Dr. Anirban Bhowal
Assistant Professor in the department of ECE at IIIT Naya Raipur, India, working in the field of RIS and spatial modulation for energy and spectrally efficient wireless communications. Prior to this, he was a postdoctoral fellow at EMT-INRS Montreal. He has obtained his PhD degree from Electronics and Electrical Department in IIT Guwahati and has several research papers to his name. He serves as the referee of several reputed international journals like IEEE Communications Letters, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Internet of Things, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Electronics Letters, IET Journal of Engineering, Journal of Physical Communication Elsevier, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, AEU International Journal of Electronics and Communication, OSA Applied Optics. He has also served as the reviewer in reputed international conferences and an external project. Besides these review activities, he is currently serving as a TPC member in IEEE ICC 2023. He is the author of 1 book, and several reputed international journals and conferences.
EDUCATION
- Passed I.C.S.E. from Salt Lake School in 2006 with 94.8 % and I.S.C. from Salt Lake School in 2008 with 95.75 %.
- B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Heritage Institute of Technology, 2012 with CGPA of 9.
- M.Tech. in Communication Engineering from Indian Institute of Information Technology Allahabad, 2015 with CGPA of 8.88.
- PhD in Electronics and Electrical Engineering (Communication) at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, July 2020 with CGPA of 9.75.
Research
Research Interests
D2D Wireless Communciation
Free-space Optical Wireless and Underwater Optical Wireless Communciation
Body Area Network Communciation
Hybrid FSO/RF Communciation
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Ambient Backscattering Communication
Short Packet Communication
Courses Taught
Communication Systems
Sensors and Actuators
Software Development via Python
Signals and Systems
Telecommunication Switching and Networks
Research Experience
Energy Efficient Applications of RIS (Postdoctoral Research)
Supervisor name: Prof. Sonia Aissa
• Performance analysis of RIS with advanced spatial modulation schemes and ambient backscattering.
• Investigating realistic channel models for RIS
• Performance analysis of full-duplex two-way RIS
• Cooperative RIS framework analysis
Advanced Spatial Modulation Schemes: Performance Analysis and Applications (PhD thesis)
Supervisor name: Prof. Rakhesh Singh Kshetrimayum
• The need of the future generation of wireless communications is higher data rates at low cost with good quality of service (QoS).
• MIMO techniques have issues of multiple RF/optical chains with escalated system cost and power consumption.
• Spatial Modulation can resolve the drawbacks of MIMO. However to achieve more spectral efficiency, advanced spatial modulation techniques need to be explored.
• Performance analysis of advanced spatial modulation schemes are being explored for RF, body area network, optical free-space, underwater optical communication and hybrid FSO/RF systems. The channel models vary according to the applications.
•Analysis is done in terms of average symbol error probability (ASEP), outage probability or bit error rate (BER). Cost and power consumption analysis is also carried out.
Efficient broadcasting over a single frequency network (MTech Project)
Supervisor name: Prof. Neetesh Purohit
• Long Term Evolution (LTE) holds the promise to enhance the capacity and speed of mobile communication by supporting Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Services (MBMS) over a single frequency network (MBSFN), where numerous cells transmit an identical waveform that is synchronized in time for a specific time interval.
• For improving the performance of SFN, ultra-extended cyclic prefix duration has been considered in this thesis to account for the larger delay spread especially in rural and hilly areas. The performance of the network for both extended and ultra-extended CP has been compared in terms of an important parameter called the spectral efficiency.
• The suitable cell radius for optimum performance has also been investigated and the achieved simulated results justifies the need to opt for ultra-extended CP at the cost of reduced OFDM symbols per slot.
Design of Radio Frequency Transmitter (BTech Project)
Supervisor name: Prof. Asima Adak
• Designed a four stage FM (frequency modulation) radio transmitter on a PCB (printed circuit board).
• Provided proper shielding to avoid noise, moisture in the absence of which the frequency of the tuned oscillator is pruned to change.
PUBLICATIONS
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " Advanced Spatial Modulation Systems", Springer Nature, Singapore, Jan 2021.
- A. Bhowal and S. Aïssa, " Polarization-Enabled MIMO Bidirectional Device-to-Device Communications via RIS", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 71, no. 1, pp. 427-440, Jan. 2023.
- A. Bhowal and S. Aïssa, " MIMO Device-to-Device Communications via Cooperative Dual-Polarized Intelligent Surfaces", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 202-206, Feb. 2023.
