Special Session on Indian Contribution to Global standards in 2009
Quality of Service in IEEE 802.16m- Recent Contributions
Abhay Karandikar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Infrastructure Protection in Carrier Ethermet - IEEE 802.1Qbf- a new standard amendment
Abhay Karandikar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai and M. Vinod Kumar, Tejas Networks, Bangalore
802.16m PHY specification: Open Loop Rank-1 MIMO Region in Wireless Networks
Kiran Kuchi, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, Chennai
Support for Indic SMS in the 3GPP Standard
Nadeem Akhtar, Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, Chennai
Contribution to Metro Networks
Ashwin Gumaste, IIT Bombay, Mumbai
Abhay Karandikar has supervised many PhD and Masters theses and published in several international and national journals and conferences. His research group at IIT Bombay is currently focused on resource allocation in wireless networks. He is a working group member of IEEE 802 and has recently made several contributions to IEEE 802.1 and 802.16m WiMAX standard. Dr Karandikar has lectured extensively in various international forums and given tutorials in IEEE GLOBECOM, MILCOM. He has been awarded with Best Teacher award of IIT Bombay.
Vinod Kumar works as Sr. R \& D Enginner in CTO's office, Tejas networks Ltd. In this role he is responsible for the long term roadmap of Tejas. He is a member of IEEE 802.1 standardization group and contributes to IEEE 802.1Qbf: PBB-TE Infrastructure Segment Protection Switching. His interest includes transmission technologies, synchronization aspects in transport networks, datacenter bridging. He has done his BTech from IIT-Madras and masters from IISc, Bangalore.
Kiran Kuchi obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington in the year 2006, and worked in Nokia corp, Irving, Texas for a number of years and made significant contributions to baseband transceiver design for GSM/EDGE base station and mobile phone products. In 2008, he joined Cewit, Chennai and has been leading many research efforts in broadband wireless communications. He has been instrumental in contributing several essential IPRs to the IEEE 802.16m standard. He is also an adjunct faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras.
Nadeem Akhtar is a Senior Research Engineer at the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT), Chennai. His current research focusses on MAC and network layer aspects of broadband wireless systems, particularly on issues related to scheduling, interference management, end-to-end QoS and seamless mobility. He is also actively involved in the Special Interest Group on Indian Language SMS, a pan-industry task force addressing various issues related to Indic SMS. Dr. Akhtar led the effort towards standardisation of character sets for Indian language SMS in 3GPP. Nadeem Akhtar has a B.Sc.(Engg.) degree in Electronics from the Aligarh Muslim University, M.E in Telecommunications from the Indian Institute of Science and PhD from the University of Surrey (UK).
Ashwin Gumaste is currently the James R. Isaac Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. He is at present also a Visiting Scientist with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA in the Research Laboratory for Electronics – Claude-E-Shannon group. He was previously with Fujitsu Laboratories (USA) Inc as a Member of Research Staff in the Photonics Networking Laboratory (2001-05). Prior to this he worked in Fujitsu Network Communications R&D and prior to that with Cisco Systems in the Optical Networking Group (ONG). He has 17 issued US patents and has published about 110 papers in referred conferences and journals. He has also authored three books in broadband networks called DWDM Network Designs and Engineering Solutions (a networking bestseller), and First-Mile Access Networks and Enabling Technologies and Broadband Services: User Needs, Business Models and Technologies for John Wiley. He has served Program Chair, Co-chair, Publicity chair and workshop chair for IEEE conferences and as Program Committee member for IEEE ICC, Globecom, OFC, ICCCN, Gridnets etc. Ashwin is also a guest editor for IEEE Communications Magazine, IEEE Network and the founding Editor of the IEEE ComSoc ONTC’s newsletter Prism. He can be reached through www.ashwin.name.