Contribution to IEEE Standards in 5G

  1. Our group has initiated two standardization activities under IEEE as a part of its beyond 5G standardixaiton efforts.One of them, IEEE 1930.1 deals with the development of an IEEE standard on Software defined networking in beyond 5G networks.

    IEEE P1930.1:Recommended Practice for Software Defined Networking (SDN) based Middleware for Control and Management of Wireless Networks

    IEEE 1930.1 standardization was approved in June 2022. It is the first ever IEEE standard to come out of largely Indian efforts.

  2. We have also pioneered the concept of Frugal 5G for rural broadband and initiated a standardization activity for IEEE 2061 standard under the "Frugal 5G" Working Group in IEEE.

    IEEE P2061: Architecture for Low Mobility Energy Efficient Network for Affordable Broadband Access

    The standard IEEE 2061 was approved in June 2024 and is now part of the IEEE suite of global standards. In addition to defining a network architecture for affordable broadband connectivity in rural areas, the standard also introduces novel concepts, such as, RAN-Core decoupling, Core bypass, which would likely prove useful for the upcoming 6G system. I was one of the working group members for the standard-IEEE 802.1Qay Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks-Amendment: Provider Backbone Bridge Traffic Engineering January 2009.

Contributions to 3GPP Standards

  1. C1-185602, "Solving Cross Talk Issue", 3GPP TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #112, 20th-24th August 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA).
  2. C1-185603, "Solving Cross Talk Issue", 3GPP TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #112, 20th-24th August 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA).
  3. C1-185604, "Solving Cross Talk Issue", 3GPP TSG-CT WG1 Meeting #112, 20th-24th August 2018, West Palm Beach, FL (USA).
  4. R2-143695,"WLAN Scanning for Power Consumption", 3GPP RAN2 #87, 18th-22nd August 2014, Dresden, Germany.
  5. R2-143659, "Discussion on Simulation results for suitability of WLAN parameters", 3GPP RAN2 #87, 18th-22nd August 2014, Dresden, Germany.
  6. R2-142698, “Viability of Channel Utilization to predict WLAN performance”, 3GPP RAN2 #86, 19th – 23rd May, 2014, Seoul, South Korea.

Contributions to ITU-WP5D

  1. Animesh Kumar, Sudesh Singhal, Gaurang Naik, Naireeta Kansabanik and Abhay Karandikar, “Mesh-Network for Rural Broadband Coverage using TV White Spaces in India” as Contributions to the International Telecommunications Union Working Party 5A (ITU WP-5A), 18th November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.

Contributions to IEEE Standards

  1. Animesh Kumar, Sudesh Singhal, Gaurang Naik, Naireeta Kansabanik and Abhay Karandikar, “Mesh-Network for Rural Broadband Coverage using TV White Spaces in India” as Contributions to the International Telecommunications Union Working Party 5A (ITU WP-5A), 18th November, 2013, Geneva, Switzerland.

One of the working group members for the new standard

Contributions to IEEE 802.1 standards (along with Tejas Networks)

  1. M Vinod Kumar and Abhay Karandikar, “Towards PAR for Segment Protection Switching”, March 2009. [read]
  2. M Vinod Kumar and Abhay Karandikar, “Segment Protection Models”, January 2009. [read]
  3. Bob Sultan, Ben Mack-Crane, Deng Zhusheng, M Vinod Kumar, Abhay Karandikar and David Martin, “PBB-TE Segment protection Requirements”, November 2008. [read]
  4. Abhay Karandikar, M Vinod Kumar, A Jishnu and Somnath Ojha, “Segment Protection Switching, November 2008. [read]
  5. Bob Sultan, John Lemon, Deng Zhusheng, M Vinod Kumar and Abhay Karandikar, “Fast Reroute for Traffic Engineering Ethernet”, IEEE 802.1, July 2008. [read]
  6. Abhay Karandikar, Vinod Kumar and A Jishnu, “Protection Switching for Point-to-Multipoint TESI”, IEEE 802.1, May 2008. [read]

Contributions to IEEE 802.16m standards

  1. Siddharth Shetty, Abhay Karandikar, Zhu Jung and Shantidev Mohanty, “Proposal for Co-Located Coexistence Text Changes (Section 16.2.20, 16.2.3)”, July 2010, IEEE C80216m-10_0938r1.
  2. Anurag Nishad, Prateek Kapadia and Abhay Karandikar, “Inclusion of Bandwidth Request parameters in MAC management messages (Section 16.2.3, 16.2.11.1)”, July 2010, IEEE C802.16m-10_0907r1.
  3. Siddharth Shetty, Punit Rathod, Abhay Karandikar, Prateek Kapadia, Zhu Jing, Shantidev Mohanty, Ming-Hung Tao and Kelvin Chou, “Proposal for change in Co-located Coexistence (CLC) message attribute (Section 16.2.3.17)”, July 2010, IEEE C80216m-10_0937r4.
  4. Prateek Kapadia and Abhay Karandikar, “Relay Datapath clarifications (16.6.2)”, March 2010, IEEE C802.16m-10/0392.
  5. Prateek Kapadia, Abhay Karandikar, Srinadh B, Shantidev Mohanty, Jie Hui and Shao-Cheng Wang, “Clarification Text for QoS in Contention-based Bandwidth Request (16.2.11)”, March 2010, IEEE C802.16m-10/0393r4.
  6. Prateek Kapadia, Abhay Karandikar, Srinadh B, Shantidev Mohanty and Jie Hui, “Contention-based Bandwidth Request Random Backoff Parameters (16.2.11, 16.2.12.8)”, March 2010, IEEE C802.16m-10/0394r2.
  7. Prateek Kapadia, Abhay Karandikar, Gauri Joshi, Nirbhay Rane, Srinadh B, Muthaiah Venkatachalam, Xiangying Yang, Shantidev Mohanty, Jerry Sydir, Kanchei(Ken) Loa, Chun-Yen Hsu, Youn-Tai Lee, YihShen Chen, Paul Cheng, Jungshin Park, Hyunjeong Kang, JungJe Son, Rakesh Taori, Yuqin Chen, Mary Chion and Yang Liu, “Datapath operation for 16m relays(16.6)”, December 2009, IEEE C802.16m-09/3038r2.
  8. Gauri Joshi, Srinadh B., Abhay Karandikar and Prateek Kapadia, “Handover with Relays”, November 2009, IEEE C802.16m-09/2487.
  9. Gauri Joshi, Srinadh B., Abhay Karandikar and Prateek Kapadia, “Scheduling and QoS with Relays”, November 2009, IEEE C802.16m-09/2487r1.
  10. Gauri Joshi, Srinadh B., Abhay Karandikar and Prateek Kapadia, “Advanced ARQ with Relays”, November 2009, IEEE C802.16m-09/2229r1.
  11. Prateek Kapadia, B Srinadh and Abhay Karandikar, “Differentiating Bandwidth Request based on Service Class and Re-try Attempts”, July 2009, IEEE C802.16m-09/1321r5.