Postdoctoral Researcher - French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)

 
Paris, France, May 2010 – present.
 

 

Postdoc Advisor: Dr. Camille Roth

Workplace:
Institute of Complex Systems Paris Ile-de-France (ISC-PIF), UMR7656, CREA-CNRS,
57-59 rue Lhomond, F-75005, Paris, France.
 

I am also associated with Complex Networks Research Group (CNeRG), IIT Kharagpur, India.

Personal homepage: Click Here
E-mail: bivas_mitra [AT] yahoo.com
Telephone: +33(0)1.70.08.99.59, Mobile: +33(0)6.19.26.28.83

Research Interests

1. Peer-to-Peer networks, Blog networks
2. Complex networks, Statistical mechanics, Networks modeling
3. Optical networks, Wireless Internet.
 

Academics

Ph.D thesis submitted, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, (January 2006 – May 2010)
Thesis: Analyzing the Resilience and Emergence of Superpeer Networks
Advisors: Prof. Niloy Ganguly and Prof. Sujoy Ghose

M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, IIT Kharagpur, India, January 2003
Thesis: Topology Design for WDM Networks
Advisor: Prof. Sujoy Ghose
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Haldia Institute of Technology, Vidyasagar University, India, June 2001.
 

Awards and Achievements

1. SAP Labs India Doctoral Fellowship, January 2008-May 2010.
2. National Doctoral Fellowship, January 2007-Dec 2007 (top 50 Ph.D students in India).
3. Institute Research Scholarship, January 2006-Dec 2006.
4. Travel awards from the international conferences like ACM SIGCOMM 2006, ICDCN 2006, HIPC 2007, IEEE P2P 2007, Microsoft TechVista 2008, IEEE IPDPS 2009, ECCS 2009 etc. to present research papers and posters.     
5. Certificate of merit and cash awards from Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation Ltd (Govt. of India undertaking), Haldia for qualifying in the WBJEE (1997) and GATE (2001) examinations.
 

Experiences 

1. Visiting research scientist at the Institute of Complex Systems, Paris and French National Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), Paris, France, June 2009.
2. Visiting research scientist at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University, Dresden, Germany, September-October 2006 and September - October 2007.
3. Research Scholar, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, January 2006 - May 2010.
4. Lecturer in the Dept. of Computer Science & Engg. at Haldia Institute of Technology, Haldia, India, February 2003 to January 2006.  
5. Software Engineer at the Soffront Software (India) Pvt. Ltd., STP – II, Salt Lake, Kolkata, India, June 2001-July 2001.
6. B.Tech summer internship under the guidance of Prof. P. S. Dasgupta on Web Technology at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, June 2000 - July 2000.
 
 

Presentations & Talks 

 
1. “Superpeer Formation Amidst Churn and Rewiring”, ACM PODC 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2010. (Brief Announcement)
2. “Formal Understanding of the Emergence of Superpeer Networks: A Complex Network Approach”, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, January 2010.
3. “Stability Analysis of Superpeer Networks in the Framework of Complex Networks”, PhD In Progress Workshop, ECCS 2009, University of Warwick, UK, September 2009.
4. “Understanding the Emergence of Superpeer Networks: A Complex Network Approach”, Dynamics on and of Complex Networks III, A Satellite Workshop of ECCS 2009, University of Warwick, UK, September 2009.
5. “Understanding the Emergence of Stable Peer-to-Peer Networks”, TCPP-PhD Forum, IEEE IPDPS 2009, Rome, Italy, May 2009.
6. “Understanding the Stability of Peer-to-Peer Networks: A Complex Network Approach”, Microsoft TechVista 2008, Chennai, India, October 2008. (Poster).
7. “Effect of Dynamicity on Peer to Peer Networks”, HiPC 2007, Goa, India, Dec 2007.
8. “Percolation in Complex Networks Due to Failure and Attack”, Modeling Cafe, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University, Dresden, Germany, October 2007.
9. “How Stable are Large Superpeer Networks Against Attack?” IEEE P2P 2007, Galway, Ireland, Sep 2007.
10. “Developing Analytical Framework to Measure Robustness of Peer to Peer Networks”, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, India, Dec 2006.
11. “Growth Models of Complex Networks”, Modeling Cafe, Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technical University, Dresden, Germany, October 2006.
12. “Developing Analytical Framework to Measure Stability of P2P Networks”, Poster paper, ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, Sep 2006.
 

