Sandeep Kumar Sood

National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra | NIT Kurukshetra · Department of Computer Application

Time-critical applications, such as emergency systems, healthcare, or smart traffic monitoring, demand latency-aware and real-time decision-making. Excessive delays in rescue actions result in a significant death toll each year around the world. In such crucial situations, technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) coupled with cloud and fog in...

Flood is a common and critical environmental challenge with terrible and detrimental consequences for humanity and civilization. An effective and consistent system for flood monitoring is required to mitigate its devastating impacts. This study presents an energy-conserving cloud assisted system for flood detection and vulnerability assessment. The...

During disasters, individuals witness various dreadful scenes and situations. These scenes and situations generate a sense of panic and cause panic attacks to individuals. Panic attacks cause various disorders like Panic Disorder, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Anxiety Disorder, etc. On the other side, smart cities are becoming the mainstay fo...

The detection of road anomalies in highway management is a crucial yet manpower-demanding task. Although there have been many previous types of research based on visual and acceleration data collected from vehicles. However, to distinctively differentiate a pothole and speedbump from acceleration remains a challenge. The visual methods require high...

Four‐dimensional (4D) printing has received an amplified consideration in the research community for fabrication and manufacturing in industry, medical field, and smart flood management. Disruptive technologies such as Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, and 4D printing are highly recommended during disaster management activities. The 4D p...

Earthquakes are among the most complex and expensive natural catastrophes that humans face, which strikes without warning. As a result, earthquake prediction has become a challenging and crucial task for humanity. Efficacious earthquake prediction has the potential to significantly minimize earthquake destruction, which is highly pertinent for the...

Building evacuation is critical in saving human lives in case of an emergency resulting from natural or human-made attacks and disasters. The efficiency of evacuation can be enhanced by integrating the internet of things, fog computing, cloud computing, and other communication technologies. In this study, we present an intelligent evacuation system...

The idea of vehicular communication has evolved dramatically over the past two decades apparently with technological advancements that accord low power and memory consumption devices, and yet providing low latency and high performing abilities. In the 20th century, vehicular communications were primarily done through singling blinkers, tail lights,...

Earthquakes are among the most inevitable natural catastrophes. The uncertainty about the severity of the earthquake has a profound effect on the burden of disaster and causes massive economic and societal losses. Although unpredictable, it can be expected to ameliorate damage and fatalities, such as monitoring and predicting earthquakes using the...

The edge/fog computing has the potential to gear up the healthcare industry by providing better and faster health services to the patients. In healthcare systems where every second is crucial, the edge computing can be helpful to reduce the time between data capture and analytics in a powerful manner. In edge computing, the network edge devices are...

The primary sources of big data nowadays are from cloud computing, social networks, and the internet of things, and henceforth the data analytics has gained popularity these days, with the increasing demand for these technologies. This study presents scientometric analysis to identify overall growth, emerging trends, and global scope of data analyt...

Natural hazards like droughts give hard hit to economies, hydrological circle and human lives. Climatic fluctuations have exacerbate the chances of such calamities in future. The consequences can be abbreviated to some degree by predicting it and doing forward planning for such situations. Several drought indices evaluate the intensity of droughts...

Disasters around the world have adversely affected every aspect of life and panic-health of stranded persons is one such category. An effective and on-time evacuation from disaster-affected areas can avoid any panic-related health problems of the stranded persons. Although the nature of disasters differ in terms of how they occur, the evacuation of...

In recent years, natural and manmade disasters such as floods, earthquakes, wildfires, and tsunamis have occurred with human losses and environmental deterioration. Henceforth, to reduce the damage caused by these catastrophic events, the administration and government need to track victims and perform synchronized relief efforts on time at the disa...

The biggest challenges for several universities and educational institutions throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic are online and e‐learning infrastructure availability. The incorporation of Information and Communication Technologies in the domain of disaster management is one such dimension, which focuses on the sustainability of human beings regarding...

