Electrical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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People

Faculty

Sibi Raj B Pillai
Qualifications

• PhD from E.P.F.L Switzerland (2007) in Computer Science and Communications
• Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Systems (E.P.F.L, 2002)
• M.Tech from IIT Bombay (2000)

Research Interests

• Network Information Theory
• Feedback Communication Schemes
• Wireless Communication and Software Radios
• Radar Signal Processing
• Resource Allocation Problems
• Biological Information Inheritance

Work Experience

• October 2007 to April 2009: University of Melbourne
• May 2009 onward : IIT Bombay, India

Journal Papers


  1. Anil Kumar, Kumar Appaiah, and Sibi Raj Pillai, "On the Sum Capacity Achieving Precoders and Their CSI Requirements for MIMO-BC", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, pp. 1539-1542, Jul. 2022. [DOI]
  2. Nithya Ramakrishnan, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Ranjith Padinhateeri, "High fidelity epigenetic inheritance: Information theoretic model predicts threshold filling of histone modifications post replication", PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 18, pp. e1009861, Feb. 2022. [DOI]
  3. Gowtham R. Kurri, Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Vinod M. Prabhakaran, "Multiple Access Channel Simulation", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 1-1, 2022. [DOI]
  4. Arun Kumar Miryala and Irina Merin Baby and Kumar Appaiah and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "A Post-Coder Feedback Approach to Overcome Training Asymmetry in MIMO-TDD", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 5908-5919, Jul. 2021.
  5. Haseen Rahman and Ankith Vinayachandran and Sibi Raj B. Pillai and Kumar Appaiah and Rahul Vaze and Navin Kashyap, "Deadline Constrained Packet Scheduling in the Presence of an Energy Harvesting Jammer", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 278-290, Apr. 2021.
  6. R S BAG, S Deshmukh, S R B Pillai, and B B Lozano, "Energy Efficient AoI Minimization in Opportunistic NOMA/OMA Broadcast Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. IEEExplore, 2021. [DOI]
  7. Aditya Narayan Ravi, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, and Michèle Wigger, "On the Capacity Enlargement of Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Passive Noisy Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021.
  8. Akankshya Bhatta, Rajarshi Biswas, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and T V Chandrasekhar Sarma, "Wind Profile Tracking in MST Radar Using Viterbi Data Association", IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 7074-7084, Oct. 2020.
  9. Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Vinod M. Prabhakaran, "Joint State Estimation and Communication Over a State-Dependent Gaussian Multiple Access Channel", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 6743-6752, Sep. 2019.
  10. Rahul Vaze and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Online Energy Harvesting Problem Over an Arbitrary Directed Acyclic Graph Network", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1106, Jun. 2019.
  11. Sakshi Kapoor, Sreejith Sreekumar, and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Distributed Scheduling in Multiple Access With Bursty Arrivals Under a Maximum Delay Constraint", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 1297-1316, Mar. 2018.
  12. Sakshi Kapoor and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Distributed Scheduling Schemes in Energy Harvesting Multiple Access", IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 54-57, Apr. 2017.
  13. Nitish Mital, Kamal Singh, and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "On the Ergodic Sum-Capacity of Decentralized Multiple Access Channels", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 854-857, Aug. 2016.
  14. Sreejith Sreekumar, Bikash Kumar Dey, and Sibi Raj B Pillai, "Distributed Rate Adaptation and Power Control in Fading Multiple Access Channels", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5504 - 5524, Oct. 2015.
  15. Krishnamoorthy Iyer, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Dey, "On the Adaptive Sum-Capacity of Distribited Multiple Access under Individual CSI", (Best paper award), IETE Journal of Research, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 659-672, May 2015.
  16. Linda M. Davis, Stephen V. Hanly, Paul Tune, and Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Channel Estimation and User Selection in the MIMO Broadcast Channel", Digital Signal Processing and Elsevier , vol. 21, pp. 608--618., 2011.
  17. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, S. V. Hanly, N Badruddin, and J. S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links", IEEE Trans on Info. Theory, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 4471-4487, 2010.
  18. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Gaussian Degraded Relay Broadcast Channel", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 3699-3709 , 2008.
  19. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Gaussian Broadcast Channel With Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 5252-5257, 2008.
Conference Papers / Book Chapters