Publication List

Selected Publications

1. Bivas Mitra, Sujoy Ghose and Niloy Ganguly, “Brief Announcement: Superpeer Formation Amidst Churn and Rewiring”, ACM PODC 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, July 2010.
2. Bivas Mitra, Abhishek Kumar Dubey, Sujoy Ghose, Niloy Ganguly, “How do Superpeer Networks Emerge?”, IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, USA, March 2010.
3. Bivas Mitra,  Niloy Ganguly, Sujoy Ghose and Fernando Peruani., “Generalized Theory for Node Disruption in Finite Size Complex Networks”, Physical Review E , 78,  2008.
4. Bivas Mitra, Fernando Peruani, Sujoy Ghose and Niloy Ganguly. “Analyzing the Vulnerability of Superpeer Networks Against Attack”, ACM CCS, Alexandria, USA, 2007.
5. Bivas Mitra, Sujoy Ghose and Niloy Ganguly, “How Stable are Large Superpeer Networks Against Attack?” IEEE P2P, Galway, Ireland, Sep, 2007.
6. Bivas Mitra, Fernando Peruani, Sujoy Ghose and Niloy Ganguly, “Brief Announcement: Measuring Robustness of Superpeer Topologies”, ACM PODC 2007, Portland, USA.
7. Raja Datta, Bivas Mitra, Sujoy Ghose, Indranil Sengupta “An Algorithm for Optimal Assignment of a Wavelength in a Tree Topology and Its Application in WDM Networks” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 22, No. 9, pp 1589 - 1600, Nov. 2004.

Other Publications

8. Sourav Dandapat, Bivas Mitra, Romit Roychowdhury, Niloy Ganguly, “Fair Load Balancing in Wireless Mobile Environment Using Max-Flow”, HiPC 2010, Goa, India, Dec 2010. 
9. Bivas Mitra, Abhishek Kumar Dubey, Sujoy Ghose, Niloy Ganguly, “Formal Understanding of the Emergence of Superpeer Networks: A Complex Network Approach”, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, January 2010.
10. Bivas Mitra, “Technological Networks”, Edited book volume ‘Dynamics on and of Complex Networks: Applications to Biology, Computer Science, Economics, and the Social Sciences’, N. Ganguly, A Deutsch, and A. Mukherjee (eds.) Birkhauser, Springer, Boston, USA, 2009.
11. Bivas Mitra,  Niloy Ganguly, Sujoy Ghose and Fernando Peruani,  “Stability Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Networks Against Churn”, Pramana : Journal of Physics, Springer, 71, 2008.
12. Bivas Mitra, Sujoy Ghose and Niloy Ganguly, “Effect of Dynamicity on Peer to Peer Networks”, HiPC 2007, Goa, India, Dec 2007.
13. Debasis Mandal, Satyajit Nath, Bivas Mitra, “Survivable Routing in WDM Weighted Network”, IEEE COMSWARE 2007, Bangalore, January, 2007.
14. Hema Swetha Koppula, Kumar Puspesh and Bivas Mitra, “Study and Improvement of Robustness of Existing Networks”, Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks, A Satellite Workshop of European Conference on Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany, October, 2007.
15. Bivas Mitra, Md. Moin Afaque, Sujoy Ghose, Niloy Ganguly, “Developing Analytical Framework to Measure Robustness of Peer to Peer Networks”, ICDCN 2006, Guwahati, India, Dec 2006.
16. Bivas Mitra, Souvik Bhattacharjee “Worst Case Delay Minimization in WDM Linear and Ring Networks”, EAIT 2006, CSI Conference, February 2006, Kolkata.
17. Debasis Mandal, Bivas Mitra “Shared Path Protection in DWDM Mesh Networks”, CIT 2005, Bhubaneswar, Dec, 2005.

18. Bivas Mitra, Satyajit Nath “Design of a Survivable Virtual Topology for DWDM Networks”, Networks 2005, CSI Conference, Hyderabad , Feb 2005.
19. Rishik Ghose, Satrajit Kar, Bivas Mitra and Sujoy Ghose, “Physical Topology Design For All Optical WDM Networks Under LAMBDA Constraint”, CODEC 2004, Kolkata, January, 2004.
20. Bivas Mitra, Anup Kumar Mandal “Wavelength Assignment in Optical Line Networks and Its Application in WDM Ring Topology”, MobiComNet-2004, Vellore, October 2004.

Posters

21. Sourav Kumar Dandapat, Bivas Mitra, Romit Roychowdhury, Niloy Ganguly, “Fair Bandwidth Allocation in Wireless Network Using Max-Flow”, Poster paper, ACM SIGCOMM 2010, New Delhi, India, September 2010.
22. Sourav Kumar Dandapat, Bivas Mitra, Niloy Ganguly, “Flexible Load Balancing in Wireless Mobile Environment”, PhD Forum, ICDCN 2010, Kolkata, India, January 2010.
23. Bivas Mitra, Niloy Ganguly, “Understanding the Emergence of Stable Superpeer Networks”, TCPP-PhD Forum, IEEE IPDPS, Rome, Italy, May 2009.
24. Bivas Mitra, Md. M. Afaque, Niloy Ganguly. Developing Analytical Framework to Measure Stability of P2P Networks, Poster paper, ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, September 2006.

 
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