Ekant Sharma
Assistant Professor
Department of Electronics
and Communication
IIT Roorkee, India
We are hiring. If interested, please fill the google form.
Research Area
Actively looking for motivated PhD/Masters/BTech students to work on
the i) state-of-the-art problems in Beyond 5G/6G technologies
(highlighted below) and ii) 5G New Radio (NR) Standard. There are no
specific prerequisites, please drop me an email with your resume, if
interested.
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Ongoing Projects
Topic | Funding Agency | Role | Budget (INR) | Duration |
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Design and Development of New Prototype for RIS-aided Communication | IIITB COMET Foundation | PI | 157 Lakhs | 2022-2025 |
5G Advanced ORAN Massive MIMO Base Station | IIITB COMET Foundation | PI | 125 Lakhs | 2022-2025 |
RIS Assisted Cell-free NOMA system for 5G and Beyond Communication | Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India | PI | 30.9 Lakhs | 2022-2024 |
3GPP Complaint PUCCH design for 5G NR User | Spanidea Systems Private Limited | PI | 23.6 Lakhs | 2022-2023 |
THz Characterization System | SMILE, IIT Roorkee | Co-PI | 650 Lakhs | 2022-2023 |
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: A Smart Anti-UAV design | Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee | PI | 20 Lakhs | 2021-2023 |
NEWS
PhD student got selected as PMRF fellow. Congratulations Ashutosh!
Got recognition as an Exemplary Reviewer - IEEE Transactions on Communications for the year 2022
Co-chaired session on Cyber-physical systems at TSDSI Workshop on Standards Driven Research - NCC 2023
Invited to serve on the technical program committee for ICNC'23 and WiMob'23 IEEE conferences
Invited tutorial at IEEE COMSNETS Conference at Bangalore on the topic ``OTFS Aided Cell-free Massive MIMO for Beyond 5G'' (more details)
Invited talk at IIIT Bangalore on the topic ``Green Full-Duplex Communication for Beyond 5G/6G'
Invited to serve on the technical program committee for ICC'23 IEEE flagship conference
Keynote speaker at E2A Conference organized by NIT Silchar (more details)
Organized a three days workshop on LabVIEW and Basics of Data Acquisition System in collaboration with VVDN technologies and IIITB COMET foundation
Invited for a Roundtable on 6G, organized by DoT to explore opportunities in the Tera Hz band (more details)
Our paper on Massive MIMO Relaying with Rician Channel and Phase Shifts IEEE has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Congratulations to Priya and Dharmendra!
Our paper on Cell-free RIS NOMA for Beyond 5G wireless system got accepted in IEEE flagship conference GLOBECOM 2022. Congratulations to Malay and Sivapavan!
Received Project grant to work on the Design and Development of New Prototype for RIS-aided Communication, funded by IIITB COMET foundation
Received Project grant to work on the RIS Assisted Cell-free NOMA system for 5G and Beyond Communication, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India
Book Chapters, one on Multi-hop communication and another FBMC communication, got accepted for publication in the book titled "A Glimpse Beyond 5G in Wireless Networks" by Springer Nature
Invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE ICNC'23 AMCN
Hemant Singh and Ashuli Manikho has joined our group as a Research Associate!!
Two international students SOWRABH BANIK and TSEGA TEKLEWOLD TEKLEMARIAM has joined our group
Received Project grant to work on the 5G Advanced ORAN Massive MIMO Base Station, funded by IIITB COMET foundation
Appointed as faculty advisor for MTech CNSP group
Invited as a speaker for the Workshop on Radio Frequency Front End Design & Solutions for Advanced Wireless and Space Communication
Sneha Singhal has joined our group as PhD student. Welcome Sneha!
Ashutosh Bisht from our group has converted from MTech to PhD programme. All the best for your PhD journey!
Congratulations to Sivapavan Kumar Vasa and Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala, for joining Qualcomm. All the best for your future!
