Title: Human Mobility and D2D Communication
Bio: Vivek Ashok Bohara got his PhD in electrical and electronics engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2011. Currently, he is working as an Associate Professor at IIIT-Delhi. His research interests include cognitive radio, cooperative communication and designing digital predistortion algorithms for wideband power amplifiers. During his doctoral research at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore he designed and implemented a prototype WiFi module (IEEE 802.11a) and mobile WiMAX system (IEEE 802.16e) on reconfigurable NI modular instruments as well as on Lyrtech SFF software defined radio platform. For his work on Mobile WiMAX he has awarded 1st prize on 2010 National Instruments ASEAN Virtual Instrumentation application contest. During his tenure as a Post-Doctoral researcher (Marie Curie fellowship) in ESIEE Paris, University Paris-East, he was actively involved in designing and implementing critical blocks for cognitive radio (CR) transmitters.

Abstract: Device-to-device (D2D) is a new communication paradigm which has evolved recently to meet the capacity requirements of 4G/beyond 4G cellular networks. In this talk, I will discuss the spectrum sharing frameworks that were recently proposed to facilitate D2D communication in cellular networks. Specifically, this talk will focus on underlay, overlay and cooperative spectrum sharing frameworks, discuss the trade-off involved when selecting one framework over another and also deliberate on the coexistence issues involving D2D and cellular users. I will also share some of the current analytical, simulation and measurement results obtained by our research group in this direction.

Title: Road Communication Using Visible Light
Bio: Anand Srivastava did his M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. Before joining IIIT Delhi, I was Dean & Professor in School of Computing and Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, HP, India and also Adjunct Professor at IIT Delhi. Prior to this, I was with Alcatel-Lucent-Bell Labs, India; Center for Development of Telematics (CDOT) as Director and member of CDOT Board, a telecom research center of Govt. of India. During my stay in CDOT, I provided technical leadership and motivation to extremely qualified team of about 150+ engineers engaged in the development of national level projects in the areas of Telecom Security Systems, Network Management System, Intelligent Networks, Operations Support Systems, Access Networks (GPON) and Optical Technology based products. Majority of these projects were completed successfully and commercially deployed in the public network. I also carried out significant research work in the Photonics Research Lab, Nice, France, under the Indo-French Science & Technology Cooperation Program on “Special optical fibers and fiber based components for optical communications” during 2007-2010. My research work is in the area of optical core & access networks, Fiber-Wireless (FiWi) architectures, optical signal processing, free space optical communications and energy aware optical networks.

Abstract: In the context of an increasing interest toward reducing the number of traffic accidents and of associated victims, communication-based vehicle safety applications have emerged as one of the best solutions to enhance road safety. In this area, visible light communications (VLC) have great potential for applications due to their relatively simple design for basic functioning, efficiency, and large geographical distribution. This talk addresses the issues related to the VLC usage in vehicular communication applications. Although VLC has been the focus of intensive research during the last few years, the technology is still in its infancy and requires continuous efforts to overcome the current challenges, especially in outdoor applications, such as the automotive communications. This talk is aimed at providing an overview of several research directions that could transform VLC into a reliable component of the transportation infrastructure. The main challenges are identified and the status of the accomplishments in each direction is presented, helping the audience to understand what has been done, where the technology stands and what is still missing

Title: My Journey in Vehicular Communications Research for Safety Messaging
Bio:Sanjit K. Kaul received the B.Tech. degree in electronics and communications engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, in 2000 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Rutgers University in 2011. In 2000, he worked in the telecommunications industry for four years. He was a Research Assistant with the Wireless Information Networks Laboratory from 2005 to 2011. He is currently an Associate Professor with IIIT-Delhi. He works on problems in wireless systems research. His current interests include networking for cyber-physical systems.

Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of my own journey in vehicular communications research that started with channel modeling and medium access control (MAC) interventions to enable vehicular safety messaging, was followed by a paradigm shift which had us look at the problem from the perspective of vehicular safety applications, which are unique in that they value timeliness of information received over the network, and not just the MAC and/or the channel. Most recently, we have attempted to intelligently choose simultaneously the planning actions at an autonomous vehicle and its use of the network to obtain information, with the goal of optimizing the vehicle's utility. I will also briefly introduce the autonomous vehicle platforms at IIIT-Delhi and how they have motivated our recent work.

Title: Advanced sensor fusion techniques for vehicle localisation using GNSS
Bio:Dr. Sanat K. Biswas received the B.E. degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, in 2010, the M.Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in computationally efficient unscented Kalman filters for navigation from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney.
He was associated with the Australian Centre for Space Engineering Research, where he conducted his Ph.D. research and participated in the development of a nano-satellite, UNSW-EC0. He is currently an Assistant Professor at IIIT Delhi. His research interest is navigation, GNSS applications, nonlinear estimation, and Precise Orbit Determination.
Dr. Biswas was the recipient of the 2014 Emerging Space Leaders Grant from the International Astronautical Federation and 2019 Early Career Research Award from the Department of Science and Technology, India.

