Ekant Sharma

Assistant Professor,
Department of Electronics and Communication
IIT Roorkee, India
Co-Founder, Mantiswave Networks

Research Area

Actively looking for motivated PhD/Masters/BTech students to work on the i) state-of-the-art problems in Beyond 5G/6G technologies (highlighted below) and ii) 5G New Radio (NR) Standard. There are no specific prerequisites, please drop me an email with your resume, if interested.
For more news_details please visit Research/Publications/Projects tabs.

Practical 5GA/6G Massive MIMO

AI/ML for Wireless Communication

Energy-efficient 5GA/6G System

Cell-free Massive MIMO

Integrated Communication and Sensing

Semantics Communication

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces

Full-duplex Communication

UAV/Drones Communication

Ongoing Projects

Topic
Tera Hertz Communication: Prototype Development and Algorithm Design
Design and Development of New Prototype for RIS-aided Communication
5G Advanced ORAN Massive MIMO Base Station
RIS Assisted Cell-free NOMA system for 5G and Beyond Communication
A novel power-on pilot IC for ultra-low power wireless IoT devices
3GPP Complaint PUCCH design for 5G NR User
THz Characterization System
UAV Communications for 5G and Beyond: A Smart Anti-UAV design
RIS-aided D2D communication for 5G and beyond networks
PG Certificate In 5G Technology and IOT
Design and Implementation of Buried Target Identification Algorithms
Funding Agency
Department of Telecommunication
IIITB COMET Foundation
IIITB COMET Foundation
Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India
Spanidea Systems Private Limited
SMILE, IIT Roorkee
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
Science and Engineering Re-search Board, Govt. of India
Coursera
DRDO, India
Role
PI
PI
PI
PI
Co-PI
PI
Co-PI
PI
Co-PI
PI
Co-PI
Budget (INR)
334 Lakhs
157 Lakhs
125 Lakhs
30.9 Lakhs
411 Lakhs
23.6 Lakhs
650 Lakhs
20 Lakhs
52.3 Lakhs
7.29 Lakhs
12.9 Lakhs
Duration
2024-2027
2022-2025
2022-2025
2022-2024
2023-2026
2022-2023
2022-2023
2021-2023
2023-2026
2023-2026
2023-2024

News

November 2024: Paper accepted on the topic Spectral-Energy Trade-Off in mmWave NOMA Clustering at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

October 2024: Appointed as Incharge 5G Use case Lab, Incharge Drone research center, Incharge M&R

October 2024: Attended and represented IIT Roorkee at Indian Mobile Congress 2024. Also displayed product from Mantiswave Networks at DST, IIT Roorkee and 5G Intelligent Village Stalls

September 2024: Appointed as a Member of Technical Expert Committee by DoT for Evaluation of design and development of Bharat 5G Portal

September 2024: Two papers accepted on the topic mmWave Based NOMA Networks and 5G NR PUCCH Implementation at IEEE APCC 2024.

September 2024: Paper accepted on the topic Cell-free RIS aided NOMA Massive MIMO systems at IEEE Transactions on Communications.

August 2024: Invited for Podcast on Research & Development for “Tech-India-2047”, under the global flagship of GIAR Alpha-Wing (Asia)

August 2024: Our Startup Manstiswave Networks won MeitY Tide 2.0 grant

July 2024: Our Startup Mantiswave Networks Private Limited won ELEVATE2023

July 2024: Member of Technical Expert Committee for Evaluation of the proposals received for Event Organizer for “5G, 6G and Emerging Technologies Hackathon” and “WTSAOutreach Sessions”

July 2024: Paper accepted on the topic EE of FBMC/OQAM-based Systems with Electromagnetic Exposure at IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

July 2024: Invited talk at University of Luxembourg on 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems: An Energy Efficiency Perspective

June 2024: Incubated our Startup Mantiswave Networks at Tides, IIT Roorkee

June 2024: Member of Technical Expert Committee for Evaluation of the proposals received for baseline survey of MSMEs by TCOE India

