Standardization Activities

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1. P2061 Standards Development Project - Architecture for Low Mobility Energy Efficient Network for Affordable Broadband Access
   IEEE Frugal 5G Working Group
   [Link]

Publications

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Journals

1. 5G-Flow: A Unified Multi-RAT RAN Architecture for Beyond 5G Networks
   Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha, and Abhay Karandikar
   Journal of Computer Networks (Under Revision)
   [arxiv]
   


2. Connecting the Unconnected: Towards Frugal 5G Network Architecture and Standardization
   Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha and Abhay Karandikar
   IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, July 2020
   [DOI] [arxiv]
   


3. Towards Enabling Broadband for a Billion Plus Population with TV White Spaces
   Animesh Kumar, Abhay Karandikar, Gaurang Naik, Meghna Khaturia, Shubham Saha, Mahak Arora, and Jaspreet Singh
   IEEE Communications Magazine, July 2016
   [DOI]
   

Patent

1. A Wireless Network Architecture
   Meghna Khaturia, Pranav Jha and Abhay Karandikar
   IN Patent App. 201921027947
   

Book Chapter

1. TV White Space Solution for Affordable Internet in India
   Meghna Khaturia, Sarbani Banerjee Belur and Abhay Karandikar
   TV White Space Communications and Networks, Nov 2017
   [DOI] [PDF]
   

Conferences

1. 5G-Serv: Decoupling User Control and Network Control in the 3GPP 5G Network
   Meghna Khaturia, Akshatha Nayak, Pranav Jha and Abhay Karandikar
   Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks (ICIN), 2021
   [DOI]
   


2. On Efficient Wireless Backhaul Planning for the "Frugal 5G" Network
   Meghna Khaturia, Kumar Appaiah and Abhay Karandikar
   IEEE WCNC Future Networking Workshop for 5G and Beyond Testbed and Trials, April 2019
   [DOI] [Slides]
   


3. Towards Frugal 5G: A Case Study of Palghar Test-bed in India
   Meghna Khaturia, Jaspreet Singh, Akshay Patil, Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Abhay Karandikar, Prasanna Chaporkar and Tejashri Ghadge
   IEEE WCNC Future Networking Workshop for 5G and Beyond Testbed and Trials, April 2019
   [DOI] [Slides]
   


4. Spectrum Sharing for LTE-A Network in TV White Space
   Meghna Khaturia, Sweety Suman, Abhay Karandikar and Prasanna Chaporkar
   Twenty Fourth National Conference on Communications, Feb 2018
   [DOI] [arxiv] [Slides]
   


5. Community-led Networks for Sustainable Rural Broadband in India: the Case of Gram Marg
   Sarbani Banerjee Belur, Meghna Khaturia and Nandita Das
   Twelveth Annual Meeting of Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Dec 2017
   [DOI]
   

Projects

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1. VPN Establishment and Inter-domain Routing (Adv. Computer Networks)
   Projects (Guide: Prof. Mythili Vutukuru, IIT Bombay) Aug - Oct 2015
   o Developed a client-server application, using socket programming, hosted on separate private networks
   o Implemented IP-in-IP tunneling by creating virtual tun interfaces at gateways using openvpn
   o Analyzed BGP routing table dump, obtained using Route Views project, to understand Inter-Domain routing architecture including unique ASs, IP Prefexes and AS path information
   


2. Alamouti Encoder and Decoder using GNU Radio (Wireless Communication)
   (Guide: Prof. Sibi Raj Pillai, IIT Bombay) Jan - Apr 2015
   o Developed GNU Radio blocks for Alamouti Encoder and Decoder to simulate a 2X2 MIMO system.
   


3. Large-scale channel modeling using Wireshark (Mobile Computing)
   (Guide: Prof. Kameshwari Chebrolu, IIT Bombay) Jan - Apr 2015
   o Estimated path loss exponent for 2.4 GHz band
   o Studied procedure for association of Wi-Fi client with AP using Wireshark
   o Analyzed TCP performance and routing overhead of Destination-Sequenced Distance-Vector Routing (DSDV) using ns-2
   


4. Fingerprint Verification System (B.Tech final year project)
   Guided by Prof J. N. Sarvaiya
   o Researched about various algorithms used in various steps of fingerprint verification like gabor filtering
   o Developed a matlab code to implement a complete fingerprint verification algorithm


5. Swarm Robotics
   o Built a pair of grid follower robots which communicated wirelessly

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