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    Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
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Sarvendranath Rimalapudi

Dr. Sarvendranath Rimalapudi

Former Faculty

Key Research Areas : Intelligent reflecting surfaces, Cell-free massive MIMO, Machine learning for wireless communication, Spectrum sharing.

Phone No: | Email: sarvendranath@iitg.ac.in| Room No: 0001

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PhD: ECE, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 
ME: Telecommunications, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore 
BTech: EEE, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal 

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 : Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden 
May 2020 – Nov 2020 : Samsung R & D Institute India, Bangalore 
Jul 2012 – Jul 2016: BROADCOM Communications, Bangalore

Journal Publications

1. R. Sarvendranath, A. K. R. Chavva, and E. G. Larsson, "Optimal Antenna Selection and Beamforming for an IRS Assisted System", IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., [2023]. , https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10018901

2. Chandan Kumar, Salil Kashyap, R. Sarvendranath and Supreet Kumar Sharma, "On the Feasibility of Wireless Energy Transfer Based on Low Complexity Antenna Selection and Passive IRS Beamforming ", IEEE Transactions on Communications, May [2022].

3. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Statistical CSI Driven Transmit Antenna Selection and Power Adaptation in Underlay Spectrum Sharing Systems", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 2923--2934, May [2021].

4. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta,, "Exploiting power adaptation with transmit antenna selection for interference-outage constrained underlay spectrum sharing", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 1, pp. 480--492, Jan. [2020].

5. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Impact of multiple primaries and partial CSI on transmit antenna selection for interference-outage constrained underlay CR", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 942--953, Feb. [2019].

6. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Transmit antenna selection for interference-outage constrained underlay CR", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 66, no. 9, pp. 3772--3783, Sep. [2018].

7. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Antenna selection with power adaptation in interference-constrained cognitive radios", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 62, no. 3, pp. 786--796, Mar. [2014].

8. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Antenna selection in interference constrained underlay cognitive radios: SEP-optimal rule and performance benchmarking", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 61, no. 2, pp. 496--506, Feb. [2013].

Conference Publications

1. R. Sarvendranath and K. Paul, "Machine Learning Based Power Control for a Secondary Cell-Free Network", NCC , IEEE [2023].

2. Z. H. Shaik, R. Sarvendranath, and E. G. Larsson, "Energy-Efficient Power Allocation for an Underlay Spectrum Sharing RadioWeaves Network", ICC [2022].

3. R. Sarvendranath, U. K. Ganesan, Z. H. Shaik, and E. G. Larsson, "Physical Layer Abstraction Model for RadioWeaves", VTC [2022].

4. Adit Jain, Rahul Devendra, Salil Kashyap and R. Sarvendranath,, "Low Complexity Passive Beamforming Algorithms for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces with Discrete Phase-Shifts over OFDM Systems", NCC [2022].

5. R. Sarvendranath and A. K. R. Chavva, "Low-Complexity Joint Antenna Selection and Beamforming for an IRS Assisted System", WCNC [2021].

6. U. K. Ganesan, R. Sarvendranath, and E. G. Larsson, "BeamSync: Over-The-Air Carrier Synchronization in Distributed RadioWeaves", WSA [2021].

7. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Optimal antenna selection and power adaptation for underlay spectrum sharing with statistical CSI", WCNC [2020].

8. P. Das and R. Sarvendranath, "Optimal Relay and Antenna Selection in MIMO Cognitive Relay Network with Imperfect CSI", WCNC [2020].

9. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Optimal joint antenna selection and power adaptation for underlay spectrum sharing", Globecom [2019].

10. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Optimal transmit antenna selection rule for interference-outage constrained underlay CR", Globecom [2017].

11. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "Optimal joint antenna selection and power adaptation in underlay cognitive radios", WCNC [2013].

12. R. Sarvendranath and N. B. Mehta, "SEP-optimal antenna selection for average interference constrained underlay cognitive radios", Globecom, Dec. [2012].

  1. Awarded INSPIRE faculty fellowship 2021.
  2. Finalist of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2019 India.
  3. Recipient of Kaikini PhD grant 2017 awarded to one student among all the engineering departments in IISc

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