ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

Head of Department

Dr. Prabir Kumar Saha
Ph.D(IIEST)

E-mail:
hod.ec@nitm.ac.in

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Dr. Shravan Kumar Bandari Assistant Professor

Ph.D (NIT Warangal), Post-Doc (Seoul National University)

shravnbandari@nitm.ac.in
+91-7093328329
https://nitmeghalaya.irins.org/profile/159469

Research Interest

6G communications, Waveform engineering for next-generation wireless systems, cognitive radio, compressed sensing, and intelligent reflecting surfaces.

Education Qualification

Ph.D (NIT Warangal), Post-Doc (Seoul National University)

Education Details:

  1. Postdoctoral Fellow from Seoul National University (world ranking 36, QS Ranking 2018), South Korea, in 2019.
  2. Doctor of Philosophy from the National Institute of Technology Warangal in 2018.
  3. Master of Technology from the National Institute of Technology Durgapur in 2013.
  4. Bachelor of Technology from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad in 2010.

Projects:


Sl. No.
Title of Project
PI
Co-PI
Funding Agency
Sanctioned Amount
Start Yr - End Yr (Duration)
Status
1.AI Empowered Advanced Wireless Communication Systems
Dr. P. Rangababu

1. Dr. Shravan Kumar Bandari

2. Dr. Abhishek Sarkhel

3. Dr. Ch V Rama Rao

4. Dr. Shubhankar Majumdar 

5. Dr. Satyendra Singh Yadav

DST sponsored FIST Level - 1

80,00,000 INR

(Sanction Number: SR/FST/ET-I/2020/689)

2021-2026
On-going
2.Deep-Cancellation: A deep learning approach to mitigate interference in GFDM receiver for future wireless systems
Dr. Shravan Kumar Bandari
---TEQIP-III
1,83,000 INR
2021-2023
completed



Publications:

1) Journals:

  1. Mahima ChaudharyS. K. Bandari, "A low complex joint optimization model for maximizing sum rate and energy efficiency in an IRS-assisted multi-user communication scenario",, in Physical Communication, Elsevier,  vol. 64, pp. 1-10, 2024.
  2. S. K. Bandari, Satyendra Singh Yadav, V.V. Mani, " Analysis of GFDM in generalized n-µ fading channel: A simple probability density function approach for beyond 5G wireless applications", in AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, Vol. 153, pp. 1-9, 154260, ISSN 1434-8411, 2022. 
  3. W. Kim, S. K. Bandari,  and B. Shim, "Enhanced Sparse Vector Coding for Ultra-Reliable and Low Latency Communications" in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 5698-5702, May 2020.
  4. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos, "Novel hybrid PAPR reduction schemes for the MGFDM systemPhysical Communication, Elsevier, vol. 31,  pp. 69-78, 2018.
  5. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos, "GFDM/OQAM performance analysis under Nakagami fading channelsPhysical Communication, Elsevier,  vol. 26, pp. 162-169, 2018.
  6. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos,  "PAPR analysis of wavelet based multitaper GFDM systemAEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier, vol. 76, pp. 166-174, 2017.
  7. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos, "Training based channel estimation for multitaper GFDM systemMobile Information Systems, Hindawi, pp. 1-8, 2017.
  8. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos, "Performance analysis of GFDM in various fading channelsCOMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Emerald, vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 225-244, 2016.
  9. S. K. Bandari, Venkata Mani Vakamulla, and Anastasios Drosopoulos,  "Robust Precoded OSTBC for GFDM SystemsProcedia Computer Science, Elsevier, vol. 93, pp. 176-182, 2016.
  10. S. Nallagonda, S. K. Bandari, S. Dhar Roy, and S. Kundu, "On the performance of weighted fusion-based spectrum sensing in fading channels" Journal of Computational Engineering, pp. 1-11, 2013, doi.org/10.1155/2013/270612. 