  1. Sibi Raj B Pillai and Vinod Prabhakaran, "On the Noisy Feedback Capacity of Gaussian Broadcast Channels" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW, Haifa, Israel, May 2015.
  2. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Adaptive Capacity Region of Fading MACs with Distributed CSI" in ITW, Dec. 2014.
  3. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "Energy Efficient Random Multiple Access with Strict Delay Constraints" in ISIT, Dec. 2014.
  4. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Noisy Feedback Capacity of Gaussian Broadcast Channels" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun. 2014.
  5. Kamal Singh, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash K Dey, " On Fading MAC channels with asymmetric CSI" in ISIT 2013, Jul. 2013.
  6. S R B Pillai, B K Dey, Y Deshpande, and K Iyer, "Power Controlled Adaptive Sum-Capacity of Fading MACs with Distributed CSI" in , Dec. 2012.
  7. Deepak Baby and S R B Pillai, "Ordered Orthogonal Matching Pursuit" in National inproceedings on Communications, Dec. 2012.
  8. Sreejith S, B K Dey, and S R B Pillai, "Adaptive Sum-capacity in presence of distributed CSI for non-identical links" in , Dec. 2012.
  9. Sibi Raj B Pillai, "On the capacity of Multiplicative Multiple Access Channels with AWGN" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dec. 2011.
  10. Y. K. Deshpande, S. R. B. Pillai, and B. K. Dey, "On the Sum Capacity of Multiaccess Block-Fading Channels with Individual Side Information" in ITW, Paraty, Brazil, Dec. 2011.
  11. Yash Deshpande, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Capacity of Multiaccess Block Fading Channels with Individual State Information" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dec. 2011.
  12. Varun Jog, Sibi Raj B Pillai, Abhay Karandikar, and , "On Achieving Martons Region for Broadcast Channel using Feedback" in Proceedings of NCC 2011, Dec. 2011.
  13. Avishek Majumdar, Nikhil Krishnan, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Rajbabu Velmurugan, "Extensions to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Compressed Sensing" in Natl. Conf. on Commun., Dec. 2011.
  14. Linda Davis, S.V. Hanly, P. Tune, and Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Multi-antenna Downlink Broadcasting using Compressed-Sensed Medium Access" in IEEE ICC, Dec. 2010.
  15. Paul Tune, Sibiraj Bhaskaran, and Stephen V. Hanly:, "Number of Measurements in Sparse Signal Recovery" in IEEE Intnl Symposium on Information Theory and , Dec. 2009.
  16. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, Stephen V. Hanly, Nasreen Badruddin, and Jamie S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links" in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, Dec. 2009.
  17. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, Stephen V. Hanly, Nasreen Badruddin, and Jamie S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links" in IEEE Intnl Conf Communications, Dec. 2009.
  18. S. Bhaskaran, L. Davis, A. Grant, S. Hanly, and P. Tune., "Downlink Scheduling using Compressed Sensing" in In IEEE Information Theory Workshop , pp.243–255, Dec. 2009.
  19. Badruddin, N., Bhaskaran, S., Evans, J., and Hanly S, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links under Flat Power Constraints" in Allerton inproceedings on Communication and Control and Computing, Dec. 2008.
  20. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Forward Decoding over a Relay Channel" in IEEE Intnl Symposium on Information Theory and , Dec. 2008.
  21. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Broadcasting with Feedback" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Dec. 2007.
  22. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Broadcasting over a degraded relay channel with two receivers" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Dec. 2006.
  23. Sibi Raj and Emre Telatar, "Queuing and Scheduling in Multiuser Communications" in Winter School on Coding and Information Theory, Dec. 2005.
  24. Sibi Raj, Emre Telatar, and David Tse, "Job Scheduling and Multiple Access" in DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory, Dec. 2003.
Students (Year of PhD)

  1. Amitalok Budkuley (2016)
  2. Kamal Singh (2018)
  3. Viswanathan Ramachandran (2020)
  4. Haseen Rahman (2021)

Address
Sibi Raj B Pillai
Qualifications

• PhD from E.P.F.L Switzerland (2007) in Computer Science and Communications
• Post Graduate Diploma in Communication Systems (E.P.F.L, 2002)
• M.Tech from IIT Bombay (2000)

Research Interests

• Network Information Theory
• Feedback Communication Schemes
• Wireless Communication and Software Radios
• Radar Signal Processing
• Resource Allocation Problems
• Biological Information Inheritance