- M. Abolpour, S. Aïssa, L. Musavian, and A. Bhowal, " "Rate Splitting in the Presence of Untrusted Users: Outage and Secrecy Outage Performances", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 3, pp. 921-935, May 2022.
- Z. Mohamed, A. Bhowal, and S. Aïssa, " Distance Distributions and Coverage Probabilities in Poisson-Delaunay Triangular Cells with Application to Coordinated Multi-Point Wireless Power Transfer", IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 9143-9154, Nov. 2022.
- A. Bhowal and S. Aïssa, " RIS-Aided Communications in Indoor and Outdoor Environments: Performance Analysis with a Realistic Channel Model", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 71, no. 12, pp. 13356-13360, Dec. 2022.
- A. Bhowal, S. Aïssa, and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " RIS-Assisted Advanced Spatial Modulation Techniques for Ambient Backscattering Communications", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking,vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1684-1696, Dec. 2021.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " Advanced Optical Spatial Modulation techniques for FSO communication", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 1163-1174, February 2021.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " Optical Improved Quadrature Spatial Modulation for Cooperative UnderwaterWireless Communication under Weak Oceanic Turbulence Conditions", IET Optoelectronics, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 434-439, December 2020, doi: 10.1049/iet-opt.2020.0012.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " Relay based Hybrid FSO/RF communication employing Hybrid Spatial Modulation and Transmit Source Selection", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 68, no. 8, pp. 5018-5027, Aug. 2020.
- A. Bhowal, A. S. Sapre, R. Lalani, and R. S. Kshetrimayum, " Enhanced Spatial Modulation and Spatial Media Based Modulation for efficient B2B communications in Sporting Activities", IET Communications, vol. 13, no. 20, pp. 3529-3536, Dec. 2019.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, "Transmit laser selection for two hop decode and forward FSO communication with pointing errors", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 23, no. 12, pp. 2301-2305, Dec. 2019.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, "Performance analysis of B2B communication for different sporting activities", IEEE Sensors Letters, vol. 3, no. 7, July 2019.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, ``Outage probability bound of decode and forward two way relay employing optical spatial modulation over Gamma-Gamma channels", IET Optoelectronics, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 183-190, July 2019.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, ``Performance Analysis of One-way and Two-way relay for Underwater Optical Wireless Communications", OSA Continuum, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 1400-1413, Novemeber 2018.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, "Outage probability bound of decode and forward two-way full-duplex relay employing spatial modulation over cascaded 𝛼 − 𝜇 channels", International Journal of Communication Systems, vol. 32, no. 3, e3876, February 2019.
- S. Mondal, A. Bhowal, S. Kashyap, R. S. Kshetrimayum, and M. Patra, `` Outage Probability Analysis of Hard-Switching Based Mixed FSO/IRS-Aided RF Communication”, in Proc. National Conference on Communications (NCC), Guwahati, India, Feb. 2023.
- A. Bhowal, S. Aïssa, and M. Naseri, `` RIS Enabled Multi-User SWIPT for URLLC”, in Proc. International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC) (Virtual mode), Sep. 2022.
- A. Bhowal and S. Aïssa, `` Performance Evaluation of RIS-Assisted Full-Duplex MIMO Bidirectional Communications with a Realistic Channel Model”, Invited Paper in Proc. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 2022.
- A. Bhowal, S. Aïssa, and R. S. Kshetrimayum, `` RIS-Assisted Spatial Modulation and Space Shift Keying for Ambient Backscattering Communications ”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, June 2021.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, `` Transmit laser selection for dual hop decode and forward UOWC cooperative communication ”, in Proc. IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Seoul, South Korea, pp. 1-6, May 2020.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum, “Large scale MIMO performance analysis over cascaded α-μ MIMO channel for M2M communication ”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, pp.405-406, January 2017.
- A. Bhowal and R. S. Kshetrimayum,“End to end performance analysis of M2M cooperative communication over cascaded α-μ channels”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems NETworkS (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, pp. 116-122, 2017.
- A. Bhowal, N. Verma, and R. Singh, “Design and Evaluation of a New Compact CPW Fed Slot Textile Antenna for UWB applications”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing (ICCSP), Melmaruvathur, India, pp. 314-317, April 2015.
- A. Bhowal, T. Paradkar, and N. Purohit, “Evaluation of extended CP and ultra-extended CP in MBSFN”, in Proc. IEEE UP Section Conference on Electrical Computer and Electronics (UPCON), Allahabad, India, pp. 1-6, December 2015.