2) Conferences:

  1.  Dolly Kumari, Mahima Chaudhary , Risham Doley, S.K. Bandari, "Improved Reliability of Enhanced Sparse Vector Coding Using Maximal Ratio Transmission for Short Packet Transmission", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS-2023), 17-20 December, 2023.
  2. Suresh Penchala, S.K. Bandari, Venkata Mani V, Sai Krishna Kondoju, "On the Bit Error Rate Analysis of Log-Normal Fading Channel in IRS-setup", 20th IEEE  India Council International Conference (INDICON)14-17 December, 2023.
  3. Mahima Chaudhary, Dolly Kumari, S.K. Bandari,"Joint Active and Passive Beamforming in IRS-assisted Wireless Networks Over Generalized Fading Model", IEEE International conference on vision towards emerging trends in communication and networking technologies (ViTECoN), 05-06 May, 2023. 
  4. Suresh Penchala, Mahima Chaudhary, S.K. Bandari, VV Mani, "Impact of Nakagami-m Fading Channel on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface Symbol Error Rate in Non-line-of-sight scenarios", 19th IEEE  India Council International Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-4, 24-26 November, 2022.
  5. S. K. Bandari, and Ch. V. Rama Rao, "Enhanced Sparse Vector Coding With Limited Pilot Overhead for Short Packet Transmission", IEEE Advanced Communication Technologies and Signal Processing (ACTS-2021), 15-17 December 2021.
  6. Astha Awasthi, Mithun Kumar, S. K. Bandari, and V.V. Mani, "Maximal Ratio Sparse Vector Coding for Short Packet Transmission", IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS-2021),  13-16 December 2021.
  7. S. K. Bandari, V. V. Mani and A. Drosopoulos, "Convolutional codes for MGFDM system" IEEE International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), pp. 545-550, 2017.
  8. S. K. Bandari, V. V. Mani and A. Drosopoulos, "GFDM/OQAM implementation under Rician fading channelIEEE International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI),  pp. 256-260, 2016.
  9. S. K. Bandari, V. V. Mani and A. Drosopoulos, "OQAM implementation of GFDMIEEE 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT),  pp. 1-5, 2016.
  10. S. K. Bandari, V. V. Mani and A. Drosopoulos, "Multi-taper implementation of GFDMIEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1-5, 2016.
  11. S. K. Bandari, A. Drosopoulos, and V. V. Mani, "Exact SER Expressions of GFDM in Nakagami-m and Rician fading channelsProceedings of 21th European Wireless Conference, pp. 1-6, 2015.
  12. S. Nallagonda, S. K. Bandari, S. D. Roy and S. Kundu, "Performance of cooperative spectrum sensing with soft data fusion schemes in fading channelsIEEE India Conference (INDICON), pp. 1-6, 2013.
  13. S. Nallagonda, S. K. Bandari, S. D. Roy and S. Kundu, "Cooperative spectrum sensing with censoring of cognitive radios in presence of log-normal shadowing under majority logic fusion" IEEE International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS), pp. 413-416, 2012, doi: 10.1109/CODIS.2012.6422226. .
  14. S. Nallagonda, S. K. Bandari, S. D. Roy and S. Kundu, "Performance of weighted cooperative spectrum sensing schemes in fading channels" IEEE International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems (CODIS), pp. 21-24, 2012.

3) Book Chapters: 

  1. S.K. Bandari, Content contributor for Indian adaptation of the book, "Introduction to Analog and Digital Communications", Simon Haykin, Michael Moher, Wiley, 2E, 2023.
  2. K. Pruthvi Krishna, S.K. Bandari, and V. V. Mani. "Implementation of GFDM Transceiver" Electronics and Communications Engineering, Apple Academic Press, pp. 101-110, 2019.

Achievements:

  1. Dr. Shravan Kumar Bandari received an award of "Young Faculty in Communication Engineering" for his contribution and achievement in the discipline of Engineering from the Center for Advanced Research and Design, Venus International Foundation for the year 2021.  
  2. Received Postdoctoral fellowship from GIGA Korea project at Seoul National University, South Korea, 2018-2019.
  3. Received ERASMUS-MUNDUS Euphrates scholarship from the European Union under the doctoral mobility programme at TEI of Patras, Greece (now changed to University of the Peloponnese), 2014-2015.
  4. Selected candidate to receive Erasmus-Mundus INTERWEAVE scholarship holder at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, 2014-2015.
  5. Received scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India, for pursuing a Ph.D. at NIT Warangal, 2013.
  6. Received scholarship from the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), India, for pursuing M.Tech at NIT Durgapur, 2011.
  7. Received travel grants from various academic sectors for attending workshops and conferences.   

