Dr. Dhananjay Dakhane

@dypatil.edu

Professor, Computer Engineering
Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, D Y Patil Deemed to be University, Nerul

Dr. Dhananjay Dakhane


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EDUCATION

PhD, ME, BE

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Covert Channels and Covert Communication, Secrete Computations, Multiparty Computations, Cloud Security
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Scopus Publications

  • CAKS: a real-time carbon-aware Kubernetes scheduler for heterogeneous cloud environments
    Kiran Kumari, Dhananjay Dakhane
    International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Exploration, 2026
  • Quantum Cryptography: Present and Future 6G
    Dhananjay Manohar Dakhane, Vaibhav Eknath Narawade, Pallavi Sapkale
    Quantum Computing and Machine Learning for 6g, 2026
    Quantum cryptography is a field that investigates how quantum mechanics can be utilized to make secure communication frameworks. Quantum cryptography utilizes the laws of quantum physical science to send private data, which makes undetected snooping unimaginable. Quantum cryptography depends on photons for information transmission. A photon, in basic terms, is a solitary molecule of light. Photons address paired bits that are sent by means of fiber optic links. One quantum key requires a solitary photon laser shaft signal through a fiber optic link. Just a single photon goes through at a time, making this interaction slower than current specialized strategies. Also, quantum key circulation (QKD) requires a committed fiber optic link between the source and the beneficiary, which confounds things further.
  • Delay Normalization Technique to Disrupt Covert Timing Channels Using Active Warden
    Vrushali Uday Uttarwar, Dhananjay M. Dakhane
    EPJ Web of Conferences, 2025
    Covert channels exploit existing network resources, such as packet headers and timing information, to transfer information in ways not originally intended for communication, making them undetectable by conventional methods. This poses significant security risks, as these channels can be used maliciously despite stringent security measures like firewalls. Hence, there is a critical need for a generalized mechanism capable of blindly detecting covert communications within network traffic. We have developed a framework to evaluate covert timing channels and conducted experiments with an active warden. Our findings indicate that the active warden effectively prevents covert timing communication, demonstrating the framework's potential for enhancing network security.
  • Analysis and Mitigation of Covert Timing Communication Channels Using Active Warden Mechanism for Enhancing Network Security
    Vrushali Uday Uttarwar, Dhananjay M. Dakhane
    International Journal of Computational and Experimental Science and Engineering, 2025
    Covert communication channels (CCC) are very powerful challenges to the network security since they allow for unauthorized data transfer through different ways of mediation, usually avoiding traditional protections. In this study, we study and mitigate such channels through an innovative adaptive warden mechanism. Network traffic is dynamically normalized by the adaptive warden to disrupt covert signals while minimizing its effects on normal traffic data transmission. The mechanisms are evaluated to understand the encoding schemes, including Dual Bit, ON-OFF, and JitterBug, in the context of real-time scenarios. The adaptive warden mitigates CCCs through negligible overhead in transmission times; this is experimentally demonstrated with overhead consistently 1% or less. Moreover, as a contribution, the proposed framework also proposes a scalable approach to mitigating covert communication by means of protocol normalization, delay randomization, and traffic analysis. The study also highlights essential knowledge gaps when addressing CCCs in the IPv6 protocol space, highlighting the demand for improved countermeasures in contemporary network designs. The work presents a general framework for detecting and mitigating CCCs and provides a number of significant advancements in network security. It serves as a basis for future work in adaptive mechanisms to defend against emerging threats to covert communication in heterogeneous and complicated network environments.
  • A Review on Network Covert Channel Construction and Attack Detection
    Mrinal Ashish Khadse, Dhananjay Manohar Dakhane
    Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, 2025
    A covert network channel is a communication channel in which the message is secretly transmitted to the recipient. Sometimes, covert network channels are vulnerable to multiple attacks. Therefore, the message must be properly secure. In most cases, the covert channel is used to ensure data protection and allow users to freely access the Internet. In this paper, several recent studies are reviewed on covert network channels and examine the existing works from 2015 to 2024. This review article also discusses the undetectability and reliability of different types of covert network channels. Furthermore, a detailed description of the covert network channel's ability to hide in containers is provided. Existing research on covert network channels explains a few techniques for detecting attacks in secret data communication. However, several machine learning and deep learning techniques have been discussed in this article. Additionally, this article describes the accuracy of detection through an overview of current technologies. In addition, various countermeasures to prevent attacks in covert channels are also discussed in detail. However, in this case, the bandwidth limitations, data set limitations, and covert channel capacity are clearly defined, which will help future researchers build covert network channels and detect attacks. Finally, this work considers the challenges faced by covert network channels and the future scope of application.
