Dr. K S Ramanatha

Administrator and Professor of Computer Science, MSRIT

email: ksramanatha@msrit.edu

          ksramanatha@excite.com 

Education:

PhD:      Computer Science and Engineering (Indian Institute of Science, India), 1982

M.Tech:  Industrial Electronics (Mysore University), 1974

B.E:       Electrical Engineering (Mysore University), 1965

Awards / Medals: 

            National  Merit Scholarship and State Scholarship during 1960 – 65 (B.E.) 

The ‘ALUMNI MEDAL’ for best Ph.D. Thesis in the division of Electrical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, 1982 – 83.

 Work Experience : 

                        1965 – 85          Lecturer, Govt. B.D.T. College of Engineering,  Davangere 

1978 – 81          Research Scholar, School of Automation, Indian Institute of Science,

                         Bangalore

            1985 – 88           Visiting Professor, Computer Engineering   Program,   Department of

                                      Electrical Engineering, University of Manitoba, CANADA.

1988 – 91           Professor of PG Studies,   Department of Electronics and Communications,

                        Malnad  College of Engineering, Hassan.

1991 – 98           Professor and Head,   Department of Computer Science and Engineering.,

                         M. S. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore – 54.

1998 –2000        Vice Principal and Professor of Computer Science, MSRIT,

            2000 – 2005        Principal and Professor of Computer Science, MSRIT,

            2005(July) -        Administrator and Professor of Computer Science, MSRIT.

  Experience on Academic Bodies:   

Served as paper setter, examiner and Chairman/Member of Boards of Studies and Boards of Examiners, for undergraduate and postgraduate programs of Mysore, Bangalore, Karnataka, and Mangalore Universities and Visvesvaraya Technological University. 

Served as Member of  Academic Senate and Executive Council of Visvesvaraya Technological University.

Contributions:           

A dedicated teacher, researcher and administrator.  More than four decades  of experience.

Guided a  number of M.E., M.Tech. and  M.S. Projects.  Presently guiding four Ph.D. Students.

Extensively contributed to curriculum development in Computer Science in several universities.  

Co-Authored a report on   ‘Approach to Computer Science Education’, as a member of core 

Committee constituted by Government of Karnataka, Information Technology Department          during 1999.

Extensively contributed for the all round development of MSRIT: Conceptualizing, Initiating, Implementing, Coordinating and Supervising as appropriate for:

            MSRIT Vision Document

            MSRIT Campus Redevelopment Project

            ISO Quality Management Systems

            Accreditation by National Board of Accreditation

            TEQIP under World Bank Project

Starting a Centre for Advanced Training and Continuing Education (CATCE),

             A Centre for Research and Industrial Consultancy (CRIC),

             An Entrepreneurship Development cell (EDC) and Incubation Centers,

             A Student Information System,

             A Full fledged Placement Center

Galvanizing Alumni Association Activities

Starting eight new PG Programs, eight PhD Research Centers

Promoting funded research and PhD Research among faculty

Staff welfare Measures and incentives

Etc. 

Teaching Interests: 

            Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms, Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Microprocessors,

             Logic Design, Artificial Intelligence Etc. 

 Research:  

Several  International and national publications in computer science.  See under publications.

Ph.D. work recognized as ‘RAMANATHA TECHNIQUE’ and referred to in several Books and papers.

Recipient of research funding  from Engineering and Research Council of Canada (1986) and AICTE, New Delhi (2002).

Presently guiding four Ph.D. students.

Research Interests:

Computer Networks, Mobile Agents Technology, Network Security, Data Mining

Publications:

International:

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Energy Efficient Relaxed Rekeying Policies for Distributed Key Management in Sensor Networks, Accepted to publish in International Journal on Ad-Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), Vol. 4, No.1, 2009, InderScience, ISSN (Online): 1743-8233 - ISSN (Print): 1743-8225.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Energy Efficient Key Management Protocols to Securely Confirm Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks, Accepted to publish in Proceedings of IFIP International Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSAN’2008), July 14-15, 2008, Canada.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Simulation of Distributed Key Management Protocols in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks, International Journal on Security and its Applications (IJSIA), Vol. 1, No. 2, Oct 2007, pp. 21-32, Science & Engineering Research Support Center (SERSC), Republic of Korea, ISSN: 1738-9976.

·         Shekhar H. M. P., and K S Ramanatha, Mobile Agents Aided Congestion Aware Multipath Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, The 9th International Conference on Telecommunications, Zagreb, Croatia, June 13-15, 2007

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, A Complete Set of Protocols for Distributed Key Management in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (MUE2007), pp. 920-925, April 26 – 28 2007, Seoul, Korea.

