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D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
55
Citations
9670
World Ranking
2215
National Ranking
109

Computer Science

D-Index
57
Citations
10482
World Ranking
3899
National Ranking
147

Amiya Nayak publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amiya Nayak sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 343 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Amiya Nayak D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Amiya Nayak sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 55 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Computer network
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Operating system

Amiya Nayak spends much of her time researching Computer network, Wireless sensor network, Wireless ad hoc network, Distributed computing and Geographic routing. Her work on Wireless expands to the thematically related Computer network. Her Wireless sensor network study combines topics in areas such as Gabriel graph, Key distribution in wireless sensor networks, Wireless network, Graph theory and Node.

Her work on Vehicular ad hoc network as part of general Wireless ad hoc network research is frequently linked to Voting, Reputation system and Oversampling, thereby connecting diverse disciplines of science. Her research integrates issues of Interdependent networks, Smart grid and Cyber-physical system in her study of Distributed computing. As a member of one scientific family, Amiya Nayak mostly works in the field of Routing protocol, focusing on Hop and, on occasion, Physical layer.

Her most cited work include:

  • DACC: Distributed Access Control in Clouds (174 citations)
  • Design guidelines for routing protocols in ad hoc and sensor networks with a realistic physical layer (173 citations)
  • A Survey of Communication Protocols for Automatic Meter Reading Applications (171 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Computer network, Distributed computing, Wireless sensor network, Wireless ad hoc network and Routing protocol. In Computer network, Amiya Nayak works on issues like Vehicular ad hoc network, which are connected to Computer security. Her work in the fields of Distributed computing, such as Fault tolerance, intersects with other areas such as Set.

Her Wireless sensor network research includes elements of Physical layer, Robot, Mobile robot, Wireless network and Real-time computing. Her work carried out in the field of Wireless ad hoc network brings together such families of science as Mobile ad hoc network, Quality of service and Trust management. In her research on the topic of Dynamic Source Routing, Link-state routing protocol and Optimized Link State Routing Protocol is strongly related with Wireless Routing Protocol.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Computer network (48.54%)
  • Distributed computing (28.36%)
  • Wireless sensor network (19.59%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Computer network (48.54%)
  • Computer security (8.77%)
  • Artificial intelligence (8.48%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary scientific interests are in Computer network, Computer security, Artificial intelligence, Protocol and Access network. Amiya Nayak conducts interdisciplinary study in the fields of Computer network and Protocol through her works. Encryption, Authentication protocol and Mutual authentication is closely connected to Server in her research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Computer security.

The concepts of her Artificial intelligence study are interwoven with issues in Quality of service, Machine learning, Time series and Traffic engineering. Her research on Access network also deals with topics like

  • Bandwidth allocation that intertwine with fields like Network architecture and Wireless,
  • Edge computing which connect with Distributed computing,
  • Channel allocation schemes that intertwine with fields like Dynamic bandwidth allocation,
  • Cloudlet together with Energy conservation and Broadband. Her study in Authentication is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Key-agreement protocol, Password and Wireless sensor network.

Between 2017 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • A Power-Efficient and Social-Aware Relay Selection Method for Multi-Hop D2D Communications (23 citations)
  • Lightweight remote user authentication protocol for multi-server 5G networks using self-certified public key cryptography (22 citations)
  • An improved network security situation assessment approach in software defined networks (15 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Computer network
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Operating system

Amiya Nayak focuses on Computer network, Computer security, Protocol, Bandwidth allocation and Server. Her study in Hop and Telecommunications network are all subfields of Computer network. Her research integrates issues of Wireless sensor network and Deep learning, Artificial intelligence in her study of Computer security.

She studied Artificial intelligence and Mobile device that intersect with Wireless. Her study on Protocol also encompasses disciplines like

  • OpenFlow which is related to area like Focus, Mobility management, Handover and Cellular network,
  • Software-defined networking which connect with Network security, Forwarding plane and Communications protocol,
  • Interpersonal ties and related Encryption, Identity, Obfuscation and Cryptography. Her work deals with themes such as Elliptic curve cryptography, Discrete logarithm, Public-key cryptography and Computer security model, which intersect with Server.