Recent decades have witnessed the frequent occurrence of natural disasters and their destructive impacts, which have disrupted the social-economic balance and caused large-scale casualties in communities all over the world. This dramatic surge in natural disaster-related events has also impacted programs and research on disaster management in diffe...

The disasters often lead to panic among people resulting into life threatening crowd movements. An efficient and systematic evacuation can mitigate the impact of devastation on human life. The evacuation, on the wake of extreme events, requires delay-sensitive computation and energy conserving mechanisms for power constrained data collection device...

The increasing diffusion of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in the domain of disaster management depicts the catalyzed efforts and interests of nations for achieving sustainable disaster-related solutions. This momentum has resulted in the increased growth of research production, and interest of various communities, in the domain of IC...

In recent years, the emergence of Internet of things and cyber-physical system provide a proactive and efficacious solution to enable remote monitoring, machine learning-based analytics, and quick decision making for real-time applications. Cloud supported systems still face Quality of Service issues for implementing time-sensitive applications. In...

The education field plays a vital role in the growth and progress of society. In recent years, with the evolution of technology, a significant development has been observed in the publication of this field. Henceforth, a scientific review is required to explore computer applications in education using internet communication and technology (ICT) tec...

Flood is a recurrent and crucial natural phenomenon affecting almost the entire planet. It is a critical problem that causes crop destruction, destruction to the population, loss of infrastructure, and demolition of several public utilities. An effective way to deal with this is to alert the community from incoming inundation and provide ample time...

Dengue is a mosquito-borne pandemic viral infection, which transmits to humans from Female Aedes albopictis or Aedes agypti mosquitoes. It progressively deteriorates the health of infected individuals and poses a high threat of human morbidity and mortality. This paper proposes an intelligent healthcare system which identifies, monitors, and alerts...

Hydro-meteorological hazards have an immense effect on this planet throughout the history of disasters from prehistoric to recent times. Despite numerous studies on hydro-meteorological hazards, however, little attention has been paid to the role of ICT in the management of these hazards. Emerging techniques of ICT (Information and Communication Te...

Dengue is one the most common and widespread infectious illness in humans transmitted by Female Aedes albopictis. The prevalence of dengue cases has increased substantially leading to human morbidity. Inadequate availability of healthcare professionals and inaccessibility of healthcare institutions has aggravated the problem. The traditional medica...

Accuracy in IoT data acquisition has been an indispensable need to meet the increasing demand for time-sensitive data analysis, and real-time decision-making. Conspicuously, this study proposes a Quantum Computing inspired technique of temporal space optimization for real-time big IoT applications. For this purpose, quantifcation of IoT sensors is...

Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is a need of an efficient and reliable system for real-time wildfire monitoring to dilute their disastro...

Domestic veterinary care is contemplated as one of the significant domains of the healthcare industry. Conspicuously, this research presents a Smart Home-based healthcare monitoring framework for domesticated animals in real-time. The research work employs the Internet of Things (IoT)-based data acquisition in the ambient environment of the home. A...

In the above-named work [Sahil and S. K. Sood, to be published, doi: 10.1109/TEM.2020.2972288.], the first author was erroneously attributed as Sahil Neelam. The correct attribution is Sahil.

Healthcare industry is the leading domain that has been revolutionized by the incorporation of Internet of Things (IoT) technology resulting in smart medical applications. Conspicuously, this study presents an effective system of home-centric Urine-based Diabetes (UbD) monitoring system. Specifically, the proposed system comprises of 4-layers for p...

Internet of things (IoT) allows various smart devices to get connected to anything, anywhere, and at anytime. The ubiquitous nature of IoT devices generates huge volume of data called Internet of Big data (IoBd). IoBd is generated in continuous streams and at unprecedented speed. The rapid analysis of such IoBd streams is the need of hour. Moreover...

Wildfires are one of the most destructive disasters that have the ability of causing enormous loss to life and nature. Moreover, with its capability to spread abruptly over huge sectors of land, the loss to mankind is unimaginable. Global warming around the world has led to increase in the wildfires, therefore demands immediate attention of the con...