May 2024: Invited Talk at Samsung Research Institute Bangalore

May 2024: Invited to attend TIPS 4.0 conference at IIT Mumbai

April 2024: Invited Speaker at Faculty Development Program on 5G Technology by DoT

March 2024: Invited Speaker for session titled Do’s and Don’t for Running Your Startup at GGV Ideathon’24

March 2024: PhD Student Malay Chakraborty received Travel Grant for attending IEEE WCNC Conference at Dubai

March 2024: Paper on Energy Efficient Massive MIMO IoT Network got Accepted at IEEE SPCOM

March 2024: Our team won first prize for Best Demo Award (Cell-free Hardware Prototype) at RSD 2024. Many Congratulations to Satish Kumar, Tonmoy Saha, Dwikul Jyoti Das, and Malay Chakraborty

February 2024: Elevated as Senior Member IEEE

February 2024: Invited as a panelist for discussion on “6G Technology and Standards” at the Workshop On 6G: Technology, Standards And Regulation

February 2024: Invited talk at Alliance College of Engineering and Design

January 2024: Organized Workshop on 5G Use Case Labs: Awareness and Pre-commissioning Readiness (Co-organized by NTIPRIT, UP West LSA and IIT Roorkee)

January 2024: Three papers on Full-duplex OTFS, Secure OTFS and Full-fuplex Relaying got accepted at IEEE WCNC’24 Conference (Dubai, UAE). Congratulations to Malay, Dwikul and Suhail

January 2024: Received Project grant to work on the Design and Implementation of Buried Target Identification Algorithms sponsored by DRDO (as Co-PI)

January 2024: Received Project grant to work on the RIS-Aided D2D Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks sponsored by Science and Engineering Research Board, (as Co-PI)

January 2024: Ajay Kumar (MTech NIT Durgapur) joined our group as PhD student. Welcome Ajay!

January 2024: Invited by IIITB COMET foundation to attend Indian International Science Festival at Faridabad

December 2023: Acting as a Secretary in the executive committee of the IEEE COMSOC UP Section, 2023-2024

December 2023: Nominated for participation in National Working Group (NWG)-20 corresponding to ITU-T SG-20 on “IoT and Smart Cities & Communities”

October 2023: Attended and represented IIT Roorkee at Indian Mobile Congress 2023

October 2023: Started a technology based company “Manstiswave Networks Private Limited’’ as Co-Founder/Director

September 2023: Nodal officer for 5G Use Case lab to be established by DoT at IIT Roorkee

August 2023: Acting as Social Media Co-Chairs of AIMLSystems’23 conference sponsored by ACM and IEEE

August 2023: Invited as TPC Member for IEEE ICC, IEEE COMSNETS, IEEE CERA, IEEE NCC

August 2023: Serving as Incharge Communication Lab, Incharge Integrated Communication and Sensing Lab, In-charge M&R ECE Department

August 2023: TMI Projects Supervisor

August 2023: Successfully Co-organised first edition of IEEE ELEXCOM conference at IIT Roorkee Campus

July 2023: BTech Students Santana and Garvit got Convocation award

July 2023: Attended 3-day workshop on Faculty Entrepreneurship Program (FEP) by TIDES IIT Roorkee

July 2023: Nominated as the Member of Senate Committee for Scholarships and Prizes (SCSP), IIT Roorkee

July 2023: Committee Member for Excellence in Doctoral Research Award-2023

July 2023: Project titled A novel power on pilot IC for ultra low power wireless IoT devices, sponsored by MeiTY got approved

June 2023: Received Project grant to work on the “A novel power-on pilot IC for ultra-low power wireless IoT devices” sponsored by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India

May 2023: Organizing Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Communication and Computers (ELEXCOM’23)

May 2023: Organizer/Speaker for a High-End Workshop on “Demystifying Cell-Free Communication for 6G and Beyond Systems”, IIT Roorkee

April 2023: Invited to attend the second National Workshop on Technology Innovation in Cyber Physical Systems (TIPS) 2023 in New Delhi by the IIITB COMET Foundation.