Best Publications

  • Decentralized Access Control with Anonymous Authentication of Data Stored in Clouds

    Sushmita Ruj;Milos Stojmenovic;Amiya Nayak

  • DACC: Distributed Access Control in Clouds

    Sushmita Ruj;Amiya Nayak;Ivan Stojmenovic

  • DL‐IDS: a deep learning–based intrusion detection framework for securing IoT

    Yazan Otoum;Dandan Liu;Amiya Nayak

  • A Survey of Communication Protocols for Automatic Meter Reading Applications

    T Khalifa;K Naik;A Nayak

  • Privacy Preserving Access Control with Authentication for Securing Data in Clouds

    Sushmita Ruj;Milos Stojmenovic;Amiya Nayak

  • Taxonomy and Challenges of the Integration of RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks

    Hai Liu;M. Bolic;A. Nayak;I. Stojmenovic

  • Intersection-Based Geographical Routing Protocol for VANETs: A Proposal and Analysis

    H. Saleet;R. Langar;K. Naik;R. Boutaba

  • Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks: Algorithms and Protocols for Scalable Coordination and Data Communication

    Amiya Nayak;Ivan Stojmenovic

  • On Data-Centric Misbehavior Detection in VANETs

    Sushmita Ruj;Marcos A. Cavenaghi;Zhen Huang;Amiya Nayak

  • Hop count optimal position-based packet routing algorithms for ad hoc wireless networks with a realistic physical Layer

    J. Kuruvila;A. Nayak;I. Stojmenovic

  • A Decentralized Security Framework for Data Aggregation and Access Control in Smart Grids

    S. Ruj;A. Nayak

  • Design guidelines for routing protocols in ad hoc and sensor networks with a realistic physical layer

    I. Stojmenovic;A. Nayak;J. Kuruvila

  • AS-IDS: Anomaly and Signature Based IDS for the Internet of Things

    Yazan Otoum;Amiya Nayak

  • A social network approach to trust management in VANETs

    Zhen Huang;Sushmita Ruj;Marcos Antônio Cavenaghi;Milos Stojmenovic

  • Fault-Tolerant Algorithms/Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

    Hai Liu;Amiya Nayak;Ivan Stojmenović

  • Anonymous and Lightweight Authentication for Secure Vehicular Networks

    Bidi Ying;Amiya Nayak

  • Byzantine-Resilient Secure Software-Defined Networks with Multiple Controllers in Cloud

    He Li;Peng Li;Song Guo;Amiya Nayak

  • SGBR: A Routing Protocol for Delay Tolerant Networks Using Social Grouping

    Tamer Abdelkader;Kshirasagar Naik;Amiya Nayak;Nishith Goel

  • Characterization of Cascading Failures in Interdependent Cyber-Physical Systems

    Zhen Huang;Cheng Wang;Milos Stojmenovic;Amiya Nayak

  • DTSG: Dynamic time-stable geocast routing in vehicular ad hoc networks

    Hamidreza Rahbar;Kshirasagar Naik;Amiya Nayak

  • Data-centric Misbehavior Detection in VANETs

    Sushmita Ruj;Marcos Antonio Cavenaghi;Zhen Huang;Amiya Nayak

Frequent Co-Authors

Ivan Stojmenovic
Ivan Stojmenovic University of Ottawa
Kshirasagar Naik
Kshirasagar Naik University of Waterloo
Xu Li
Xu Li Huawei Technologies (China)
Nicola Santoro
Nicola Santoro Carleton University
Paola Flocchini
Paola Flocchini University of Ottawa
Emil M. Petriu
Emil M. Petriu University of Ottawa
Evangelos Kranakis
Evangelos Kranakis Carleton University
Wei Gong
Wei Gong University of Science and Technology of China
Raouf Boutaba
Raouf Boutaba University of Waterloo
Yunhao Liu
Yunhao Liu Tsinghua University

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