Work Experience

• October 2007 to April 2009: University of Melbourne
• May 2009 onward : IIT Bombay, India

Journal Papers


  1. Anil Kumar, Kumar Appaiah, and Sibi Raj Pillai, "On the Sum Capacity Achieving Precoders and Their CSI Requirements for MIMO-BC", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 26, pp. 1539-1542, Jul. 2022. [DOI]
  2. Nithya Ramakrishnan, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Ranjith Padinhateeri, "High fidelity epigenetic inheritance: Information theoretic model predicts threshold filling of histone modifications post replication", PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 18, pp. e1009861, Feb. 2022. [DOI]
  3. Gowtham R. Kurri, Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Vinod M. Prabhakaran, "Multiple Access Channel Simulation", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, pp. 1-1, 2022. [DOI]
  4. Arun Kumar Miryala and Irina Merin Baby and Kumar Appaiah and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "A Post-Coder Feedback Approach to Overcome Training Asymmetry in MIMO-TDD", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 5908-5919, Jul. 2021.
  5. Haseen Rahman and Ankith Vinayachandran and Sibi Raj B. Pillai and Kumar Appaiah and Rahul Vaze and Navin Kashyap, "Deadline Constrained Packet Scheduling in the Presence of an Energy Harvesting Jammer", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 278-290, Apr. 2021.
  6. R S BAG, S Deshmukh, S R B Pillai, and B B Lozano, "Energy Efficient AoI Minimization in Opportunistic NOMA/OMA Broadcast Wireless Networks", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. IEEExplore, 2021. [DOI]
  7. Aditya Narayan Ravi, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, Vinod M. Prabhakaran, and Michèle Wigger, "On the Capacity Enlargement of Gaussian Broadcast Channels with Passive Noisy Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 2021.
  8. Akankshya Bhatta, Rajarshi Biswas, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and T V Chandrasekhar Sarma, "Wind Profile Tracking in MST Radar Using Viterbi Data Association", IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 7074-7084, Oct. 2020.
  9. Viswanathan Ramachandran, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Vinod M. Prabhakaran, "Joint State Estimation and Communication Over a State-Dependent Gaussian Multiple Access Channel", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 67, no. 10, pp. 6743-6752, Sep. 2019.
  10. Rahul Vaze and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Online Energy Harvesting Problem Over an Arbitrary Directed Acyclic Graph Network", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1106, Jun. 2019.
  11. Sakshi Kapoor, Sreejith Sreekumar, and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Distributed Scheduling in Multiple Access With Bursty Arrivals Under a Maximum Delay Constraint", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 64, no. 2, pp. 1297-1316, Mar. 2018.
  12. Sakshi Kapoor and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "Distributed Scheduling Schemes in Energy Harvesting Multiple Access", IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 54-57, Apr. 2017.
  13. Nitish Mital, Kamal Singh, and Sibi Raj B. Pillai, "On the Ergodic Sum-Capacity of Decentralized Multiple Access Channels", IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 854-857, Aug. 2016.
  14. Sreejith Sreekumar, Bikash Kumar Dey, and Sibi Raj B Pillai, "Distributed Rate Adaptation and Power Control in Fading Multiple Access Channels", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 5504 - 5524, Oct. 2015.
  15. Krishnamoorthy Iyer, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Dey, "On the Adaptive Sum-Capacity of Distribited Multiple Access under Individual CSI", (Best paper award), IETE Journal of Research, vol. 61, no. 6, pp. 659-672, May 2015.
  16. Linda M. Davis, Stephen V. Hanly, Paul Tune, and Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Channel Estimation and User Selection in the MIMO Broadcast Channel", Digital Signal Processing and Elsevier , vol. 21, pp. 608--618., 2011.
  17. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, S. V. Hanly, N Badruddin, and J. S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links", IEEE Trans on Info. Theory, vol. 56, no. 10, pp. 4471-4487, 2010.
  18. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Gaussian Degraded Relay Broadcast Channel", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory , vol. 54, no. 8, pp. 3699-3709 , 2008.
  19. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Gaussian Broadcast Channel With Feedback", IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 5252-5257, 2008.
Conference Papers / Book Chapters