  • Countering Covert Timing Channels with Active Warden Delay Normalization Technique
    Vrushali U. Uttarwar, Dhananjay M. Dakhane
    2025 2nd International Conference on Integration of Computational Intelligent System Icicis 2025, 2025
    Covert channels in computer networks, especially covert timing channels, pose a significant security risk by facilitating clandestine, unauthorized data transmission that circumvents conventional detection methods. This study introduces a comprehensive framework for assessing and mitigating covert channels through smart active warden mechanism that dynamically interferes with covert timing channels through delay normalization, protocol modifications, and real-time analysis. This framework simulates authentic covert communication scenarios (Model Based CTC, and Time Replay CTC encoding etc.). Through experiments involving an active warden, we demonstrated that covert timing communications can be successfully mitigated. These results highlight the framework's effectiveness and its promise for improving overall network security.
  • Real-Time Node’s Power-Aware Kubernetes Scheduler in a Cloud Environment
    Kiran Kumari, Dhananjay Dakhane
    Communications in Computer and Information Science, 2025
  • Real-Time Power Consumption and Carbon Emissions Meter for Kubernetes
    16th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2025, 2025
  • Analysis of Docker Images on Static and Dynamic Vulnerability Scanning Tools
    Mrinal Ashish Khadse, Dhananjay Manohar Dakhane
    2nd International Conference on Signal Processing Communication Power and Embedded Systems Scopes 2024, 2024
    The software development industry extensively utilizes Docker a prominent platform image containerization. Therefore, it is imperative to guarantee the security of these containerized applications. As a result, various container scanning technologies exist for identifying container security flaws. This study examines static and dynamic scanners, the prevalent tools for analyzing Docker images. The paper will present a comprehensive comparison of the advantages and disadvantages of several types of scanners, accompanied by real-world examples of their application in securing containerized applications. This study paper intends to analyze four prominent open-source vulnerability tools: Snyk, Swift, Trivy, and Grype. The report will present a comprehensive comparison of the characteristics and capabilities of each scanner, including their accuracy, usability, use cases, best practices, limitations, and potential future developments.
  • A Survey of Covert Storage Channel Countermeasure and Elimination Methodologies to Develop NetWarden Architecture
    Rajesh L. Gaikwad, Dhananjay M. Dakhane
    Smart Innovation Systems and Technologies, 2024
  • A Combined Utilization of Machine Learning and Pre-Attack Analysis to Provide a Protection Framework for Ransomware Attack
    Srijita Bhattacharjee, Dhananjay Dakhane
    Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Cloud Computing Data Science and Engineering Confluence 2024, 2024
  • Novel Framework for Evaluating Covert Channels and its Countermeasures in Network Protocols
    Nanotechnology Perceptions, 2024
  • Food Serving Restaurant Robot with Infrared line Detection Path
    Pallavi Sapkale, Dhananjay Dakhne, Vaibhav Narwade
    2024 IEEE 9th International Conference for Convergence in Technology I2ct 2024, 2024
  • Framework for Covert Timing Communication Detection
    Vrushali U. Uttarwar, Dhananjay M. Dakhane
    2023 International Conference on Integration of Computational Intelligent System Icicis 2023, 2023
  • AES Encryption for Secure Storage and Transfer of Patient Health Records using Blockchain Technology
    Farheen Hasan, Dhananjay Dakhane, Amarsinh Vidhate
    Proceedings 4th IEEE 2023 International Conference on Computing Communication and Intelligent Systems Icccis 2023, 2023
  • An Efficient Approach for Load Balancing of Tasks in Cloud Computing Environments
    13th International Conference on Advances in Computing Control and Telecommunication Technologies Act 2022, 2022
  • Analyzing different multiparty computation techniques
    Tanmay Borade, Dhananjay Dakhane, Tushar Ghorpade
    Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, 2020
  • Active warden for TCP sequence number base covert channel
    Dhananjay M. Dakhane, Prashant R. Deshmukh
    2015 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Advance Communication Technology and Application for Society Icpc 2015, 2015
  • The implementation of IP ID Reference Model in Linux kernel
    Dhananjay M. Dakhane, Prashant R. Deshmukh
    2015 International Conference on Pervasive Computing Advance Communication Technology and Application for Society Icpc 2015, 2015
  • The implementation of tcp sequence number reference model in linux kernel
    Dhananjay M. Dakhane, Prashant R. Deshmukh
    Proceedings 2014 6th International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communication Networks Cicn 2014, 2014