ah," Wireless Networks, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 1799-1814, 2023.

10M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, M. Mukherjee, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "SDN-based re-configurable edge network architecture for industrial Internet of Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023.

11R. K. Das, N. Ahmed, A. K. Maji, and G. Saha, "Edge Controller-Assisted SDN Architecture for Internet of Things," IEEE Sensors Journal, 2023.

12N. Ahmed, M. Alam, R. Matam, F. A. Barbhuiya, and M. Mukherjee, "Pro-Edge: A Programmable Edge Network Architecture for Industrial Internet of Things," IEEE Preprints, 2023.

13M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "IEEE 802.11ah-Enabled Internet of Drone Architecture," IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 174-178, 2022.

14K. Medhi, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "Dew-based offline computing architecture for healthcare IoT," ICT Express, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 371-378, 2022.

15A. Shukla, N. Ahmed, A. Roy, and S. C. Misra, "Softwarized management of 6G network for green Internet of Things," Computer Communications, 2022.

16F. Gazi, N. Ahmed, S. Misra, and W. Wei, "Reinforcement learning-based MAC protocol for underwater multimedia sensor networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1-25, 2022.

17F. Gazi, N. Ahmed, S. Misra, and M. K. Tiwari, "ProStream: Programmable underwater IoT network for multimedia streaming," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 18, pp. 17417-17424, 2022.

18F. Gazi, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra, "RE-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Underwater Multimedia Communication System," IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 840-847, 2022.

19R. K. Das, N. Ahmed, A. K. Maji, and G. Saha, "Nx-IoT: Improvement of conventional IoT Framework by incorporating SDN Infrastructure," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022.

20N. Ahmed and M. I. Hussain, "Scalable Internet of Things Network Design Using Multi-hop IEEE 802.11ah," Telecommunication Systems, vol. 78, no. 4, pp. 577-588, 2021.

21N. Ahmed and S. Misra, "Collaborative Flow-Identification Mechanism for Software-Defined Internet of Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021.

22N. Ahmed, D. De, F. A. Barbhuiya, and M. I. Hussain, "MAC protocols for IEEE 802.11ah-based Internet of Things: A Survey," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 916-938, 2021.

23S. Nayak, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra, "Deep learning-based reliable routing attack detection mechanism for industrial Internet of Things," Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 123, p. 102661, 2021.

24M. Hussain, N. Ahmed, Z. Iqubal, and N. Sarma, "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Mesh Networks: A Survey," Wireless Personal Communications, 2021.

25N. Ahmed and M. I. Hussain, "Periodic traffic scheduling for IEEE 802.11ah networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 1510-1513, 2020.

26R. K. Das, N. Ahmed, F. H. Pohrmen, A. K. Maji, and G. Saha, "6LE-SDN: An Edge-based Software-Defined Network for Internet of Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 7725-7733, 2020.

27L. Chom Thungon, N. Ahmed, S. C. Sahana, and M. I. Hussain, "A lightweight authentication and key exchange mechanism for IPv6 over Low-power Wireless Personal Area Networks-based Internet of Things," Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, p. e4033, 2020.

28M. I. Hussain, N. Ahmed, and S. K. Das, "Dynamic Bandwidth Allocation Schemes for Multi-hop Wireless Mesh Networks," International Journal of Next-Generation Computing, vol. 10, no. 2, 2019.

29N. Ahmed, H. Rahman, and M. I. Hussain, "An IEEE 802.11 ah-based scalable network architecture for Internet of Things," Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 73, pp. 499-509, 2018.

30H. Rahman, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "A QoS-aware hybrid data aggregation scheme for Internet of Things," Annals of Telecommunications, vol. 73, pp. 475-486, 2018.

31N. Ahmed, D. De, and I. Hussain, "Internet of Things (IoT) for smart precision agriculture and farming in rural areas," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 4890-4899, 2018.

32L. C. Thungon, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "Comparison of AES and present block cipher for 6LoWPAN based internet-of-things," International Journal of Computational Intelligence & IoT, vol. 1, no. 2, 2018.

33N. Ahmed, H. Rahman, and M. I. Hussain, "A comparison of 802.11 ah and 802.15.4 for IoT," ICT Express, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 100-102, 2016.

34M. I. Hussain, S. K. Dutta, N. Ahmed, and I. Hussain, "A WiFi-based reliable network architecture for rural regions," ADBU Journal of Engineering Technology, vol. 3, 2015.

01M. Khanafer, L. Kostick, C. Wang, W. Zegeye, W. He, B. Kaplan, N. Ahmed, K. Kornegay, D. Kotz, and T. J. Pierson, "Device Discovery in the Smart Home Environment," in Proc. IEEE/ACM Workshop on the Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings), May 2024.

02M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "RedgeX: Meta-Learning based Optimal Analytical Model for Programmable Edge Intelligence," in Proc. 2024 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1-6, 2024.

03N. Ahmed, F. Esposito, and N. Shakoor, "Bridging IoT Education Through Activities: A Game-Oriented Approach with Real-time Data Visualization," in Proc. 2024 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), pp. 1-6, 2024.

04B. Gano, N. Ahmed, and N. Shakoor, "Machine learning-based prediction of sorghum biomass from UAV multispectral imagery data," in Proc. 2023 4th International Conference on Computing and Communication Systems (I3CS), pp. 1-5, 2023.

05R. Saha, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra, "Node Behaviour-Aware Secure Flow Control Mechanism for IoT-Based Big Data," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 7321-7326, 2023.

