Contact Information

E-mail : som[*AT]iitp.ac.in
Personal Webpage :

Phone : +91-612-2552036

Fax :  +91-612- 2277383

Research Interest

Lightweight Cryptography, Computer Security, Network Security

Teaching

Autumn 2009: CS221: Digital Design

                      CS742: Cryptography and Network security

Spring 2009: CS-101: Introduction to Computing

                     CS-110: Computing Laboratory

Dr. Somanath Tripathy is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He joined the faculty in December 2008. Prior to joining IIT Patna, he was head of the Department of Information Technology at North  Eastern Hill University. He has also served as an assistant professor  during his tenure with ABV-IIITM, Gwalior.

Dr Tripathy received his PhD in Computer Science  and Engineering from IIT Guwahati in 2007 where his work was supported by generous grants from IEEE and MSRI. His research Interest includes   lightweight cryptography, security issues in power constrained devices (RFID, Sensor networks).

Awards :

1.       IEEE Student scholarship  at INDIN 2006, Singapore

2.       Best paper award OBCOMAPC-2004 Asia pacific conference held at VIT, Vellore

Recent Publications 

JOURNALS:

1. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, `Cellular Automata-based Authentication for Low-cost RFID Systems’, Intl. Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (inderscience), vol. 3(3), pp.199-216, 2009. 

2. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘LCASE: Lightweight Cellular Automatabased Symmetric-key Encryption', (available online) Intl. Journal of Network Security, vol.8(3), pp.243-252, 2009.  

3. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘Defense Against Outside attacks in Wireless Sensor Networks’, Computer Communications journal (Elsevier), vol.31(4), pp.818-826, 2008.  

4. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, 'Secure User-identification and Key Distribution Scheme Preserving Anonymity', Intl. Journal of security network (inderscience), vol. 3(3), pp.201-205, 2008.

Conference Proceedings: 

1. Somanath Tripathy, ‘Effective Pair-wise Key Establishment Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks’, in proc. Of International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009), North Cyprus, ACM Publication, pp.158-163, 2009.  

2. Rahul Choudhari and Somanath Tripathy: ‘SCTP-Sec: Secure Transmission Control Protocol’, 3rd Hackers’ Workshop on Computer and Internet Security, Hackin-2009, pp 44-49, IIT Kanpur, 2009. 

3. Somanath Tripathy, ‘LISA: LIghtweight Security Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks’, LNCS vol.4882, pp.129, Intl. Conf. on distributed computing and internet technology ICDCIT-07, Bangalore, 2007.  

4. V.Chennakesavulu, Sukumar Nandi, Somanath Tripathy, ‘OSASMAC: Opportunistic Secure Adaptive Sensor MAC Protocol’, Intl. conference on Information Technology, IEEE Computer Society, pp.116-121, 2007  

5. Somanath Tripathy, Sukumar Nandi and Abhijit Mitra, ‘A Secured Response Algorithm with Query Authentication for Wireless Sensor Networks’, in Proc. Of the 5th Asian International Mobile Computing Conference, AMOC-2007, Tata Mcgrawhill Publication, pp.220-225, 2007, (India)  

6. Atanu Roy Chowdhury, Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘Securing Wireless Sensor Networks Against Spurious Injections’, in Proc. Of COMmunication Systems softWAre and MiddlewaRE, COMSWARE 2007, IEEE explorer, 2007, (India).

7. Somanath Tripathy, Sukumar Nandi and Atanu Roy Chowdhury, ‘CARMA: Cellular Automata-based   Remote Mutual Authentication’, in Proc. of 9th Intl. Conf on Information Technology, ICIT 2006, IEEE Computer Society, pp.190-191, 2006, (India).

8. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘Efficient Remote User Authentication and Key Establishment for Multi-Server Environment’, in Proc. Of 3rd International Conference on Distributed Computing & Internet Technology, ICDCIT 2006, Springer verlag, LNCS 4317, pp.333-346, 2006, (India).  

9. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘Security Enhanced used Identification and Distribution Scheme preserving Anonymity’, in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Emerging Applications of IT (EAIT 2006), Elsevier, pp.201-204, 2006, (India).  

10. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘RPAKE: RCA based Password Authenticated Key-Exchange scheme’, in IEEE INDICON 2006,IEEEexplorer, 2006, (India).  

11. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi, ‘Robust Mutual Authentication for low cost RFID systems’, in Proc. of 4th Intl. IEEE Conf. on Industrial Informatics, INDIN06, IEEEexplorer, 2006, (Singapore).  

12. Somanath Tripathy and Sukumar Nandi: ‘Cryptosystem for Low power devices’,in Proc. 4th International Symposium on Turbo Codes in connection with the 6th International ITG-Conference on Source and Channel Coding, Turbocoding-2006, VDE verlag, 2006, (Germany).  

13. Somanath Tripathy, Atanu Roy Chowdhury and Sukumar Nandi: ‘CARA: Cellular Automata based Remote user authentication’ in Proc. Of COMmunication Systems softWAre and middlewaRE, COMSWARE-2006, IEEEexplorer, 2006, (India).  

Invited lectures: 

Information security education awareness program at ABV-IIITM Gwalior on 06-09-2008

Seminar / Conference Workshop Organized: 

1. National Workshop on Internet and E-security, at Jagannath Institute for Technology and Management, Paralakhemundi held in March 2003.  

2. Short term course on wireless network (WN-08) at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management, Gwalior, 8-12 Dec 2008.

  Technical Program Committee Member 

1. 15th Intl. conf. on Advanced computing and communication ADCOM 2007, IIT Guwahati  

2. 7th IEEE Intl. conf on computer system and application, AICCSA 2009, Rabat, Morocco  

3. Intl. conference on Embedded and multimedia computing 2009, EM-com2009, korea

4. National Workshop on Network Security 2010, Tezpur university

Last updated : 10th November, 2009