Saravanan Vijayakumaran

Department of Electrical Engineering
IIT Bombay, Powai
Mumbai 400076, India
Email : sarva [AT] ee.iitb.ac.in
Phone : +91 22 2576 7498
Office room no: EE 118
Personal Homepage

• Signal Processing for Communications
• Parallel Simulation Algorithms

• EE 706: Communication Networks (Spring 2012)
• EE 605: Error Correcting Codes (Autumn 2011)
• EE 453/717: Advanced Computing for Electrical Engineers (Autumn 2011)
• EE 706: Communication Networks (Spring 2011)
• EE 605: Error Correcting Codes (Autumn 2010)
• EE 453/717: Advanced Computing for Electrical Engineers (Autumn 2010)
• EE 706: Communication Networks (Spring 2010)
• EE 389: Electronic Design Lab II (Autumn 2009)

• Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville, 2007
• B.Tech., IIT Guwahati, 2001

• 2009 - Present, Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay
• 2007 - 2009, Software Development Engineer in Test, Microsoft, Redmond, USA
• 2006, Research Intern, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

• S. Vijayakumaran, Y. Levinbook and T. F. Wong, “Maximum Likelihood Localization of a Diffusive Point Source using Binary Observations,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 665-676, Feb. 2007.

• S. Vijayakumaran and T. F. Wong, “On Equal Gain Combining for Acquisition of Time-Hopping Ultra-Wideband Signals,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 479-490, Mar. 2006.

• S. Vijayakumaran and T. F. Wong, “A Search Strategy for Ultra-Wideband Signal Acquisition,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 53, no. 12, pp. 2015-2019, Dec. 2005.

• S. Vijayakumaran, T. F. Wong, and S. Aedudodla, “On the Asymptotic Performance of Threshold-based Acquisition Systems in Multipath Fading Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 3973-3986, Nov. 2005.

• S. Aedudodla, S. Vijayakumaran, and T. F. Wong, “Timing Acquisition in Ultra-wideband Communication Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 54, no. 5, pp. 1570-1583, Sep. 2005. Invited paper.

• S. Aedudodla, S. Vijayakumaran, and T. F. Wong, “Acquisition of Direct-Sequence Transmitted Reference Ultra-Wideband Signals,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 759-765, Apr. 2006.

• S. Aedudodla, S. Vijayakumaran, and T. F. Wong, “Ultra-wideband Signal Acquisition with Hybrid DS-TH Spreading,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 2504-2515, Sep. 2006.

• R. Merz, J.-Y. Le Boudec and S. Vijayakumaran, “Effect on Network Performance of Common versus Private Acquisition Sequences for Impulse Radio UWB Networks”, IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB 2006), Sep. 2006.

• S. Aedudodla, S. Vijayakumaran, and T. F. Wong, “Timing acquisition for transmitted reference DS-UWB signals,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM ‘05), Atlantic City, NJ, Oct. 2005.

• S. Vijayakumaran, T. F. Wong, and S. Aedudodla, “On the Asymptotic Performance of Threshold-based Acquisition Systems in Multipath Fading Channels,” IEEE Information Theory Workshop, San Antonio, TX, Oct. 2004.

• S. Vijayakumaran and T. F. Wong, “Best Permutation Search Strategy for Ultra-Wideband Acquisition,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Sep. 2004.

• S. Vijayakumaran, Y. Levinbook, and T. F. Wong, “On Diffusive Source Localization using Dumb Sensors,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2004), Chicago, IL, June 2004.

• S. Aedudodla, S. Vijayakumaran, and T. F. Wong, “Rapid ultra-wideband signal acquisition,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC ‘04), Atlanta, GA, Mar. 2004.

• S. Vijayakumaran and T. F. Wong, “Equal Gain Combining for Acquisition of UWB Signals,” in Proceedings of the IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM ‘03), Boston, MA, Oct. 2003.

• S. Vijayakumaran, T. F. Wong and T.M. Lok, “Capacity of the Degraded Half-Duplex Relay Channel,” http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2270v1