·         Shekhar H. M. P., and K.S Ramanatha, "Mobile Agents Based Framework for Routing and Congestion Control in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 2^nd CoNEXT’ Conference, ADETTI/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal, December 2006.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Wireless Sensor Networks Security: Current Research – A Survey, International Journal of Lateral Computing, Vol. 3. No. 1, pp. 149 – 167, August 2006, Macmillan India, ISSN 0973- 208X.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Wireless Sensor Networks Security: Current Research – A Survey, Proceedings of International Conference on Embedded Systems, Mobile Communication and Computing (ICEMC2), Aug 4-5 2006, Bangalore, India.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha , An Efficient Protocol for Authentication and Initial Shared Key Establishment in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks, Proceeding of Third IEEE/IFIP International Conference on wireless and Optical Communications Networks (WOCN 2006), April 11-13, 2006, Bangalore, India.

·         Jibi Abraham and K S Ramanatha, Security Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Tiny Diffusion and Elliptic Curves, Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Networks and Communication Systems (NCS 2006), pg 35-40, March 29-31, 2006, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

·         Shekhar H. M. P., and K.S Ramanatha, “Mobile Agents Aided Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of 3^rd Asian Applied Computing Conference, AACC 2005, 10-12 December 2005, Kathmandu, Nepal, Imperial College Press, London.

·         Shekhar H. M. P., and K.S Ramanatha, “Mobile Agents based Congestion Aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of 6^th IEE International Conference on “3G & Beyond”, 3G 2005, 07-09 November 2005, The IEE, Savoy Place, London, UK. pp. 47-53, ISBN: 0 86341 572 5.

·         Shekhar H.M.P., Kumar M.A.A., and Ramanatha K.S. "Mobile Agents Aided Multicast Routing for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", In Proceedings of 7^th IEEE International Conference on ‘Advanced Communication Technology’, February 21-23, 2005, Phoenix Park, Republic of Korea, Vol. 2, pp. 765-770, ISBN: 89-5519-124-3. 

·         H.M.P. Shekhar, A. Desaraju, A.D. Mandhar, and K.S. Ramanatha, “A Hybrid Distributed Congestion Control based Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Proceedings of 3rd IASTED International Conference on ‘Communications, Internet, and Information Technology’, November 22-24, 2004, Virgin Islands, USA, pp. 92-98, ISBN: 0-88986-445-4.

·         Shekhar H M P, Zahoor Zafrulla, Mohit Arora, and K S Ramanatha, “Performance Evaluation of Secure Dynamic Source Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, International Conference on ‘Communication and Broadband Networking’, ATM Symposium 2003, May 5-7, 2003, IISc, Bangalore, India. (Poster Presentation).

·         K.S. Ramanatha, N.N.Biswas, "Design  of cross point irredundant PLA's using minimal  number of control inputs", IEEE Transactions on Computers, September 1988, pp, 1130-1134.

·         K.S. Ramanatha, N.N.Biswas, “A design for testability of undetectable crosspoint faults in programmable logic arrays", IEEE transactions on Computers, June 1983, pp, 551-557.

·         K.S. Ramanatha, N.N.Biswas, "An on-line algorithm for the location of crosspoint faults in PLA's", IEEE Transactions on computers, May 1983, pp. 438-444.

·         K.S. Ramanatha, N.N.Biswas, "A design for complete testability of programmable logic arrays", IEEE International Test Conference, Philadelphia, November 1982. 

National:       

·         Shekhar H M P, Praveen C K, Keshav Prasad H S, and K S Ramanatha, “Real-Time Multicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Souvenir of 47th IETE Annual Technical Convention on ‘Broadband Wireless Technologies’, September 25-26, 2004, Ahmedabad, India, pp. 76.

·         Shekhar H M P, Jyothi S G, and K S Ramanatha, “Simulation of Leader Election Algorithm In Wireless Mobile Adhoc Networks”, In Proceedings of National Conference on ‘Signal Processing, Intelligent Systems and Networking’, December 4-5, 2003, M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India, pp.109-113.

·         Shekhar H M P, and K S Ramanatha, “Performance Comparison of Location Aided Routing Protocols and Flooding for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” In Proceedings of 2^nd National Conference on ‘Advanced Computing’, February 1-2, 2002, PSG Tech, Coimbatore, India, pp. 77-85. (Best Paper Award)

·         Annapurna Patil,   K S Ramanatha, “Distributed University Examination System Development Using CORBA Technology”, National Conference on “Advance Computing” at  PSG College,   Coimbatore” Feb 1-2, 2002.

·         Shekhar H M P, and K S Ramanatha, “Survey of GPS based and Other Recent Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, In Souvenir of IETE 44^th Annual Technical Convention on ‘IT Enabled Services’, September 29-30, 2001, IISc, Bangalore, India, pp. 34.

Other Interests: 

Deeply interested in the Philosophy of Upanishads, Sanskrit Language, Carnatic classical music   and musicology.