Publications | IoT & SE Research Lab

Journal Article 2026

TCP BBR performance over Wi-Fi 6: AQM impacts and cross-layer insights

Shyam Kumar Shrestha and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (under review)

Journal Article 2026

Adapting Large Language Models for Improving TCP Fairness over WiFi

Shyam Kumar Shrestha and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (revision submitted)

Journal Article 2026

Distilling Large Language Models for Network Active Queue Management

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Deol Satish and Jonathan Kua and Anwar Walid IEEE Transactions on Networking

Conference Paper 2025

Visualizing TCP BBRv3 performance in AQM-enabled wireless networks

Shyam Kumar Shrestha and Jonathan Kua and Shiva Raj Pokhrel 50th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia

Journal Article 2025

Trusted Microservice Orchestration for Secure Edge Computing in Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems

Redowan Mahmud and Jiong Jin and Jonathan Kua and Mahbuba Afrin and Sajib Mistry and Aneesh Krishna Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2025

Towards Decentralized Operationalization of Zero Trust Architecture for Next Generation Networks

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li and Robin Doss and Surya Nepal Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2025

Secure communication model for quantum federated learning: A post quantum cryptography (pqc) framework

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2025

Quantum federated learning: Analysis, design and implementation challenges

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2025

Quantum Federated Learning for Metaverse: Analysis, Design and Implementation

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2025

On Harnessing Semantic Communication With Natural Language Processing

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Te Claire Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Preprint 2025

Modeling Quantum Machine Learning for Genomic Data Analysis

Navneet Singh and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Queensland University of Technology

Journal Article 2025

Empowering robotic training with kinesthetic learning and digital twins in human-centric industrial systems

Thien Tran and Quang Nguyen and Toan Luu and Minh Tran and Jonathan Kua and Thuong Hoang and Man Dien Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2025

Decentralized quantum federated learning for metaverse: Analysis, design and implementation

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2025

Chained continuous quantum federated learning framework

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Elsevier BV

Book Chapter 2025

A personalized quantum federated learning

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Elsevier

Preprint 2025

A Framework for Resilient Autonomic Internet of Things Applications

Kaneez Fizza and Prem Prakash Jayaraman and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2024

On the Fairness of Internet Congestion Control over WiFi with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Shyam Kumar Shrestha and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua Future Internet

Journal Article 2024

Active Queue Management in L4S with Asynchronous Advantage Actor-Critic: A FreeBSD Networking Stack Perspective

Deol Satish and Jonathan Kua and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Future Internet

Journal Article 2024

DDPG-MPCC: An Experience Driven Multipath Performance Oriented Congestion Control

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua and Deol Satish and Sebnem Ozer and Jeff Howe and Anwar Walid Future Internet

Book Chapter 2024

We Will Find You: An Edge-Based Multi-UAV Multi-Recipient Identification Method in Smart Delivery Services

Yi Xu and Ruyi Guo and Jonathan Kua and Haoyu Luo and Zheng Zhang and Xiao Liu Springer Nature Singapore

Journal Article 2024

Understanding global aggregation and optimization of federated learning

Shanika Iroshi Nanayakkara and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Elsevier BV

Conference Paper 2024

Robust Zero Trust Architecture: Joint Blockchain based Federated learning and Anomaly Detection based Framework

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Luxing Yang and Sutharshan Rajasegarar and Gang Li ACM

Conference Paper 2024

Quantum federated learning experiments in the cloud with data encoding

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Naman Yash and Jonathan Kua and Gang Li and Lei Pan ACM

Conference Paper 2024

Poster: Orbital ZTA! Secure Satellite Communication Networks with Zero Trust Architecture

Shiva Raj Pokhrel ACM

Conference Paper 2024

Policy-based Management of Human-Device and Device-Device Interactions in IoT Collectives: A Simulation-based Study

Amna Batool and Seng W Loke and Niroshinie Fernando and Jonathan Kua IEEE

Journal Article 2024

PFL-DKD: Modeling decoupled knowledge fusion with distillation for improving personalized federated learning