06N. Ahmed, A. Roy, and S. Misra, "Programming Edge-Based 6TiSCH Networks for Control-Loop Communication," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2023 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 2632-2637, 2023.

07N. Ahmed, F. Esposito, and N. Shakoor, "SoftFarmNet: Reconfigurable Wi-Fi HaLow Networks for Precision Agriculture," in Proc. 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet), pp. 212-220, 2023.

08M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "L3Fog: Fog node selection and task offloading framework for mobile IoT," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conf. on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 1-6, 2022.

09R. Saha, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra, "Dynamic Fog Intelligence with Flow Control for Green Internet of Things," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 01-06, 2022.

10N. Ahmed, A. Roy, A. Mondal, and S. Misra, "SDN-based link recovery scheme for large-scale Internet of Things," in Proc. 2021 IEEE 22nd Int. Conf. on High Performance Switching and Routing (HPSR), pp. 1-6, 2021.

11N. Ahmed, A. Roy, S. Misra, and D. Tandur, "Programmable IEEE 802.11ah Network for Internet of Things," in Proc. ICC 2021 - IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications, pp. 1-6, 2021.

12M. Alam, N. Ahmed, R. Matam, and F. A. Barbhuiya, "ioFog: Prediction-based Fog computing architecture for offline IoT," in Proc. 2021 Int. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC), pp. 1387-1392, 2021.

13R. Saha, N. Ahmed, and S. Misra, "SDN-controller triggered dynamic decision control mechanism for healthcare IoT," in Proc. 2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), pp. 1-6, 2021.

14S. Misra, K. Sarkar, and N. Ahmed, "Blockchain-based controller recovery in SDN," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2020 - IEEE Conf. on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), pp. 1063-1068, 2020.

15N. Ahmed and S. Misra, "Channel access mechanism for IEEE 802.11ah-based relay networks," in Proc. ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), pp. 1-6, 2020.

16S. Nayak, N. Ahmed, S. Misra, and K.-K. R. Choo, "Blockchain-Based Programmable Fog Architecture for Future Internet of Things Applications," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1-6, 2020.

17F. Gazi, S. Misra, N. Ahmed, and A. Mukherjee, "UnRest: Underwater reliable acoustic communication for multimedia Streaming," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1-6, 2020.

18S. Misra, R. Saha, and N. Ahmed, "Health-flow: Criticality-aware flow control for sdn-based healthcare IoT," in Proc. GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, pp. 1-6, 2020.

19N. Ahmed, D. De, and M. I. Hussain, "A QoS-aware MAC protocol for IEEE 802.11 ah-based Internet of Things," in Proc. 2018 Fifteenth Int. Conf. on Wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN), pp. 1-5, 2018.

20A. Kalita, N. Ahmed, H. Rahman, and M. I. Hussain, "A QoS-aware MAC protocol for large-scale networks in Internet of Things," in Proc. 2017 IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), pp. 1-6, 2017.

21N. Ahmed and M. I. Hussain, "Relay-based IEEE 802.11 ah network: A Smart City solution," in Proc. 2016 Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT), pp. 1-6, 2016.

22H. Rahman, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "A hybrid data aggregation scheme for Internet of Things (IoT)", in 2016 IEEE Annual India Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-6, 2016.

23H. Rahman, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "A hybrid data aggregation scheme for provisioning Quality of Service (QoS) in Internet of Things (IoT)," in Proc. 2016 Cloudification of the Internet of Things (CIoT), pp. 1-5, 2016.

24S. S. Ahmed, I. Hussain, and N. Ahmed, "Driver level implementation of TDMA MAC in long distance WiFi," in Proc. 2015 Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE), pp. 80-85, 2015.

25H. Rahman, N. Ahmed, and M. I. Hussain, "Internet of Things (IoT): Advances and Research Challenges," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Computing and Communication Systems (I3CS), pp. 89-96, 2015.

26N. Ahmed, Z. I. Ahmed, S. I. Saikia, and I. Hussain, "Augmentation of directional and sector antenna support in NS2," in Proc. 2015 Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Networks (CINE), pp. 68-73, 2015.

27I. Hussain, N. Ahmed, D. K. Saikia, and N. Sarma, "A QoS-aware multipath routing protocol for WiFi-based long distance mesh networks," in Proc. 2014 2nd Int. Conf. on Emerging Technology Trends in Electronics, Communication and Networking, pp. 1-8, 2014.

28I. Hussain, D. K. Saikia, N. Sarma, and N. Ahmed, "A fine-tuned packet scheduling for WiFi-based Long Distance networks," in Proc. 2014 Applications and Innovations in Mobile Computing (AIMoC), pp. 97-103, 2014.

01G. Saha, R. K. Das, N. Ahmed, and A. K. Maji, "An improved SDN based IoT system," Indian patent granted on Dec. 16, 2024, Patent Ref.: 202131017791.

02N. Shakoor and N. Ahmed, "Networking System of Interconnected Devices for Emissions Data Collection in an Agricultural Environment," U.S. patent filed under Ref. 47004-233204, 2024.

03G. Saha, R. K. Das, N. Ahmed, and A. K. Maji, "Multi-Purpose Switch Adaptable for a Specific SDN Based IoT Architecture," Indian patent granted on Apr. 2, 2021, 37 pages, 7 claims, Patent Ref.: 201931049931.

01N. Ahmed, "Designing IEEE 802.11ah-based scalable network for Internet of Things," Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Information Technology, North-Eastern Hill University, 2020.