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Prof. Laxminarayana Pillutla at DA-IICT
Contact
Address:
Room # 4203, Faculty Block-4
Dhirubhai
Ambani-Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DA-IICT)
Post Bag 4
(Near Indroda Circle)
Gandhinagar - 382007
Gujarat
India.
E-mail: firstname_lastname "@"
daiict.ac.in
Phone: +91-79-30510621
About me: I am currently an Assistant Professor at
DA-IICT. I obtained my PhD
from the University
of British Columbia, Vancouver (rated as the most liveable city in
the
world; it has some great beaches and has nature in its most pristine
form), BC, Canada in 2009. My PhD supervisor was Prof. Vikram Krishnamurthy.
My
PhD dissertation title was: Resource
Management
in
Wireless
Networks. Prior to that I obtained my
Masters degree from Wichita State
University, Wichita, KS, USA, under the guidance of Dr. Sudharman Jayaweera
(currently at
University of New Mexico). My Masters thesis title was: Capacity of MIMO Systems - A
Theoretical and Practical Perspective.
Research areas:
- Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs)
- Cognitive
Radio (CR)
- Vehicular Ad
Hoc Networks (VANETs)
- Information
theory
- Statistical
Signal Processing
- Convex
Optimization
- Game Theory
Note:
- I am
currently focusing on
application of techniques such as Markov
decision
processes and game
theory to the general design of wireless networks.
- I am
also looking for a few motivated M. Tech and PhD students to work on
the above
mentioned research areas.
- Motivated
B. Tech students may also contact me in case if they are interested in
working on projects that involve working with embedded systems. Typical projects would
involve programming of sensor nodes using TinyOS.
Teaching:
Research Projects:
- Wireless
Telemedicine using body area sensor networks (this project is
sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC),
Department of Science and Technology (DST) under the fast track scheme
for young scientists. Total cost of the project is: Rs. 12.6 Lacs.
Total duration of the project is: 3 Years). Various
aspects of the project will be posted shortly.
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Publications:
Journals/Book
chapters:
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, "A Price based
Decentralized Rate Adaptation for IEEE
802.11 WLANS", (accepted with
minor revisions) for publication in a special issue on Adaptive communication
in wireless networks, Springer
Wireless Personal Communications. (will be posted shortly).
- T. Issariyakul, L. S. Pillutla, and V. Krishnamurthy,
"Tuning Radio Resource in an Overlay Cognitive Radio Network for TCP:
Greed Isn’t Good", IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2009, vol. 47,
no. 7, pp. 57-63. (click here for
pdf file).
- Q. Pang, L. S. Pillutla, V. C.M. Leung, and V.
Krishnamurthy, "Impact of Cognitive Radio Links on Upper Layer Protocol
Design", in Cognitive Radio Networks, Auerbach Publications, CRC Press,
Editors: Y. Xiao and F. Hu, 2008 (invited).
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, "Data Gathering in
Correlated Wireless Sensor Networks with Cooperative Transmission",
in Cooperative Communications for Improved Wireless Network
Transmission, IGI-Global publications, Editors: M. Uysal, 2008
(invited).
Conference papers:
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, “Game Theoretic Rate
Adaptation in Spectrum-Overlay Cognitive Radio Networks,” in
proceedings of IEEE
Global Communications Conference (Globecom), New Orleans, LA, December
2008. (click here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, “Mutual Information and
Energy Tradeoff in Correlated Wireless Sensor Networks,” in proceedings
of IEEE Conference on Communications
(ICC), Beijing, China, May 2008. (click
here for pdf
file).
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, “Minimum Energy Data
Gathering in Correlated Wireless Sensor Networks with Cooperative
Transmission,” in proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications
(ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, June 2007. (click here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, “Structural
Results on Optimal Rate and Number of Clusters in Cooperative MIMO
Sensor Networks,” in proceedings of IEEEAsilomar Conference on Signals,
Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA, USA, November 2005. (click here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and V. Krishnamurthy, “Joint Rate and Cluster
Optimization in Cooperative MIMO Sensor Networks,” in proceedings of
IEEE Conference on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless
Communications (SPAWC), New York, NY, USA, June 2005. (click here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and S. K. Jayaweera, “Capacity of MIMO
Systems in Rayleigh Fading and Shadowing,” in proceedings of IEEE
Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers, Monterey, CA,
USA, November 2004. (click
here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and S. K. Jayaweera, “Capacity of MIMO
Systems in Rayleigh Fading with Sub-Optimal Adaptive Transmission
Schemes," in proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Information
Theory and its Applications (ISITA) 2004, Parma, Italy, October 2004. (click here for pdf file).
- L. S. Pillutla and S. K. Jayaweera, “MIMO Capacity of an
OFDM-based System under Ricean Fading,” in proceedings of IEEE
Vehicular Technology Conferenc (VTC), Milan, Italy, May 2004. (click here for pdf file).
(website last updated on
July 20, 2010)