Cloud services supported by the cyber-physical system (CPS) have been emerged as a proactive and efficient solution to facilitate the alliance of IoT devices. The CPS assimilates, analyses and shares the processed information among IoT applications. The traditional network infrastructure is not designed to support the increasing demand for high sca...

The healthcare industry is the premier domain that has been significantly influenced by incorporation of Internet of Things (IoT) technology resulting in smart healthcare application. Inspired by the enormous potential of IoT technology, this research provides a framework for an IoT-based smart toilet system, which enables home-based determination...

Load scheduling has been a major challenge in distributed fog computing environments for meeting the demands of decision-making in real-time. This research proposes an quantumized approach for scheduling heterogeneous tasks in fog computing-based applications. Specifically, a node-specific metric is defined in terms of Node Computing Index for esti...

Urine infection (UI) has been the most prevalent diseases among the global population. With large emphasize on smart healthcare in modern era, UI monitoring has been a major concern for medical industry. Motivated from these aspects, this paper proposes a novel Internet of Things-inspired framework in the form of a smart UI monitoring and predictio...

Nowadays, surveillance systems are becoming popular for safety and security purposes in many sectors like government organizations, private institutes, hospitals, schools, residential societies, etc. The role of intelligent surveillance in the education system fulfills diverse requirements such as general surveillance of the campus, recording of a...

The past five decades have witnessed the unprecedented contribution of arboviral diseases towards global morbidity and disability. It is primarily attributed due to unplanned urbanization, population explosion and globalization. Out of these, dengue is considered the most important arboviral disease because of its predominant growth in the past. Th...

With the dawn of computing era in the enterprise business, the methodologies for business have changed significantly. The enterprise information in the form of multimedia data is now being created and extensively shared over the internet. On the other side, the rapid and continuous growth of enterprises is causing the computing systems to evolve ra...

Internet of Things (IoT) is defined as the interconnection of millions of wireless devices to acquire data in a ubiquitous manner. With multiple devices targeting to perceive data over a common platform, it becomes indispensable to analyze accuracy for realizing an optimal IoT environment. Inspired from these aspects, this study presents a novel Qu...

Disasters are cataclysmic events that cause significant loss of natural, human and financial resources. The repercussions are exaggerated by climate change making disaster management a hot topic for academic research. The exponential growth in the utilization of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) with other domains has motivated the sci...

Natural calamities like drought cause misery to human lives as well as environment in a variety of ways. The huge adverse consequences and globally predicted climate change accentuate the importance of an effective drought assessment and management system. Lack of universality of available drought indices emphasize the need of an automated system t...

The advancements in information and communication technologies have propelled the efforts of various nations toward a disaster-ready society. This progression has even conceived a new term called as smart disaster management (SDM). This profound interest and popularity of SDM among the nations in recent years has led to a considerable number of res...

Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is a need of an efficient and reliable system for real-time wildfire monitoring to dilute their disastro...

Urbanization is imposing many challenges, and vehicular traffic management is one such challenge. It hampers smooth traffic flow, wastes time, and threats of road safety. Moreover, it also impacts the environment, economy, health, and other essential services. The root cause of traffic mismanagement is the dynamic nature of the traffic on roads and...

Drought is considered as one of the most extremely destructive natural disasters with catastrophic impact on hydrological balance, agriculture outcome, wildlife habitat and financial budget. Therefore, there is a need for an efficient system to predict and forecast drought situations. There are a number of drought indices to assess the severity of...

Over the last few years, the need of a cloud environment with the ability to detect illegal behaviours along with a secured data storage capability has increased largely. This study presents such a secured cloud storage framework comprising of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) based encryption key which has been generated to make the framework unbreaka...

Drought is catastrophic natural disaster with significant impact on financial stability, hydrological budget, public health and agricultural productivity. Numerous drought indices have been introduced to quantify the severity of droughts. But majority of them are incapable of demonstrating the changes in crucial drought causing elements. Internet o...

