• B.E (Computer Engineering), Amravati, 1986-1990, 1st Division. University merit throughout the degree.

• M.E (Computer Science and Engineering), Thapar Institute of Engg & Technology (Deemed), 1996-1998, 1st Class with Distinction.

• PhD (Computer Science and Engineering), BITS, Pilani (Deemed), August, 2001- March, 2006. Title: Traffic Engineering and Quality of Service Guarantees in IP-Virtual Private Networks (Supervisor: Prof. Raghurama G)

• Vakul Mohanty,   Dhaval Moliya,   Chittaranjan Hota,   and   Muttukrishnan Rajarajan,   Secure Anonymous Routing for MANETs Using Distributed Dynamic Random Path Selection, in Proc. Fourteenth Pacific-Asia Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (PAISI 2010), PAKDD 2010, Hyderabad, INDIA, H. Chen et al. (Ed.s), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 6122, June 2010, pp.65-72.

• K Haribabu, Chittaranjan Hota, Saravan S, Detecting Sybils in Peer-to-Peer File Replication Systems, in Proc. International Conference on Information Security and Digital Forensics, ISDF 2009, City University, LONDON, Sept 2009, pp. 152-164.

• Murali P, Rakesh K, Chittaranjan Hota, and Antti Ylä-Jääski, Energy-aware Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, in Proc. IFIP Wireless Days Conference 2008, Nov 24-27, DUBAI, IEEE Xplore, 2008.

• K. Haribabu, Chittaranjan Hota, and Antti Ylä-Jääski, Indexing through Querying in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Overlay Networks , in Proc. APNOMS 2008, Beijing, CHINA, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5297, pp. 102-111, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.

• Chittaranjan Hota, Sanjay Jha, and G. Raghurama, Adaptive Bandwidth Management and QoS Provisioning in IPVPNs, International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA, pp. 142-150, Vol. 30, Issue 2, 2008.