April 2023: Invited talk at FDP on “Advancement in RF, Microwave, Antenna, and 5G applications”, in association with IEEE MTT/AP Society Bangalore Joint Chapter, and IEEE Atria Student Branch

March 2023: Expert talk in Short-Term Course on “Recent Trends in Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Robotics”, at NIT Delhi

March 2023: PhD student got selected as PMRF fellow. Congratulations Ashutosh!

March 2023: Got recognition as an Exemplary Reviewer – IEEE Transactions on Communications for the year 2022

February 2023: Co-chaired session on Cyber-physical systems at TSDSI Workshop on Standards Driven Research – NCC 2023

February 2023: Invited to serve on the technical program committee for ICNC’23 and WiMob’23 IEEE conferences

January 2023: Invited tutorial at IEEE COMSNETS Conference at Bangalore on the topic “OTFS Aided Cell-free Massive MIMO for Beyond 5G” (more details)

January 2023: Invited talk at IIIT Bangalore on the topic “Green Full-Duplex Communication for Beyond 5G/6G’

December 2022: Invited to serve on the technical program committee for ICC’23 IEEE flagship conference

December 2022: Keynote speaker at E2A Conference organized by NIT Silchar (more details)

December 2022: Organized a three days workshop on LabVIEW and Basics of Data Acquisition System in collaboration with VVDN technologies and IIITB COMET foundation

November 2022: Invited for a Roundtable on 6G, organized by DoT to explore opportunities in the Tera Hz band (more details)

November 2022: Our paper on Massive MIMO Relaying with Rician Channel and Phase Shifts IEEE has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. Congratulations to Priya and Dharmendra!

October 2022: Our paper on cell-free RIS NOMA for Beyond 5G wireless systems got accepted in the IEEE flagship conference GLOBECOM 2022. Congratulations to Malay and Sivapavan!

October 2022: Received Project grant to work on the Design and Development of New Prototype for RIS-aided Communication, funded by IIITB COMET foundation

October 2022: Received Project grant to work on the RIS Assisted Cell-free NOMA system for 5G and Beyond Communication, funded by Science and Engineering Research Board, Govt. of India

September 2022: Book Chapters, one on Multi-hop communication and another FBMC communication, got accepted for publication in the book titled “A Glimpse Beyond 5G in Wireless Networks” by Springer Nature

September 2022: Invited to serve on the technical program committee for IEEE ICNC’23 AMCN

September 2022: Hemant Singh and Ashuli Manikho has joined our group as a Research Associate!!

August 2022: Two international students SOWRABH BANIK and TSEGA TEKLEWOLD TEKLEMARIAM has joined our group

July 2022: Received Project grant to work on the 5G Advanced ORAN Massive MIMO Base Station, funded by IIITB COMET foundation

July 2022: Appointed as faculty advisor for MTech CNSP group

July 2022: Invited as a speaker for the Workshop on Radio Frequency Front End Design & Solutions for Advanced Wireless and Space Communication

July 2022: Sneha Singhal has joined our group as PhD student. Welcome Sneha!

July 2022: Ashutosh Bisht from our group has converted from MTech to PhD programme. All the best for your PhD journey!

June 2022: Congratulations to Sivapavan Kumar Vasa and Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala, for joining Qualcomm. All the best for your future!

June 2022: Vikram from Saastra Deemed University, successfully completes his final year internship.

June 2022: Paper on RIS Assisted Multi-Pair Full-Duplex Communication got accepted in IEEE Communication Letters 2022. Congratulations Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala (My first MTech student).

June 2022: Congratulations to Sivapavan Kumar Vasa and Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala, for joining Qualcomm. All the best for your future!

June 2022: Vikram from Saastra Deemed University, successfully completes his final year internship.

May 2022: Congratulations to Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala and Sivapavan Kumar Vasa for succesfully defending your MTech thesis.

May 2022: Majid from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, successfully completes his final year internship.

May 2022: Ashutosh and Saiteja (Both students of IIT Roorkee) joined as a Hardware Intern.