  1. Sibi Raj B Pillai and Vinod Prabhakaran, "On the Noisy Feedback Capacity of Gaussian Broadcast Channels" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, ITW, Haifa, Israel, May 2015.
  2. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Adaptive Capacity Region of Fading MACs with Distributed CSI" in ITW, Dec. 2014.
  3. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B. Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "Energy Efficient Random Multiple Access with Strict Delay Constraints" in ISIT, Dec. 2014.
  4. Sreejith Sreekumar, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Noisy Feedback Capacity of Gaussian Broadcast Channels" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Jun. 2014.
  5. Kamal Singh, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash K Dey, " On Fading MAC channels with asymmetric CSI" in ISIT 2013, Jul. 2013.
  6. S R B Pillai, B K Dey, Y Deshpande, and K Iyer, "Power Controlled Adaptive Sum-Capacity of Fading MACs with Distributed CSI" in , Dec. 2012.
  7. Deepak Baby and S R B Pillai, "Ordered Orthogonal Matching Pursuit" in National inproceedings on Communications, Dec. 2012.
  8. Sreejith S, B K Dey, and S R B Pillai, "Adaptive Sum-capacity in presence of distributed CSI for non-identical links" in , Dec. 2012.
  9. Sibi Raj B Pillai, "On the capacity of Multiplicative Multiple Access Channels with AWGN" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dec. 2011.
  10. Y. K. Deshpande, S. R. B. Pillai, and B. K. Dey, "On the Sum Capacity of Multiaccess Block-Fading Channels with Individual Side Information" in ITW, Paraty, Brazil, Dec. 2011.
  11. Yash Deshpande, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Bikash Kumar Dey, "On the Capacity of Multiaccess Block Fading Channels with Individual State Information" in IEEE Information Theory Workshop, Dec. 2011.
  12. Varun Jog, Sibi Raj B Pillai, Abhay Karandikar, and , "On Achieving Martons Region for Broadcast Channel using Feedback" in Proceedings of NCC 2011, Dec. 2011.
  13. Avishek Majumdar, Nikhil Krishnan, Sibi Raj B Pillai, and Rajbabu Velmurugan, "Extensions to Orthogonal Matching Pursuit for Compressed Sensing" in Natl. Conf. on Commun., Dec. 2011.
  14. Linda Davis, S.V. Hanly, P. Tune, and Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Multi-antenna Downlink Broadcasting using Compressed-Sensed Medium Access" in IEEE ICC, Dec. 2010.
  15. Paul Tune, Sibiraj Bhaskaran, and Stephen V. Hanly:, "Number of Measurements in Sparse Signal Recovery" in IEEE Intnl Symposium on Information Theory and , Dec. 2009.
  16. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, Stephen V. Hanly, Nasreen Badruddin, and Jamie S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links" in Information Theory and Applications Workshop, Dec. 2009.
  17. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, Stephen V. Hanly, Nasreen Badruddin, and Jamie S. Evans, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links" in IEEE Intnl Conf Communications, Dec. 2009.
  18. S. Bhaskaran, L. Davis, A. Grant, S. Hanly, and P. Tune., "Downlink Scheduling using Compressed Sensing" in In IEEE Information Theory Workshop , pp.243–255, Dec. 2009.
  19. Badruddin, N., Bhaskaran, S., Evans, J., and Hanly S, "Maximizing the Sum Rate in Symmetric Networks of Interfering Links under Flat Power Constraints" in Allerton inproceedings on Communication and Control and Computing, Dec. 2008.
  20. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Forward Decoding over a Relay Channel" in IEEE Intnl Symposium on Information Theory and , Dec. 2008.
  21. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Broadcasting with Feedback" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Dec. 2007.
  22. Sibi Raj Bhaskaran, "Broadcasting over a degraded relay channel with two receivers" in IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Dec. 2006.
  23. Sibi Raj and Emre Telatar, "Queuing and Scheduling in Multiuser Communications" in Winter School on Coding and Information Theory, Dec. 2005.
  24. Sibi Raj, Emre Telatar, and David Tse, "Job Scheduling and Multiple Access" in DIMACS Workshop on Network Information Theory, Dec. 2003.
Students (Year of PhD)

  1. Amitalok Budkuley (2016)
  2. Kamal Singh (2018)
  3. Viswanathan Ramachandran (2020)
  4. Haseen Rahman (2021)

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