Publications

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Patents

Systems and methods for infrared sensing

Dutch Patent (pending)
Sujay Narayana, Vijay S Rao and R Venkatesha Prasad

Speech detection using order statistics

US Patent 2013
R Muralishankar, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad and H N Shankar

A system click to videotalk for establishing a voip video and method thereof

Indian Patent 2008
H S Jamadagni, K Rajasekharan, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Vinay S Rao, and Varchas R S

Standards

Tactile Internet: Application Scenarios, Definitions and Terminology, Architecture, Functions, and Technical Assumptions

Ongoing standard

IEEE Recommended Practice for Nanoscale and Molecular Communication Framework

Approved Standard (2015)

White Papers

How Cyber-Physical Systems Are Reshaping the Robotics Landscape

Cognizant 2019

Conferences

RF Information Harvesting for Medium Access in Event-driven Batteryless Sensing

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2022
Niels Hokke, Suryansh Sharma, R Venkatesha Prasad, Luca Mottola, Sujay Narayana, Vijay S Rao and Nikos Kouvelas

Hummingbird: energy efficient GPS receiver for small satellites

ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) 2020
Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Luca Mottola and T Venkata Prabhakar

LOCI: Privacy-aware, Device-free, Low-power Localization of Multiple Persons using IR Sensors

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2020
Sujay Narayana, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Ajay Kanthila, Kavya Managundi, Luca Mottola and T Venkata Prabhakar

p-CARMA: Politely Scaling LoRaWAN

International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) 2020
Nikos Kouvelas, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasdad, Gauri Tawde and Koen Langendoen

Setting the Yardstick: A Quantitative Metric for Effectively Measuring Tactile Internet

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2020
Joseph Verburg, Kees Kroep, Vineet Gokhale, R Venkatesha Prasad and Vijay S Rao

Estimating Crowd Distribution using Smart Bulbs

IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2019
Renuka Prasad Manjappa, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad and Alexander Sinitsyn

ReNEW: A Practical Module For Reliable Routing in Networks of Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensors

IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2019
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Chayan Sarkar and Ignas Niemegeers

A Heterogeneous PLC with BLE Mesh network for Reliable and Real-time Smart Cargo Monitoring

IEEE International Symposium on Power Line Communications and its Applications (ISPLC) 2019
Rathinamala Vijay, TV Prabhakar, Vinod Hegde, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad

Recovering Bits from Thin Air: Demodulation of Bandpass Sampled Noisy Signals for Space loT

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2019
Sujay Narayana, R Muralishankar, R Venkatesha Prasad and Vijay S Rao

Cook over IP: Adapting TCP for Cordless Kitchen Appliances

ACM/IEEE Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2018 (Best paper award)
Shruthi Kashyap, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad and Toine Staring

SWANS: Sensor Wireless Actuator Network in Space

ACM Conference on Embedded Network Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2017
Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao and Chris Verhoeven

DaRe: Data Recovery through Application Layer Coding for LoRaWAN

ACM/IEEE Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2017 (Best paper runner-up)
Paul Marcelis, Vijay S Rao and R Venkatesha Prasad

Murphy loves CI: Unfolding and Improving Constructive Interference in WSNs

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2016
Vijay S Rao, Madhusuhan Koppal, R Venkatesha Prasad, T Venkata Prabhakar, Chayan Sarkar, and Ignas Niemegeers

Choose Wisely: Topology Control in Energy-Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2016
Xin Wang, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad and Ignas Niemegeers

PIR sensors: characterization and novel localization technique

ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) 2015
Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, TV Prabhakar, Sripad S Kowshik, and Madhuri Sheethala Iyer

Optimal Task Scheduling Policy in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2015
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, and I Niemegeers

No-sense: Sense with dormant sensors

IEEE National Conference on Communications (NCC) 2014
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S Rao, and R Venkatesha Prasad

Sleep-Route: Assured Sensing with Aggressively Sleeping Nodes

IEEE Conf. on Mobile Ad hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) 2014
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, and Koen Langendoen

Energy efficiency and channel allocation in P2PWRAN

IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2013
Huaizhou Shi, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, and IGMM Niemegeers

