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Dr. Chitra Babu – Professor & Head Of the Department

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Dr. Chitra Babu – Professor & Head Of the Department

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Dr. Chitra Babu
B.E.,M.E.,M.S., Ph.D

Professor & Head

Email: chitra@ssn.edu.in

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INTERNATIONAL
JOURNALS

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INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCES

Dr. Chitra Babu, Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has 25 years of teaching and research experience. Her primary research interests include Cloud Computing, Architecting Big Data pipelines using state-of-the art distributed data processing frameworks and applying principles of Software Engineering and Software architecture to these domains.

She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IITM). She received her M.E in Computer Science and Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, M.S in Computer and Information Systems from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA. She received her B.E from P. S. G. College of Technology.

She has worked in AT&T Bell Labs at Columbus, Ohio, USA and has also worked as a consultant in the area of Document Imaging and management at Michigan, USA. She is a member of the professional societies, Association of Computing Machinery(ACM), IEEE, Life member of Computer Society of India(CSI) and Indian Society for Technical education(ISTE).

She has published over 70 research publications in refereed international journals and in proceedings of international conferences. She has completed one project funded by SSN Trust worth Rs. 9.75 Lakh . She is a recognized supervisor of Anna University and has graduated 5 Ph.D. scholars till now in the area of Software Engineering, Service Oriented Architecture and Cloud Storage.

She was a recipient of Infosys fellowship at IIT Madras, while pursuing her Ph.D. She has received the Best Faculty award at SSN instituted by Cognizant twice during 2008 and 2010. She has received the “Sahyog Teachers Award” from the Foundation for CSR @Redington in 2016.

She has organized Faculty Development programs under Anna University and ACM Education Committee. She has organized an AICTE sponsored National Seminar on “Convergence of IoT, Big Data and Cloud Computing for Smart Governance”. She Organized an International Conference “Recent Advances in Computer and Software Systems (RACSS) in 2012. She has been part of the technical program committees of several International Conferences.

She has served as member of board of studies of the affiliated institutions under the faculty of information and communication engineering of Anna University, Chennai. She has also served as s syllabus subcommittee member for the Anna University RUSA(Rashtriiya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan), a centrally sponsored scheme. She was part of the syllabus subcommittee during the curriculum revision done by Government of Tamilnadu in 2017 as an expert for the subject of Computer Science for higher secondary classes.

She has been a member of the ACM India Education Committee) from June 2015, which focuses on improving the quality of computer science education both at school and college levels. She served as Vice-Chair of ACM India Chennai professional Chapter from 2017-2019. She is currently a member of ACM-W India council and also Secretary of iSIGCSE(Indian counterpart of Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education). 

She has initiated and nurtured continued active interaction with various industries. She is instrumental in getting the MoUs signed with Caterpillar, Manatec Electronics, Polaris Intellect Design Arena and Vimana Technologies. She has successfully completed three consultancy projects with Caterpillar. She spearheaded the outreach activity of providing intensive training to 180 subinspectors of Tamilnadu Police in the basics of Cybercrime investigation in three batches.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

