Prof. Abhay Karandikar
Director IIT Kanpur
Chief Guest PCEMS 2023 Conference
Prof Abhay Karandikar is currently the Director, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, one of the premier technical institutes of India. Before joining IIT Kanpur as the Director in April 2018, he served as Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay. He also served as Dean (Faculty Affairs) and Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at IIT Bombay. He spearheaded a national effort in setting up Telecom Standards Development Society of India (TSDSI), India’s standards body for telecom with participation of all stakeholders. Prof Karandikar was the founding member and former Chairman of TSDSI. He was also Member (Part-Time) of Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) from January 2017- January 2020. He serves on the board of several companies and has founded and mentored start-ups in telecom and networking. He also serves on the Board of Governors of IEEE Standards Association. He is a member of Technology Innovations Group on 6G and chairs the 6G Spectrum Task Force setup by the Department of Telecom, Government of India. Earlier, he had also chaired the 5G Spectrum Policy Task Force. Prof Karandikar has several patents issued and pending, contributions to IEEE, 3GPP standards, contributed chapters in books and large number of papers in international journals and conferences to his credit. Prof Karandikar was awarded with IEEE SA’s Standards Medallion in December 2016 in New Jersey. His team also won Mozilla Open Innovation challenge prize in March 2017 for his work on rural broadband and digital empowerment in rural India.
Title of the Talk: Frugal 5G Network: Towards IEEE P2061 Standard
Abstract:
While we have witnessed spectacular growth in cellular connectivity in the last three decades, broadband penetration, especially in rural India and in many other rural parts of the world, is still limited. There are significant challenges in providing broadband connectivity in rural areas using existing cellular wireless systems. In this talk, we review these challenges. We have proposed a novel wireless network architecture called “Frugal 5G” for affordable broadband access. We will provide an overview of Frugal 5G architecture. Our research in this domain led to the formation of ‘Frugal 5G” Study Group under IEEE followed by the establishment of the “Frugal 5G” working group and IEEE standard project ‘P2061’. The goal of the ‘IEEE P2061 standard project’ is to develop an architecture for a low mobility and energy efficient network for affordable broadband access. The proposed architecture comprises of a heterogeneous access network, a wireless middle-mile (backhaul) network and the associated control and management functions.
These architectural components are integrated with the help of standard interfaces defined by the working group. The network architecture is expected to be flexible enough to allow usage of different wireless access and middle-mile technologies. The proposed network is also expected to support connectivity with standard cellular core network such as 4G or 5G Core and also support direct connectivity with Internet. In this talk, we will give an overview of IEEE P2061 standard.
Prof. Ramesh has been an active researcher in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia Computing, Experiential computing, and Digital Health. While at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, he founded and directed artificial intelligence laboratory in 1987; and at University of California, San Diego, he founded visual computing lab in 1995. At University of California, Irvine, He is founding director of UCI Institute for Future Health. He was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of IEEE MultiMedia magazine and Machine Vision and Applications journal. His co-authored and co-edited books include two text books: Machine Vision (published in 1995), and Multimedia Computing (published in 2014). Ramesh has been elected Fellow of ACM, IEEE, AAAS, IAPR, AAAI, and SPIE. He is the recipient of several awards including the ACM SIGMM Technical Achievement Award 2010. His current research is in building computing and data-driven Navigational approaches for Future Health. He is Chief Technical Advisor for building Open Source Personal Health Navigator Project at Peng Cheng Laboratory in Shenzhen.
Ramesh co-founded multiple companies, managed them in initial stages, and then turned them over to professional management. He enjoys working with companies, is involved in research, and enjoys writing.
Recently IEEE TCMC announced him to be the winner of Impact award for his “pioneering and wide-spread impact to multimedia computing for the past four decades.”
Prof. Ranjan K. Mallik
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Ranjan K. Mallik is an Institute Chair Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. He received the B.Tech. degree from IIT Kanpur and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, all in electrical engineering. He worked as a scientist in the Defence Electronics Research Laboratory, Hyderabad, India, and as a faculty member in IIT Kharagpur and IIT Guwahati, prior to joining IIT Delhi as a faculty member. His research interests are in diversity combining and channel modeling for wireless communications, space-time systems, cooperative communications, multiple-access systems, power line communications, molecular communications, difference equations, and linear algebra. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu, and a fellow of the IEEE, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Science Academy, The National Academy of Sciences, India, the Indian Academy of Sciences, The World Academy of Sciences, the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology, The Institution of Engineering and Technology, U.K., The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India, The Institution of Engineers (India), and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. He is a recipient of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, the Hari Om Ashram Prerit Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Research Award, the Khosla National Award (by IIT Roorkee), the IETE Ram Lal Wadhwa Award, the Prof. P. C. P. Bhatt Faculty Research Award (by IIT Delhi), and the J. C. Bose Fellowship. He served as an Area Editor and an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, and as an Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications. He was a Technical Program Committee (TPC) Co-Chair for the Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 and IEEE ICC 2010, a TPC Co-Chair for the PHY Track of IEEE WCNC 2013, and a TPC Co-Chair for the Communication Theory Symposium of IEEE ICC 2021. He was also the Treasurer of the IEEE Delhi Section during 2005-2006, and served as a member of the IEEE ComSoc Awards Standing Committee during 2015-2017.