Huanhuan Ge and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Zhenyu Liu and Jinlong Wang and Gang Li Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2024

Orchestrating smart grid demand response operations with URLLC and MuZero learning

Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Conference Paper 2024

On Large Language Model Based Joint Source Channel Coding for Semantic Communication

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Anwar Walid IEEE

Journal Article 2024

Multipath TCP implementation under FreeBSD-13 for pluggable machine learning models

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua and Brenton Fleming and Sebnem Ozer and Jeff Howe and Anwar Walid Computer Networks

Book Chapter 2024

Multi-UAV Collaborative Face Recognition for Goods Receiver in Edge-Based Smart Delivery Services

Yi Xu and Fengguang Luan and Jonathan Kua and Haoyu Luo and Zhipeng Wang and Xiao Liu Springer Nature Singapore

Conference Paper 2024

Improving Federated Aggregation with Deep Unfolding Networks

Shanika I Nanayakkara and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li IEEE

Preprint 2024

Effectiveness of IoT and VR for real-time teleoperation of industrial robots

Toan Luu and Quang Nguyen and Thien Tran and Minh Quang Tran and Songlin Ding and Jonathan Kua and Thuong Hoang Research Square Platform LLC

Conference Paper 2024

Digital twin for cybersecurity: Towards enhancing cyber resilience

Rajiv Faleiro and Lei Pan and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Robin Doss ICCDETS

Book Chapter 2024

Deakin‘s Quantum ML Research: Quantum Federated Learning with Simple Data Encoding and Aggregation

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Dev Gurung and Navneet Singh and Naman Yash and Gang Li Elsevier

Journal Article 2024

Data-driven satellite communication and control for future IoT: Principles and opportunities

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2024

Cloud-Fog Automation: Vision, Enabling Technologies, and Future Research Directions

Jiong Jin and Kan Yu and Jonathan Kua and Ning Zhang and Zhibo Pang and Qing-Long Han Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2024

Automation and orchestration of zero trust architecture: Potential solutions and challenges

Yang Cao and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Ye Zhu and Robin Doss and Gang Li Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Book Chapter 2024

Analysis, Modeling and Design of Personalized Digital Learning Environment

Sanjaya Khanal and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Apple Academic Press

Conference Paper 2024

An SDN-driven Active Queue Management Architecture for Assisting Mission-Critical Traffic Flows in Industrial Automation Systems

Shuo Wang and Jonathan Kua and Jiong Jin and Jason but and Prem Prakash Jayaraman and Suresh Palanisamy ACM

Journal Article 2024

A novel frequency reuse model for co-existing LEO and GEO satellites

Bohai Li and Jihong Park and Akram Al-Hourani and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Conference Paper 2024

A data-encoding approach to quantum federated learning: Experimenting with cloud challenges

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Naman Yash and Jonathan Kua and Gang Li and Lei Pan ACM

Conference Paper 2023

Understanding before transmission (UBT): Hashing-based semantic communication model

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi IEEE

Journal Article 2023

Understand-before-talk (UBT): A semantic communication approach to 6G networks

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2023

Studying the spatio-temporal changes of urban green space: A case study of Pokhara Metropolitan City

Sandip Subedi and Shiva Pokhrel Nepal Journals Online (JOL)

Conference Paper 2023

Software engineering for smart things in public spaces: Initial insights and challenges

Amna Batool and Seng W Loke and Niroshinie Fernando and Jonathan Kua IEEE

Journal Article 2023

Smart grid meets URLLC: A federated orchestration with improved communication for efficient energy resources management

Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2023

Sazgar IoT: A device-centric IoT framework and approximation technique for efficient and scalable IoT data processing

Ali Yavari and Harindu Korala and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos and Jonathan Kua and Hamid Bagha MDPI AG

Journal Article 2023

Propagation of inequality: an analysis of capability development opportunities of Dalits in higher education on the Indian subcontinent

Sudeep Khanal and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Rebecca Dewey Informa UK Limited

Journal Article 2023

Privacy preservation in smart meters: current status, challenges and future directions

Jonathan Kua and Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Iynkaran Natgunanathan and Yong Xiang MDPI AG

