Networks and Stochastic Systems Laboratory

The NetSS Laboratory in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras is headed by Dr. Krishna P Jagannathan (KJ) and currently consists of five PhD's and two MS candidates. The primary research areas of the scholars working in the lab are

• 5G communications

• Learning Theory

• Modelling of Stochastic and Queuing Networks

• Quantum Information Theory

• Scheduling in Communication Networks

• Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks

• S. S. Shree, A. Chatterjee, and K. Jagannathan, "Opinion Differences in Social Networks: Are Opinions Too Far in Finite Time?", Accepted in COMSNETS 2023 Graduate Forum.

• Jaswanthi Mandalapu, Krishna Jagannathan, “The Classical Capacity of Quantum Jackson Networks with Waiting Time-Dependent Erasures”, Accepted for publication in Information Theory Workshop (ITW) 2022.

• The poster titled, "Towards Optimizing Capacity of Erasure Queue-Channels", presented by Sushmitha Shree, has won the Best Poster Award at JTG/IEEE ITSoc Summer School 2022.

• S. S. Shree, Kishore, A. Chatterjee, K. Jagannathan, "Stochastic Bounded Confidence Opinion Dynamics: How Far Apart Do Opinions Drift?", Accepted for publication in COMSNETS 2022 in the main conference track.

• Amit Anand Jha, Nazal Mohamed, K. Jagannathan, "Collaborative Best Arm Identification in Multi-armed Bandits", Accepted for publication in COMSNETS 2022 in the main conference track.

• Pawan Poojary, Sharayu Moharir, Krishna Jagannathan, “A Coupon Collector based Approximation for LRU cache hits under Zipf requests”, Accepted for publication in WiOpt 2021.

• Jaswanthi Mandalapu, Krishna Jagannathan, “The Capacity of Photonic Erasure Channels with Detector Dead Times”, Accepted for publication in NCC 2021.

• Kumar Ashutosh, Jayakrishnan Nair, Anmol Kagrecha, Krishna Jagannathan, “Bandit algorithms: Letting go of logarithmic regret for statistical robustness”, Selected for oral presentation in AISTATS 2021.

• Jaswanthi Mandalapu has been selected for the PMRF - Dec 2020 through Lateral Entry channel.

• Prabha Mandayam, Krishna Jagannathan, Avhishek Chatterjee, "The Classical Capacity of Additive Quantum Queue-Channels", Accepted for publication in JSAIT 2020.

• Bharati K has been selected for the PMRF - May 2020 through Direct Entry channel.

• Sushmitha Shree has been selected for the Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF) - May 2020 through Lateral Entry channel.

• K. Bharati and M. Palani, "A Scalable Block-Proportional Fair Scheduling Scheme For Multi-Carrier Transmission Systems", Accepted for publication COMSNETS 2021.

• Prashanth L.A., Krishna Jagannathan, Ravi Kolla, “Concentration bounds for CVaR estimation: The cases of light-tailed and heavy-tailed distributions”, Accepted for publication in ICML 2020.