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Dr. Hiren Kumar Deva Sarma is currently Professor in the Department of Information Technology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology, Sikkim. He received B.E. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Assam Engineering College in 1998. He completed Master of Technology in Information Technology from Tezpur University in 2000. He received Ph.D. degree from Jadavpur University (Department of Computer Science and Engineering) in 2013. He is the recipient of Young Scientist Award from International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in the XVIII General Assembly 2005, held at New Delhi, India. He has published more than seventy research papers in different International Journals, refereed International and National Conferences of repute.  His current research interests are wireless sensor networks, mobility management in IPv6 based network, cognitive radio networks, network security, robotics, distributed computing and big data analytics. Dr. Samarjeet Borah is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Applications, Sikkim Manipal University (SMU), Sikkim, India. He received PhD (Engineering) from Sikkim Manipal University (SMU) and M. Tech. from Tezpur University, India respectively. Dr. Borah is involved with three funded projects in the capacity of Principal Investigator/Co-principal Investigator. The projects are sponsored by, AICTE (Govt. of India), DST-CSRI (Govt. of India) and Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Fund.  Out of which one is completed and two are undergoing. He is associated with IEEE, ACM (CSTA), IAENG and IACSIT. Dr. Borah organized various events in SMU. Some of these events include ISRO Sponsored Training Programme on Remote Sensing & GIS, National Conference cum Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (NCWBCB 2014), North Eastern Regional Workshop on Natural Language Processing (NER-WNLP 2014), First International Conference on Computing & Communication (IC3-2016), First IEEE International Conference on AdvancedComputational & Communication Paradigms (ICACCP 2017), etc. Dr. Borah is involved with various journals of repute in the capacity of Editor/Guest Editor such as International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE), International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics (IJHISI), International Journal of Grid and High Performance Computing (IJGHPC), International Journal of Image Mining (IJIM), International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), Informatica, Journal of Intelligent Systems and International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology. He is also associated with some edited books of IGI Global Publication and Elsevier Inc.  Dr. Nitul Dutta is currently Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Marwadi University, Rajkot, Gujarat. He received his B.E. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Jorhat Engineering College, Assam (1995) and M.Tech in Information Technology from Tezpur University Assam (2002). He completed his Ph.D. in engineering in the field of Mobile IPv6 at Jadavpur University (2012). He has published more than thirty research papers in various journals and conferences of repute. His research interests are mobile IPv6, cognitive radio networks, and distributed computing.

Chapter 1. Survey on Energy Efficient Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks using Game Theory.- Chapter 2. Design and Analysis of Optimum APSK Modulation Technique.- Chapter 3. Big Data Analytics in the Higher Education: Need of the future. Chapter 4. Land Capability Classification for Agriculture: GIS and Remote Sensing Approach: A Survey.- Chapter 5. Review on Vehicular Radar for Road Safety.- Chapter 6. Landmark Based Robot Navigation: A Paradigm Shift from Onboard Processing to Cloud.- Chapter 7. From Cognitive Psychology to Image Segmentation: A Change of Perspective.- Chapter 8. An Exploration in Perception Based Digital Media Processing: A Psychological Perspective.- Chapter 9. Converting and developing live website into a web content management system.- Chapter 10. A Review on Existing QoS Routing Protocols Based on Link Efficiency and Link Stability.- Chapter 11. A Diamond Shaped Fractal Bow-Tie Antenna for THz Applications.- Chapter 12. A Study on Few Approaches to Counter Security Breaches in MANETs.- Chapter 13. A Survey: EMG Signal Based Controller as Human Computer Interaction.- Chapter 14 [CCB 1622-] IEEE 802.15.4 as the MAC protocol for Internet of Things (IoT) Applications for achieving QoS and Energy Efficiency.- Chapter 15. HMM Based Speaker Gender Recognition for Bodo Language.- Chapter 16. Accurate Drainage Network Extraction From Satellite Imagery –a Survey.- Chapter 17. Survey on Transmission Control Protocol Performance over different Mobile Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols.- Chapter 18.- Survey on detection and mitigation of Distributed Denial of Service attack in named data networking.