Preprint 2023

Privacy cost optimization of smart meters using URLLC and demand side energy trading

Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Preprint 2023

Post Quantum Secure Blockchain-based Federated Learning for Mobile Edge Computing

Rongxin Xu and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Qiujun Lan and Gang Li Research Square Platform LLC

Conference Paper 2023

Personalized Federated Learning Framework for Person Re-identification in MEC-enabled UAV Delivery Services

Yi Xu and Zhipeng Wang and Jonathan Kua and Haoyu Luo and Ruyi Guo and Xiao Liu IEEE

Preprint 2023

Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Post Quantum Secure Blockchained Federated Learning

Dev Gurung and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2023

On correlated knowledge distillation for monitoring human pose with radios

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua and Deol Satish and Phil Williams and Arkady Zaslavsky and Seng W Loke and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Book Chapter 2023

Knowledge-Based Nonlinear to Linear Dataset Transformation for Chronic Illness Classification

Markian Jaworsky and Xiaohui Tao and Jianming Yong and Lei Pan and Ji Zhang and Shiva Raj Pokhrel Springer Nature Singapore

Journal Article 2023

Interrelated feature selection from health surveys using domain knowledge graph

Markian Jaworsky and Xiaohui Tao and Lei Pan and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jianming Yong and Ji Zhang Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Preprint 2023

Fedftrl: Modeling Federated Learning of Heterogeneous Clients with Follow the Regularized Leader (Ftrl)

Zhenshuai Xu and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Bo Yang and Gang Li Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2023

Efficient and private scheduling of wireless electric vehicles charging using reinforcement learning

Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Hai L Vu Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2023

Deakin RF-sensing: Experiments on correlated knowledge distillation for monitoring human postures with radios

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jonathan Kua and Deol Satish and Philip Williams and Arkady Zaslavsky and Seng W Loke and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2023

A Survey of Distributed Ledger Technology for IoT Verticals

Rongxin Xu and Qiujun Lan and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Journal Article 2023

A knowledge graph-based survey on distributed ledger technology for iot verticals

Rongxin Xu and Qiujun Lan and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Journal Article 2022

Towards enhanced PDF maldocs detection with feature engineering: design challenges

Ahmed Falah and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Lei Pan and Anthony De Souza-Daw Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Journal Article 2022

Towards a Policy Development Methodology for Human-Centred IoT Collectives

Amna Batool and Seng W Loke and Niroshinie Fernando and Jonathan Kua Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2022

Real-time flood monitoring with computer vision through edge computing-based Internet of Things

Obaid Rafiq Jan and Hudyjaya Siswoyo Jo and Riady Siswoyo Jo and Jonathan Kua MDPI AG

Preprint 2022

Practically private smart meters with energy storage: An experience-driven approach

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Mohammad Belayet Hossain Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2022

Performance analysis of OPC UA for industrial interoperability towards Industry 4.0

Marc Ladegourdie and Jonathan Kua MDPI AG

Conference Paper 2022

Optimal graph partitioning for time-sensitive flow scheduling towards digital twin networks

Shuo Wang and Jonathan Kua and Jiong Jin and Ambarish Kulkarni and Prem Prakash Jayaraman and Xianghui Cao ACM

Journal Article 2022

Learning from data streams for automation and orchestration of 6G industrial IoT: toward a semantic communication framework

Shiva Raj Pokhrel Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Journal Article 2022

Internet of things for healthcare: an intelligent and energy efficient position detection algorithm

Sumarga Kumar Sah Tyagi and Pratik Goswami and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Amrit Mukherjee Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2022

Internet of Drones: Improving multipath TCP over WiFi with federated multi-armed bandits for limitless connectivity

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Michel Mandjes MDPI AG

Conference Paper 2022

Insights on smart farming with low orbit satellite

Ashritha Srikande and Mohammad Belayet Hossain and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi IEEE

Conference Paper 2022

FAIR-BFL: Flexible and incentive redesign for blockchain-based federated learning

Rongxin Xu and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Qiujun Lan and Gang Li ACM

