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PRASAD NETALKAR, Ph.D.
Senior Modem Technologies Engineer, Qualcomm, San Diego
Short Bio
Prasad Netalkar received Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri at WINLAB, Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey (May 2023). Previously, he obtained his Masters in electrical engineering from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, USA (May 2017) and a Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and communication engineering from PES Institute of Technology, India (May 2015). Currently, he’s working as a Senior Modem Technologies Engineer at Qualcomm, San Diego. His research focuses on optimizing the 5G stack using cross-layer techniques for future mmWave and 5G networks particularly related to the use of edge cloud infrastructures and key concepts from “named-object” information-centric network (ICN) architecture to enhance user experience. Building next-generation communication networks with performance guarantees in terms of latency, data rates, and scalability is highly challenging and requires interdisciplinary research combined with the optimization of various layers of the protocol stack. His work stresses on the need for using cross-layer feedback support be it with the transport layer or IP layer or even application layer for improved data transfer, seamless handoffs during mobility, enhanced edge cloud migration/offloading for compute-intensive tasks, collision-free dynamic spectrum access between multiple independent networks. He has a very keen interest in future 5G architecture and the way it is going to influence people's lives in the coming days. During his free time, he enjoys biking, playing badminton, and table tennis.
Research Interest: mmWave transport, Future Internet Architecture (FIA), Heterogeneous Networks, Spectrum Management, Edge Cloud, Software Defined Networking (SDN)
Recent News
Our transaction paper on Scalable SCM-based dynamic spectrum access is now available on TechRxiv (April 3 2024)
Title: Scalable Dynamic Spectrum Access with IEEE 1900.5.2 Spectrum Consumption Models
Paper accepted at FutureG Experimental Test Platforms for Advanced Systems Implementation and Research (Sept 21 2023)
Title: Remote Orchestration of NextG Services Across the Global Internet: An Experimental Study
Invited to serve as a TPC for International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications (ICWMC 2024) (Sept 14 2023)
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking (TCCN) (Aug 30 2023)
Invited to serve as a TPC for IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2023) (Jul 17 2023)
Invited to serve as a TPC for International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications (ICSNC 2023) (June 15 2023)
Joined Qualcomm as a Senior Modem Technologies Engineer (HQ, San Diego) (June 12 2023)
Presented our work on Dynamic Spectrum Access at NSF Merif 2023 Workshop in Boston (May 22 2023)
Graduated with a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers- The State University of New Jersey (May 14 2023)
Presented our work on mmWave Transport (mmCPTP) at IEEE/IFIP NOMS 2023 in Miami, FL, USA (May 10 2023)
Reviewer for Sixth International Balkan Conference on Communications and Networking (BalkanCom 2023) (April 13 2023)
Our work on SCM-based dynamic spectrum access was presented at the WCNC conference in Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Mar 29 2023)
Successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis (link) (Mar 23 2023)
Thanks to my committee members: Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Prof. Narayan Mandayam,
Prof. Predrag Spasojevic, and Prof. Carlos Caicedo
Received Student Travel Grant by IEEE ComSoc to attend NOMS 2023 conference in Miami, FL (Mar 8 2023)
Video on the recently funded NSF project on "Spectrum Sharing via Consumption Models and Telemetry" is now on YouTube (Mar 7 2023)
Paper accepted at 36th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2023) (Dec 24 2022)
Title: mmCPTP: A Cross-Layer Pull based Transport Protocol for 5G mmWave Networks
Paper accepted at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2023) (Dec 10 2022)
Title: Large-Scale Dynamic Spectrum Access with IEEE 1900.5.2 Spectrum Consumption Models
I passed my Ph.D. proposal examination (Oct 24 2022)
Title: Reinventing the Protocol Stack for Next-Generation Mobile Networks
Thanks to Prof. Dipankar Raychaudhuri, Prof. Narayan Mandayam, Prof. Richard Martin and
Prof. Predrag Spasojevic for their valuable feedback and comments.
Started my internship at Qualcomm, San Diego (HQ) (June 13 2022)
Role: 5G NR Protocol Design Intern
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC) (May 23 2022)
Invited to serve as a TPC for IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2022) (May 19 2022)
Presented our work on Dynamic Spectrum Access at WiNTECH 2021 workshop, New Orleans (April 1 2022)
Excited to return back to Qualcomm, San Diego coming summer (return internship) (Oct 27 2021)
Paper accepted at 15th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & CHaracterization
(WiNTECH'21), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2021 (July 31 2021)
Title: A Spectrum Consumption Model-based Framework for DSA Experimentation on the COSMOS Testbed
Started my internship at Qualcomm, San Diego (HQ) (June 1 2021)
Team: Modem System Protocol
The demo video of our new project on Dynamic Spectrum Access as a part of SII planning grant is now on YouTube (Feb 12 2021)
Please find the link here, full paper coming soon
I will be interning at Qualcomm, San Diego this summer (Nov 23 2020)
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) (Nov 23 2020)
Cleared PhD qualifying exam, I'm now a post-qualify PhD candidate (Oct 19 2020)
Presented our work on Network Assisted Handoffs at ICCCN 2020, Hawaii, USA (virtual conference) (Aug 05 2020)
Excited to start my new role as a 3GPP New Radio Intern at InterDigital Inc, NY (June 01 2020)
Paper accepted at 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, Hawaii, USA (April 27 2020)
Title: Evaluation of Network Assisted Handoffs in Heterogeneous Networks
(ICCCN 2020-28.9% acceptance rate)
Paper accepted at 40th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Singapore (March 14 2020)
Title: DISCO: Distributed Control Plane Architecture for Resource Sharing in Heterogeneous Mobile Edge Cloud Scenarios
(ICDCS 2020 -18% acceptance rate)