Adapting IEEE 802.22 OFDMA system for P2PWRANs

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2013
Huaizhou Shi, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and IGMM Niemegeers

Multiuser - MIMO for Capacity Gain in Fi-Wi Hybrid Networks

IEEE Eurocon 2013
Diptanil Debbarma, Qing Wang, Anthony Lo, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Venkatesha Prasad, and Vijay S Rao

Between Neighbors: Neighbor Discovery Analysis in EH-IoTs

Usenix International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) Self-IoT Track 2013
Shruti Devasenapathy, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Ignas Niemegeers, and Abdur Rahim

Impact of antenna directionality and energy harvesting rate on Neighbor Discovery in EH-IoTs

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2013
Shruti Devasenapathy, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and Ignas Niemegeers

Fairness and network capacity trade-off in P2P IEEE 802.22 networks

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2012
Huaizhou Shi, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and IGMM Niemegeers

Procedure to build interference map in peer to peer IEEE 802.22 networks

IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2012
Huaizhou Shi, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and IGMM Niemegeers

A fairness model for resource allocation in wireless networks

IFIP NETWORKING 2012
Huaizhou Shi, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and IGMM Niemegeers

A distributed model for approximate service provisioning in Internet of Things

ACM International Workshop on Self-Aware Internet of Things 2012
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Abdur Rahim, and Ignas Niemegeers

Work in Progress: Prediction of Solar Energy for Infrastructure based Wireless Sensor Networks

ExtremeCom 2012
Vijay S Rao, Shruti Devasenapathy, R Venkatesha Prasad, TV Prabhakar, and Ignas Niemegeers

Opportunistic Service Provisioning in the Future Internet using Cognitive Service Approximation

28th WWRF Meeting 2012
R Venkatesha Prasad, Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S Rao, A Rahim Biswas, and Ignas Niemegeers

Wireless Sensor Networks for a Zero-Energy Home

Springer Mobile Lightweight Wireless Systems 2012
R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Ignas Niemegeers and Sonia Heemstra de Groot

Maximizing the Fair Allocation of Opportunistic Spectrum for CR Ad hoc Networks

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2011
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, R Muralishankar, and IGMM Niemegeers

Approximate Service Provisioning in an Invisible Network of the Future

27th WWRF Meeting 2011
R Venkatesha Prasad, Ertan Onur, Vijay S Rao, Yunus Durmus, A Rahim Biswas, and IGMM Niemegeers

Order Statistics for Voice Activity Detection in VoIP

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2010
R Muralishankar, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, and H N Shankar

Allocation of opportunistic spectrum in cognitive radio ad hoc networks

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2010
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Chetan Yadati, and Ignas GMM Niemegeers

Distributed heuristics for allocating spectrum in CR ad hoc networks

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2010
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, Chetan Yadati, and Ignas GMM Niemegeers

A Holistic Study of VoIP Session Quality-The Knobs that Control

IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2008
R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, HN Shankar, P Pawelczak, R Muralishankar, and I Niemegeers

Voice Activity Detection for VoIP-An Information Theoretic Approach

IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2006
R Venkatesha Prasad, R Muralishankar, Vijay S Rao, HN Shankar, Przemyslaw Pawelczak, and Ignas Niemegeers

Heuristic algorithms for server allocation in distributed voip conferencing

IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) 2005
R Venkatesha Prasad, HN Shankar, HS Jamadagni, MV Rohith, and Vijay S Rao

Server allocation algorithms for VOIP conferencing

IEEE International Conference on Distributed Frameworks for Multimedia Applications (DFMA) 2005
R Venkatesha Prasad, HN Shankar, HS Jamadagni, and Vijay S Rao

Journals and Magazines

Towards Enabling High-Five Over WiFi]

IEEE Communications Magazine 2022
Vineet Gokhale, Mohamad Eid, Kees Kroep, R Venkatesha Prasad and Vijay S Rao

A Hummingbird in Space: An energy-efficient GPS receiver for small satellites

ACM GetMobile: Mobile Comp. and Comm. 2021
Sujay Narayana, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Luca Mottola, and Tamma Venkata Prabhakar

