Dr Shivanshu Shrivastava

Assistant Professor
Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Dr Shivanshu Shrivastava received the B.Engg. degree from the Shri Shankaracharya College of Engineering and Technology, Bhilai, India, in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India, in 2017, both in Electronics and Communication Engineering. From 2017 to 2018, he was with the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur, as the Project Investigator of the Science and Engineering Research Board Project titled “Designing Energy Efficient Hybrid RF/VLC-Based CRANs for 5G.” From 2019 to 2021, he was with the College of Electronics and Information Engineering, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Since 2021, he has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics Engineering, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi, India. His research interests include visible light communications, applications of deep Q-network learning, cognitive radios, and wireless communications, specifically on their throughput maximization aspects.

Education
Ph D 2017 Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam
B E 2010 Chhattisgarh Swami Vivekanand Technical University, Bhilai, CG 
Experience
2021 - Till Date Assistant Professor, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
2021 - 2021 Visiting Faculty, Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
2018 - 2020 Post Doctor, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
2017 - 2018 SERB National Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 
Research Interests
  • Cognitive Radio
  • Wireless Communications
  • Visible Light Communications (VLC)
  • Free Space Optical (FSO) Communications
  • Deep Q-Network Learning
Research Projects
Invited Talks
  • An invited expert lecture on ``Deep Learning Applications in Hybrid RF/VLC for 5G and Beyond Communications". SERB and Accelerate Vigyan sponsored a High end workshop (KARYASHALA) on “mmWave band: The Road towards Next generation of Wireless Communication” on 23rd July 2023.
  • Dr Shivanshu Shrivastava delivered an invited expert talk on "Deep Learning Applications in Hybrid RF/VLC for 5G and Beyond Communications" in a High-end workshop (KARYASHALA) on “mmWave band: The Road towards Next Generation of Wireless Communication” at IIIT Kota on 23-07-2023
Journal Publications

Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Bin Chen, U.D. Dwivedi, Amarish Dubey, "Intelligent resource allocation in hybrid RF/LiFi networks via deep deterministic policy gradient based DRL mechanism", AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Volume 187, 2024, 155499, ISSN 1434-8411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeue.2024.155499.

Arif Raza, Salabat Khan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, M. Wasim, Ting Wang, Kaishun Wu, and Lu Wang, "A Lightweight Group-based SDN-driven Encryption Protocol for Smart Home IoT Devices", Elsevier Computer Networks, Volume 250, 2024, 110537, ISSN 1389-1286, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110537.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, S. John, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, "Collision Penalty-Based Defense Against Collusion Attacks in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Devices," in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 3963-3976, Feb. 2024, doi: 10.1109/TCE.2023.3321797.

Tanya Verma, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Umakant Dhar Dwivedi, Dwarkadas Prahladadas Kothari, "Transfer learning for resource allotment in dynamic hybrid WiFi/ LiFi communication systems", Elsevier Optics Communications, Volume 546, 2023, 129761, ISSN 0030-4018

Aqsa Ayub, Muhammad Rizwan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Adeel Anjum, Pelin Angin, and Yignit Server, " Securely Offloading Computation to the Edge with the Tangle Cache," in Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA) (South Korea), vol. 13, Iss. 4, pp. 40-60, 2022, doi: 10.58346/JOWUA.2022.I4.003

Shivanshu Shrivastava, B. Chen and H. Wang, "DQN Learning Based Defense Against Smart Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cooperative Sensing Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 163791-163814, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3131339.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, B. Chen, C. Chen, H. Wang and M. Dai, "Deep Q-Network Learning Based Downlink Resource Allocation for Hybrid RF/VLC Systems," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 149412-149434, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3014427.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh, P.K. Bora, Bin Chen, Mingjun Dai, Xiaohui Lin, and Hui Wang, “A Survey on Security Issues in Cognitive Radio based Cooperative Sensing” in IET Communications, vol. 15, iss. 7, pp. 875-905, April 2021, doi: doi.org/10.1049/cmu2.12131

Shivanshu Shrivastava, Allentatil Rajesh and Prabin Kumar Bora, “Sliding Window Dixon’s test for Malicious Users’ Suppression in a Cooperative System,” in IET Communications, 2014, Vol. 8, Iss. 7, pp. 1065-1071. doi: 10.1049/iet-com.2013.0609

Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, “Defense against Primary User Emulation Attacks from the Secondary User Throughput Perspective,” in Elsevier AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 2018, 84, pp 131-143, doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2017.11.012

Shivanshu Shrivastava, D. P. Kothari “SU Throughput Enhancement of Decision Fusion based cooperative Spectrum Sensing Systems,”2018, in Elsevier AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communications, 87, pp. 95-100, doi: 10.1016/j.aeue.2018.01.036

Conference Publications

Tanya Verma, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Arif Raza, UD Dwivedi, Deep Reinforcement Learning based Q-networks for Efficient Resource Allocation, 19th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks, 15th - 16th December, 2024, IIT (BHU), Varanasi.