Ulcerative Colitis is a fairly common, chronic or long-term disease that causes inflammation of the large intestine. It can be debilitating and can sometimes lead to life threatening complications. Therefore, its diagnosis in nascent stages is important. Healthcare services based on Fog-Cloud assisted Cyber-Physical Systems are emerging as a proact...

Drought is one of the most recurrent natural disasters with cataclysmic effects on water budget, crop production, economic progression and public health. These consequences are magnified by the climate change leading to more intense drought conditions. A number of drought indices have been presented to calibrate the drought severity with its own st...

Ever since the boost realized in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), market is flooded with high-end multitasking devices, presenting a real-time computational environment for technologies like Internet of Things (IoT). With computation at user-end, it provides a fog-based computing paradigm to generate time senstive results, which alon...

In recent years, a cloud environment with the ability to detect illegal behaviours along with a secured data storage capability is much needed. This study presents a cloud storage framework, wherein a 128-bit encryption key has been generated by combining deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) cryptography and the Hill Cipher algorithm to make the framework u...

In the present scenario, the state of engineering education worldwide is facing a big challenge of the employability of graduates. Cloud computing technology has changed the educational landscape by allowing educators and administrators to shift to the cloud for making actionable decisions. In this paper, a smart learning framework is proposed wher...

Load scheduling across distributed fog computing nodes has been a major challenge to meet the increased demand of real-time data analysis, and time-sensitive decision-making. This study presents a Quantum Computing-inspired (QCi) optimized load scheduling technique in fog computing environ- ments for real-time IoT applications. In addition to this,...

Wildfires are catastrophic disasters. They pose a fatal threat not only to the forest resources but also to the entire regime of flora and fauna, gravely disturbing the bio-diversity and ecology of the region. The frequency and severity of wildfires are expected to grow, owing to global warming. Therefore, it is essential to adopt a comprehensive,...

Forest fires frequently termed as wildfires are fiercely destructive disasters causing enormous ecological and economic damage, as well as the loss of human lives. Global predictions for increased incidence and destructiveness of forest fires due to warming climate, drought conditions, urbanization and arson highlight the importance of an effective...

Wildfires are extremely destructive disasters that cause significant loss of lives, forest cover and wildlife. This is due to their uncontrolled, erratic, rapid spread and behaviour. The incidence of wildfires is expected to increase worldwide because of Global Warming. Henceforth, it becomes increasingly important to detect and tackle such fires i...

With the advent of IoT, cloud/fog based healthcare systems have become a growing trend in modern healthcare systems. These systems comprise of smart sensors, which on integration with medical devices, generate heterogeneous medical big data that can be used in diagnosis of various diseases. However, there is a continuous flow of large quantity of d...

ASBTRACT Catastrophic disasters like earthquake and flood cause widespread destruction and financial devastation. This has brought disaster management into limelight making it a burgeoning academic research field. The remarkable rise of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has instigated the scientific world to incorporate these technolog...

Developments in Internet of Things (IoT) Technology have been effectively utilized in different industrial sectors for monitoring, surveillance, and remote decisionmaking. The ability to acquire in-depth information about ubiquitous events has proliferated numerous opportunities for using this technology in sensitive domains like national defence s...

Fog and Cloud computing are ubiquitous computing paradigms based on the concepts of utility and grid computing. Cloud service providers permit flexible and dynamic access to virtualized computing resources on pay-per-use basis to the end users. The users having mobile device will like to process maximum number of applications locally by defining fo...

Among the extensive and impressive collection of applications enabled by IoT, smart and interactive healthcare is a particularly important one. To gather rich information indicator of our mental and physical health, IoT based sensors are either worn on the body or embedded in the living environment. Moreover, by incorporating the mobile computing t...

Hypertension is a chronic disease causing risk of different types of disorders such as hypertension attacks, cerebrovascular attacks, kidney failure and cardiovascular diseases. To prevent such risks, statistics related to hypertension have to be monitored and analyzed in real time. Internet of Things (IoT) assisted fog health monitoring system can...

Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) is a life-threatening tick-borne viral infectious disease endemic to South Asia and has been taking so many lives every year in the past decade. But recently, this disease has been witnessed in other regions to a large extent and can become an epidemic very soon. In this paper, a new fog computing based e-Healthcare fr...

Over the last few years, Internet of Things (IoT) has opened the doors to innovations that facilitate interactions among things and humans. Focusing on healthcare domain, IoT devices such as medical sensors, visual sensors, cameras, and wireless sensor network are leading this evolutionary trend. In this direction, the paper proposes a novel, IoT-a...

Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the most common cardiovascular disease which has the highest mortality rate in developing countries. To predict and prevent the risk of CHD in its early stages from remote sites, real time monitoring and analysis of an individual’s health statistics is required. Cloud based cyber-physical systems facilitate the allia...

Software-defined networking (SDN) and optical transmission are the most cost-effective technologies for implementing high-bandwidth-based communication in the fog/cloud computing environment. The passive optical network uses optical line terminals and optical network units as optical edge devices (OEDs) to deliver fog/cloud-based services effective...

Virtual reality (VR) combined with cloud computing has become the pioneer to provide e‐learning for making education accessible across the globe. To enhance e‐learning experience, electroencephalography (EEG) based educational games are widely used to improve the cognitive and learning skills of students. This method records the electrical activiti...

Ebola is a deadly infectious virus that spreads very quickly through human-to-human transmission and sometimes death. The continuous detection and remote monitoring of infected patients are required in order to prevent the spread of Ebola virus disease (EVD). Healthcare services based on Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies are...

Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD) is a life-threatening tick-borne viral infectious disease endemic to South Asia and has been taking so many lives every year during the past decade. But recently, this disease has been witnessed in other regions to a great extent and can become an epidemic very soon. In this paper, a new fog computing based e-Healthcar...

Enormous potential of Internet of Things (IoT) Technology has made it feasible to perceive and analyze real time health conditions in ubiquitous manner. Moreover, incorporation of IoT in healthcare industry has led researchers around the world to develop smart applications like mobile healthcare, health-aware recommendations, and intelligent health...

Internet of Things (IoT) technology provides a competent and structured approach to handle service deliverance aspects of healthcare in terms of mobile health and remote patient monitoring. IoT generates an unprecedented amount of data that can be processed using cloud computing. But for real-time remote health monitoring applications, the delay ca...

Big data analytics proved to be one of the most influential forces in today’s competitive business environments due to its ability to generate new insights by processing a large volume and variety of data. Storing as well as mining these datasets is one of the primary challenges of the big data era. If data are stored in a well-defined pattern, the...

Mosquito-Borne Diseases (MBDs) are deadly infectious diseases those transmit quickly through infected mosquitoes to human or from one infected person to another, resulting in substantial increase in worldwide morbidity and mortality rate. The symptoms of MBDs are almost similar to each other which makes it quite difficult to diagnose the specific d...

DNA barcoding is a system that uses short sequence instead of whole genome; hence, it makes ecological system more accessible. It provides fast and accurate species identification. DNA barcoding, for many applications such as natural resource preservation, water quality monitoring, disease vector identification, generates short DNA sequence from st...

In recent years, solutions based on Internet of Things (IoT) are gaining impetus in educational institutions. It is observed that student performance evaluation system in education institutions is still manual. The performance score of student in traditional evaluation system is confined to its academic achievements while activity-based performance...

In the last few years, the m-healthcare applications based on Internet of Things (IoT) have provided multi-dimensional features and real-time services. These applications provide a platform to millions of people to get health updates regularly for a healthier lifestyle. Induction of IoT devices in the healthcare environment have revitalized multipl...

The disastrous effect of flood has shown its influence ifn the past, and as a result, millions of dollars infrastructure have been shattered. Even after so much research, still there is no global ubiquitous system that can collect, store and analyze big data and generate the flood prediction results. In this paper, a social collaborative Internet o...