  1. Prabavathy Balasundaram and Chitra Babu, “A distributed load balancing algorithm for deduplicated storage”, Volume 27, Number 5, September 2019, pages 3994-4008.  Print ISSN : 1300-0632  eISSN: 1303-6203 Thompson Reuters Impact Factor: .578 5 year Impact Factor: 0.766 (included in AU Annexure I)
  2. Senthil Suganantham, Chitra Babu and Madhumita Raju , “A Quantitative Evaluation of Change Impact Reachability and Complexity Across Versions of Aspect Oriented Software”,  International Arab Journal of Information TechnologyIAJIT), Volume 14 , Number 1, January 2017, pages 41-52. ISSN: 1683-3198 Thompson Reuters Impact Factor: 0.724 5-year Impact Factor: 0.829  (included in AU Annexure 1).
  3. Prabavathy Balasundaram and Chitra Babu, “Concurrency control  algorithms for deduplicated Cloud storage”, Turkish Journal of Electrical engineering and Computer Sciences, Volume 26, Number 2, March 2018, pages 936-947.  Print ISSN : 1300-0632  eISSN: 1303-6203 Thompson Reuters Impact Factor: .578 5 year Impact Factor: 0.766 (included in AU Annexure I)
  4. Prabavathy Balasundaram,Chitra Babu and Subha Devi M , “ Improving Read Throughput of  Deduplicated Cloud Storage using Frequent Pattern-Based Prefetching Technique”,  The Computer Journal, Volume 60, Number 3, Jan-March 2017, pages 444-456.  ISSN: 0010-4620(print) ISSN: 1460-2067(online)) Thompson Reuters Impact Factor: 0.711 5-year Impact Factor: 0.93 (included in AU Annexure I)
  5. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy and Chitra Babu, “SLA-aware Dynamic Reconfiguration of the Safe Building Security System”, International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications, 9(2), pp. 151-162.
  6. Senthil Velan S., Chitra Babu and Madhumitha S., A Quantitative Evaluation of Change Impact Reachability and Complexity across Versions of Aspect Oriented Software, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology, May, 2014 (Accepted) IF:0.39
  7. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu and Arun Adiththan, “Dynamic Transaction Aware Web Service Selection”, International Journal on Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS), World Scientific, June 2014, Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 1-20. IF 1.43, SJR 1.28
  8. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu, and Arun Adiththan, “Tx-FAITH: A Transactional Framework for Failure Tolerant Execution of Hierarchical Long-running Transactions in Business Applications”, Journal of Web Services Research (JWSR),  IGI Global. Vol. 11, No. 3, 2014  (IF 0.469, SJR 0.31)
  9. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu and Arun Adiththan, “Specification of Transactional Requirements for Web Services Using Recoverability”, International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering, 8(1), January-March 2013, pp.51-65, ISSN: 1554-1045, (SJR 0.14). ‎Cited by 1
  10. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy and Chitra Babu, “Pattern Based Adaptation for Service Oriented Applications”, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol 37, No.1, January 2012, pp.1-6. ISSN: 0163-5948, DOI: 10.1145/2088883.2088894 , Cited by 2.
  11. Chitra Babu and Vijayalakshmi R, “Metrics – Based Design Selection Tool for Aspect Oriented Software Development”, ACM Software Engineering Notes. Vol.33, No.5, September 2008. DOI: 10.1109/ICRTIT.2013.6844241
  12. Chitra Babu and Harshini Ramnath Krishnan, “Fault Model and Testcase Generation for Composition of Aspects”, ACM Software Engineering Notes, Vol.34, No. 1, January, 2009. DOI: 10.1109/ICRTIT.2013.6844241
  13. Kanchana Rajaram and Chitra Babu, “Evolution of a Simple Vehicle Registration System to an SOA based eGovernance Application – A Case Study”, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 1-7, May 2010.
  14. K.G. Madhwaraj and Chitra Babu, “An Empirical Investigation of the Influence of Object Oriented Design Quality Metrics on the Package Maintainability”, Journal of Computer Science and Engineering, Volume 9, Issue 2, October 2011, pp.30-37, ISSN: 2043-9091.
  15. Kanchana Rajaram and Chitra Babu, “Deriving Reliable Compositions using Cancelable Web Services”, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 1-6, Jan 2014.
  16. Chamundeswari Arumugam and Chitra Babu, “Developmental Size Estimation for Object-Oriented Software based on Analysis Model”, International Journal on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, 23(3), pp. 289-308, 2013.
  17. Chamundeswari Arumugam and Chitra Babu, “Test Size Estimation for Object Oriented Software based on Analysis Model”, Journal of Software, 10(6), pp. 713-729.
  18. D. Janaki Ram , M.Uma Mahesh, NSK Chandrasekhar and Chitra Babu, “Causal Consistency in Mobile Environment”, ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, 35(1), pp. 34-40.
  19. Chitra Babu and D. Janaki Ram, “Method Driven Model: a Unified Model for an Object Composition Language, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, 39(8), pp. 61-71.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

