Research Interests

  • Random access protocols.
  • QoS provisioning in 3G/4G cellular wireless networks.
  • Performance analysis and optimization of ad hoc wireless networks.
  • Communication protocols for industrial applications.

Personal Website

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Recent Publications

  • Easwar Vivek, Venkatesh Ramaiyan and Srikrishna Bhashyam, Cross-layer Strategies for Throughput Maximization in a Data Aggregating Wireless Network, National Conference on Communications, NCC, 2013.
  • Naveen S and Venkatesh Ramaiyan, A General Scheduling Strategy based on an Estimate of the Rate Region, 5th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS, 2013.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Eitan Altman, Optimal Hop Distance and Power Control for a Single Cell, Dense, Ad Hoc Wireless Network, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, September, 2012.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Eitan Altman and Anurag Kumar, Delay Optimal Scheduling in a Two-Hop Vehicular Relay Network, Springer Mobile Networks and Applications, February, 2010.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Eitan Altman, Fixed Point Analysis of Single Cell IEEE 802,11e WLANs: Uniqueness and Multistability, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, October, 2008.
  • Supratim Deb, Vivek Mhatre and Venkatesh Ramaiyan, WiMAX Relay Networks: Opportunistic Scheduling to exploit Multiuser Diversity and Frequency Selectivity, MobiCom, September 2008.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan and Anurag Kumar, On the Limits of Spatial Reuse and Cooperative Communication for Dense Wireless Networks, IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2007, Bergen, Norway, July 2007.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Eitan Altman, Jointly Optimal Routing and Power Control for a Single Cell, Dense, Ad hoc wireless network, IEEE WiOpt’07, Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, Limassol, Cyprus, April 2007.
  • Ashish Sangwan, Venkatesh Ramaiyan and Rajeev Shorey, A Reliable Multihop Broadcast Protocol for Inter-Vehicular Communication in a Fading Channel, IEEE COMSWARE, International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware, Bangalore, India, 2007.
  • Dinesh Kumar, Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Eitan Altman, Capacity Optimizing Hop Distance in a Mobile Ad Hoc Network with Power Control, IEEE WiOpt’06, Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2006.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Eitan Altman, Fixed Point Analysis of Single Cell IEEE 802,11e WLANs: Uniqueness, Multistability and Throughput Differentiation, ACM Sigmetrics, International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, June, 2005.
  • Venkatesh Ramaiyan, Anurag Kumar and Nandini Vasudevan, Fixed Point Analysis of the Saturation Throughput of IEEE 802,11 WLANs with Capture, National Conference on Communications, NCC, 2005.

Other Information

Students interested in performance analysis, resource allocation and optimization problems in communication networks (or similar problems in other engineering or science disciplines) can contact me for B Tech, Masters and Summer projects.

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