Abhay Karandikar

Tutorials

`Elements of Cross-Layer System and Network Design for QoS Enabled WiMAX Networks' in IEEE MILCOM, Orlando Florida USA, October 2007.
`Metro Ethernet: Understanding Key underlying Technologies', Metanoia workshop, Bangalore, July 2007.
`Appreciating Key Design Aspects of QoS in WiMAX', Metanoia Workshop, Bangalore, July 2007.
`QoS in IEEE 802.16 Broadband Wireless Access: The Role of MAC, Cross-Layer Design and Scheduling', in NCC 2007, IIT Kanpur.
`Next Generation Optical Networks' half day tutorial in NCC 2003 (jointly with Dr Kumar Sivrajan of Tejas Networks)
`Unraveling QoS in IEEE 802.16 Wireless Broadband Access Networks: The Role of MAC, Cross-Layer Design and Scheduling', tutorial (jointly with Dr Vishal Sharma) in IEEE GLOBECOM, San Francisco, November 2006.
`Multiprotocol Label Switching', half day tutorial in National Conference on Communications, Jan 25-27, 2002, Bombay.
`Quality of Service Guarantees in Internet: Recent Trends', full day tutorial (jointly with Prof Dheeraj Sanghi of IIT Kanpur) in National Conference on Communications (NCC), Jan 28-30 2000, New Delhi.

Selected Invited Talks

`Next Generation Wireless Networks', Invited talk at CDOT, Bangaluru, India, August 2009.
`Trends in Networking', keynote talk in Tejas Networks Engineering Conference, August 2008.
`On- Line Learning Algorithm for Power Optimal Scheduling under Fading Channel', invited talk in International Conference on Stochastic Processes and Applications, IISc Bangalore, July 2007.
`Challenges for broadband deployment in emerging economies', invited talk in Indo-Australia Broadband and Information Technology Workshop organized by Australian Academy of Technology and Sciences, July 2006.
`QoS and Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks', Invited talk in Indo-US Frontier on Engineering Workshop under US Academy of Engineering and Indian Academy of Engineering, March 2006.
`Efficient Scheduling under Fading Channel', Invited talk in Indo-UK Workshop on Next Generation Networks, Chennai, Jan 31-Feb 02, 2006.
`On Scheduling Transmission under QoS Constraints', talk given in Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, July 2003.
'Ethernet based Access Networks', Invited talk in International Conference on Broadband Networking, ICBN, 2003, May 2003.
`MPLS Performance Engineering and MPLS Emulator', Invited talk in MPLS/GMPLS World Asia Pacific Conference, Seoul, Korea, March 24-26, 2003
'Overview of MPLS Traffic Engineering', Invited Talk in International Conference on Information Technology 2002, December 2002.
'Demystifying MPLS' IEEE ComSoc Invited Lecture series, Mumbai, September 24, 2001
'Packet Scheduling Algorithms for Quality of Service Guarantees', N Rama Rao Distinguished Lecture, IIT Kanpur, September 06, 2001.
`Issues in providing Internet Services over cable TV Networks', Invited talk in Commsphere 2000, Feb 2000.
`Technology Convergence and Information Infrastructure', Invited talk in National Workshop of Advertising and Communications Industry held to discuss Broadcasting Bill 1997, Mumbai, July, 1997.
`High Performance Computing in India with specific reference to CDAC's PARAM', invited talk in 30th Annual Convention of Computer Society of India (CSI), Hyderabad, November, 1995.