May 2022: Congratulations to Sreenivasulu Reddy Kudumala and Sivapavan Kumar Vasa for succesfully defending your MTech thesis.

May 2022: Majid from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing Jabalpur, successfully completes his final year internship.

May 2022: Ashutosh and Saiteja (Both students of IIT Roorkee) joined as a Hardware Intern.

April 2022: Media coverage of our partnership with Spandiea and IIITB (Prof. Prem Singh) for 5G Research and Development ( link1 , link2).

April 2022: Received Project grant to work on the 3GPP Complaint PUCCH design for 5G NR User, funded by Spanidea Systems Private Limited

April 2022: Invited as a resource person for the “Workshop on Technical Writing using LaTeX” at VIT-AP (link).

March 2022: Workshop on “5G-NR Physical Layer: Modeling, Technologies and Standards” by IIITB COMET foundation got very good repsonse with 400+ registrations (link).

March 2022: Instructor for Post Graduate Certification course in “5G Technology and IoT” by Coursera and IIT Roorkee (link).

March 2022: Member of following committees: Department academic program committee (DAPC), ANSYS fellowship for MTech students, Departmental high performance computing (HPC), SATHI proposal of DST.

March 2022: Invited to become a TPC member for International Conference on Emerging Electronics & Automation (E2A 2022).

March 2022: Expert talk at DSCE Bangalore in FDP on “Disruptive Technologies and challenges in Devices, Communications, Health care, Automation, Smart Grid using AI, ML and 5G/6G (link) ”.

February 2022: Acting as a TPC member for IEEE ICICICT-2022 organized by IEEE Kerala Section.

February 2022: Invited by IIITB COMET Foundation as a speaker for the workshop on “5G-NR Physical Layer: Modeling, Technologies and Standards”

February 2022:Appointed as the Joint Secretary in the executive committee of the IEEE Roorkee Sub-section.

January 2022: Member of selection committee for Ansys fellowship program at IIT Roorkee.

January 2022: Paper on UAV-Enabled Cell-Free Massive MIMO Systems got accepted in IEEE IEEE Transactions on Communications 2022.

January 2022: Paper on massive MIMO full-duplex cell-free massive MIMO got accepted in IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society.

September 2021: Project proposal on the topic UAV communication for 5G and beyond: A smart anti-UAV design got approved, sponsored by IIT Roorkee.

September 2021: Paper on massive MIMO full-duplex intelligent reflecting surfaces got accepted in IEEE flagship conference Globecom 2021.

September 2021: Expert talk in FDP at DSCE Bangalore on the topic “5G and Beyond Wireless Systems”.

September 2021: Expert talk in FDP at NITTTR Chandigarh on the topic “MATLAB Implementation of OFDM based on 5G NR Standard”.

September 2021: Expert talk in FDP at NITTTR Chandigarh on the topic “Beyond 5G”.

August 2021: Three papers on UAV assisted cell-free massive MIMO, full duplex cell-free massive MIMO, and wireless powered massive MIMO multi-hop systems got published in IEEE flagship conference ICC 2021.

July 2021: Chaired a very interesting and timely tutorial by Prof. Emil Bjornson on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces and Holographic Massive MIMO at NCC’2021.

July 2021: Invited talk at Center for Network Intelligence (IISc) on 5G and Beyond Wireless Systems: Energy Efficiency Perspective.

June 2021: Two book chapter proposals got accepted for publication in the book titled “A Glimpse Beyond 5G in Wireless Networks” by the publisher Springer Nature.

April 2021: Our paper on multi-pair massive MIMO FD relaying with Rician and correlated channels got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

November 2020: Our paper on Energy-efficient spatially-correlated hardware impaired massive MIMO FD relaying got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

October 2020: Won IITK best PhD thesis award.

August 2020: Our paper on massive MIMO NOMA systems design got accepted in IEEE Transactions on Communications.

August 2020: Selected as Assistant Professor in the department of Electronics and Communication at IIT Roorkee.

July 2020: Won best PhD thesis award in IEEE SPCOM 2020.

May 2020: Defended my PhD thesis.