Speakers
1. Prof. Sashti C. Ghosh, ISI Kolkata (Area: 5G cellular networks/UMTS network design)
2. Prof. Sudip Misra, IIT Kharagpur (Area: Opportunistic and Dynamic Mobile Networks)
Dr. Sudip Misra is a full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prior to this he was associated with Cornell University (USA), Yale University (USA), Nortel Networks (Canada) and the Government of Ontario (Canada). His current research interests include mobile ad hoc and sensor networks, internet of things (IoT), computer networks, and learning systems. Prof. Misra is the author of over 300 scholarly research papers. He received the IEEE ComSoc Asia Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award at IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, California, USA. Further, his team was awarded the GYTI Award (2018) by the President of India, and the 3rd Prize in the Samsung Innovation Award (2014) at IIT Kharagpur, the IBM Innovation Award(2016) at IIT Kharagpur. He was also the recipient of several academic awards and fellowships such as the Young Scientist Award (National Academy of Sciences, India), Young Systems Scientist Award (Systems Society of India), Young Engineers Award (Institution of Engineers, India), (Canadian) Governor General’s Academic Gold Medal at Carleton University, the University Outstanding Graduate Student Award in the Doctoral level at Carleton University and the National Academy of Sciences, India – Swarna Jayanti Puraskar (Golden Jubilee Award). He was also awarded the Canadian Government’s prestigious NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship and the Humboldt Research Fellowship in Germany. Prof. Misra is the Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (NASI), India, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), UK, and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering (IETE), India.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and the masters and bachelors degrees, respectively, from the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
3. Prof. Vivek A. Bohara, IIIT Delhi
Title: Device to Device Communication: A new frontier for 5G cellular standards
Abstract: Device-to-device (D2D) is a new communication paradigm which has evolved recently to meet the capacity requirements of 4G/beyond 4G cellular networks. In this talk, I will discuss the spectrum sharing frameworks that were recently proposed to facilitate D2D communication in cellular networks. Specifically, this talk will focus on underlay, overlay and cooperative spectrum sharing frameworks, discuss the trade-off involved when selecting one framework over another and also deliberate on the coexistence issues involving D2D and cellular users. I will also share some of the current analytical, simulation and measurement results obtained by our research group in this direction.
Brief Bio: Vivek Ashok Bohara (S’08–M’13–SM’19) received the Ph.D. degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2011. From 2011 to 2013, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher (Marie Curie fellowship) in ESIEE Paris, University Paris-East. In 2013, he joined IIIT-Delhi, India, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has authored and co-authored over 50 publications in major IEEE/IET journals and refereed international conferences, two book chapters, and one patent. His research interests are towards next-generation communication technologies, such as device-to-device communication, carrier aggregation, and Visible Light Communications. Prof. Bohara received First Prize in National Instruments ASEAN Virtual Instrumentation Applications Contest in 2007 and 2010. He was also the recipient of the Best Poster Award at the IEEE ANTS 2014 and the IEEE Comsnets 2015 and 2016 conferences.
4. Niraj Nanavaty, Nokia, Bangalore (Area: 5G and Standardizations)
Niraj Nanavaty works in Nokia as Radio Product Manager for India & MEA markets. Niraj has 20+ years of extensive experience in innovating and developing 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G systems and products. He has four patents under filing. He has written multiple papers of which three papers were published in reputed IEEE conferences. He has spoken at various industry events, forums, colleges and universities on varied topics including 5G. He was part of Nokia pair that won Unicom 2015 Ethical Hacking contest. He represented Nokia in 2015 Security Best Practice Meet conducted by DSCI, NASSCOM.
Niraj holds an MTech degree from IIT, Kanpur and an MBA degree from IIM, Bangalore. Niraj’s interests include strategy, innovation and 5G topics like 5G NR (New Radio), Radio Resource Management, Integrated Access & Backhaul (IAB), Massive MIMO and Beamforming.
5. Dr. Abhinav Kumar, IIT Hyderabad
Title: Title of the talk can be "Modulation and coding schemes for visible light based communication systems".
Abstract: In this talk, we will start by discussing the state of the art of modulation and coding schemes (MCS) used in visible light based communication (VLC) systems. We will first consider the various MCSs specified in IEEE 802.15.7. We will analyze the limitations of these existing schemes. Based on this limitations, we will present some of our recent works that mitigate these effects and proved better performance. Lastly, we will look in to possible open problems in modulation and code design for VLC systems.
Bio: Abhinav Kumar (S’04-M’14) received the BTech degree in electrical engineering and MTech degree in information and communication technology, and the PhD degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2009 and 2013, respectively. From September to November, 2013, he was a research associate in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. From December 2013 to November 2014, he has was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Waterloo, Canada. Since November 2014, he has been with Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, India, as an assistant professor. His research interests are in the different aspects of wireless communications and networking. He is a member of the IEEE.
6. Mr. Vikram Tiwathia, Deputy Director General, COAI
7. Prof. Srinivas Talabattula, IISc Bangalore
Title: Quantum Communications and Computing using Photonics
Abstract: Quantum Communications and computing involves information represented by quantum states of objects like photons. The key feature is that Qubits representing '0' and '1' levels are not deterministic, but expectations of wave functions. Information is represented as superposition of these quantum states. Quantum information theory presents several strange results, such as no cloning, entanglement, and dicord. Quantum approach provides enormous possibilities, such as super dense representation and storage of classical information, perfect security, and enormous computing possibility.
Implementation of quantum information functions is a challenge due to requirement of devices. Photonics promises to provide solutions to many of these challenges. Recently several implementations of quantum information systems have been successfully demonstrated. For example Tokyo QKD network (2010) and World's first quantum communication satellite (as claimed by China, Aug 2016). In this presentation, after a brief description of basics of quantum communication, representation of quantum information using optical waveguide modes will be presented. Then a few examples of implementation will be discussed, namely, directional coupler output as an analog of superposition state, quantum Hadamard gate using photonic bandgap structures etc, which were undertaken in the author’s lab. Finally a higher dimensional representation of quantum information will be examined that uses Qudits and the corresponding BB84 protocol for highly secure quantum communication
Bio: Dr. Srinivas Talabattula is Associate Professor in ECE Dept, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He obtained B.Sc (Hons) from New Science College, Hyderabad, and ME (integrated) and Ph.D from IISc. He was a post-doctoral research fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan during 1992-1996. His areas of research interest are optical communications, in particular, photonic integrated circuits. He published about 50 journal papers, 100 conference papers and guided 29 Ph D students. He served as reviewer for may journals and conferences. He is a member National Board of Accreditation, NBA, and an expert member of broadband communications group of the ministry of communications and IT. He was the chairman GATE (IISc zone) during 2010-13. He is a senior member of IEEE communication society and IEEE photonics society.