Tanya Verma, Arif Raza, Shivanshu Shrivastava, UD Dwivedi, “DRL based Efficient Resource Allocation in Hybrid WiFi/LiFi Systems” 21st IEEE INDICON 2024, 19th -21st  December 2024, IIT Kharagpur.

Ram S Iyer, Shivam Raj, Vaibhav Mishra, and Shivanshu Shrivastava, ``Deep Learning-Based Multiuser Classification for Malicious User Detection in 5G and Beyond Cooperative Sensing Systems" 10th IEEE International Symposium on Smart Electronic Systems (10th IEEE-iSES), 18th -  20th December, 2024, New Delhi.

Arif Raza, Junfan Xiang, Salabat Khan, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Muhammad Wasim Abbas Ashraf and Lu Wang, ``Collaborative Multi-Agent Proximal Policy Based Resource Allocation in Clustered IoV Networks", 2024 21st IEEE Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (21st IEEE-UIC), 2nd  -  7th  December, 2024, Denarau Island, Fiji.

Mohd. Rizwan, Wang Xingfu, Yi Ke, Ammar Hawbani, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Pelin Angin, and Zhu Han, “A Color-Based Data Poisoning Backdoor Approach for Misleading Adversarial Privacy Prediction”, The 8th International Conference on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec 2024), 17th Dec, 2024 - 19th Dec, 2024, Sapporo, Japan.

Ye Litao, Bin Chen, Shivanshu Shrivastava, Chen Sun, Shuo Wang, Siming Feng, and Shengli Zhang, "Dynamic Spectrum Sharing Based on the Rentable NFT Standard ERC4907", 2024 IEEE 13th International Conference on Communications, Circuits, and Systems, Xiamen, May 10-12.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, "DP-DTL-Based Resource Allotment for Expansive and Dynamic M-WiFi/LiFi Networks", IEEE 15th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks (15th IEEE-CICN), Bangkok, 2023, pp. 1-5

Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, “A Simplified Counter Approach to Primary User Emulation Attacks from Secondary User Perspective,” IEEE 26th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (26thIEEE-PIMRC), Hong Kong, Sep 2015, pp. 2344-2349. (This work was the departmental 2nd runner up in the Research Conclave 2016, IIT Guwahati).

Shivanshu Shrivastava, S. John, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, "Preventing Collusion Attacks in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing," 2018 International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM), Bangalore, India, 2018, pp. 90-94.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, “On countering Primary User Emulation Attacks from Secondary User Perspective,” Xerox Research Center India (XRCI) Open-2016, Bengaluru, 21-22 Jan. 2016.

Shivanshu Shrivastava, A. Rajesh and P. K. Bora, “A Simplified Method for Multiple Malicious Users Suppression in a Cooperative Spectrum Sensing System,” Presented at the Research Scholars Congress (RSC) 2015, IIT Guwahati, 23-24 May 2015.

A. Gupta, A. Banerjee, K. Pathak, and Shivanshu Shrivastava, "On Association and Bandwidth Allocation for Hybrid RF/VLC Systems," 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS), Indore, India, 2018, pp. 1-6.

Books / Book Chapters

Shivanshu Shrivastava, Sajal Agarwal, and Bin Chen, “Resource Allocation in Hybrid RF/VLC Communication in the 400-700 THz Band”, Accepted for publication in “Terahertz Wireless Communication Components and System Technologies”, Springer 2022.

  • Published an article in English daily “The Shillong Times” on whether uniforms should be mandated in colleges on 8th January 2024
  • SERB National Post Doctoral Fellowship from August 2017-August 2019 at IIT Kanpur, India.
  • Departmental second runner up in the poster presentation competition in the Research Conclave 2016 organized by Students’ Academic Board, IIT Guwahati.
  • Reviewer, Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Communications, IEEE Signal Processing Letters.
  • Ministry of Human Resource & Development (MHRD), India Scholarship for pursuing Doctoral studies from IIT Guwahati, after qualifying in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2010.
  • Best Paper Award for the paper entitled “A Simplified Method for Multiple Malicious Users Suppression in a Cooperative Spectrum Sensing System,” at RSC, May 2015, IIT Guwahati.
  • Travel Grant from IEEE Kolkata section to present paper at the 27th IEEE Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE-PIMRC) at Hong Kong, September 2015
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