Work place: Department of Mathematics, Bio-informatics & Computer Applications, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal, M.P., India
E-mail: jayjain.research@gmail.com
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Biography
Dr. Jay Kumar Jain is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics, Bioinformatics and Computer Applications, MANIT, Bhopal. He did his Ph. D. from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal in 2015. He was awarded with Research Fellowship by MHRD for completing his Ph.D. He has research as well as teaching experience of about 13 years. He has published around 55+ research papers and book chapters in SCI/SCOPUS/Referred International/National Journal and Conferences He has also authored 03 books for International Publisher. He has also been granted 3 International patents and 1 Indian Patent. 3 Indian design patents and 2 copyrights in registered IPR, India. He has been a reviewer in many international journals/conferences including Elsevier, IEEE Access, and Springer. He has lifetime membership of various professional societies such as IEEE, CSI, Franklin, IDES, IAENG, SDIWC, and many more. His research interests include Wireless Sensor Networks, the Internet of Things, and Mobile Ad hoc Networks.
By Dipti Chauhan Pritika Bahad Jay Kumar Jain
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijcnis.2026.02.07, Pub. Date: 8 Apr. 2026
Wireless Sensor Networks consist of energy constrained sensor nodes that monitor and transmit data to a central base station. These networks are highly susceptible to link and node failures, which further degrades performance and reduce overall network reliability. In this paper we have addresses these challenges and proposed a reinforcement learning based self-healing routing (RL-SHR) protocol, implemented in NS2 simulation environment. In the work, each node functions as an autonomous RL agent that learns optimal routing paths by interacting with the network environment and adapting to failure conditions. The protocol enables nodes to dynamically avoid unreliable paths, recover from faults, and optimize performance over time. Simulation results shows that the proposed protocol significantly outperforms traditional routing protocols such as AODV and DSR in terms of packet delivery ratio, end-to-end delay, energy consumption and network lifetime under varying failure scenarios. This work lays the groundwork for integrating learning based resilience mechanisms into next generation sensor networks.
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