Pervasive Computing: A Networking Perspective and Future Directions

chapter 1. Enhanced Ant Colony Based Routing for VANET.- chapter 2. Implementation of Authentication and Access Control Protocol for Heterogeneous Network.- chapter 3. A Framework for Agent Based Detection and Prevention of DDoS Attacks in Distributed P2P Networks.-chapter 4. Comparative Analysis of Routing Algorithms for Underwater Sensor Network.-chapter 5. Resource Utilization of DTN Routing Protocols by Calculating Energy Consumption of Mobile Nodes.-chapter 6. A Multiband Octagonal Slot Patch Antenna for Various Wireless Applications.-chapter 7. Internet-of-Things:A Survey.-chapter 8. Energy efficient wireless sensor's routing using balanced unequal clustering technique.-chapter 9. Energy efficient WSN using membership handshaking clustering technique for isolated nodes.-chapter 10. Performance Evaluation of Unitary Measurement Matrix in Compressed Data Gathering for Real Time WSN Applications.-chapter 11. Multi-Power Amplification of Energy Efficient LEACH Protocolfor WSNs.-chapter 12. Machine Translation of English Text to Indian Sign Language: A phrase based Approach.-chapter 13. Prediction of bus arrival time using intelligent computing methods.-chapter 14. Comparative Analysis of Tree Based Data Aggregation Protocols to Maximize Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks.

Dr. Deepshikha Bhargava is currently Professor at School of Computer Science, University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. Her previous assignment was Director, Amity Institute of Information Technology, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur. She is also a guest editor and member of the Reviewer & Editorial Board of 10+ national and international journals, and a Visiting Professor at the Université des Mascareignes (UDM), Ministry of Education and Human Resources, Tertiary Education and Scientific Research, Mauritius. Her research areas include Soft Computing, Bio-Inspired Computation and Software Agents. She has received several awards including the "Active Participation Woman Award" from CSI India, "Best Faculty of the Year" in the subcategory Authoring Books on Contemporary Subjects at the CSI TechNext India in 2018, the "Outstanding Woman Educator & Scholar Award" at the 2015 Women's Day Awards & Celebration, organized by the National Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (NFED), and the "Late Smt. Nani Devi-Narayan Swaroop Bhargava Puraskar" award for outstanding contributions in research in 2013. Recently she also received the 'Distinguished Professor' Award from the Computer Society of India.