Outreach Activities:

1) Reviewer for the following Journals:

  1. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (IEEE)
  2. IEEE Wireless Communications Letters (IEEE)
  3. IEEE Communications Letters (IEEE)
  4. IET Communications
  5. IET Generation, Transmission and Distribution
  6. AEU- International Journal of Electronics and Communications (Elsevier)
  7. Physical Communication (Elsevier)
  8. International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS, Wiley)
  9. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT, Wiley)
  10. ICT Express (Elsevier)
  11. IETE Journal of Research (Taylor & Francis)
  12. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems

2) Reviewer for the following conferences:

  1. Machine learning, Deep learning and Computational Intelligence for wireless communication (MDCWC-2020), Springer
  2. IEEE International conference on advances in computing, communications and informatics (ICACCI) 2019
  3. International conference communications, signal processing and VLSI (IC2SV) 2019
  4. IEEE Globecom Conference 2017

3) Invited talks and session chairs:

  1. Online expert lecture on “Deep learning for wireless communication” as part of Two week online FDP on “Recent Research Trends and Applications of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning'', Organized by Electronics & ICT Academy, NIT-WARANGAL & In association with KU College of Engineering & Technology, Kakatiya University, Warangal, India,
    10 - 20 August 2022.
  2. Session chair for workshop on "Machine learning, Deep learning and Computational Intelligence for wireless communication (MDCWC-2020)", NIT Tiruchirapalli, India, 22-24 October 2020.
  3. Delivered invited talk titled, "Compressed sensing for beyond 5G applications using deep learning", in the online faculty development program on "Recent Trends in Communication Technologies" (RTCT-2020) organized by Vaagdevi College of Engineering (Autonomous, JNTU Hyderabad), India, 10-14 October 2020.
  4. Delivered invited talk titled, "Introduction to GFDM for 5G applications", in the online faculty development program on "Recent Trends in Communication Technologies (RTCT-2020)" organized by Vaagdevi College of Engineering (Autonomous, JNTU Hyderabad), India, 10-14 October 2020.
  5. Delivered invited talk titled, "Compressed sensing for B5G: A 60 min tour", in the National Webinar on "Recent Advancement of system Design Towards 5G Communication (RASDT5C-2021) " organized by Dept. of Electronics and Communication Engg., Haldia Institute of Technology, West Bengal, India, 11-13 January 2021.

4) Technical program committee (TPC) for the Machine learning, Deep learning, and Computational Intelligence for wireless communication (MDCWC)-2020 conference.

5) Technical program committee (TPC) for the IC2SV-2019 conference.

6) Technical event coordinator for National conference on Recent Advances in Communication and Electronics Engineering (RACEE), organized by NIT Warangal, 2016.

Work Experience:

  1. Working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, National Institute of Technology Meghalaya, India from Sep-2019 to till-date.

Teaching:

  1. EC 212 - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes 
  2. EC 301 - Analog and Digital Communication Systems 
  3. EC 307 - Fiber Optics Communication 
  4. EC 419 - Wireless Communication 
  5. EC 415 - Information Theory And Coding 
  6. EC 527 - Wireless & Mobile Communication 
  7. EC 548 - Signal Detection and Estimation Theory 
  8. EC 701 - Concepts of Electronics and Communication

Responsibilities:

1) Institution Activities

  1. Coordinator, CCMT admissions 2024
  2. Member, CCMT admissions 2023
  3. Member, Examination committee, Aug-2022 to till date
  4. Faculty I/C (Dance and Drama club, SAC), Aug-2022 to till date
  5. Member, IQAC committee, Sep-2023 to till date 
  6. Member, NSS Committee, Aug-2022 to till date
  7. Member, Anti-Ragging squad Committee, 2022-2023
  8. Member, CCMT admissions 2022
  9. Warden - Lapalang 2 boys hostel, July-2021 to till date.
  10. Member, Student Activity Centre (SAC) - Technical Committee, Aug-2020 to Aug-2022.
  11. Member, Intellectual Property Committee (IPC), Dec-2020 to Dec-2022.
  12. Member, Admission (B. Tech & M.Tech) screening committee - Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), Direct Admission of Student Abroad (DASA), Study in India (SII) - June 2021, JoSAA 2020.
  13. Member, Screening committee - Technician and lab attended - Jan 2021.
  14. Member, Convocation Guests Hospitality sub-committee - 2023.
  15. Member, Convocation robing sub-committee - 2020, 2021.

