Research

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

•      To develop of energy and computationally efficient designs in signal processing and wireless communication systems, in particular large scale systems.

•      Address challenges in Computational, signal processing, communication and security aspects of cyber physical systems

•     Performance analysis and design of next generation mobile radio systems including  energy harvesting wireless networks, cognitive radio, cooperative communications, and multiple antenna systems. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Physical Layer Security

• Energy harvesting wireless networks & WSN

• Vehicular Communication & Networks

• Signal Processing for Communication - Massive MIMO & OFDM

• Compressed sensing & Convex Optimization

• Bio-inspired Computing & Machine Learning

Funded Projects

1. Adaptive Trajectory Planning for Multi-Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, NSTL, NRB, DRDO, 29.5 Lakhs, February 2024 - February 2027. [Ongoing]

2. Secret Key Generation in Power Constrained NLOS Outdoor Environments, SAG, DRDO, 29.93 Lakhs, September 2023 - September 2025. [Ongoing]

3. Design and Development of Dynamic Secret Key Generation Schemes for Physical Layer Security, SAG, DRDO, 22.21 Lakhs, January 29, 2019 - October 29, 2021. [Completed]

4. Machine Learning for Autonomous Vehicles, Academic Research Grant, NVIDIA Inc, 2017. [Completed]

PhD Graduated

1. Ms. Megha S Kumar - Investigation of Secret Key generation schemes for Physical layer security in indoor environments - July 2023.

2. Ms. Anusha K S - Investigation of Device Free Localization Techniques over Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning -  November 2023.

Current PhD 

1. Secret Key Generation - Physical Layer Security

2. Resource Allocation in SWIPT systems

Current / Past Master’s dissertation

1. Beam selection in multiuser mmwave systems

2. Deep learning based channel estimation

3. Design of Anti-Jamming GPS antenna 

4. Design and Analysis of OTFS Transceiver for wireless system

5. Malicious User Detection in Cooperative Spectrum Sensing

6.  Design and development of Protocols in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks 

7. Efficient Routing Protocols and congestion control for 3D Vehicular Networks

8. Secret key capacity in MIMO wireless systems

9. Localization in 3D Wireless Sensor Networks

10. Device Free Localization using Wireless Sensor Networks

11. Hybrid Routing in Vehicular networks for Intelligent Transportation systems realization

12. Adaptive Key Generation for secure vehicular communication exploiting channel randomness

13. Study on device to device communication in constrained environment

14. Multiuser Detection in Sporadic 3GPP Massive M2M Communication Via Compressed Sensing 

15. FPGA Implementation of Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for MIMO Transceivers 

16. High Performance MIMO Systems using Simulated Annealing 

17. Implementation of PSO Algorithm on FPGA for MIMO Systems 

Current / Past Undergraduate projects

1. Megha S Kumar - Investigation of Secret Key generation schemes for Physical layer security in indoor environments - July 2023.

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3. Anusha K S - Investigation of Device Free Localization Techniques over Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning -  November 2023.Unified framework for learning outcome assessment

4. UAV based Adhoc wireless networks in challenging environments

5. Ransomware detection in Android devices

6. Adaptive trajectory planning for multiple AUVs in underwater conditions

7. Smart Walker -  Embedded system for automatic path planning and obstacle avoidance

8. Hand Gesture recognition for computer software applications

9. Multi-Target Tracking in indoor environments

10. Performance study of OTFS systems         

11. Performance optimization of energy harvesting wireless sensor networks

12. Bio inspired algorithms for target detection in MIMO Radar 

13. Symbol Obfuscation in Physical layer security in MIMO systems

14. Energy Efficient Techniques for 3GPP Machine to Machine Communication 

15. Target Localization in MIMO Radars using Compressed Sensing

16. Robust MIMO Detection in the presence of Channel Estimation Errors 

17. A Meta Heuristic Approach to MIMO Detection 

18. Investigation of Space Time Coding and Precoding for MIMO Systems 

19. Design and Analysis of MIMO -OFDM Transceivers via Geometric Megha S Kumar - Investigation of Secret Key generation schemes for Physical layer security in indoor environments - July 2023.

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21. Anusha K S - Investigation of Device Free Localization Techniques over Wireless Sensor Networks using Machine Learning -  November 2023.Mean Decomposition 

22. Improved Channel Estimation Techniques for MIMO-OFDM Systems 

23. Development of Spectrum Sensing Techniques for Cognitive Radios in Low SNR Conditions 

24. Implementation of Software Defined Radar with Improved Signal Detection Techniques using Wavelets 

25. Design, Analysis and Optimization of Microwave Band Pass Filters 

26. Design and Development of a Reconfigurable Antenna for WLAN Applications