Vikram from Saastra Deemed University, successfully completes his final year internship.
Congratulations to Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala and Sivapavan Kumar Vasa for succesfully defending your MTech thesis.
Majid from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, successfully completes his final year internship.
Ashutosh and Saiteja (Both students of IIT Roorkee) joined as a Hardware Intern.
Paper on RIS Assisted Multi-Pair Full-Duplex Communication got accepted in IEEE Communication Letters 2022. Congratulations Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala (My first MTech student).
Congratulations to Sivapavan Kumar Vasa and Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala, for joining Qualcomm. All the best for your future!
Vikram from Saastra Deemed University, successfully completes his final year internship.
Congratulations to Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala and Sivapavan Kumar Vasa for succesfully defending your MTech thesis.
Majid from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, successfully completes his final year internship.
Ashutosh and Saiteja (Both students of IIT Roorkee) joined as a Hardware Intern.
Received Project grant to work on the 3GPP Complaint PUCCH design for 5G NR User, funded by Spanidea Systems Private Limited
Invited as a resource person for the ``Workshop on Technical Writing using LaTeX'' at VIT-AP (link).
Workshop on "5G-NR Physical Layer: Modeling, Technologies and Standards" by IIITB COMET foundation got very good repsonse with 400+ registrations (link).
Instructor for Post Graduate Certification course in ``5G Technology and IoT'' by Coursera and IIT Roorkee (link).
Member of following committees: Department academic program committee (DAPC), ANSYS fellowship for MTech students, Departmental high performance computing (HPC), SATHI proposal of DST.
Invited to become a TPC member for International Conference on Emerging Electronics & Automation (E2A 2022).
Expert talk at DSCE Bangalore in FDP on “Disruptive Technologies and challenges in Devices, Communications, Health care, Automation, Smart Grid using AI, ML and 5G/6G (link) ”.
Acting as a TPC member for IEEE ICICICT-2022 organized by IEEE Kerala Section.
Invited by IIITB COMET Foundation as a speaker for the workshop on "5G-NR Physical Layer: Modeling, Technologies and Standards"
Appointed as the Joint Secretary in the executive committee of the IEEE Roorkee Sub-section.
Member of selection committee for Ansys fellowship program at IIT Roorkee.
Paper on UAV-Enabled Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems got accepted in IEEE IEEE Transactions on Communications 2022.
Paper on massive MIMO full-duplex cell-free massive MIMO got accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.
Project proposal on the topic UAV communication for 5G and beyond: A smart anti-UAV design got approved, sponsored by IIT Roorkee.
Paper on massive MIMO full-duplex intelligent reflecting surfaces got accepted in IEEE flagship conference Globecom 2021.
Expert talk in FDP at DSCE Bangalore on the topic ``5G and Beyond Wireless Systems".
Expert talk in FDP at NITTTR Chandigarh on the topic ``MATLAB Implementation of OFDM based on 5G NR Standard".
Expert talk in FDP at NITTTR Chandigarh on the topic ``Beyond 5G".
Three papers on UAV assisted cell-free massive MIMO, full duplex cell-free massive MIMO, and wireless powered massive MIMO multi-hop systems got published in IEEE flagship conference ICC 2021.
Chaired a very interesting and timely tutorial by Prof. Emil Bjornson on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Holographic Massive MIMO at NCC'2021.
Invited talk at Center for Network Intelligence (IISc) on 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Perspective.
Two book chapter proposals got accepted for publication in the book titled "A Glimpse Beyond 5G in Wireless Networks" by the publisher Springer Nature.
Our paper on multi-pair massive MIMO FD relaying with Rician and correlated channels got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Our paper on Energy-efficient spatially-correlated hardware impaired massive MIMO FD relaying got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Won IITK best PhD thesis award.
Our paper on massive MIMO NOMA systems design got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.
Selected as Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication at IIT Roorkee.
Won best PhD thesis award in IEEE SPCOM 2020.
Defended my PhD thesis.