Preprint 2022

Fair and efficient distributed edge learning with hybrid multipath TCP

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi and Anwar Walid Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Conference Paper 2022

Deployment options of 5G network slicing for smart healthcare

Rakshitha De Silva and Yushan Siriwardhana and Tharaka Samarasinghe and Madhusanka Liyanage and Mika Ylianttila IEEE

Journal Article 2022

Data privacy of wireless charging vehicle to grid (V2G) networks with federated learning

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Mohammad Belayet Hossain Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Book Chapter 2022

Applications and Techniques in Information Security

Srikanth Prabhu and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Gang Li Institution of Engineering and Technology

Preprint 2022

Adaptive coexistence of delay-sensitive and delay-tolerant MTC devices: A control-theoretic approach

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2022

A rent-seeking framework for multipath TCP

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Carey Williamson MDPI AG

Journal Article 2022

A Game-Theoretic Rent-Seeking Framework for Improving Multipath TCP Performance

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Carey Williamson MDPI AG

Conference Paper 2022

A framework for seamless offloading in IoT applications using edge and cloud computing

Himesh Welgama and Kevin Lee and Jonathan Kua SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications

Journal Article 2022

4G to 6G: Disruptions and drivers for optical access

Chathurika Ranaweera and Jonathan Kua and Imali Dias and Elaine Wong and Christina Lim and Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas Optica Publishing Group

Conference Paper 2021

Understanding the achieved rate multiplication effect in FlowQueue-based AQM bottleneck

Jonathan Kua IEEE

Preprint 2021

Towards ultra reliable low latency multipath TCP for connected autonomous vehicles

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Neeraj Kumar and Anwar Walid Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Towards a policy management framework for managing interaction behaviors in IoT collectives

Amna Batool and Seng W Loke and Niroshinie Fernando and Jonathan Kua MDPI AG

Conference Paper 2021

Towards A Hybrid Quantum Differential Privacy

Baobao Song and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Athanasios v Vasilakos and Tianqing Zhu and Gang Li IEEE

Journal Article 2021

Software defined internet of vehicles for automation and orchestration

Shiva Raj Pokhrel Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Redesigning compound TCP with cognitive edge intelligence for WiFi-based IoT

Sumarga Kumar Sah Tyagi and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Mahyar Nemati and Deepak Kumar Jain and Gang Li and Jinho Choi Elsevier BV

Journal Article 2021

Privacy-Aware Autonomous Valet Parking: Towards Experience Driven Approach

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Youyang Qu and Surya Nepal and Surjit Singh Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Conference Paper 2021

Preface: 14th Applications and Techniques in Information Security International Conference

VS Shankar Sriram and H Anila Glory and G Li and Shiva Pokhrel IEEE

Journal Article 2021

Optimal Centralized Dynamic-Time-Division-Duplex

Mohsen Mohammadkhani Razlighi and Nikola Zlatanov and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Petar Popovski Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Conference Paper 2021

Operationalizing rule-based socio-ethical behaviour in iot collectives: A policy management approach

Amna Batool and Seng W. Loke and Niroshinie Fernando and Jonathan Kua ACM

Preprint 2021

On Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Multipath TCP For Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Neeraj Kumar and Anwar Walid Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Multipath TCP meets transfer learning: A novel edge-based learning for industrial IoT

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Lei Pan and Neeraj Kumar and Robin Doss and Hai L Vu Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Multipath communication with deep Q-network for industry 4.0 automation and orchestration

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Sahil Garg Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Modelling data aided sensing with UAVs for efficient data collection

Mahyar Nemati and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Modeling RIS empowered outdoor-to-indoor communication in mmWave cellular networks

Mahyar Nemati and Behrouz Maham and Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Jinho Choi Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Preprint 2021

Learning to harness bandwidth with multipath congestion control and scheduling

Shiva Raj Pokhrel and Anwar Walid Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal Article 2021

Internet of things in space: A review of opportunities and challenges from satellite-aided computing to digitally-enhanced space living

Jonathan Kua and Seng W Loke and Chetan Arora and Niroshinie Fernando and Chathurika Ranaweera MDPI AG

Journal Article 2021