  1. H. Singhal, H. Ravi, AN Chakravarthy, P. ba;asundaram and C, Babu, “ EPMS: A framework for large-scale patient matching”, in Proceedings of IEEE 31st International Conferece on Tools with Artificial Intelligence(ICTAI), DOI: 10.11.09/ICTAI.2019.00153, November 2019.
  2. K. Rajaram, C, Babu and A. Adhiththan, “Dynamic generation of transactional contracts for hierarchical workflows”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing(ICCCSP), 2017, pp. 1-5.
  3. V. Krishnamurthy, C. Babu and R. C. Brinda, “Performance evaluation of dynamic composition and dynamic reconfiguration in SOA applications”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer, Communication and Signal Processing(ICCCSP), 2017, pp. 1-6.
  4. P. Balasundaram and C. Babu, “PES: A prefetch evaluation system for VM snapshot deduplication”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Computation of Power, Energy, Information and Communication(ICPEIC), 2016, pp. 154-158.
  5. C. Babu and E. Gunasingh, “DESH: Database evaluation system with hibernate ORM framework”, in Proceedings of International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics(ICACCI) 2016, pp. 2459-2556.
  6. V. Sasikumar and C. babu, “Technology mapping of layers in a scalable distributed architecture for big data processing”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational methods and SoftwareEngineering(CoMSE), 2015, pp. 1017-113.
  7. K. Rajaram and C. Babu, “QUANCE: Quality-driven Automated Negotiation of Composite Web Services”, in Springer Book AI and Evolutionary Computation in Engineering Systems, Proceedings of ICAIECES 2015), pp. 621-631.
  8. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu and Akshaya Ganesan, “DILT: A Hybrid Model for Dynamic Composition and Execution of Heterogeneous Web Services”, Natarajan et al (Eds.): ICDCIT 2015, LNCS 8956, Springer, pp. 239-244.
  9. Prabavathy B, Priya R and Chitra Babu, “Load Balancing Algoririthm for Private Cloud Storage”, Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference  on Computing, Communication and Networking Technologies, Vivekanandha College of Engineering for Women, Tiruchengode., July 4-6, 2013, Session 37. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCNT.2013.6726585.
  10. Prabavathy B, Subha Devi M and Chitra Babu, “Multi-Index Technique for Metadata Management in Private Cloud Storage”, Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTT), MIT, Anna University, Chennai, July 25-27, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-1024-3/13/$31.00,pp.84-89. DOI: 10.1109/ICRTIT.2013.6844185.
  11. Prabavathy B, Ramya P and Chitra Babu, “Optimized Private Cloud Storage for Heterogeneous Files in an University Scenario”, Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology (ICRTT), MIT, Anna University, Chennai, July 25-27, 2013, ISBN:978-1-4799-1024-3/13/$31.00, pp.323-328. DOI: 10.1109/ICRTIT.2013.6844224.
  12. Hariharan C and Chitra Babu, “Security Testing of Orchestrated Business Process in SOA”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT 2014), Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, May 8-10, 2014, pp.1838-1842.
  13. Deepiga A S, Senthil Velan S and Chitra Babu, “Empirical Investigation of Introducing Aspect Oriented Programming across Versions of an SOA Application”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT 2014), Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, May 8-10, 2014, pp.1732-1739.
  14. Vinobha A, Senthil Velan S and Chitra Babu, “Evaluation of Reusability in Aspect Oriented Software using Inheritance Metrics”, Proceedings of IEEE-International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT 2014), Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, May 8-10, 2014, pp.1715-1722.
  15. Parthipan S, Senthil Velan S and Chitra Babu, “Design Level Metrics to Measure the Complexity Across Versions of AO Software”, Proceedings of International Conference on Advanced Communication Control and Computing Technologies (ICACCCT 2014), Syed Ammal Engineering College, Ramanathapuram, May 8-10, 2014, pp.1708-1714.
  16. Chandrasekar S, Dakshinamurthy R, Seshakumar P G, Prabavathy B and Chitra Babu, “A Novel Indexing Scheme for Efficient Handling of Small Files in Hadoop Distributed File System”, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communication and Information (ICCCI-2013), Coimbatore, January 4-6, 2013.
  17. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu and Murali Krishanan K.S., “TxFlowGen: Generation of Failure Atomic Transactional Workflows for B2B Applications”, Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Advance Computing Conference (IACC-2013), IEEE Computer Society, India Council & IEEE Student Branch, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College, Ghaziabad, India, February 22-23, 2013, pp.1351-1355,
  18. R. Kishore Kumar, R. Kanchana and Chitra Babu, “Security for SOAP based Communication amount Web Services”, Proceedings of International Conference on Science, Engineering and Management (ICSEM’13), Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur, May 17-18, 2013, pp.269-274
  19. Akshaya G, Kanchana R and Chitra Babu, “Dycsr: Dynamic Composition of SOAP Services and restful Services in e-Governance Applications”, Proceedings of International Conference on Science, Engineering and Management (ICSEM’13), Srinivasan Engineering College, Perambalur, May 17-13, 2013, pp.262-266.
  20. Vallidevi K. and Chitra Babu, “Dynamically Reconfiguring Services in SOA Applications: A Pattern-Based Approach”, In 17th European Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs, July 11-15. Pages 13. DOI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2088894 
  21. Y.V. Lokeshwari, B. Prabavathy and Chitra Babu, “Optimized Cloud Storage with High Throughput Deduplication Approach”, International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA) [International Conference on Emerging Technology Trends (ICETT) March 2011], Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, pp.32-37. Cited by 5
  22. Sangeetha Shanmuga Sundaram and Chitra Babu, “Design and Development of a Multi-Tenant Data Analytical Application as a Service”, Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Technology Trends (ICETT), Baselios Mathews II College of Engineering, Kollam, Kerala, March 25-26, 2011, pp.1134-1139 (best paper)
