Education

Ph.D. (Feb 2010) CPI: 9.79/10 Communication Engineering Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
M.Tech (July 2004) CPI: 9.37/10 Communication Engineering Dept. of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay.
B.E. (July 1997) 75.22% (Hons.) Electronics and Telecom Engg University College of Engineering, Burla, Orissa

I'm working with Prof. Abhay Karandikar
My Ph.D. area is "Cross-Layer design in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks".

Research Interests

  • Speech Processing,
  • Wireless Ad-hoc Networking,
  • QoS in Internet,
  • Pricing in Communication Networks,
  • Scheduling in Ad-hoc Networks,
  • Scheduling in Broadband Networks,
  • Cross-layer Network design,
  • Metro Ethernet

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    Professional Membership

  • Student Member, IARCS (Indian Association for Research in Computing Sciences)
  • Student Member, IEEE

    Softwares Developed

  • CSP: CEERI SPEECH PROCESSOR (A semi-automatic labelling tool for Hindi Speech)
  • B-Hive: The Cell Planning Tool (With Harish, Atit and Madhu under the guidance of Prof Karandikar)

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    Publications

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Abhay Karandikar and Vishal Sharma, "Adaptive Modulation-based TCP-Aware Uplink Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Networks" IEEE ICC 2008 (Pre-Print, Accepted for Publication).

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Abhay Karandikar, "On Cross Layer Congestion Control for CDMA based Ad-hoc Networks", 14th National Conference on Communication (NCC), Feb 2008, IIT Bombay (Accepted for Publication)

  • Hemant Kumar Rath and Abhay Karandikar, "On TCP-Aware Uplink Scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Networks" Third IEEE COMSWARE, Bangalore, January, 2008 (Pre-Print, Accepted for Publication).

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Abhijeet Bhorkar, Vishal Sharma, "An Opportunistic Uplink Scheduling Scheme to Achieve Bandwidth Fairness and Delay for Multiclass Traffic in Wi-Max (IEEE 802.16) Broadband Wireless Networks", IEEE Globecom, 2006 (Pre-Print, Accepted for Publication).

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Anirudha Sahoo "Cross Layer based Congestion Control in Wireless Networks", Technical Report, KReSIT, IIT Bombay, April, 2006.

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Abhijeet Bhorkar, Vishal Sharma, "An Opportunistic DRR (O-DRR) Uplink Scheduling Scheme for IEEE 802.16-based Broadband Wireless Networks", IETE, International Conference on Next Generation Networks (ICNGN), February 9, 2006, Mumbai.

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, Anirudha Sahoo, Abhay Karandikar, "A Cross Layer Congestion Control Algorithm in Wireless Networks for TCP Reno-2", 12th National Conference on Communication (NCC), Jan 2006, IIT Delhi.

  • Harish Ramamurthy, Hemant Kumar Rath, Atit Jain, P Madhusoodhanan and Abhay Karandikar, "B-Hive: A Cell Planning Tool for Urban Wireless Networks", AIM - 2003, June 2003, IIT Bombay, Mumbai.

  • A S S Sarma, R. Verma, Hemant Kumar Rath, A K Dhamija, S S Agrawal, "Development of Hindi Speech Data Base for Research in Speech Recognition and Analysis", 30th IETE Midterm Symposium, Pilani, 3-4 April, 1999.

  • A S S Sarma, Hemant Kumar Rath, Amita Dev, A K Dhamija, S S Agrawal, " Data Base for Hindi", IRIL-99, Hydrabad.

  • Hemant Kumar Rath, S N Mishra, S K Sahoo, A R Satapathy, "Computation of weak visibility polygon from a continuous convex curve", NSTCS-8, BBSR, India, June 1998.

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    Major Awards and Prizes Received

  • Person of the Year - (2007-08), RSF, IIT Bombay
  • Institute Citation - (2007-08), IIT Bombay
  • Hostel Color - (2007-08), Hostel 12, IIT Bombay
  • Selected in "Philips India Fellowship", (2007-08), IIT Bombay
  • Selected in "Eureka-2004: India's Biggest Business Plan Competition", IIT Bombay
  • "Tech Color - Hostel 12", 2004-05, IIT Bombay
  • "Tech Color - Hostel 12", 2003-04, IIT Bombay
  • Won the 3rd prize in "Ideaz: The Business Idea Competition", IIT Bombay, 2003-04
  • Selected in Commonwealth Scholarship fellowship plan for the year 2000 (UK) by Min. of HRD, Govt. of India
  • Merit-Cum-Mean Scholarship, U. C. E., Burla (1993-97)
  • National Scholarship (1990-97)
  • Selected in INMO (Indian National Mathematics Olympiad) in 1990 (State)
  • National Rural Talent Scholarship: Stood First in Puri District, Orissa (1986 - 90)

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    Other Activities

  • Writing Regular Blogs: "Life of an Aamjunta"
  • PG Mentor, Dept of Electrical Engg., IIT Bombay (2008-09)
  • Student Organiser, "NCC 2008"
  • Warden's Nominee (2007-2008), Hostel-12, IIT Bombay
  • Student Incharge, Research Scholars' Facility, Dept of Electrical Engg., IIT Bombay
  • Departmental Feedback Committe, (2004 - 05), Dept of Electrical Engg., IIT Bombay

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    Research Scholars' Forum (RSF) Activities

  • Adviser, RSF (2008-09), IIT Bombay
  • RSF Coordinator (2007-2008), IIT Bombay
  • Departmental Representative, Research Scholars' Forum (RSF), (2006 - 2007), IIT Bombay
  • Edited PhD Handbook, IIT Bombay
  • Complied RSF Report (2007-08), IIT Bombay

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