ReNEW: A Practical Module For Reliable Routing in Networks of Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensors

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 2021
R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, Chayan Sarkar and Ignas Niemegeers

DaRe: Data Recovery through Application Layer Coding for LoRaWAN

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing 2020
Paul Marcelis, Nikos Kouvelas, Vijay S Rao and R Venkatesha Prasad

TIXT: An Extensible Testbed for Tactile Internet Communication

IEEE Internet of Things Magazine
Vineet Gokhale, Kees Kroep, Joseph Verburg, Vijay S Rao and Ramesh Yechangunja

Understanding and Improving the Performance of Constructive Interference using Destructive Interference in WSNs

ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking 2019
Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, T Venkata Prabhakar, Chayan Sarkar, Madhusuhan Koppal and Ignas Niemegeers

The IEEE 1918.1 “Tactile Internet” Standards Working Group and Its Standards

Proceedings of the IEEE 2019
Oliver Holland, Eckehard Steinbach, R Venkatesha Prasad, Qian Liu, Zaher Dawy, Adnan Aijaz, Nikolaos Pappas, Kishor Chandra, Vijay S Rao, Sharief Oteafy, Mohamad Eid, Mark Luden, Amit Bhardwaj, Xun Liu, Joachim Sachs, Jose Araujo

Opportunities and Challenges of using Energy-harvesting for NB-IoT

ACM SIGBED Review 2018
Anand Haridas, Vijay Rao, Venkatesha Prasad and Chayan Sarkar

VSF: An Energy-Efficient Sensing Framework Using Virtual Sensors

IEEE Sensors 2016
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad, S Das, Sudip Misra and A Vasilakos

Defining Communication at the Bottom

IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological and Multi-scale Communications 2015
Stephen Bush, Janet Paluh, Giuseppe Piro, Vijay S Rao, Venkatesha Prasad, and Andrew Eckford

Reincarnation in the Ambiance: Devices and Networks with Energy Harvesting

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 2014
R Venkatesha Prasad, Shruti Devasenapathy, Vijay S Rao, and Javad Vazifehdan

On Systems Generating Context Triggers Through Energy Harvesting

IEEE Communications Magazine 2014
Vijay S Rao, SN Akshay Uttama Nambi, R Venkatesha Prasad, and I Niemegeers

Spectrum- and energy-efficient D2DWRAN

IEEE Communications Magazine 2014
Huaizhou Shi, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao, IGMM Niemegeers and Ming Xu

Book and Book Chapters

Cook Over IP

Springer Briefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
Shruthi Kashyap, Vijay S Rao, R Venkatesha Prasad and Toine Staring

Localizing Persons Using Body Area Sensor Network

Developments in Wireless Network Prototyping, Design, and Deployment: Future Generations: Future Generations, IGI Global, 2012
Cheng Guo, R Venkatesha Prasad, Jing Wang, Vijay S Rao, and Ignas Niemegeers

Reputation-Based Service Management and Reward Mechanisms in Distributed Cooperative Personal Environments

Advances in Next Generation Services and Service Architectures, River Publishers, 2011
Malohat Ibrohimovna, Sonia Heemstra de Groot, Vijay S Rao, and Venkatesha Prasad

Multiparty Audioconferencing on Wireless Networks

Broadband Mobile Multimedia: Techniques and Applications, Auerbach Publications, 2008
Venkatesha Prasad R, Vijay S Rao, Shankar H.N., and Muralishankar R

Technical Reports

Employing p-CSMA on a LoRa Network Simulator

ArXiv, 2018
Nikos Kouvelas, Vijay Rao and R Venkatesha Prasad

Sleep-Route - Routing through Sleeping Sensors

ArXiv, 2016
Chayan Sarkar, Vijay S. Rao and R. Venkatesha Prasad

Practical Rate and Route Adaptation with Efficient Link Quality Estimation for IEEE 802.11b/g Multi-Hop Networks

ArXiv, 2009
Jinglong Zhou, Vijay S. Rao, Przemysław Pawełczak, Daniel Wu and Prasant Mohapatra