Dr. Vikramjit Singh Bhathal
Assistant Professor - I
Specialization
UAV Networks, VANETs, SDN
vikramjit.bhathal@thapar.edu
UAV Networks, VANETs, SDN
Education
1. PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr B R Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar.
Research Title: Adaptive Neighborhood Discovery and Multi-hop Routing for Flying Ad-hoc Networks.
2. M.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from Punjabi University, Patiala.
3. B.Tech in Information Technology from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana.
4. Schooling from Guru Nanak Public School, Mullanpur.
Trainings
1. Certifications in various Faculty Development Programs (FDPs), workshops, and academic training programs in Computer Science and Engineering.
Experience
1. Assistant Professor (Senior Scale), School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun (April 2025 – June 2026)
2. Guest Faculty, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jalandhar (July 2024 – April 2025)
3. Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, CT University, Ludhiana (January 2018 – July 2018)
Journal publications
Sci Journals
1. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, Harsh Kumar Verma, et al. "A-Geo: Adaptive Geographic Routing for Consumer FANETs in Next-Generation Communication", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 71, no. 4, pp. 11034-11043, Nov. 2025.
2. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh Kumar Verma "CLGR: Connectivity and link quality aware geographical routing using AHP-TOPSIS for FANETs" Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 18, no. 1 (2025): 1-20.
3. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh Kumar Verma "MF-DLB: Multimetric forwarding and directed acyclic graph-based load balancing for geographic routing in FANETs" Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience: e8025.
4. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh Kumar Verma "ABNT: Adaptive beaconing and neighbor timeout for geographical routing in UAV networks" Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications 15, no. 4 (2022): 2079-2100.
5. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh Kumar Verma "A review of beaconing schemes for routing protocols in flying ad-hoc networks", International Journal of Sensor Networks, 2025.
Non-Sci Journals
1. Vikramjit Singh, Harsh K Verma, and KP Sharma, “Communication Void Conscious Enhanced Forwarding Mechanism for Geographic Routing using 2-Hop Neighborhood Information”, International Journal of Advances in Electronics and Computer Science, IRAJ,(2023).
2. Manamrit Singh Sroya, and Vikramjit Singh. "LDDWRR: Least Delay Dynamic Weighted Round-Robin Load Balancing in Software Defined Networking." International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science 8, no. 5 (2017).
3. Chamanpreet Kaur; Vikramjit Singh, “A Novel Approach of Clustering for Enhanced Lifetime in Wireless Sensor Network”, International Journal of Computers and Technology, pp. 7131-7139, Volume16, Issue7, Nov 2017.
4. Rajinder Singh, Vikramjit Singh, and Malti Rani. "Implementing Horizontal Handover among Homogenous Network in WiMAX." International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering &Management (IJAIEM) (2014): 253-258.
5. Kiranveer Kaur, Surinderjit Kaur, and Vikramjit Singh. "Throughput Analysis of Proactive and Reactive MANET Routing Protocols." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management &Technology 3 (2014).
Conference publications
1. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh K. Verma. "Adaptive Multi-metric Geographic Routing Protocol for FANETs", In 3rd International Conference on Modelling, Simulation, and Intelligent Computing (MoSICom 2024), IEEE.
2. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh K. Verma. "Evaluating the impact of beacon interval and neighbor timeout timer on the performance of geographical routing in fanets." In 3rd International Conference on Integrated Intelligent Computing Communication & Security (ICIIC 2021), pp. 331-338. Atlantis Press, 2021.
3. Vikramjit Singh; Jyotsna Sengupta, “Performance Analysis of Vertical Handover between Heterogeneous Networks”, International Conference on Advances in Management and Technology (iCAMT- 2013), pp. 15-18, Feb 2013.
Book Chapter publication
1. Vikramjit Singh, Krishna Pal Sharma, and Harsh K. Verma. "UAV-Based Cyber-Physical Systems: Concepts, Applications, and Issues." Cyber-Physical Systems: A Comprehensive Guide (2022).
Peer reviewer for Journals
● Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications,
● Cluster Computing
● Wireless Networks
● IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking
● The Journal of Supercomputing
Honours and Achievements
● Awarded MHRD scholarships during Ph.D. studies.
● Earned the Best Poster Presentation Award at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar National Institute of Technology Jalandhar for research contributions.
● Qualified the GATE examination twice and cleared UGC-NET.