Abstract: Accurate location information is of foremost importance to ensure road safety. The next generation of connected and intelligent transport systems will be equipped with advanced algorithms to assess vehicle locations with high accuracy by integrating various sensor information with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data. This talk will provide a brief introduction to the GNSS, review recent developments in advanced estimation algorithms that are being used for localisation purpose and provide an overview of how to integrate GNSS observations with other sensor measurements.

Title: Throughput Enhancement for V2X Communication with Hidden-Nodes Constraint and Network Coding
Bio: Dr. Md. Noor-A-Rahim received the Ph.D.degree from the Institute for Telecommunications Research, University of South Australia, Australia in 2015. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Infocomm Technology (INFINITUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is currently a Senior Post-doctoral Researcher and a Marie-Curie Research Fellow with the School of Computer Science & IT, University College Cork, Ireland. His research interests include Control over Wireless Networks, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Information Theory, Signal Processing, and DNA-based Data Storage. He was a recipient of the Michael Miller Medal from the Institute for Telecommunications Research (ITR), University of South Australia, for the most outstanding Ph.D. thesis in 2015.

Abstract: Vehicular communication is a popular and promising platform for road safety, collision/accident avoidance, enhanced and comfort driving, value-added and infotainment services etc. This talk will contain throughput enhancement of vehicular communication in the context of safety and non-safety application. First, I will review the impact of hidden nodes on the Basic Safety Message (BSM) communication at the road intersection. This talk will present the relaying of BSM through a road side unit (RSU) while employing smart beamforming to improve the performance of V2V communication. The second part of this talk will show network coding-assisted heterogeneous on-demand data access in vehicular networks. The proposed network-coding assisted scheme exploits the cross-layer design to improve the on-demand requests serving capability and reducing the system response time.

Title: Safety Alert Systems for Automobiles
Bio: Shri. Jerry Daniel J is a member of the Control & Instrumentation Group of C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram. He has been associated with C-DAC Thiruvananthapuram for the last 21+ years in the field of Embedded System Design and its implementation for various applications. He has expertise in the design of embedded products and solutions for Industrial Automation, Vehicle Tracking Systems, DSRC based Safety Alert Systems for Automobiles, Wireless Sensor Network and Automated Test Stations. Currently he is designated as Associate Director. He obtained his Engineering Degree from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore and his Masters from College of Engineering Trivandrum. His areas of interest include Internet of Things (IoT), Embedded System Design and Design of Automation systems for Industrial applications.

Abstract: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) provides technologies which will enable automobiles foresee and avoid collisions, helps the drivers in navigating through less congested route and reach their destination, provide the traffic system with the information about the traffic conditions on the road and assist the drivers in identifying the nearest available parking slots. Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) is one of the key technologies which enables ITS to develop various applications based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications.
Today DSRC enabled products/solutions are mostly imported in India, which are not viable due to cost, customization options and post deployment support. Hence there is an urge for indigenous solutions which will enable plethora of DSRC based applications for Indian Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) - Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram centres have jointly designed and developed an indigenous DSRC system for on road vehicles. This indigenously developed DSRC system has On Board Unit (OBU) and Road Side Unit (RSU) hardware as well as DSRC stack for providing V2V and V2I communications. This development project was funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.

Title: A Vision to strengthen the local chapter
Bio: Coming Soon
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Title: Safety Alert Systems using Dedicated Short Range Communication for on Road Vehicles (SAFEDRIVE)
Bio: Dr. S.V.Srikanth is a member of the National Ubiquitous Computing Research Resource Centre of C-DAC, Hyderabad. He has been associated with C-DAC Hyderabad for the last 15+ years in the field of Embedded System Design and Ubiquitous Computing. Currently he is designated as Joint Director. He obtained Masters in Networking and Telecom systems from UK and Ph.D. in the area of Wireless Heterogeneous Networks from JNT University, Hyderabad, India. His areas of interest include Internet of Things (IoT), Ubiquitous Computing, Wireless Technologies, Embedded System Design and Mobile Communications. He has executed around 12 projects and has published 19 papers in various journals & conferences. He has also delivered talks in number of national workshops.

Abstract: Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) provides technologies which will enable automobiles foresee and avoid collisions, helps the drivers in navigating through less congested route and reach their destination, provide the traffic system with the information about the traffic conditions on the road and assist the drivers in identifying the nearest available parking slots. Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) is one of the key technologies which enables ITS to develop various applications based on Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) communications.
Today DSRC enabled products/solutions are mostly imported in India, which are not viable due to cost, customization options and post deployment support. Hence there is an urge for indigenous solutions which will enable plethora of DSRC based applications for Indian Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) - Hyderabad and Thiruvananthapuram centres have jointly designed and developed an indigenous DSRC system for on road vehicles. This indigenously developed DSRC system has On Board Unit (OBU) and Road Side Unit (RSU) hardware as well as DSRC stack for providing V2V and V2I communications. This development project was funded by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India.