Research Projects Short term Projects · Mobile Social Networking Platform o Mobile Social Networking over data and SMS networks Medium term Projects · QoS and Resource Allocation in 4G Wireless Networks o Design of a network planning and optimization tool for cellular multi hop broadband wireless network as well as look into rural wireless connectivity · SMS Analysis and Social Networking o Design and study of SMS network analysis tool to study users' behaviour patterns, clustering, mobility effects and voice call correlation, and identify network bottlenecks. This tool will generate recommendation for network design · Speech Processing Applications for Indian languages o Development of methods for simple and robust keywords recognition that are language independent with minimal dependence on high level speech knowledge · 4G Standardization o Contribution to 4G Standardization
Long term Projects
· Rural Education Application (REAP)
o Rural Education need assessment. Mobile & PC based content and application for class 8-10 maths, science and computer literacy. Local language translation, speech integration
· Information Dissemination for Rural Areas (InDRA)
o Rural Information need assessment. Mobile & online test engines. Mumbai navigator extensions on mobiles. Photo capture tool for farmers
· FRACTEL Campus Wireless Testbed
o Multihop TDMA mesh networks. Setting up of a wirless testbed with long/medium distance links. Development and demonstration of a working wireless system with desired QoS capabilities
· WiFiRE Hardware Implementation
o WiFi Rural Extension: development of hardware prototypes, reduction in power dissipation during implementation and enhancing the existing WiFiRE MAC with multihop extension and mobility
· Video Coding, Secure Communication and Multicarrier Transmission
o Scalable and multi-view video coding. Secure communication and watermarking. Multitone/Multicarrier transmission
· Network Coding
o Investigation of distributed source coding: Slepian-Wolf coding over real numbers, Universal coding. Data fusion/aggregation, distributed coding