  23. Amarnath Ayyadurai and Chitra Babu, “Biztool: A Flexible Cloud-Centric Framework for Business Analytics”, 5th International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management, Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, March 10-12, 2011, CCIS 141, pp.256-264
  24. Kanchana Rajaram, Arun Adiththan and Chitra Babu, “Tx-Policy: Transactional Polices for Reliable Web Service Composition”, Proceedings of International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology (ICWET), Thakur College of Engineering & Technology, Mumbai, India, pp.738-743. Cited by 2
  25. B. Prabavathy and Chitra Babu, “A Deduplication Approach for Cloud Storage Optimization”, Proceedings of 17th Asia Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC 2010), The University of Queensland, Australia, November 30 – December 3, 2010.
  26. K.Vallidevi and Chitra Babu, “Effective Self Adaptation by Integrating Adaptive Framework with Architectural Patterns” International Conference on Amirtha ACM-W – Emerging trends in Computing Conference, Coimbatore. September 16-17, 2010. DOI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1858445. Cited by 2.
  27. Kanchana Rajaram and Chitra Babu, “Template based SOA Framework for Dynamic and Adaptive Composition of Web Services”, Proceedings of 2010 International Conference on Networking and Information Technology (ICNIT 2010), Manila, Philippines, June 11-12, 2010. Cited by 4 
  28. S. Senthil Velan and Chitra Babu, “Measuring the Impact of Inheritance in Aspect Oriented Software Development”, Proceedings of National Workshop on Association for Software System: Practice, Research and Engineering (ASPIRE’10), JNTUACE, Anantapur, December 22-23, 2010
  29. Chamundeswari A. and Chitra Babu, “Automatic Test Case Generation from UML use case Model”, Proceedings of International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10), 2010, pp.38-45.
  30. Chamundeswari A. and Chitra Babu, “An Extended Function Point Approach for size Estimation of Object Oriented Software”, Proceedings of First International Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) Workshop, Mysore, February 25-27, 2010.
  31. Dr. Chitra Babu and Amarnath Ayyadurai, “Service Based Data Analysis through Cloud Computing”, Proceedings of International Conference on Control, Communication & Computing (ICCC 2010), College of Engineering, Trivandrum, February 18-20, 2010, pp.189-192. 
  32. S. Punitha and Chitra Babu, “Performance Prediction Modal for Service Oriented Applications”, Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on QoS and Performance Metrices in High Performance Computing conducted along with IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC), Dalian, China, 2008. DOI: 10.1109/HPCC.2008.79.
  33. Chamundeswari A and Chitra Babu, “Function Point Size Estimation for Object Oriented Software Based on Use Case Model”, Proceedings of ICSOFT 2008, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, Portugal, July 5-8, 2008. 
  34. Karthik Arun Koteeswaran and Chitra Babu, “Influence of Hardware Architecture on Quality Aspect of Software Architecture”, Proceedings of International Conference on Emerging Trends in High Performance Architecture Algorithms and Computing, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, July 2007, pp.82-87
  35. Gayathri Kameleshwaran and Chitra Babu, “AGENT: A Framework for Automatic Generation of Test Cases for Aspect Oriented Software”, AOAsia III, International Workshop on Aspect Orientation held along with COMPSAC, Beijing, China, July, 2007.
  36. L. Avani Abirami, S. Vani and Chitra Babu, “A Novel Approach for Quantifying Ambiguity and Checking Completeness in Software Requirements Specification”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Applications (ICCA), February 2007.
  37. Nishanth S, Radhika B, Raghavendar TJ,Chitra babu and Prabavathy B., “Co-Hadoop++: A Load-balanced Co-location in Hadoop Distributed File System”, Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC), December 2013 (pp. 100-105). IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICoAC.2013.6921934.
  38. Aishwarya, K., Sreevatson, M. C., Babu, C., & Prabavathy, B. “Efficient prefetching technique for storage of heterogeneous small files in Hadoop Distributed File System Federation”. Fifth International Conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC), December 2013, (pp. 523-530). IEEE, DOI: 10.1109/ICoAC.2013.6922006.
  39. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu, Kishore Kumar, R. “API based Security Solutions for communication among Web Services”, In proceedings of Fifth International conference on Advanced Computing (ICoAC 2013), Dec 2013, DOI: 10.1109/ICoAC.2013.6922014
  40. Kanchana Rajaram, Chitra Babu, and Arun Adiththan, “Dynamic Generation of Transactional Contracts for Hierarchical Workflows”, In IEEE Proceedings of Third International Conference on “Parallel, Distributed and Grid Computing (PDGC-2014), 2014.
  41. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, Robinson Natarajan & Chitra Babu, ‘Monitoring and Reconfiguring the Services in Service-Oriented System using AOBPEL’ Procs of International Conference on Recent Trends in Information Technology, July 25-27, pp. 423-428, 2013.DOI:http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=6844241
  42. Vallidevi Krishnamurthy, Chitra Babu, P.M Krishnan, C. Aravindan, S. Balamurugan, ‘Recon- Aspect oriented remotely reconfigurable error logging framework for web applications’, International Conference on Information Communication and Embedded  Systems, (ICICES’13), February 21-22,  pp. 410-415, 2013. DOI 10.1109/ICICES.2013.6508347
  43. Janakiram D, Wenonah Jaques and Chitra Babu “A Novel Approach to Transactions in Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of First International Conference on Next Generation Wireless System (ICNEWS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2006, pp.160-165.
  44. Chitra Babu, W. Jaques and D. Janakiram, “Dynamic Customization in Pervasive Computing Environments”, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Enabling Technologies for Smart Appliances, Hyderabad, India.
  45. D. Janakiram and Chitra Babu, “ A Framework for Dynamic Client-Driven Customization”, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems (OOIS), Calgary, Canada, pp. 245-258.