2) Departmental Activities

  1. Communication Systems Lab Incharge - Jan-2020 to present.
  2. Co-ordinator, RF microwave and communication research group - July 2023 - till date 
  3. Faculty Advisor, ECE, 2021-2025
  4. Departmental academic committee, ECE, 2019 - till date
  5. B.Tech (EC) Projects coordinator - July-2020 to July-2022.
  6. Ph.D. (PT) applications scrutiny - June 2021.

Research Team

1) Ph.D. 
  1. Mahima Chaudhary,"Beamforming techniques for future wireless systems", ongoing.
  2. Suresh Penchala, "IRS-assisted communication for 6G communication systems", ongoing.
  3. Risham Doley, "Waveform engineering for future wireless applications", ongoing.
  4. Dolly Kumari,"Short packet transmission for future wireless systems", ongoing.
2) UG:
  1. Malla Charan, Swejal Rahate, "Short packet transmission for future wireless systems", Ongoing.
  2. Rosefulda Swer, Prettynis Hadia, " A Study on Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces in Shadowing Regions",
    Year of award: 2023.
  3. Meai Kyrpang Wankhar, and Raphael S Kharlukhi, "Optimal base station positioning in hilly areas using multicarrier techniques", Year of award: 2022.
  4. Mithun Kumar, Astha Awasthi, and Ratnesh Kumar Tiwary, "Development of Wireless Systems for URLLC  applications", Year of award: 2021.
  5. S.N. Charan Reddy, Rafaela Graia Nongrum, and Janouris Centle Shanong, "Face Detection Alarming System", Year of award: 2020.
3) Summer internships:
  1. Amandeep Sinha, "Deep learning for physical layer communication", June 2020.
  2. Mithun Kumar, "Visible light communication", June 2020.
  3. M. Bharadwaj, "Beyond 5G wireless systems for URLLC applications", June 2020.

Professional Membership:

  1. Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
  2. Member of  IEEE Communications Society.

Seminars/Conferences/Workshops Attended:


Sl. No. Title of the Program
Organized by
From
To
Duration
1.National Conference on Recent Advances in Communication and Electronics Engineering
National Institute of Technology Warangal, India
21-Oct-2016
22-Oct-2016
2 days
2.Fifth International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications, and Informatics
The LNM Institute of Information technology, Jaipur, India
21-Sep-2016
24-Sep-2016
4 days
3.Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computing and CommunicationsRajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, Kochi, India
06-Sep-2016
08-Sep-2016
3 days
4.European Wireless conference
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), Budapest, Hungary
20-May-2015
22-May-2015
3 days
5.Graphical System Design Approach for Research in Power Systems, Power Electronics, and Communications
NIT Warangal and National Instruments, India
03-Oct-2013
04-Oct-2013
2 days
6.Scientific Computing with MATLAB
NIT Warangal, India
22-Sep-2013
26-Sep-2013
5 days
7.Good Laboratory Practices
NIT Warangal, India13-Sep-2013
13-Sep-2013
1 day
8.International Conference on Communications, Devices and Intelligent Systems
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
28-Dec-2012
29-Dec-2012
2 days


Professional Training Received/Summer Schools/Winter Schools Attended:


Sl. No.Nature of TrainingDurationOrganization where training was providedYear
1.Five Days Intensive Training program on NI Communication System Design Platform
May 17- May 21, 2016
National Instruments, Bangalore section, India2016
2.Indo-French center for applied mathematics (IFCAM) summer school
July 07- July 25, 2014
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, India
2014