Deepak Puthal is a Lecturer at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, UK. Prior to this position, he was a Lecturer at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. His research spans several areas, such as Internet of Things, Edge/Fog Computing, cybersecurity and blockchain. He serves on the editorial boards of top quality international journals including IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Computers & Electrical Engineering (Elsevier), International Journal of Communication Systems (John Wiley & Sons), Internet Technology Letters (John Wiley & Sons). He has received several recognitions and best paper awards from IEEE.

Internet of Things

Edge/Fog Computing

Blockchain

Cyber Security

Internet of Things

• Chandra Shit R, Sharma S, Puthal D, James P, Pradhan B, van Moorsel A, Zomaya AY, Ranjan R. Ubiquitous Localization (UbiLoc): A Survey and Taxonomy on Device Free Localization for Smart World. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 2019, 21(4), 3532-3564.
• Yang C-T, Chen S-T, Liu J-C, Su Y-W, Puthal D, Ranjan R. A predictive load balancing technique for software defined networked cloud services. Computing 2019, 101(3), 211-235.
• Puthal D, Mohanty SP, Bhavake SA, Morgan G, Ranjan R. Fog Computing Security Challenges and Future Directions [Energy and Security]. IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine 2019, 8(3), 92-96.
• Puthal D, Ranjan R, Nanda A, Nanda P, Jayaraman PP, Zomaya AY. Secure authentication and load balancing of distributed edge datacenters. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing 2019, 124, 60-69.
• Puthal D, Ranjan R, Nepal S, Chen J. IoT and big data: An architecture with data flow and security issues. In: Cloud Infrastructures, Services, and IoT Systems for Smart Cities: Second EAI International Conference (IISSC 2017 and CN4IoT 2017). 2018, Brindisi, Italy: Springer Verlag.
• Puthal D, Nepal S, Ranjan R, Chen J. A Dynamic Prime Number Based Efficient Security Mechanism for Big Sensing Data Streams. Journal of Computer and System Sciences 2017, 83(1), 22-42.
• Puthal D, Nepal S, Ranjan R, Chen J. A Secure Big Data Stream Analytics Framework for Disaster Management on the Cloud. In: 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, 14th IEEE International Conference on Smart City and 2nd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems, HPCC/SmartCity/DSS 2016. 2017, Sydney Australia: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
• Puthal D, Nepal S, Ranjan R, Chen J. DLSeF: A Dynamic Key-Length-based Efficient Real-Time Security Verification Model for Big Data Stream. ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) 2017, 16(2), 51.
• Puthal D, Nepal S, Ranjan R, Chen J. End-to-end security framework for big sensing data streams. In: Kuan-Ching Li, Hai Jiang, Albert Y. Zomaya, ed. Big Data Management and Processing. New York: CRC Press, 2017, pp.263-278.
• Sharma S, Puthal D, Jena SK, Zomaya AY, Ranjan R. Erratum to: Rendezvous based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks with mobile sink (The Journal of Supercomputing, (2017), 73, 3, (1168-1188), 10.1007/s11227-016-1801-0). Journal of Supercomputing 2017, 73(3), 1189-1191.
• Sharma S, Puthal D, Jena SK, Zomaya AY, Ranjan R. Rendezvous based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks with mobile sink. Journal of Supercomputing 2017, 73(3), 1168-1188.
• Puthal D, Nepal S, Ranjan R, Chen J. Threats to Networking Cloud and Edge Data Center in the IoT. IEEE Cloud Computing 2016, 3(3), 64-71.