National conferences

  1. Chamundeswari A. and Chitra Babu, “An XML Based Function Point Estimation Tool”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Information, Communication and Computing at Hindustan College of Engineering, Padur, 7th May, 2007.
  2. Gayathri Kamaleshwaran and Chitra Babu, “Automatic Generation of Test Cases from UML State Charts in Aspect Oriented Programming”, Proceedings of National Conference on Information and Communication Technology, Periyar Maniammai College of Technology for Women, February 2007.
  3. Chitra Babu, Naren A, Archana Ganesan, Srivatsan, Sundararajan and Rama Muthukumar, “SWARM: Sensor Driver Water Agricultural Resources Management”, Proceedings of IEEE INDICON 2006(National), New Delhi, September 15-17, 2006.
  4. A. Chamundeswari, Chitra Babu and K.S. Easwarakumar, “An Estimation Model to Measure Quality of Software Architecture”, Proceedings of IRISS 2007(National), IIIT, Hyderabad, India, January 4–5, 2007
  5.  L. Avani Abirami and Chitra Babu, “Towards Completeness of Software Requirements Specification”, Proceedings of National Conference on Current Trends in Computer Technology (NCCTCT-06), SRMIST, Kattankulathur, February 2006, pp.71-75.
  6. S. Vani and Chitra Babu, “Quantification of Ambiguity in Software Requirements”, Proceedings of National Conference on Current Trends in Computer Technology (NCCTCT-06), SRMIST, Kattankulathur, February 2006, pp.76-79.
  7. Ramraj S and Chitra Babu, “Independent Verification and Validation Framework for Technology Demonstration Projects”, Proceedings of PSG-ACM National Conference on Intelligent Computing, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, April 26-27, 2013, pp.458-462.
  8. R.P. Sumithra and Chitra Babu, “Towards Restful Web Service Composition for Healthcare Domain”, Proceedings of National Conference on High Performance Computing, Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, March 16, 2011, pp.81
  9. R. Vijayalakshmi and Chitra Babu, “Metrics for Aspect-Oriented Design”, Proceedings of National Conference on Challenges and Innovations in Information Technology, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, 16th February, 2008, pp.547-553.
  10. Pradeep R., Chitra Babu and Prabavathy B., “Location Independent Chunk Index for Deduplicated Cloud Storage”, Proceedings of 4th National Conference on Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies NCACAT 2k14), Easwari Engineering College, Ramapuram, 7th May, 2014.