- S. Choudhury and A. Bhowal, “Comparative Analysis of machine learning algorithms along with classifiers for network intrusion detection”, in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Smart Technologies and Management for Computing, Communication, Controls, Energy and Materials (ICSTM), Chennai, India, pp. 89-95, May 2015.
Books
Journals
Conferences
HONORS
- Postdoctoral Fellowship, INRS Montreal, Canada, 2021-2022
- Institute Fellowship (during PhD) by MHRD, Government of India, 2015-2020
- Institute Fellowship (during MTech) by MHRD, Government of India, 2013-2015
- Recipient of Best PhD thesis award at IIT Guwahati, 2020
- International Travel Grant by Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science and Technology, India, 2020 (Not availed)
- IEEE ComSoc International Student Travel Grant for WCNC 2020, 2020
- COMSNETS Domestic Student Travel Grant for COMSNETS 2017, 2017
Fellowships
Awards
ACTIVITIES
- Referee of several reputed journals including IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, IEEE Internet of Things, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, Electronics Letters, IET Journal of Engineering, IET Communications, Journal of Physical Communication Elsevier, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communication, OSA Applied Optics
- Referee of International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2021, National Conference on Communications (NCC) 2021, International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications (SPCOM) 2020.
- Served as external reviewer, on behalf of Glasgow University, EPSRC UK, 2021.
- TPC Member in IEEE ICC 2022, ICC 2023, NCC 2023.
- Served as the technical session chair in IEEE WIECON 2022, IIIT Naya Raipur, India.
- Teaching experience in EE-101 course for SAB Mentorship program.
- Delivered invited talk on "Underwater Optical Wireless Communication" at NCC 2023, IIT Guwahati, India.
- Delivered webinar lecture on "Advanced Spatial Modulation in Emerging Wireless Communications (ASMEC)" at Raghu Institute of Technology, Visakhapatnam, India in May 2021 and at Bapatla Engineering College, Andhra Pradesh, India, Nov. 2021.
- Delivered webinar lecture on "Advanced Spatial Modulation in Optical Wireless Communications (ASMOC)" at Nirma University, Gujarat, India, Aug 2021.
- Member of executive committee of IIIT Allahabad USA alumni chapter and Sangam Chapter (Aug. 2021-Present)
- PG Senator, Students' Gymkhana Council, IIT Guwahati, 2018-19
- Student Adviser, RSF-EEE, IIT Guwahati, 2018-19
- Treasurer, RSF-EEE, IIT Guwahati, 2017-18
- Sports Secretary, Dibang Hostel, IIT Guwahati, 2016-17 and 2017-18
- Mess Management Committee, Dibang Hostel, IIT Guwahati, 2019-2020
- Volunteer in Research Conlcave, IIT Guwahati, 2017 and 2018
- Placement Coordinator, IIIT Allahabad, 2014-15
- Successfully organized Science Conclave 2014 and was a member of the hospitality team during the event held at IIIT Allahabad.
- Participated in WARD 2013 held in IIIT Allahabad
- Participated in a workshop on ‘AM and FM receiver design and testing’ organized by HITK
- Won the 2nd prize in ‘Round the year science quiz contest’ held at BITM in 2001-2002
- Won the 3rd prize in inter school junior level essay competition organized by BITM in 2002
- Participated in National Cyber Olympiad in 2004 and received gold merit
- Participated in talent search tests in both Science and Mathematics
- Won gold in intra departmental badminton event organized by RSF-EEE in 2018
- Won silver medal in badminton event in Spardha 2018
- Won gold in intra-departmental cricket event organized by RSF-EEE in 2018, 2019
- Won bronze in inter-hostel badminton league "DBL" in 2018
- Won silver in intra-hostel TT tournament in 2016
- Participated in several events like Athletics, badminton, squash in Spardha 2017-18
- Participated in several intra-departmental and intra-hostel badminton and TT events
- Volunteered in Research Conclave 2017 and 2018
- Badminton club member, part of Inter IIT probables team 2019-20
Professional Activities
Technical Activities
Extra-curricular Activities
CONTACT
Address
60A/404, IIIT Naya Raipur
Sector 24, Plot 7, Atal Nagar,
Raipur 493661, Chattisgarh, India.
anirban.bhowal@inrs.ca
a.bhowal@alumni.iitg.ac.in